Month: August 2020

MARY BUCHOLTZ PROFESSOR AND CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA 3:00 pm Central time, Friday, September 11 Introduction and moderation: Katrina Daly Thompson, Professor and Chair, Department of African Cultural Studies; Core Faculty, …

The Multicultural Student Center (MSC) is looking to host targeted 15 minute in-person info sessions lead by 1 MSC staff member. Their hope is to target Ethnic Studies courses primarily comprised of new/incoming students of …

Course Description This course invites students to explore histories of knowledge, ideas and intellectuals in Africa. We will take a capacious definition of intellectual, exploring the lives and work not only of writers and scholars, …

The Stanford Archaeology Center announces a postdoctoral position in cultural heritage and material culture collections. The field of expertise is open, with preference given to African history and culture and/or collections-based scholarship complementary to faculty …

Course Description This graduate seminar provides a setting for participants to consider Africa – as an idea, a field of study, a place in the world, a subject for teaching –  from a multi-disciplinary perspective.  …

Dorothy Mayne started as the Assistant Director of the African Studies Program in August 2019, and in the last year, has worked on our annual conferences, prepared for the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African …

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Ph.D. candidates and recent graduates (within three years of Ph.D. completion) from Sub-Saharan Africa, are eligible to apply for the World Bank Group-Africa Fellowship Program World Bank Group-Africa Fellows are eligible to spend …