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Film & Media Professorship at Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)
The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), an internationally renowned college of art and design, business and technology, of the State […]
Yale Seeks Candidates for Senior Program Manager
Senior Program Manager, Council on African Studies The position reports to the Program Director for the Council on African Studies […]
TT Professorship in Sociology & Anthropology at Kalamazoo
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGY Kalamazoo College invites applications for a tenure track position at the assistant professor level […]
Career Development Specialist at University of California, Berkeley
Career Development Specialist at University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley: Career Development Specialist (4516U), Center for African Studies […]
ASA Launches 2022 CCNY Fellow Call
The ASA is thrilled to announce its 2022 Fellowships for Carnegie supported scholars. This year, the ASA will be offering […]
Visiting Professorship of Sociology & Anthropology at Kalamazoo College
VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGY Kalamazoo College invites applications for a one-year visiting professor starting Fall 2022 in […]
CFP: Southeast African Languages and Literatures Forum
CALL FOR PAPERS 12TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOUTHEAST AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES FORUM (SEALLF) AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH […]
QASA Prizes Open for Nominations
Dear colleagues: It is that time of year! We are writing to ask your help in identifying articles published in […]
Erikson Scholar-in-Residence Call for Applications
Erikson Scholar-in-Residence Call for Applications The Erikson Institute for Education and Research of the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, MA […]
Call for Chapters: Edited Volume on Fashion and Politics in Comparative Perspective
Call for Chapters: Edited Volume on Fashion and Politics in Comparative Perspective Karen Kedrowski (Iowa State University), [email protected] Candice Ortbals […]
CFP – In Flux: Theorizing African Environments, Ancient to Future
In Flux: Theorizing African Environments, Ancient to Future In honor of the 50th volume of History in Africa, we are […]
African Poetry Digital Portal Project: African Poetry Digital Humanities Grant
ALL FOR PROPOSALS African Poetry Digital Portal Project: African Poetry Digital Humanities Grant Deadline: June 10, 2022 The African Poetry […]
History Professorship at University of Bergen
Associate Professor in the History of the Middle East and Muslim Africa UiB – Knowledge that shapes society Through robust […]
2022 African Women, Gender and Migration Conference
Attend the 2022 African Feminist Initiative conference on “African Women, Gender and Migration,” June 9-10, in Tangier, Morocco.
Save the Date: The Sixth International Congress of African and African Diaspora Studies (ICAADS)
Save the date for The Sixth International Congress of African and African Diaspora Studies (ICAADS) to be held August 3-6, […]
Members Event: COVID, Gender, & Academia
Join us for the ASA Member exclusive event COVID, Gender, & Academia: Pandemic Impacts on Hiring, Promotion, & Tenure Review […]
Social Studies Faculty at Bard High School Early College NYC
Bard High School Early College (BHSEC) Manhattan FACULTY – SOCIAL STUDIES Employer Website: http://apply.interfolio.com/106343 Bard High School Early College (BHSEC) […]
Curator for the Black Diaspora at Brown University
Curator for the Black Diaspora The Curator for the Black Diaspora is a subject specialist who brings unique expertise to […]
30 Month Postdoc Researcher in Social History of Southern Africa
The research project ‘A Socialist Workplace in Postcolonial Africa: A Connected History of the Yugoslav Workforce in Zambia’ aims to […]
Postdoctoral Position in Islamic History and Culture
Postdoctoral position in Islamic history and culture UiB – Knowledge that shapes society Through robust and close interaction with the […]
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Academic Dean and Professor at Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Academic Dean and Professor, Africa Center for Strategic Studies National Defense University, Washington DC The Africa Center for Strategic Studies, […]
2022 Summer Institute for Languages of the Muslim World
2022 Summer Institute for Languages of the Muslim World Students come to SILMW for a variety of reasons: To connect […]
New Sponsorship Opportunities at the ASA
New Sponsorship Opportunities at the ASA The ASA has recently launched a new sponsorship opportunities for institutions, programs, and individuals […]
Southern Journal for Contemporary History Call for Papers
Call for papers 2022-04-19 The Southern Journal for Contemporary History (SJCH) is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal, published in English, twice […]
Conference: RECKONING WITH RACE & RACISM IN ACADEMIC MEDICINE
The Department of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine The Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University […]
2022 ASA Community Changes
