Position: Director of the West African Research Association, US Office The West African Research Association is seeking a motivated, detail-oriented, independent individual to serve as Director of the Association, to be based at Boston University’s African Studies offices. This is a full-time position (40 hours/week). The desirable candidate will have strong leadership skills and is expected …
Call for Panelists: American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting Washington, D.C. April 3-7, 2019 Towards a Global Geography of the Plantation Organizers: Sophie Sapp Moore, Levi Van Sant “Plantations are back,” Tania Li proclaimed in 2017. The wave of oil palm expansion that Li identifies in Indonesia signals a broader resurgence of the plantation across …
Position: Assistant Professor in Anthropology & Sociology, full time (Subsaharan African studies program) The Center for Asian and African Studies (CEAA) at El Colegio de México invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in Anthropology or Sociology, focused on sub-Saharan Africa with preference in West and/or Central Africa. The candidates …
UW–Madison’s Journal of Undergraduate International Studies (JUIS) is calling for last-minute research paper submissions for their spring 2019 edition. Any undergraduate student from any major is welcome to submit an essay, the only stipulation is that the paper’s topic relates to international studies. Submissions usually range from 10-25 pages, but there are no minimum or …
Intern with Health Access Connect (Uganda). Term: Spring 2019 Application Deadline: October 21, 2018 Health Access Connect is an NGO in Kampala, Uganda that was created by a UW–Madison alumni with the goal of connecting rural Ugandans to healthcare. There are two internships available, one in Media and Communications and one in Monitoring and Evaluation. There …
Intern with Madison Children’s Museum and Play Africa (Madison & South Africa). Term: Spring-Summer-Fall 2019 Application Deadline: December 7th This unique internship begins with the Madison Children’s Museum in the spring, continues with Play Africa (an NGO building a children’s museum) in Johannesburg, South Africa in the summer, and concludes with Madison Children’s Museum the following fall. The intern …
Bre Begley is a senior undergraduate student at UW–Madison. During the summer of 2018, she completed an internship abroad with an organization called Health Access Connect in Uganda. In this AFRICA IN OUR LIVES, Bre shares what motivated her to work abroad and what it was like to be a part of the Health Access …
Position: Associate Director of the African Studies Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The African Studies Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Title VI National Resource Center, invites applications for the position of Associate Director. The Associate Director will offer program management and development of center programs, which include: …
About the Echidna Global Scholars Program The Echidna Global Scholars Program is a visiting fellowship hosted by the Center for Universal Education (CUE) at the Brookings Institution. The program aims to build the research, analytical, and leadership skills of NGO leaders and academics who have substantial experience with and ties to developing countries, whose work …
By Aberdeen Leary | October 5, 2018 Four research scientists are on campus this semester to learn the ins and outs of UW–Madison wood identification technology in an effort to bring the knowledge back to their home country of Ghana. Emmanuel Ebenyenle, Senior Research Scientist at the CSIR Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, and Ophilous Lambog, …