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Dr. Agnes Leslie received the 2023 UF Superior Accomplishment Award for Community Service

Center for African Studies Outreach Director Dr. Agness Leslie has received the 2023 University of Florida Superior Accomplishment Award for Community Service. Dr. Leslie, a Master Lecturer at the CAS, also teaches courses in political science, including “Women and Politics in Africa” and “China and Africa Relations.” As the Outreach Director, Dr. Leslie collaborates with […]

Dr. Renata Serra publishes article with SAGE Publishing and Progress in Development Studies

Dr. Renata Serra (CAS Associate Instructional Professor and core MDP Faculty) has published a new article, “Promoting Gender Equity in Livelihoods Projects: Practitioners’ Perspectives Through the Lens of a Socio-ecological Model.” Written with Michelle Kendall, Alexandra Towns, and James Hummer, who are with the international humanitarian organization Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the article is based […]

Student Feature: Katelyn Flaherty, Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellow

Katelyn Flaherty is a 4th year MD-PhD student in the Department of Environmental and Global Health. Her research focuses on pre-hospital care in low-and-middle income countries, specifically Ghana. Globally, leading causes of death among children one month to 5 years old include respiratory infections, diarrheal disease, and malaria, all of which are highly treatable early […]

Dr. Child Selected for Honorary Position as African Councilor for IUCN

Dr. Brian Child was asked to stand to be one of four African Councilors for IUCN by the African Community Leaders Forum and others. Following the recent global elections at the World Conservation Congress in Marseilles, Dr. Child was elected for this honorary position. The Council sets forth strategic direction and policy for the Union. Given […]

Dr. Elischer Publishes New Book

Salafism and Political Order in Africa Violent Islamic extremism is affecting a growing number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa. In some, jihadi Salafi organizations have established home bases and turned into permanent security challengers. However, other countries have managed to prevent the formation or curb the spread of homegrown jihadi Salafi organizations. In this book, […]

Two new publications from Dr. Marit Østebø and Dr. Terje Østebø:

Østebø, Marit Tolo, Terje Østebø, and Kjetil Tronvoll. 2021. “Health and politics in pandemic times: COVID-19 responses in Ethiopia.”  Health Policy and Planning. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czab091. Østebø, Terje, Kjetil Tronvoll, and Marit Tolo Østebø. 2021. “Religion and the ‘Secular shadow’: responses to covid-19 in Ethiopia.” Religion:1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2021.1943769

CAS Grad Student Ayobami Edun Awarded Prestigious College Distinction

Considered the greatest distinction of any student award given by the college, the Gator Engineering Attribute Awards are intended to provide an ideal guide for all members of the Gator Engineering community. They honor five undergraduate and five Ph.D. students who strongly model one of the five Gator Engineering Attributes: Creativity: imaginative, versatile, resourceful, artful, curious, passionate, inspired, innovative, willing to discover […]

Ryan Z. Good Awarded Grant at American Association of Geographers Conference

Ryan Z. Good (Ph.D. Candidate, Geography) was awarded a travel grant from the Urban Geography Specialty Group for his work in Tanzania at the recent American Association of Geographers conference. At the same meeting, Ryan was named a finalist for the Landscape Specialty Group’s best presentation award for his dissertation work on urban environmental change around Lake […]

Ben Soares Receives Luce Award

Beginning in 2018, Benjamin Soares will direct a three-year multi-disciplinary project, “Islam and Africa in Global Context,” funded through a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation’s Initiative on Religion in International Affairs to the University of Florida. The project will be carried out by the Center for Global Islamic Studies in conjunction with the Center […]

UF Receives Simon Award

Gainesville, FL – March 13, 2018- NAFSA, the Association of International Educators, announced today that the University of Florida has been selected as one of five institutions to receive the 2018 Senator Paul Simon Award for Comprehensive Internationalization. The award will be formally presented during International Education Week on November 13 in Washington D.C. UF […]