Dear ASA Community Members, As we move into the second quarter of 2022, and closer to ASA’s 65th Annual Meeting, […]
Emerging Scholars & Advocacy: Finding Your Voice On Capitol Hill and Beyond
Join us for a special roundtable conversation on Emerging Scholars & Advocacy: Finding Your Voice On Capitol Hill and Beyond […]
Museum of Modern Art Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: World Unbound Event
MOMA Event on Frédéric Bruly Bouabré Join the Museum of Modern Art for an event in conjunction with the exhibition […]
Professorship in History at Colby College
Professorship in History at Colby College The History Department at Colby College invites applications for a one-year replacement position for […]
Postdoc at University of California, Irvine
Postdoc at University of California, Irvine The UCI School of Humanities invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral scholar for 2022-2023. […]
Invitation to Join Author Meets Critics Panel
The Author Meets Critics panel launches a new book published by Rowman and Littlefield. Bantu Authorities: Apartheid’s System of Race […]
Environmental Sustainability in Africa
This paper investigates the nexus between environmental justice as a concept, the indigenous people of southern Nigeria’s understanding of this […]
Mellon Sawyer Seminar Postdoctoral Scholar at The UCI School of Humanities
Mellon Sawyer Seminar Postdoctoral Scholar The UCI School of Humanities invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral scholar for 2022–2023. The […]
2022 Awards & Prize Nominations
2022 Prize Nominations Are Open! Please refer to each prize nomination process separately via the links and be sure to […]
Disturbing Gazes and Synesthetic Discomfort in sub-Saharan Africa
This panel considers the use of disgust in postcolonial cultural productions from/about sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on disturbing cultural productions (comics, […]
Atta, Habiba Iliyasu
Keywords: Sustainability, Environment, Bioremediation, Content creation, Public speaking
Lee, Jia Hui
Keywords: Science & Technology Studies, East Africa, Multispecies Anthropology, New Materialism
Singbeh, Thomas N.
Keywords: Africa Political Thought, Liberian Political History, Political Risk Analysis, Policy Development & Analysis
Akinyetun, Tope Shola
Keywords: Security, Development Studies, Insurgency, Digitization. Identity Politics
Emerson, Matthew
Keywords: Fieldwork, Ethnography, Archaeology, Material Culture, Professionalism, Research Safety, Travel and Study Abroad,
Chinedu Eze, Victor
Keywords: Political Communication, International Communication, Crisis-Security-and-Conflict Communication, China-Nigeria Relations, Media Framing
African(a) Traditions vis-à-vis Western Philosophy & Esotericism
Majoritarian currents of Euro-American esoteric thought (e.g., Spiritualism, Theosophy, Hermeticism, Ceremonial/Crowleyan Magick, Neo-Paganism, Chaos Magic, etc.) frequently overlook, oversimplify, and/or […]
Postdoc at Univeristy of California, Riverside
Postdoc Scholar for the “Unarchiving Blackness” Postdoctoral Scholar for the “Unarchiving Blackness” Mellon Sawyer Seminar The Center for Ideas and […]
Women and Gender in Collective Memory and Sites of Public History
I am seeking 2-3 presenters and a chair and/or discussant for a panel that examines gendered representations of the past […]
Youth in Africa
Youth make up a majority of the growing population across many African countries, and therefore are increasingly a focus of […]
New Horizons in Knowledge Production: Emerging Scholars and the Frontlines of African Studies Research
Octavia Butler’s famous quote, “There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns,” captures the ongoing tension […]
Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies Full-Time Lecturer in African Studies at the University of Pennsylvania: School of Arts and Sciences
Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies Full-Time Lecturer in African Studies at the University of Pennsylvania: School of Arts […]
Statement by the African Studies Association on Discriminatory Treatment meted out to Africans, including Scholars and Students, fleeing the war in Ukraine
Statement by the African Studies Association on Discriminatory Treatment meted out to Africans, including Scholars and Students, fleeing the war […]
African Neoliberalisms: New Transformations and Configurations of the Relations between Labor and Finance
The term ‘neoliberalism’ has become synonymous with the historical trajectory that saw the ‘end’ of labor and the dominance of […]
“Preventing”/”Deterring” African Migration: a focus on local actors and reception
Throughout Africa, funded by the international agencies, the European Union, and the African states themselves, campaigns against emigration flourish from […]
Migration: [Un]Welcome African immigrants to East Asia
A different perspective to examine the causes of African immigration to Asia, taking into consideration the differences between an African […]
Assistant or Associate Professor, Adjunct, of Choral Conducting at Yale University
Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale School of Music Fully joint faculty appointment in Choral Conducting POSITION: Assistant or […]
Teaching Africa: Lessons about, by, and for the Continent
