The African Studies Program is thrilled to launch its 2015-16 BOOK BASKETS outreach program. The project includes a selection of highly acclaimed Africa-related books available for loan to educators. The selection is primarily fiction, but …
Month: November 2015
Klaus awarded African Studies Assocation 2015 Best Graduate Student Paper Prize
Kathleen Klaus, UW-Madison Ph.D ’15, received the 2015 African Studies Association Best Graduate Student Paper Prize for her paper “Contentious Land Claims and the Non-Escalation of Violence: Evidence from Kenya’s Coast Region.” In 2001, the …
Applications open for IRIS Fieldwork Award and Scott Kloeck-Jenson Fellowship
Applications are now open for the 2016 competitions of both the IRIS Fieldwork Award and the Scott Kloeck-Jenson Fellowship. IRIS Fieldwork Award The Institute for Regional and International Studies at UW-Madison is offering a “Graduate …
Get funding to study an African language with a FLAS fellowship
The African Studies Program encourages students of African languages to submit applications for Summer 2016 and Academic Year 2016-2017 fellowships and awards. Application deadline is February 15, 2016. FLAS fellowships are funded by the U.S. …
Explore Summer 2016 domestic and international African language programs
Plan your summer African language study with this helpful list of domestic and international language programs. Summer 2016 domestic and international programs The link takes you to a Google spreadsheet that also includes tabs with …
Tripp featured by Huffington Post on Anti-Muslim Rhetoric
In a blog for the Huffington Post, Aili Mari Tripp, African Studies affiliated faculty member and UW-Madison professor of political science, speaks out about the danger of anti-Muslim rhetoric following a string of highly publicized …
Africa in Our Lives: Akshay Sarathi
Akshay Sarathi is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology and successfully organized the October Maritime Cultures on the East African Coast conference, sponsored by the African Studies Program. The African Studies Program caught …
Course Spotlight: Political Ethnography – The Politics of Daily Life
Course Description This graduate seminar will focus on the politics of the quotidian, the small events, phenomena, attitudes, and emotions of daily life, with the assumption that however apolitical they might seem to be on …
Course Spotlight: Literary Ethnography
Course Description This graduate-level methods seminar is an intensive introduction to reading and writing “new ethnographies”—what H. L. Goodall calls an “emerging, alternative style of qualitative writing” that “combines the personal and the professional, … …
Course Spotlight: Health, Healing, and Science in Africa
Course Description Theoretical perspectives from Science and Technology Studies have become increasingly influential in the study of health in Africa in recent years. The scholarly turn toward bio-politics and the examination of vernacular science has …