ANN ARBOR — Effective July 1, 2016, A. Oveta Fuller, associate professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan Medical School, has been appointed as the director of the African Studies Center in a one-year appointment. Judith T. Irvine, Edward Sapir Collegiate Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, is joining her to serve as ASC’s associate director for the year.