BU Students are eligible to get their registration fee for the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association covered by the ASC. If you have yet to register you can email us to pay the registration fee for you, or if you have already paid you can email us the receipt for reimbursement. Available funding […]
The African Studies Center held its annual Welcome Reception last Thursday at BU’s Fox Fountain. Faculty, staff, and graduate students from across the university attended the event to meet one another, and hear welcoming remarks from the new ASC Director Michael Woldemariam. Many thanks to the ASC staff and student staff members who helped organize […]
Anthropology Ph.D. candidate Gana Ndiaye has been named a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars (formerly the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation). Read more here.
From all of us at the African Studies Center, congratulations to the Class of 2021! We are extremely proud of our students who have worked hard to navigate the turbulence of the last year, and we are excited to what is next for our graduates. Minor in African Studies Helen Bekele, B.A. Political Science Devon Laurel Moehlenkamp, B.A. Anthropology* Teferi Tadesse, B.A. Health […]
The BU African Studies Center is excited to announce the 2021-2022 FLAS Fellows. This year’s applicant pool was extremely competitive. We would like to thank all those who applied and congratulate all of our awardees! Summer 2021 Kelley Gourley, MA/PhD Anthropology, Arabic* Kathryn Heidelberger, PhD Comparative Theology and Ethics, Arabic Ethan Key, PhD History, Amharic* Guthrie Kuckes, BA International […]
Thank you to everyone who participated in Language Theater Night 2021. After nearly two and a half semesters of non-traditional learning, it was great to see everyone’s faces and to see how our collective hard work and dedication has paid off! The votes are in and….the Igbo group has won first place! Congratulations! They were closely followed by the […]
Last month, Eric Schmidt and his Music of Africa class welcomed Ben Paulding, who directs the Fafali Ghanaian music ensemble at Brandeis University and is a member of the Boston-based Afropop band Kotoko Brass, for a socially distanced kinka drumming workshop. The students substituted household objects for instruments and recorded themselves playing. Each student’s recording was edited together to create a music video, with […]
Students, faculty, and staff filled the ASC last Tuesday for the Spring Student and Faculty Mixer. Director Fallou Ngom and Assistant Director Eric Schmidt led everyone in brief introductions and then gave a short presentation on the FLAS Fellowships, for which applications are now open. After the presentation, prospective applicants got to hear from current and former FLAS […]