Stanford University’s Program in African and African American Studies (AAAS) is seeking applications for an Associate Director Position. The Associate Director (AD) serves as the thought partner to the Faculty Director. Together, the Faculty Director and the Associate Director will devise and implement the vision, strategy and goals of AAAS. The Associate Director maintains close …
The UW–Madison International Internship Program (IIP) is excited to share several Spring 2020 internships abroad in Africa that have been cultivated just for Badgers! As part of each internship, students enroll in the Worldwide Internship Program (WIP) course and receive an automatic $1,000 scholarship toward the course’s tuition. Play Africa Spring Intern in Johannesburg, South …
UW–Madison’s African Studies Program is pleased to work with GEEO (Global Exploration for Educators) on developing a trip to Ethiopia in August 2020. Global Exploration for Educators Organization (GEEO) is a 501c3 non-profit organization that runs professional development travel programs designed for teachers. Their general programs are open to all educators worldwide, but they also …
The University of Wisconsin–Madison has a long history of international collaboration and exchange. The university teaches over eighty different languages, offers hundreds of thriving study abroad programs offered to undergraduate students, and is the largest provider of Peace Corps Volunteers. Professors and graduate students from a diversity of disciplines at the university have engaged in …
The Africana Research Center invites applications for a Postdoctoral Scholar position in any aspect of African, African American and Diaspora Studies, beginning July 1, 2020. This is a one year position, with possibility of renewal. During their residency, Scholars have no teaching or administrative responsibilities in the first year and will teach one course in …
The National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL) is looking for applicants for an Assistant Director position! The Assistant Director will work with the Director of NCOLCTL in the development and implementation of a strategic plan to carry out NCOLCTL’s mission, goals and objectives. Primary responsibilities include organization building, coordinating workshops and conferences, and …
San Diego State University is hosting a conference, “Coming to Terms with Apartheid: History, Resistance, Legacy” on May 1-4, 2020. The symposium will examine the history and legacy of apartheid from different vantage points including economic, social, diplomatic, intellectual and cultural lenses. In addition to the history of apartheid, we will examine the massive international …
Welcome back to campus, everyone! We hope you all had a great summer. Here in African Studies, we spent our summer hosting the 2019 cohort of Mandela Washington Fellows. We enjoyed getting to know this year’s Fellows and learning alongside them as they shared their perspectives with local communities in and around Madison. Now that …
The German and Dutch Graduate Student Association would like to invite you to join them in welcoming Ezé Wendtoin , winner of the 2015 “Afrika-Sonderpreis,” to campus this September. Wendtoin is from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso who now lives in Dresden, Germany. His music protests and works against racism and xenophobia. On September 20, Wendtoin will …
The African Literature Association seeks a part-time webmaster to maintain the organization’s online presence and several systems related to membership database management, communication, and annual conference preparations. Many of these responsibilities run all year long, with minimal maintenance for months at a time, while some responsibilities require maximum attention and extensive work during easily-anticipated periods, …