New UN report co-authored by Dr. Walther examines women market activities in West Africa

Visiting Associate Professor Olivier Walther completed a 6-month comparative study for the World Food Programme (WFP) Regional Bureau for West Africa on women market activities this month. The study examined the role that women play in the rural market economy and the agricultural and livestock sector value chain, from production at village level through to […]

Publications Week of October 2, 2017

Dr. Peter Schmidt (Anthropology) and two Africanists (Kathryn Weedman Arthur and Jonathan Walz) associated with UF were published in the September 2017 issue of the Magazine of the Society for American Archaeology. To read the magazine, click here. Walther O, Leuprecht C, Skillicorn D. 2017. Political fragmentation and alliances among armed non-state actors in North and […]

Awards and Publications Week of September 18, 2017

Awards: Riley Ravary (PhD student, Anthropology) was awarded a US Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship to conduct dissertation research for 8 months in Uganda, beginning in 2018. Publications: African Border Disorders: Addressing Transnational Extremist Organizations.2018. Edited by Olivier J. Walther (University of Florida) and William F.S. Miles (Northeastern University). Routledge Studies in African Politics and International Relations. Since the end of the Cold […]

Graduate Students Moore and Mulindahabi Co-Publish Article in Journal of Applied Ecology

Co-authors Jennifer Moore, a student in the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Felix Mulindahabi, a student in SNRE, and Madan Oli, a professor in WEC recently published an article in the Journal of Applied Ecology. Moore, J.F., Mulindahbai, F., Masozera, M.K., Nichols, J.D., Hines, J.E., Turikunkiko, E., and Oli, M.K. 2017. Are ranger patrols […]

Publications Week Of August 21st, 2017

Alain Karsenty, Claudia Romero∗, Paolo Omar Cerutti, Jean-Louis Doucet, Francis E. Putz, Christelle Bernard, Richard Eba’a Atyi, Pascal Douard, Florian Claeys, Sébastien Desbureaux, Driss Ezzine de Blas, Adeline Fayolle, Timothée Fomété, Eric Forni, Valéry Gond, Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury, Fritz Kleinschroth, Frédéric Mortier, Robert Nasi, Jean Claude Nguinguiri, Cédric Vermeulen, Carlos de Wasseigek. 2017. Deforestation and timber production in […]

Publications Week of April 17, 2017

John Hames (Anthropology, UF), 2017, “‘A River is not a Boundary’: Interplays of National and Linguistic Citizenship in Pulaar Language Activism,” Canadian Journal of African Studies. Anita Hannig (Brandeis University), 2017, Beyond Surgery: Injury, Healing, and Religion at an Ethiopian Hospital. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. (Dr. Hannig was our Baraza speaker on Oct. 21, 2016). CAS […]

Awards and Publications Week of February 13, 2017

Oumar Ba (PhD, Political Science) successfully defended his dissertation, “Outsourcing Justice: Africa and the Politics of the International Criminal Court.” Terje Ostebo, Director of the Center for Global Islamic Studies and Associate Professor in Religion and the Center for African Studies, wrote an op-ed in the Sunday edition (2/12) of the Gainesville Sun, titled, “Trump’s Muslim Ban […]

Awards and Publications Week of December 5, 2016

Emily Pukuma (Political Science) has been awarded a CLAS Dissertation Fellowship funded by the W. W. Massey, Sr. Presidential Scholarship Fund for the Spring 2017 term. Mamadou Bodian (Political Science) defended his dissertation, “The Politics of Electoral Reform in Francophone West Africa: The Birth and Change of Electoral Rules in Mali, Niger, and Senegal.” His supervisor committee […]

CAS Grad Students Win Research Abroad for Doctoral Student (RAD) Award

Jennifer Moore – Doctoral Candidate in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Proposed research project and location: Mammalian biodiversity monitoring and conservation in Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda Cody Howard – Doctoral Candidate in Biology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Proposed research project and location: Arid Climate Pioneers: The historical evolution of the […]