General news about the Center, its affiliated faculty, or related events.
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 […]
Linguistics Ph.D. candidate and ASC Mandinka Lecturer Ousmane Cisse recently translated an interview for the fifth episode of this season of HBO’s series Hard Knock.
Timothy Longman, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the BU Pardee School of Global Studies and Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA), was interviewed for a New York Times article on the verdict of Paul Rusesabagina.
Dear Colleagues and Friends of the BU African Studies Community, I wanted to take this opportunity to welcome you back from what I hope was a restful summer. This is the first such note I am writing as ASC Director, having taken over the role in July. As BU returns to all in-person classes […]
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.
Visiting Researcher Lori De Lucia has been awarded several postdoctoral fellowships pertaining to her research on race and slavery in early modern Sicily and the wider Sahelian-Mediterranean world. Through 2021-22, these include a fellowship at the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations at Harvard University, the Heinz Heinen Fellowship at the Bonn Center for Dependency […]
Associate Professor Cynthia Becker was awarded the inaugural Innovative Teaching Award by ACASA (Arts Council of the African Studies Association). The selection committee highlighted the multimedia expression and community engagement dimensions of two courses she developed at BU: “From Morocco to Timbuktu: Art and Architecture at the Saharan Crossroads” (offered this fall) and “African Art in the City.” As […]
Boston University was well-represented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association. ASC Director, Fallou Ngom, delivered the African Studies Review Distinguished Lecture at the conference. A list of paper presentations and roundtables that BU faculty and students participated in can be found here!
We’re pleased to share that the library of African studies manuscripts of the late James Anthony Pritchett—past Director of the BU African Studies Center as well as former Director of the Michigan State University African Studies Center and President of the African Studies Association—has found a new home at Tuskegee University. With nearly 1,400 items, the Pritchett […]