Harold Scheub, professor of African Languages and Literature, sat down for a phone interview with former student Tim McDonnell, an environment reporter for Mother Jones magazine. Included are sound clips featuring a young Scheub introducing storytellers he met on his ambulatory travels in the 1960s. Read McDonnell’s “Man with 10,000 Tales.”
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 and interdisciplinary nature. The award is made possible by a gift to the UW Foundation by Sidney E. Iwanter, an …
277 Africa: An Introductory Survey Cross-listed in African Languages and Literature, Afro-American Studies, Anthropology, Geography, History, Political Science, and Sociology Instructor: Neil Kodesh, History Number of Teaching Assistants needed: 3 Eligibility: Applicants must be UW – Madison graduate students in good standing, making normal progress toward a degree, specializing in the study of Africa in …
African Studies Program outreach coordinator Anne Waliaula and Outreach Scholar Beatrice Mkenda make the news by bringing a Swahili language lesson to life in a Beloit elementary school. Read more about their Beloit visit in the Beloit Daily News Learn how you can invite an Outreach Scholar to your Wisconsin classroom.
The African Studies Program Planning committee and director Jim Sweet are pleased to announce a one-time program of research travel awards available to UW–Madison faculty and staff members wishing to advance their production of knowledge about Africa during the calendar year, 2013. The awards are made possible by an allocation of funds from the UW–Madison …
The Scott Kloeck-Jenson (SKJ) Fellowship is now accepting applications from graduate students for Summer 2013 awards. Global Studies awards two grants annually: – International Internship Fellowships to support graduate students interested in undertaking practitioner internships on social justice issues – International Pre-Dissertation Travel Fellowships to support overseas travel to potential field research sites for doctoral …
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.
Get the scoop on two Fulbright programs for graduate students. The Fulbright US student program can fund MA, pre-diss, 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 Info Session Tuesday, …
Read New York Times opinion piece, “Looking Ahead in Mali,” by Scott Straus, Professor of Political Science and International Studies, and Leif Brottem, PhD student in the Department of Geography.
While researching the little-known history of “the Burma boys,” West African soldiers who fought in today’s Myanmar for the British during World War II, Barnaby Phillips, a correspondent for Al Jazeera and former BBC reporter, discovered an African Studies Program monograph in London’s Imperial War Museum. The monograph, “A Stroke of Unbelievable Luck,” edited by …