How is the African continent taught both inside and outside its borders? In an era of increasing surveillance of curriculum […]
Academic Director and Global Master Chair (Open Rank) at the School for International Training (SIT)
Academic Director and Global Master Chair (Open Rank) at the School for International Training (SIT) The appointment will commence on […]
Feeding Africa: Climate Change, Environmental Sustainability, and Pastoralism
Feeding Africa: Climate Change, Environmental Sustainability, and Pastoralism Today there are leading scholars who argue for the resilience and economic […]
Cornell University: Migrations Summer Institute
Call for Applications Cornell University: Migrations Summer Institute We invite advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career scholars to […]
Non-violent Resistance to Excessive Force by the State in sub-Sahara Africa
The police murder of George Floyd sparked supportive protests in Africa against excessive use of force by the state. This […]
Peripheral Cross-Fertilizations
In literary studies, arguments, whether they are hegemonic or counter hegemonic, tend to be negotiated through the lens of the […]
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Haverford College
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Haverford College Haverford College seeks to hire a full-time (equivalent of a total […]
Post-Doctoral Fellow at Kalamazoo College Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Post- Doctoral at Kalamazoo College Department of Anthropology and Sociology Kalamazoo College invites applications for a 2-year postdoctoral position beginning […]
Taxation in Africa
Research on taxation in Africa is proliferating and, along with it, (potential) intersections of research across literatures and disciplines have […]
Understanding Climate Change in Urban and Rural Africa: Historical and Contemporary Challenges
Climate-driven migration is expected to intensify in the coming decades. Experts estimate that by 2050 there will be 200 million […]
Country Music in Africa
Few genres of popular music have found a global cross-generational audience as diverse and devoted as has country music over […]
Agency, Empowerment, and Constraints: Critical Perspectives on Gender in Contemporary African Societies
For decades, an array of state and non-state actors, African and non-African, has sought to “empower” women in African societies. […]
African Art History in Africa: investigating the pedagogical approach to African material culture on the continent
2nd Call for Chapter Proposals: African Art History in Africa: investigating the pedagogical approach to African material culture on the […]
Academic Dean for the Department of Defense, African Center for Strategic Studies
Academic Dean for the Department of Defense, African Center for Strategic Studies Closing Date: Thursday, March 10, 2022 Salary: $131,535.00 […]
Marketplace Trade and West African Urban Development – A Paradox
The burgeoning mobility to cities allows Africa to qualify as having “the fastest urban growth in the world,” notes the […]
Salsa in Africa. Urbanities, intimacies and kinaesthetic of the Afro-Latin Atlantic connection
Whereas the African roots and “Africanist aesthetics” (McCains 2015) of salsa music and dance have been widely discussed by existing […]
Academic Director and Global Master Chair for the School for International Training (SIT)
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Visiting Assistant Professor of African History at Susquehanna University
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Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell University, Science and Technology Studies
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University
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Mellon Sawyer Seminar Postdoctoral Scholar at the UCI School of Humanities
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Call for Paper: Race and Racism: Beyond the Spectacular – Final Reminder
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Assistant Professor, Postcolonial Studies at Mount Royal University
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Assistant Professor, Political Science at The College of St. Scholastica
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Call for Board of Directors Self-Nominations
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Workshop: Dying for respect: Corporeal Precarities and the Ganglife in Africa Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
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For those of you who joined us in Chicago for our 60th meeting, I hope you will agree that, by all measures, it was a massive success. We are especially grateful to the Local Arrangements Committee, chaired by Mark DeLancey and Amy Settergren, for putting together such a wonderful set of Chicago-focused events. Program chairs Marissa Moorman and Susanna Wing developed and assembled an outstanding array of panels, roundtables, and plenaries on “Institutions: Creativity and Resilience in Africa.” Special highlights for many of us included the Current Issues Plenary with Reed Brody and Dohkot Clément Abaïfouta, the ASR Distinguished Lecture by Alcinda Honwana, Anne Pitcher’s inspiring Presidential Address, and the Hormuud Lecture by Rafael Marques de Morais.
