Dr. Regina
Turner Barclay
Regina Turner Barclay presently holds the position of
community Liaison in the Office of the Vice Chancellor
for Undergraduate Education, Indiana University-Purdue
University at Indianapolis. In this position she
formulates, coordinates and directs programs designed to
raise the educational aspirations and attainment levels
of members of the community. Though she works with and in
numerous groups—public schools, civic organizations,
women's groups, Day Care Centers—her base of
operation in the community is Interdenominational
Churches for Educational Excellence, a consortium of
inner city churces in partnership with the university.
This program centers on ministers, youth workers and
congregations who work to instill in students the
importance of educational achievement grounded in a
religious faith. Before assuming this position, Dr.
Turner Barclay held administrative and faculty positions
at several colleges where she taught composition,
literature, African American studies, Women's Studies,
and Theatre. She has done research and presented numerous
papers on issues related to bridging the wide chasm
betweem higher education and grassroots populations. She
urges that focused attention be given to recognizing
legitimate and different cultural and social paradigms to
address the challenges associated with educating
underrepresented populations. Dr. Turner Barclay received
Outstanding Teacher Award for many years and is cited in
Outstanding Young Women of America. She is the past
editor of the national newsletter for the Black Theatre
Network and adjudicator for a number of art competitions.
Ms.
Caterina Cregor Blitzer
A native of Trieste, Italy, Caterina is a Phi Beta Kappa
Graduate of Indiana University with a B.A. in French,
Italian and German and an MA. from the University of
Wisconsin in Comparative Literature and Linguistics. She
is the director of the International Center of
Indianapolis (ICI) whose goal is to be the best resource
for people in global transitions through programs to help
relocating individuals and families and training for
global competencies. Caterina's international education,
business experience and communication skills have helped
her serve in various leadership roles in the public and
private sector. She was Deputy Mayor for Economic
Development early in the administration of Mayor Steve
Goldsmith and worked in several capacities in the
international development arms of Indiana State
government in the administrations of Governor Bowen and
Lt. Governor Orr and Governor Orr ad Lt. Governor Mutz.
Local and international firms and entities that she has
directed include: International Objectives, a market
research firm affiliated with Orr's Alliance for Global
Commerce; Campbell Communications International; Finglass
Corporation, a subsidiary of Vetrerie Riunite, Verona,
Italy; CDS International; a professional exchange
organization headquartered in New York and Cologne,
Germany and the Corporation for Indiana's International
Future. She is a frequent lecturer at international
seminars and conferences, served as consultant to the
Lilly Endowment on international organizations and
community needs and authored a history of The Orchard
School.
Dr.
Tanella Boni
Dr. Tanella Boni is an educator and a well-known poet and
novelist from ivory Coast. After her secondary school
education in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, she travelled to
France where she studied in Toulouse and Paris. After
earning a doctorate degree in philosophy, she returned to
Ivory Coast where she teaches philosophy at the
University of Abidjan. An accomplished and prolific
writer, Dr. Boni has published numerous critical and
literary works including Labyrinthe (Dakar: Les
Nouvelles editions Africaines, 1984) Une Vie de crabe
(Dakar: Les Nouvelles editions Africaines, 1990), De
l’autre côté du soleil (Paris: EDICEF, 1991),
and short stories for children.
Dr. York
Bradshaw
York W. Bradshaw is Director of African Studies and
Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University.
He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern
University in 1987. Professor Bradshaw specializes in
issues related to urbanization, quality of life, and
education in the developing world, particularly in
Eastern and Southern Africa, where he has conducted
extensive field work. He has also taught at the
University of Nairobi and the University of Zambia, and
lectured at several other African universities. Professor
Bradshaw has received extensive grant support. His most
recent awards include a United States Information Agency
(USIA) University Affiliations Grant, 1992-1995 ($99,000;
with Allen Berger and Mauri Yambo) and a U.S. Department
of Education Title VI Grant for a National Resource
Center and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships,
1997-2000 ($1.12 million; with Virginia DeLancey).
