The African Studies Program seeks an Office Assistant to assist in the day-to-day activities, provide clerical support, and to help schedule, coordinate, and promote African Studies Program events through print, web, and social media. Anticipated Start Date: January, 2014, with some training possible in November and early December. More details at the UW Job Center. …
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 the United States.” The deadline to apply is November 7, 2013. Learn more about eligibility, the application and other details.
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 (FLAS) fellow of Zulu, is in Educational Policy Studies and Anthropology and will conduct research on South African Youth Experiences …
Course Description An exploration of how gender and sexuality are constrained, constructed, performed, and resisted in and through language. Readings will include theories of language and gender, queer linguistics, and feminist discourse analysis, followed by case studies in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology from Africa, including Nigeria, South Africa, and the Swahili Coast. The final paper …
Get the scoop on two Fulbright programs for graduate students. The Fulbright US student program can fund MA, pre-dissertation, and PhD research. The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) program funds dissertation research in area studies and modern foreign language. Both programs are federally funded and have US citizenship requirements. Fulbright US Student Program (MA …
Read A Madison family found joy and friendship in the midst of upheaval in Uganda from October 27, 2013, Wisconsin State Journal.
Professor of History James Sweet, former director of the African Studies Program and current chair of the Department of History, was recently awarded a five-year endowed professorship to support his research. Sweet regularly teaches courses on comparative slavery, race and nation in the Atlantic world, comparative world history, the history of South Africa, and the …
The L&S Communications news team recently caught up with John Nimis to chat about his baby grand piano, Cameroonian food, and his passion for Congolese music. College of Letters and Science News, “Nimis strikes the right chords”
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, Congolese rookie Packers linebacker Andy Mulumba, and actress and activist Emmanuelle Chriqui hosted a rally for the Enough Project’s Conflict Free Campus Initiative (CFCI) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Memorial Union on October 7, 2013. CFCI is a student-led university initiative of the Raise Hope for Congo Campaign that …
On October 4, 2013, Russ Feingold, the United States Special Envoy for the African Great Lakes region and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, visited the UW–Madison campus to draw on the expertise of some of the university’s Africa specialists. Prior to his current post while a U.S. senator from Wisconsin Feingold chaired the …