Research

The African Studies Center offers many opportunities for students, faculty, and the Boston University community to engage in research in Africa, within the New England region, and beyond. Explore the sections below to learn about opportunities to fund your research, connect with fellow scholars as a Research Affiliate or Visiting Scholar, or access research tools through the African Studies Library. Learn more about various options to support research projects and other opportunities for students, faculty, and affiliates.

LATEST RESEARCH NEWS

• Lori De Lucia awarded several postdoctoral fellowships for her research on race and slavery in early modern Sicily and the wider Sahelian-Mediterranean world
• African Ajami: Connecting the Grassroots, Mediating the Mundane
• “Land and the Mortgage: History, Culture, Belonging,” co-edited by Daivi Rodima-Taylor and Parker Shipton (forthcoming in January 2022)
• ASC Visiting Researcher Ivor Miller featured in The Guardian Post and the Cameroon Tribune
• Forthcoming: Land and the Mortgage
• Zoliswa Mali co-authored a new article out in “Syntax”
• Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives on Informal Finance: Symposium Report
• Panel at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting, November 2019
• ASC Hosted Annual Faculty, Visiting Researcher and Affiliated Researcher Welcome Reception
• NEH ʿAjamī Research Project Now Live