The International Internship Program is looking for an additional full-time Advisor/Program Coordinator to join their team. This position is a part of the administrative team responsible for ensuring the quality of advising and services to students interning overseas, developing, maintaining, assessing and improving internship placements, and monitoring the efficacy of policies and procedures established by …
The King-Morgridge Scholars Program, administered by the International Division, will welcome its third cohort of students to campus this August. As part of their introduction to the Madison community and to the university, the International Division is looking for volunteer hosts to participate in a temporary home stay program for these students. There are three …
The African Studies Program is pleased to announce that graduate students Lauren Parnell Marino and Justyn Huckleberry have been granted Fulbright awards to fund their research on the continent of Africa. The Fulbright Program is one of the most competitive and prestigious research fellowships in the world. This program was created in 1946 through a …
This year marked the launch of the Area and International Studies Undergraduate Paper Awards, in which the Institute for Regional and International Studies announced that participating area studies centers would be awarding $1,000 to the best papers written by an undergraduate which focused on their respective world regions. This year’s African Studies award was granted …
Wisconsin Idea Fellowships are awarded each year to outstanding undergraduate projects, designed with the assistance of a UW–Madison faculty or staff member, which seek to address issues identified by community partners both at home and abroad. This year, one of nine fellowships was awarded to undergraduate engineering students Akshith Mandepally and Cara Stanker, Associate Professor …
Herbert Lewis knew from a young age that he was interested in exploring cultures and communities different from his own. Until his junior year at Brandeis University, though, he wasn’t aware that there was a field called “anthropology” for just this purpose! When he got his hands on an anthropology textbook for the first time, he …
Jan Vansina Memorial Lecture In September, the African Studies Program and the Department of History hosted the first annual Jan Vansina Memorial Lecture to celebrate the incredible life and scholarship of one of the world’s foremost historians of Africa. Jan was a trailblazer in the field of African history and was essential to the development …
The Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD) is seeking a part-time Research Fellow (32 hours/week for 3 years) to conduct research as part of the Wellcome Trust funded project entitled “What’s at Stake in the Fake? Indian Pharmaceuticals, African Markets, and Global Health” under the direction of Dr. Rene Gerrets. You will have …
There is an open position at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies (HLS) to serve as associate director of the National African Language Resource Center (NALRC). The position will remain open until filled. The Associate Director will manage the daily operations of the National African Language Resource Center (NALRC) and will …
Megan Skalitzky is a graduating senior majoring in Biomedical Engineering with a certificate in Global Health. She currently works at the African Studies Program as an administrative intern. In this AFRICA IN OUR LIVES, she talks about her experiences studying and even interning in Africa as an Engineering major. What first sparked your interest in …