The African Studies Program is recruiting Teaching Assistants for African 277: An Introductory Survey in Summer (May 26-July 19). This interdisciplinary course is cross-listed in African Cultural Studies, Afro-American Studies, Anthropology, Geography, History, Political Science, and Sociology. African 277 will be offered online for the first time this summer. The fall course will be blended, meeting …
Question 1: Where did Africa’s first female president study? Madison Business College Question 2: What country was Linda Thomas Greenfield the ambassador of? Liberia Question 3: Which one of Crawford Young’s books won the Lubbert Prize from the American Political Science Association as the best book written that year in the field of Comparative Politics. The …
COURSE DESCRIPTION This course will examine the origins and forms of what a legal scholar once called an “odious scourge : genocide. For years, genocide mainly referred to the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jews during World War II. However, since the end of the Cold War events in Eastern Europe, Central Africa, and elsewhere …
COURSE DESCRIPTION This eight week online course provides an overview of human rights in international politics. The course will cover the origins of human rights, the main international and regional human rights treaties, the main international and regional human rights institutions, and a number of core debates in the field of human rights. In the …
Applications are now being accepted for the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) DEADLINE: June 30, 2020 at 11:59 PM EDT What is the CADFP? The CADFP is a scholar exchange program for African higher education institutions to host a diaspora scholar for 14-90 days for projects in curriculum co-development, research collaboration and graduate student …
Register today! Requisites: None Credits: 4 Level: Intermediate Breadth: Humanities,Social Science L&S Credit Type: Counts as LAS credit (L&S) Questions? Please contact Toni Landis, tllandis@wisc.edu
HERE ARE THE ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK’S QUIZ: Question 1: Which former African head of state studied at Madison Business College? Ellen Sirleaf Johnson (Liberia) Question 2: How did UW Professor of Pathobiological Sciences Tony Goldberg, who studies how infectious diseases spread and evolve in the wild, accidentally transport a tick back to Madison …
Participating area and international studies centers of the Institute for Regional and International Studies are each awarding up to $1,000 (actual award amounts vary) to the best paper/s and projects written by an undergraduate and focused on their respective world regions. ELIGIBILITY You must be currently enrolled as an undergraduate student at the UW–Madison. The …
The African Studies Program seeks two teaching assistants for Africa 277: An Introductory Survey in Fall 2020. This interdisciplinary course is cross-listed in African Cultural Studies, Afro-American Studies, Anthropology, Geography, History, Political Science, and Sociology. Course African 277: An Introductory Survey, Fall 2020 Instructor Neil Kodesh, Department of History Schedule Fall 2020 semester. M/W 8:50-9:40 …