The African Politics Conference Group (APCG) recently recognized Crawford Young’s The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence (UW Press, 2012) as the co-winner of the best 2012 book on African Politics. The other …
Awards
Get funding to study an African Language with a FLAS fellowship
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 …
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 …
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 …
Nixon’s “Slow Violence” Receives Award
From L&S News & Notes: This week, University of Wisconsin-Madison English professor Rob Nixon receives the 2013 biennial award for best book in environmental literary studies from the American Society for Literature and the Environment, …
Call for Submissions: Iwanter Prize for Undergraduate Senior Thesis
Iwanter Prize for Undergraduate Senior Thesis The annual Iwanter Prize provides an unrestricted $2,000 award to one graduating senior who, through a senior thesis and general academic distinction, demonstrates outstanding humanities-based scholarship of a broad …
Call for Proposals: Area/International Studies Research Awards for UW faculty, staff
Grants of $5,000 to $50,000 are now available to faculty and staff, working individually or in teams, for one- to three-year projects that advance area and international studies at UW-Madison. Learn more.
Explore Summer 2013 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. One document includes a list of overseas African language programs …
Rob Nixon wins American Book Award
“Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor” by Rob Nixon, UW-Madison professor of English and environmental studies and affiliate of the African Studies Program, has been named a 2012 American Book Award winner. Whether …