On April 6, 2022, the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University hosted United States Ambassador to Nigeria and BU alumna Mary Beth Leonard (CAS ’84) for a Policy Leaders Forum on U.S. diplomacy in Nigeria. Following the forum, Amb. Leonard visiting the African Studies Center, presented in ASC Director Michael Woldemariam’s Africa […]
Thank you to everyone who gave to the ASC on Giving Day 2022. With your support we received 39 gifts totaling in $1,470. Your participation made us the Pardee School affiliated Center with the most donors, which earned us a bonus of $2500.00. Gifts to the ASC are used to help support students embarking on […]
Friends of Niger contributor Dane Miller (CAS ’08) is looking to connect with alumni of the BU Niger program who are interested in sharing stories and experiences, either during their semester(s) in Niger or in the time since, and offer other opportunities to connect for this group. If you were a BU Niger student and would like to share […]
President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate BU alumnus David Young (STH ’87, Pardee ’88) as ambassador to Malawi on August 4th.
The new publication White War, Black Soldiers translates writings by WWI veterans Bakary Diallo and Lamine Senghor. It was reviewed positively by Ronald Lamothe (CAS ’10) and Jonathan Reynolds (CAS ’95). Read their reviews on the book jacket here.
Bill McCoy (GRS ’15) has been appointed to Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Eastern Nazarene College. Dr. McCoy’s appointment follows a national search and comes after his successful tenure as ENC’s Interim Academic Dean during the 2020-21 academic year. Read more here.
Christopher Conz (GRS ’17) won the Alice Hamilton Prize for best article by the American Society for Environmental History. His article “Sheep, Scab Mites, and Society: The Process and Politics of Veterinary Knowledge in Lesotho, Southern Africa, c. 1900-1933″ (August 2020) in Environment and History can be found here.
ASC Alum Dr. Akinwumi Ogundiran (Ph.D.’00) will be awarded the First Citizens Bank Scholars Medal Award by UNC Charlotte. The virtual award ceremony will take place on March 18, 2021. You can register for the event here. Congratulations, Professor Ogundiran!
BU alumna and Rutgers Professor of History Barbara M. Cooper delivered the annual Bradford Morse Lecture at the African Studies Center this week! Her talk, “Reflections on a Baby Scandal: Paradoxes of Fertility and Infertility in West Africa,” drew from her forthcoming book on the history of fertility in the Sahel and was attended by students and faculty […]