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, … …
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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 …
Course Spotlight: Dissident Women Voices from the Middle East and North Africa
Course Description If dissidence is broadly defined as a manifest opposition with an established institution, dogma, genre or tradition, it also implies innovation and originality. The legacies of colonialism, the repressive nature of post-independence regimes, …
Course Spotlight: Seminar in Modern African Literature – Melodrama
Course Description This course explores the epistemological foundations and critical applications of the concept of melodrama, with particular emphasis on African literature and screen media. In ways that are increasingly amenable to cultural studies analysis, …
African Studies Program welcomes new academic advisor
The African Studies Program is thrilled to welcome Lauren Parnell Marino as an administrative program assistant and academic advisor. In her position, she advises on the Undergraduate Certificate in African Studies. She welcomes conversations about career goals, …
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 …
23rd Annual Graduate Student Conference in African Studies Call for papers
“Mobilizing Africa: Innovation, Syncretism, and Appropriation” Boston University’s Graduate Student Conference in African Studies will be celebrating its 24th consecutive event. This year’s conference will feature the work of emerging graduate scholars engaging Africa from …
African Studies Program launches 2015-16 Outreach Scholar Program
As part of a long tradition of community and K-12 outreach, the African Studies Program is pleased to launch its annual OUTREACH SCHOLAR program for the 2015-16 academic year. Outreach Scholars are UW-Madison graduate and undergraduate …
Critical Language Scholarship webinars available for students
In Fall 2015, Critical Language Scholarship Program staff will partner with representatives from other organizations to host six webinars to help prospective applicants and campus advisors to understand the application process and provide support. A …
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, …