Krista Johnson awarded a CADFP Fellowship

Krista Johnson, Director at the Center for African Studies (CfAS), Howard University, and Professor Ade Adebajo at the University of Johannesburg were recently awarded a Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship for the upcoming year. As a CADFP Fellow, Dr.

Howard at 63rd ASA

This year, at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA), Howard University has a strong representation. Below please find the Howard faculty and students who are presenting along with their sessions and paper titles.

The African Studies Review together with the ASA Board launched a distinguished lecture in 2011 featuring state of the art research in African Studies. This year, the speaker will be Bob Edgar, Professor Emeritus of Howard University.

The ASA Annual Meeting is the largest gathering of Africanist scholars in the world.

Our former Amharic/Arabic FLAS fellow, Sara Swetzoff, is awarded a 2020-2021 Fulbright Research Fellowship

Our former Amharic/Arabic FLAS fellow, Sara Swetzoff, has been awarded a 2020-2021 Fulbright Research Fellowship. Her Fulbright research focuses on the resilience and community-building within the shared network of Ethiopian returnees and Yemeni refugees in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Since the 2014 start of the ongoing war in Yemen, hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian and Yemeni nationals have fled from Yemen to Ethiopia; many individuals belong to bicultural and mixed-citizenship families who call both countries home.

Dr. Krista Johnson receives a UMBC Inclusion Imperative Fellowship

Dr. Krista Johnson, Associate Professor in the Department of African Studies at Howard University, will be participating in the Inclusion Imperative Visiting Faculty Fellowship Program at the University of Maryland in the Fall of 2020.

Congratulations to Bathsheba Bryant-Tarpeh!

The Center for African Studies would like to congratulate a recent PhD graduate from the African Studies Department at Howard University. A Mellon ACLS Public Fellow, Dr. Bryant-Tarpeh was appointed as Global Science Officer at the Smithsonian Institution Office of International Relations.

Visit her ACLS profile.

TED Talk Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu

Our own 2011 PhD graduate, Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu, from the African Studies Dept. at HU presents her own TED Talk. Since its release on October 9th it has already been viewed over half a million times! 

View the TED Talk here.

Congratulations Jevon Bryd!

Jevon Bryd, a Howard Masters level student of African Studies, has been granted the Royal Air Maroc scholarship in order to aid in his research on Yoruba drums in Nigeria and Benin. This scholarship provides recipients with roundtrip airfare.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Congratulations to Muhammad Fraser Rahim!

Muhammad Fraser Rahim, 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

We congratulate Ms. Brenda Randolph, Outreach Director at the Center for African Studies at Howard University and the Founder of Africa Access, for receiving the 2016 ASA Public Service Award!

The African Studies Association (ASA) Public Service Award honors those who have been long-standing contributors to the ASA’s mission and to African Studies, through non-academic contributions.