The competition for Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships and awards at UW-Madison is now open. The African Studies Program encourages students of African languages to submit applications for Summer 2014 and Academic Year …
Month: November 2013
Explore Summer 2014 domestic and international African language programs
The Center for African Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, has put together a helpful resource for students looking for summer African language programs. Summer 2014 domestic and international programs List of overseas African …
Boren Scholarships and Fellowships and the African Languages Initiative
The applications for the 2014-2015 David L. Boren Scholarships and Fellowships are now available. Boren Awards, an initiative of the National Security Education Program, provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to …
Course Spotlight: Health, Healing, and Science in Africa and the African Diaspora
Course Description Theoretical perspectives from Science and Technology Studies have become increasingly influential in the study of health in Africa and the African Diaspora in recent years. The scholarly turn toward bio-politics and the examination …
Teaching assistants needed for Spring Africa survey course
277 Africa: An Introductory Survey Cross-listed in African Languages and Literature, Afro-American Studies, Anthropology, Geography, History, Political Science, and Sociology Instructor: Michael Schatzberg, Political Science Number of Teaching Assistants needed: 2 or 3 (to be …
Now Hiring! African Studies Program Office Assistant
The African Studies Program seeks an Office Assistant to assist in the day-to-day activities, provide clerical support, and to help schedule, coordinate, and promote African Studies Program events through print, web, and social media. Anticipated …
ASA Announces Royal Air Maroc-ASA Student Travel Award
The African Studies Association (ASA) recently announced the Royal Air Maroc-African Studies Association Student Travel Award to encourage “the movement of students and the exchange of ideas, between students of African Studies in Africa and …
Fulbright awards go to two African Studies students
African Studies graduate students Christina Cappy and James Krueger are two of six UW-Madison students to receive a 2013 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) awards. Christina Cappy, a former Foreign Language and Area Studies …
Course Spotlight: Language, Gender, and Sexuality in African Contexts
Course Description An exploration of how gender and sexuality are constrained, constructed, performed, and resisted in and through language. Readings will include theories of language and gender, queer linguistics, and feminist discourse analysis, followed by …