Professor Bradshaw has won three teaching awards, chaired
(or is chairing) more than twenty M.A. and Ph.D. theses,
and served on ten other dissertation committees. He
currently advises 10 graduate students. His students have
won extensive grant support (e.g., Fulbright, SSRC, AAUW,
Rockefeller, Population Council, MacArthur) to conduct
research in seven foreign countries. Professor Bradshaw
has published numerous articles, book chapters, and
books. Since 1994, they include: Global Inequalities.
Pine Forge Press. (1996; with Michael Wallace) and an
edited volume, Education in Comparative Perspective:
New Lessons from Around the World. B.J. Brill (1997).
Dr.
Virginia DeLancey
Virginia DeLancey is the Associate Director of the
African Studies Program. She specializes in issues of
economic development, especially issues related to the
family, such as population and health, rural development,
informal finance, and agricultural policy, as well as
special issues relevant to women. Her dissertation
research on the relationship between female wage
employment and fertility was carried out in Cameroon.
Some of her most recent research has been on HIV/AIDS in
Africa, and specifically in Cameroon. DeLancey has lived
in Africa for more than twelve years, first as a Peace
Corps Volunteer in Nigeria, and later while conducting
research, consulting for international organizations, and
teaching at the University of Yaounde (Cameroon), Somalia
National University, and the American University in
Cairo. She has also traveled extensively throughout the
continent of Africa. DeLancey has had considerable
experience in grant writing and administration and has
received grants from the Ford Foundation (co-author with
former African Studies Program Director Brian Winchester,
$50,000); the U.S. Department of Education ($62,000); the
U.S. Information Agency ($114,000); and a U.S. Department
of Education Title VI Grant ($1.12 million , with the
Director of the African Studies Program Director York
Bradshaw). DeLancey has numerous publications in her
areas of specialization. Among some of the most relevant
or recent ones are: "The Economy," and also
"The Society and Its Environment." In Cameroon:
A Country Study (1997); "Rural Finance in
Somalia." In Informal Finance in Low-Income
Countries (1992); and "The Economies of
Africa." In Understanding Contemporary Africa:
Continuity and Change (1992).
Dr. Ann
Donchin
Anne Donchin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at
Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis and
Adjunct Associate Professor of Women's Studies and
Philanthropic Studies. She served as Coordinator of
Women's Studies at Indiana University/Purdue University,
Indianapolis from 1983-85 and Director from 1990-92. She
teaches and writes principally in the areas of medical
ethics and feminist philosophy and has published numerous
articles in leading bioethical and feminist journals In
1992 she founded the International Network on Feminist
Approaches to Bioethics (FAB) and in 1996 chaired the
planning and program committees for their first
international conference. She is currently overseeing the
organization of the second FAB conference to be held in
Japan this November. She also serves on the American
Philosophical Association Committee on Philosophy and
Medicine and the editorial Board of The Encyclopedia of
Applied Ethics. A former board member of the Indiana
Civil Liberties Union, she participates frequently in
community activities and often lectures on ethical issues
in new reproductive and genetic technologies. Her book: The
Baby Making Industry: A Feminist Critique will be
published by Temple University Press next year. Embodying
Bioethics: Feminist Advances, a collection of essays
based on presentations at the First International
Conference on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (coedited
with Laura Purdy) will be published by Rowman and
Littlefield later this year.
Dr. George
Edwards
Professor George Edwards is Associate Professor of Law
and Director, Program in International Human Rights Law
at Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis.
Professor Edwards teaches and researches in the areas of
International Human Rights Law, International Legal
Transactions, International Criminal Law and Criminal
Procedure. Before joining the Indiana Faculty in the
Spring of 1997, Professor Edwards lived for 6 years in
Hong Kong, where he was Associate Director for the Center
for Comparative & Public Law, University of Hong Kong
Law Faculty. Professor Edwards was also local Hong Kong
Director of the Santa Clara University School of Law
Summer Program in Hong Kong, where he continues to
lecture in international human rights law and human
rights. Before moving to Hong Kong in 1991, Professor
Edwards practiced law as a commercial litigator from
1987-1991 at the Wall Street Law Firm of Cravath, Swaine
& Moore. From 1986-1987, Professor Edwards served as
a Judicial Law Clerk to Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum,
United States District Court Judge for the Southern
District of New York. Professor Edwards received a Juris
Doctor degree from Harvard Law School in 1986. At
Harvard, he served as Editor of the Harvard Law Review,
and Associate Editor of the Harvard International Law
Journal. Professor Edwards has numerous scholarly and
other legal publications, primarily in the area of
international human rights law. Professor Edwards has
presented papers at various law conferences in the United
States and abroad, represented organizations before
United Nations Human Rights Bodies, given numerous public
presentations, and appeared on varied domestic and
international media.
Dr. Victor Egwu
Dr. Victor Egwu is an orthopedic surgeon who lives in
Indianapolis where he has a private practice. He
graduated magna cum laude from Howard University in 1978.
He earned a medical degree from Howard in 1981 and stayed
on to complete his residency in orthopedics in 1986.
Board certified in orthopedic surgery, Dr. Egwu is a
fellow of the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery. He
was the chair of the Department of Surgery at Winona
Memorial Hospital (1994-96) and is currently affiliated
with the following Indianapolis hospitals: Community
Hospital, Methodist Hospital, and Winona Hospital. A
member of the Board of the International Center of
Indianapolis, Dr. Egwu is also a member of the National
Medical Association, the Indiana State Medical
Association, and the 100 Black Men of Indianapolis.
Ms. Amelia
Gilbert
Amelia Gilbert is a senior anthropology major and women's
studies minor at Indiana University Purdue University at
Indianapolis (IUPUI). Amelia was the Comptroller for
IUPUI's Undergraduate Student Assembly, as well as the
chairperson of the Student Life Committee. She has served
as the Vice-President: Finance of Delta Gamma women's
fraternity, as well as many other offices of the
fraternity. Amelia was a speaker on team work at the
multicultural student leaders institute in 1997 at IUPUI.
Also, Amelia serves on the All University Student Caucus,
and is a co- convenor of Town Hall Meetings for the
university.
Dr. Naana
Banyiwa Horne
Dr. Naana Banyiwa Horne is an Assistant Professor of
English in the Humanities Department at Indiana
University Kokomo. She currently lives in Kokomo with her
husband and three children. Educated in Ghana and the
United States, Dr. Horne is an educator, scholar, writer,
activist, poet, storyteller, and African culture and
dance instructor who has held teaching positions in
universities in Ghana and the United States, designing
and teaching various courses in English, African, African
American and Caribbean Literature, African American
Studies, Women's Studies, Ethnic Studies, and African
Culture and Dance. Since 1996, she has been the convener
of the Celebrating Our Students Conference, an Indiana
University campus-wide Women's Studies Undergraduate
Conference. A member of the Association of African Women
Scholars (AAWS) and other professional associations and
community action groups, Professor Horne contributes in
significant ways to the development and growth of the
local and global community. Professor Horne’s
published scholarly articles have appeared in Sage: A
Scholarly Journal on Black Women; Ngambika: Studies of
Women in African Literature; Dictionary of Literary
Biographies; Twentieth Century Caribbean and Black
African Writers; Emerging Perspectives on Flora Nwapa;
and Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo. Her poetry
has been published in Asili: Journal of Multicultural
Heartspeaks; and Obsidian II. Sunkwa: Clingings
onto Life, a collection of poetry is pending
publication. Her public lectures, poetry reading, and
cultural performances serve as a primary vehicle for
taking education beyond the walls of the academy.
Dr.
Michael C. Mbabuike
Dr. Michael C. Mbabuike is professor of the
Humanities/Africana Studies at Hostos Community College
of the City University of New York. A distinguished world
renowned educator/scholar, Professor Mbabuike was chair
of the Faculty Senate of his college, 1993-1997. He held
an unprecedented two year presidency of the New York
African Studies Association [NYASA] 1993-1995. Prof.
Mbabuike has received many distinguished awards including
Nigerian Government Scholar Award 1966, University of
Nigeria Alumni Association Distinguished Achievement
Award '94, and Faculty Achievement Awards among others.
Professor Mbabuike has designed and taught courses
ranging from 20th Century Black Writers, World
Civilization, African Civilization and History to
Philosophy and Literatures of Africa and the African
Diaspora. Dr. Mbabuike is a member of many racademic
associations and an active participant in national and
international conferences and programs. He is
referee/reviewer for presses and scholarly journals and
has published extensively in Anthropology, the African
Family, Literature, poetry and social issues in minority
communities. His publications have appeared in many
refereed journals including Presence Africaine,
Literary Griot, Journal of Canadian African Studies
Association, Ethiopiques, Dialectical Anthropology,
Journal of Studies in Third World Societies, and
Community Review. His published and forthcoming books
include Notes on the Poems of L. S Senghor. Poet of
Lost Villages (1989); Poems of Memory Trips
(1998); Once Upon the Earth; Remembering the Baobab;
and Literature and the Dispossessed: Africana
Literature Revisited.
Dr. Audrey
McCluskey
Audrey Thomas McCluskey, is assistant professor of
Afro-American Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington,
where she has taught for the last five years. She has
previously taught at Cleveland State University, in
Cleveland,Ohio. She received her Ph.D. from Indiana
University in 1991. She also holds an M.A. degree in
African Studies from Howard University. Her areas of
specialization include educational history, with a
particular focus on gender and race in the educational
experience of African Americans; critical race theory,
and black feminism. Her published works have appeared in
several journals including SIGNS; Feminist
Teacher; Sex Roles; The Western Journal of Black Studies;
Transformations; NWSA Journal; and The Florida Historical
Quarterly. Her forthcoming book from Indiana
University Press (with Elaine M. Smith) is titled Mary
McLeod Bethune: A Re-Defining Force. She teaches
courses on Black Women in the African Diaspora; Race,
Gender, and Class in Crosscultural Perspective; The
History of the Education of African Americans; Black
Autobiographical Narratives; and Readings in Black
Feminism.
Dr. Emily
Moore
Emily L. Moore, Ed.D., is founding President of Scholars
for Educational Excellence and Diversity, Inc.
(Scholars). From 1992-1996, Dr. Moore served as
Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Dean of Faculty and
Presidential Advisor for Program Development at Concordia
University, St. Paul, Minnesota. From 1982-1992, she
served in senior administrative and faculty positions at
Concordia College, Ann Arbor, Michigan. A doctorate in
Health Education Administration, Moore was Director of
the Health Education Department of Metropolitan Hospital
and Health Centers, Detroit, Michigan, 1979-1981 and
Coordinator, Health Education Programs, Detroit
Hypertension Control Research Program, a federally funded
research program, 1981-1982. Honors include selection
(with J. Herman Blake, her husband) as the George
Washington Carver Scholars at Iowa State University,
January, 1997. Moore was cited for her current photo
essay exhibition "Women and Children of Zimbabwe, A
Photo Essay of Dichotomy: The Devastation of
HIV/AIDS." She currently serves as consultant to the
Marion County Health Department, Indianapolis, Indiana in
the area of smoking and tobacco education. Her
publications in the areas of spirituality and leadership
include "Teachings About the Kingdom of
Heaven," "Cultural Diversity in the Context of
Lutheran School Leadership," "The Perpetual
Pursuit of the Impossible," and "Teaching to
Discover" (chapter, with J. Herman Blake) in Teaching
as Research: Making Meaning in the Classroom (1998).
Dr. Obioma
Nnaemeka (Convenor)
Dr. Obioma Nnaemeka is Associate Professor of French,
Women's Studies, and African American Studies at Indiana
University, Indianapolis. A former Rockefeller
Humanist-in-Residence (Univ. of Minnesota) and Edith
Kreeger-Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor
(Northwestern University), Professor Nnaemeka is the
President of the Association of African Women Scholars.
She is a recipient of grants from the MacArthur
Foundation, Lilly, SIDA, SAREC, and IDRC and a trustee of
some Africa-based NGOs. Dr. Nnaemeka has received many
national and international awards including the Nigerian
Achiever of the Year Award for Leadership, Teaching
Excellence Recognition Award, and Faculty Achievement
Award. An expert in multiculturalism and women's studies,
Professor Nnaemeka has designed and taught courses on the
Black world, women, and French/francophone literatures.
She is a referee/reviewer for many presses and academic
journals and her publications have appeared in numerous
edited volumes and scholarly journals including Signs,
Feminist Issues, Research in African Literatures, Law and
Policy, Dialectical Anthropology, Western Journal of
Black Studies, and the International Journal of
Third World Studies. In addition to publishing two
edited volumes, The Politics of (M)Othering:
Womanhood, Identity, and Resistance in African Literature
(Routledge, 1997) and Sisterhood, Feminisms, and
Power: From Africa to the Diaspora (Africa World
Press, 1998) Dr. Nnaemeka has three books
forthcoming—Marginality: Orality, Writing, and
the African Woman Writer, Agrippa d’Aubigné:
The Poetics of Power and Change, and African Women
and Imperialism.
Dr.
Chimalum Nwankwo
Chimalum Nwankwo had his first dgree from the University
of Nigeria in 1974, with graduate degrees from the
University of Texas at Austin: MFA in Dramatic Arts
(1979), M.A. in English (1980), and Ph.D in English
(1982). He is presently an Associate Professor in the
Department of English at North Carolina University in
Raleigh. He has taught at the University of Nigeria and
East Carolina University in Greenville. He teaches a
broad range of courses, undergraduate and graduate, which
sometimes include American Literature, World Literature,
African-American Literature and African Literature. His
diverse publications of critical essays, poems, and book
reviews which have appeared in critical anthologies, and
journals in Africa, Europe, and the USA include a play, The
Trumpet Parable (1985) ; two volumes of poetry, Feet
of The Limping Dancers (1986) , and the prize-winning
Toward the Aerial Zone (1988). He is the author of
a critical book, The Works of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
(1991). Recent important poetry anthologies such as New
Poets from West Africa (1995) and New African
Voices (1997) feature his poems. Dr. Nwankwo serves
as reader and consultant for a handful of journals in the
USA such as Post Modern Culture, World Literature
Today, African Studies Review, African Book Publishing
Record, Obsidian II , PMLA, etc.. He has
reviewed and evaluated manuscripts for the University
Press of Florida, Edwin Mellen Press, Peter Lang,
Routledge, etc. His latest publication is a collection of
poetry, Voices from Deep Water (1997). Nwankwo
maintains interest in theater practice.
Dr.
Chinyere Okafor
Dr. Chinyere Grace Okafor, academic, writer and artist,
in the English Department, University of Swaziland. She
combines academic teaching and research with writing,
performance and speaking engagements. A specialist in
drama and cultural studies, Okafor teaches oral and
written African literature at both undergraduate and
graduate levels. She combines academic teaching and
research with writing, performance and speaking
engagements. Her areas of research are gender and
traditional dramatic forms. A former Rockefeller
Humanist-in-Residence at Cornell University, Hunter
College, and Bellagio Center in Italy, Dr. Okafor is a
poet, playwright, and prose writer whose achievements
include a special recognition by the Association of
Nigerian Authors (ANA) in 1994, and Outstanding Finalist
ranking in the Bertram's Literature of Africa Awards in
1996. Dr. Okafor is a member of the Humanities Committee
of Swaziland's National Research Council, Chair of the
Catholic Community Council of University of Swaziland Her
essays are published in edited volumes and academic
journals, including Okike, Literary Review,
Research in African Literatures, World
Literature Today, and Commonwealth: Essays and
Studies. Her published creative works include He
Wants To Marry Me Again and Other Stories, The
Lion and The Iroko (a play), From Earth's Bed
Chamber (a collection of poems), Campus Palavar
and Other Plays, as well as several contributions in
literary anthologies, journals, and magazines.
Ms.
Tristine Perkins
Tristine Perkins is Curator of the Cultural World
artifact collections at the Children’s Museum of
Indianapolis. She attended Indiana University at
Bloomington from 1987-1991, graduating with a B.A. in
Anthropology, a minor in Spanish and a Certificate in
African Studies (with courses in Museum Studies) from the
Indiana University African Studies Center. Upon
graduation, she worked as Collections Manager at the
Mathers Museum and as a records assistant/contract
archaeologist at the Glenn Black Laboratory of
Archaeology. While working on her M.A. at the University
of Illinois, she worked at two University-affliliated
museums—the World Heritage Museum and the Krannert
Museum of Art. After graduation with a Masters in African
Studies in 1995 she was hired as Associate Curator of the
Cultural World artifact collections at the Children's
Museum of Indianapolis. She currently holds the position
of Curator. Her primary responsibilities include
managing, maintaining, caring and providing access to the
ethnographic and folk art collections. More specifically,
she selects new objects to add to the collection, plans
temporary and supplemental exhibits utilizing the
museum's collections, supplies artifacts for museum
programmers and educators, coordinates incoming and
outgoing artifact loans, supervises interns working in my
area, and responds to all inquiries regarding the
collections with which she works. The Children's Museum's
collection includes a sizable number of African objects
which are being thoroughly integrated into museum
exhibits and programs to supplement the "One
Continent, Many Worlds" exhibit.
Dr. Amanda
Porterfield
Amanda Porterfield is Professor of Religious Studies at
IUPUI and Adjunct Professor of American Studies,
Philanthropic Studies, and Women's Studies. She joined
the faculty at IUPUI in 1994, alter 19 years at Syracuse
University, where she was Professor of Religion. She
became Director of Women's Studies in 1995. Under her
Directorship, the Women's Studies Program developed
initiatives in Women and Health that drew faculty from
Liberal Arts, Nursing, and Medicine together with members
of the Indiana State Department of Health. Professor
Porterfield has served on a range of important committees
at two different institutions, led a faculty council,
directed two interdisciplinary programs, and is coeditor
of Religion and American Culture: A Journal of
Interpretation and the Syracuse University Press book
series on Religion and Gender in North American
Religions. Professor Porterfield also studies new
American religious movements associated with Native
American spirituality, feminist theology, contemporary
Catholicism and Asian religions. Her most popular course,
"Native American Religions," focuses on the
transformation of Native American religions from being
"other" to "different" with respect
to American culture. Other courses focus on feminist
theology as a religious movement, and on religious
interpretations of illness and health. She has recently
developed a new course on religious interpretations of
illness and health. Her impressive publication record
include the followinf books: Female Piety in Puritan
New England: The Emergence of Religious Humanism (Oxford,
1991), Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries (Oxford,
1997), and The Power of Religion: A Comparative
Introduction (Oxford, 1997).
Dr. Pamela
Smith
Dr. Pamela Smith is Associate Professor of English and
Humanities at the University of Nebraska at Omaha where
she teaches courses ranging from English Composition,
multicultural humanities, and African American literature
to Black women writers, Black Diaspora, Caribbean,
Commonwealth, and African literatures in the English
Department and the Goodrich Scholarship Program, a
multicultural and interdisciplinary two-year
undergraduate program. Dr. Smith is the recipient of
numerous campus-wide faculty and NEH pedagogy and
research grants and has won numerous awards for research
and teaching, including the 1994 Excellence in Teaching
Award at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Professor
Smith has published several articles and book reviews in
several refereed journals, and presented numerous
conference papers on translations, pedagogy and literary
criticism. Dr. Smith translated in 1984 Igbo Olodumare
(Forest of the Almighty), the second of Fagunwa's five
Yoruba classics. Her essays on Fagunwa are considered
critical to the relatively sparse criticism available on
indigenous African literatures. Recently, she has
translated Efunsetan Aniwura, Iyalode Ibadan,
and is working on an edited volume of essays on
translation and criticism—The Theory and Politics
of Translation and Criticism of African Literature—and
a number of essays on the problems of translation. Dr.
Smith is an active member of Omaha Network, an Omaha
professional women's organization the current Secretary
of the Association of African Women Scholars (AAWS), and
serves on the Executive Council of the African Literature
Association to which she has been a longtime member.
Dr.
Opportune Zongo
Professor Opportune Zongo is an Assistant Professor of
French at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. She
earned a Licence in English and African Literature at the
Université de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and an M. A. and
a Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
A past recipient of a Summer N. E. H., she is a
referee/reviewer for academic journals and participates
actively in regional, national, and international
conferences. She has published in African literatures and
cultures and Women's Studies. Her publications have
appeared in Research in African Literatures, the
International Journal of Third World Studies, and the
College Language Association Journal. A specialist
in interdisciplinary and multicultural studies, Professor
Zongo has designed and taught courses in French,
Francophone, and Anglophone African Literatures and
Cultures, Ethnic Studies, and Women's Studies. In
1996—97, she was the Director of the Bowling Green
State University Academic Year Abroad Programs in Tours,
France, and the coordinator of the Bowling Green State
University French and Francophone module in Burkina Faso.
Dr. Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka
