Our African Studies community is thrilled that Chancellor Rebecca Blank has selected Transcendent Kingdom, as the featured book for 2021-22 common reading program, GO BIG READ. To celebrate, African Studies has teamed up with Ainehi Edoro’s Brittle Paper to develop a series of programs and activities that will highlight the book. Here’s how you can …

The African Studies Program invites UW–Madison students to submit a review of Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi, the Go Big Read selection for the 2021/2022 academic year. Accepted submissions will be published on brittlepaper.com, a major platform on African literature. Transcendent Kingdom is the story of a Ghanaian-American neuroscience graduate student at Stanford University and …

How to Apply A cover letter and resume are required for consideration of this position. The cover letter should be included in the same document as your resume and should specifically address your interest in this position and highlight your related skills and experience. Job Summary The African Studies Center (ASC) supports research, teaching, partnerships, …

The Digital Fieldwork project seeks to create a forum where scholars from multiple social science disciplines can discuss methods and practices of remote field research. To advance this goal, we’re compiling resources about research methods, funding sources, and researcher experiences on their website. Faculty at Georgetown and Indiana University invite UW faculty and students to …

The following listings are records of past events imported as such because of the changes made during the website transition from Cals WordPress to WiscWeb WordPress. “WHEN WOMEN WEAR SLACKS” WITH JACQUELINE-BETHEL MOUGOUÈ | TOPIC: “When Women Wear Slacks”: Gender and Embodied Nationalism in Africa | DATE: Thursday, February 25, 2021 | TIME: 12-1:30P | …

Dear African Studies community, Over the summer, we transferred our website to a new server with UW. There should not be much of a difference on all of your end, except that we hope to offer you an even better user experience than before. You can explore our new site, starting with our Memorium to …

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When: February 10, 2014 @ 11:30 pm Where: Sonata Room, Gordon Dining and Events Center Learning to Navigate the Ethics of Global Health & Humanitarian Reporting Erin Luhmann Graduate student ’13 Journalism 5:30pm, Sonata Room, Gordon Dining and Events Center 770 W. Dayton Street Erin Luhmann, a 2013 UW graduate with a master’s degree in …