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 …
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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 …
Africa in Our Lives: Lauren Parnell Marino
Lauren Parnell Marino, PhD candidate in Development Studies, joined the African Studies Program this fall as an administration project assistant and academic advisor. Though busy settling in, she’s still finding time to enjoy fall photography …
Africa in Our Lives: Ousmane Ngom
Ousmane Ngom is a professor of African and Afro-American literature at Gaston Berger University in Saint-Louis, Senegal, and is on campus in Fall 2015 as a visiting scholar with the African Studies Program. Hometown: Saint-Louis, …
SUMMER STORIES: Laughing Yoga in Tanzania
Summer Stories from Africa is a series of fresh reflections from our students, faculty, and alumni researching and studying on the continent. Stephanie Laemmert is a graduate student at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy …
SUMMER STORIES: Summer Tales from Nollywood
Summer Stories from Africa is a series of fresh reflections from our students, faculty, and alumni researching and studying on the continent. Segun Soetan is a graduate student in the Department of African Languages and Literature …
Africa in Our Lives: Karen Lynn Williams
Karen Williams is an American author of children’s literature whose Peace Corps-Malawi experience continues to shape the way she writes, parents and lives. Williams recently participated in a teacher workshop in Eau Claire, Wis. The African …
SUMMER STORIES: Field Research with A Toddler
Summer Stories from Africa is a series of fresh reflections from our students, faculty, and alumni researching and studying on the continent. Bethany Wilinski shares her experiences conducting field research for the first time with her …
SUMMER STORIES: Beekeeping in Comoros
Summer Stories from Africa is a series of fresh reflections from our students, faculty, and alumni researching and studying on the continent. Ellen Geisler is currently working as a Peace Corps Response volunteer in Comoros, a …
SUMMER STORIES: Teas and thanks in Luganda
Summer Stories from Africa is a series of fresh reflections from our students, faculty, and alumni researching and studying on the continent. Teas and thanks in Luganda I have often considered foreign correspondence as a career, …