The months since our momentous Chicago meeting have been extremely busy on a number of fronts. The difficult and unpredictable political terrain in the United States, including debates around the federal budget and allocations for Title VI and Fulbright-Hays, have kept advocacy front and center in our work. Like our predecessors, we have had some lively discussions about what is appropriate to advocate for and protest against, but for the most part, we have been fairly agile and responsive, thanks to the Board’s Advocacy Committee. Still, we are in need of a more broadly based and representative structure to address the quickfire issues of these turbulent times and hope to roll out a new task force, drawn directly from our coordinate and affiliate organizations, in the coming months.
Related to advocacy, of course, are the partnerships we have developed and nurtured, especially in recent years. Increasingly, those partnerships – with disciplinary and area associations (via the American Council of Learned Societies, the Coalition for International Education, the Consortium of Social Science Associations, and the National Humanities Alliance) and with other African studies associations in other parts of the world, and especially with continent-based organizations like the African Studies Association of Africa and CODESRIA – are strategically important in helping us prioritize our work and determine our direction. In June 2016, the ASA held its first co-organized conference on the African continent, in Dakar and in partnership with the American Anthropological Association. That partnership was reprised this May in Johannesburg at a conference on “Africa in the World: Shifting Boundaries and Knowledge Production.” We will have more on that gathering in the next issue of ASA News. Meanwhile, we continue to explore ways of partnering directly and regularly with Africa-based associations as we move forward. It is more incumbent on us now than ever before to build equitable, multilateral, and sustainable institutional partnerships with academic associations that are Africa-focused and Africa-based.
As I write, plans are well underway for our 2018 meeting in Atlanta. Organized by our two program chairs, Nana Akua Anyidoho and Mark Auslander, around the theme, “Energies: Power, Creativity and Afro-Futures,” the meeting is poised to address some of the more pressing concerns of our common fields. I would like to take special note of the fact that Nana Akua Anyidoho is the first Africa-based program chair for an ASA annual meeting. My hope is that in the coming years increasing numbers of Africa-based scholars will play central roles in shaping the direction of our association. The Local Arrangements Committee for Atlanta (Jennie Burnet, Harcourt Fuller, and Pamela Scully) have been hard at work for over a year and have some real Atlanta treats in store for those able to attend.
Last, but certainly not least, our annual election results are just in! First, a profound and heart-felt thanks to those who will be rotating off the Board in November: Anne Pitcher (Past President) and Board members Adérónké Adésolá Adésànyà, Mary-Jane Deeb, Jennifer Yanco, and Ruth Murambadoro (Emerging Scholar Representative). We are delighted to be welcoming on: Ato Quayson as incoming Vice President and Leonardo Arriola, Sylvester Ogbechie, and Lahra Smith new Board members. Yusuf Serunkuma Kajura will become our third Emerging Scholar Representative to the Board.
Jean Allman
