The African Studies Association (ASA) and American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) are thrilled to announce the joint 2025 18th-Century Africa Publication Fellowships. Thanks to generous funding from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), ASECS and ASA have jointly designed a one-year fellowship to engage early career scholars from groups who have been systematically excluded, marginalized, or otherwise neglected in their fields or disciplines.
In 2025, the two Associations will be offering joint conference and publication opportunities to which students and recent graduates (within 5-years of graduation) can submit paper proposals. Applicants are invited to submit paper proposals related to Africa and its Diasporas in the 18th Century. Selected participants will attend the ASECS conference virtually to present their paper, and receive feedback from a designated mentor. Participants will then revise the paper, and workshop the revisions at the ASA Annual Meeting Publishing Workshop in Atlanta, Georgia. The fellows will have a final opportunity to present at the ASA Annual Meeting and should plan to submit for publication review by January 2026.
Download a copy of this call to share with colleagues HERE.
For eligibility, participation requirements, and application instructions, please visit the 2025 18th-Century Africa Publication Fellowships page.
UPDATE:
We are please to announce the 2025 18th-Century Africa Publication Fellows:
In Splendid Court Dress: William Armfield Hobday’s Portrait of Prince Saunders and the Reception of African Nobility in Georgian Britain
Jessica M. Johnson, University of Oregon
A Painting in Paris; An African prince in 18th century France
Allegra Ayida, Yale University
The Black Atlantic from Caribbean Central American Shores: Haitian Auxiliaries and the Garífuna in Omoa and Trujillo, 1797-1821
Jack Casey, New York University
Abolition in Two Acts: Freedom’s Gains and Losses in the Imperial Republic, 1789–1802
A. Véronique Charles, Columbia University
“Petition of Jenny, a woman of colour”: chattel slavery and the fur trade in Detroit during the American Revolutionary War and its aftermath
Duangkamol Tantirungkij, City University of New York
The “Landlord- Stranger” Land Tenancy Relationship in Early Sierra Leone: A Reassessment
Tim Soriano, University of Illinois Chicago
Rivals to Power: How a Mother and Daughter-in-Law Fought to Change the Ethiopian Imperial Court
Ethan Key, Boston University
“Conjurers, Witches and Sorcerers”: Recovering Early Modern West Central African Healing Practices
Myriam Carmen Iuorio, University of Toronto
West African Hajj “Travel lodge”: Impacts of Royals and Clerics on Economic and Intellectual Expeditions
Umar Sheikh Tahir, Columbia University
Scales of Ruin and Restitution: Tracing the Epistemologies of Bilali Mohammed, a Georgia Sea Island Plantation Manager
Justine Ajao, University of Toronto
Resisting Western Paradigms: The Life of Omar ibn Said and the Politics of Translation
Deena Al-halabieh, University of California Santa Barbara
Reforming the Sharīʿa in 18th Century Africa: Ṣāliḥ al-Fullānī (d. 1218/1803-4), the Legal School, and Sindh
Matthew Steele, Yale University
