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Gwendolen Carter was Director of the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University, a founding member of ASA, and also spent 1974-1978 as a...

Roy Sieber, who came to IU in 1962, was the first person to earn a doctorate in African art (from the University of Iowa)...

Alan Merriam studied under Melville J. Herskovits at Northwestern, earning a Ph.D. in anthropology in 1948. Merriam came to IU in 1962 to succeed George Herzog and helped to further develop...

J. Gus Liebenow was born in Berwyn, Illinois and joined the Department of Government (later the Department of Political Science) in 1958 after earning...

Born in London, England, Kimble earned his Ph.D. at the University of Montreal in 1948 and came to the United States in 1950. He...

Woodburn Hall, the home of the African Studies Program until 2015 when it moved to the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies....