The Center for African Studies promotes excellence in teaching and research on Africa. Your support helps disseminate knowledge through outreach programs and sustains links with African institutions. With over 100 affiliated faculty and a dedicated Outreach Director, the Center offers essential training and development opportunities. It also supports undergraduate and graduate students, fostering a community of Africanist scholars. As a pivotal resource in understanding Africa globally, your gift enriches the Center’s programs and benefits students. Here are ways you can support the Center for African Studies and contribute to its mission.

“Thanks to the Center for African Studies, I conducted fieldwork in Mozambique with communities near protected areas. This hands-on experience let me see how classroom theory translates into real-world solutions, producing insights useful to local communities. Opportunities like this are vital for students to learn by doing, engage ethically, and ground research in the realities of the people and environments we study.”

 

– Bailey Dunn, PhD Graduate Student, IFAS School of Natural Resources

Robin Poynor Student Travel Fund

This fund provides support for students to conduct culturally related research and study in Africa.

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Jeanne and Hunt Davis Research Travel Fund

The Jeanne and Hunt Davis Travel Fund, established in 2006, assists graduate students in African Studies with pre-dissertation research trips. This fund helps students gain first-hand knowledge of research sites, enhancing their proposals and increasing their chances of funding success.

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Beilstein Burgess Social Sciences Endowment in African Studies

This fund provides spendable income to support graduate scholarships for students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Center for African Studies. Scholarships will support social scientific research, with priority given to PhD students conducting field research.

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Center for African Studies Fund

Support the African Studies Center’s General Fund to enhance teaching, research, and outreach on Africa. Your contributions foster academic excellence, student development, and global understanding, enriching our programs and sustaining vital connections with African institutions and communities.

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Your gift will assist the Center to achieve its mission of promoting excellence in teaching and research on Africa in all of the disciplines at the University of Florida. Funds for graduate students to travel and carry out research in Africa are in very short supply, especially in these trying economic times!

The Center for African Studies has recently established a fund with the goal of creating an endowment of at least $30,000, so as to generate the revenue for an annual award to help a student carry out pre-dissertation research in Africa. If you would like to make a contribution to this fund, we (and future generations of UF Africanists students!) would be very grateful. 

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To learn more about the various ways you can get involved or make a gift including pledges, employer matching, and a variety of planned giving opportunities, please visit https://advancement.clas.ufl.edu or contact: