News - Announcements

Frederick Douglass Institutes of Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education are offering teaching opportunities

2017-01-10
Kutztown University
This is a career opportunity for graduate students who might be nearing the end of their advanced degree program as well as alumni.

New African Studies Course

2017-01-09
Department of African Studies
Check out the new graduate course: The Rising Powers? BRICS & AFRICA (AFST 271)

Youth in International Development and Foreign Affairs internship program

2017-01-05
The United States International Council on Disabilities (USICD)
The application deadline for the Youth in International Development and Foreign Affairs internship program (Summer 2017) has been extended to January 25, 2017.

Congratulations Jevon Bryd!

2017-01-03
Royal Air Maroc
Jevon Bryd, a Howard Masters level student of African Studies, has been granted the Royal Air Maroc scholarship.

Applications are open for the U.S. Borlaug Summer Institute on Global Food Security

2016-12-16
U.S. Borlaug Fellows
The two-week learning program is for graduate students who are interested in developing a holistic understanding of the conceptual challenges around global food security with a focus on cross-disciplinary problem solving of real-world development challenges.

Call for Papers on Chinese and Western intervention in Africa in the 21st Century

2016-12-16
Howard University
"The World and Africa in the 21st Century" conference, set for March 24, 2017 on the campus of Howard University, is soliciting papers that build our understanding of Chinese and Western intervention in Africa and the competition between the great powers. Send abstracts by January 31, 2017.

Congratulations to Muhammad Fraser Rahim!

2016-12-15
Truman National Security Project
Muhammad, a graduate student in the African Studies Department at Howard University, has been accepted into the Truman National Security Project’s membership program.

Ms. Brenda Randolph receives the 2016 ASA Public Service Award

2016-12-14
African Studies Association
We congratulate Ms. Brenda Randolph, Outreach Director at the Center for African Studies at HU, for receiving the 2016 ASA Public Service Award!

See more photos from ASA

2016-12-12
Center for African Studies
We have added more photos from the 2016 ASA Meeting to the Center for African Studies Flickr account.

See photos from the ASA Teachers' Workshop

2016-12-07
Center for African Studies
The ASA Teachers' Workshop organized by the Outreach team at the Center for African Studies took place on Dec. 3, 2016.

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