ASC Faculty and Staff

Eric J. Schmidt

Assistant Director, African Studies Center

Michael Woldemariam

Director, African Studies Center
Associate Professor, International Relations and Political Science

Natasha Patel

Program Administrator

Nneka Agba

Lecturer, Igbo

Ousmane Cisse

Senior Teaching Fellow, Mandinka

Mouhamadou Lamine Diallo

Lecturer, Wolof

Zoliswa O. Mali

Director, African Language Program
Senior Lecturer, South African Languages (isiXhosa and isiZulu)
Joint Programmatic – African Studies Center

Judith Mmari

Master Lecturer – Swahili
Joint Programmatic – African Studies Center

Emmanuel Owusu

Lecturer, Akan Twi

Mulugeta Zegeye

Lecturer, Amharic

Tiffany Bailey

Graduate Assistant

Elsa Wiehe

K-16 Education Outreach Program Manager

Michael DiBlasi

Publications Editor

Lilly Havstad

Assistant Editor

Sandi McCann

Publications Assistant

Gabe Adugna

Africana Librarian

Rachel Dwyer

Assistant Head

Beth Restrick

Head Librarian

Jenny Parker

Director, West African Research Association