The University of Wisconsin–Madison invites applications for a full-time librarian position supporting Africana and Francophone Studies. Application Opened at Nov 8 2023 at 2:50 PM CST and will close on Dec 4 2023 at 11:55 PM CST. Learn about about this job opportunity and how to apply.
Congratulations to Dr. Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué, Associate Professor of African Cultural Studies at UW–Madison, for being named this year’s 1st Runner Up for the African Studies Association of Africa’s Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award for Excellence in African Writing. Her book titled Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon illustrates how issues of ideal womanhood …
Erin Kitchell, winner of the A.C. Jordan Prize 2023, wrote her award-winning dissertation on the environment, climate change and public policy in West Africa. After attending Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, earning undergraduate degrees in both international studies and history, Kitchell headed off to the Peace Corps. The more Kitchell traveled, the more she …
Claire Wendland, faculty affiliate of the African Studies Program and Professor and Chair of UW’s Department of Anthropology, has been nominated for two national prizes from the African Studies Association. Wendland has been nominated for both the ASA Best Book Prize and the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize, which gets awarded to the author of …
Congratulations to Professor Katrina Daly Thompson, Professor of African Cultural Studies, and Adeola Agoke, Teaching Assistant Professor and Director of the African Languages Program, for securing a competitive $300,000 grant from the United States Department of Education under the International Reach and Studies program. The project will strengthen African language instruction at UW–Madison and beyond. Thompson and Agoke will explore …
Emmanuel Urey Yarkpawolo received his degrees from the UW–Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies in 2018. Emmanuel’s M.S. thesis was concerned land tenure reform and his Ph.D. concerned the social and ecological consequences of oil palm plantations in Liberia. Since graduating, Dr. Urey has been active in the educational sector in Liberia, establishing One Life Liberia, a …
Interested in diplomacy, international relations, and language careers? Learn about exciting internships, fellowships, and careers with the Department of State during a chat with Susan Falatko, the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomat in Residence for the Midwest, during her upcoming visit to the UW–Madison campus. Students and recent grads of all majors are invited to …
September 13th 6th Jan Vansina Lecture New Methods and Sources for Recovering New Voices: West African Peasant Rice Farmers and Enslaved Laborers on Lowcountry Rice Plantations Edda Fields Black Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University Hosted by Khaled Esseissah September 20th Joan Wicken: A Lifelong Collaboration with Tanzania’s President Nyerere Aili Tripp Department of Political …
Africa Fest is an annual event organized by the African Association of Madison to celebrate and share African traditions and cultural heritage with the greater Madison area. For over a decade, this family friendly community-based cultural event has featured musicians, artists, performers, crafts, food, fashion, and scholars to demonstrate, present, and discuss the cultural traditions …
The University of Wisconsin–Madison African Studies Program is pleased to announce a second time partnership with CEOs of Tomorrow’s These Teens Mean Busine$$ Global Excursion Program. In the 2023 global and entrepreneurial program for Grades 9-12, ten CEOs of Tomorrow scholars will embark on a 15-day cultural exchange trip to The Gambia, from July 23 to …