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Faculty Feature: Benjamin Soares

Faculty Feature: Benjamin Soares

Monday February 28, 2022

Professor in the Department of Religion Benjamin Soares is a scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in Africa whose research focuses on religious life from the early 20th century to the present. In recent work, he has looked at connections between changing modalities of religious expression, different modes of belonging, and emergent social imaginaries in […]

Faculty Feature: Fatimah Tuggar

Monday February 21, 2022

Fatimah Tuggar | Associate professor in Art & Art History Interdisciplinary artist Tuggar was born in Nigeria and raised there and in the United Kingdom. She has studied, lived, and worked in the US since the late ’80s. Her work uses technology as both medium and subject to serve as metaphors for power dynamics. She […]
Statement Condemning Recent AAPI Violence

Statement Condemning Recent AAPI Violence

Wednesday March 24, 2021

The UF Center for African Studies condemns any form of violence, discrimination, stereotyping, and hate. We express solidarity and reaffirm our support for our Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander students, faculty, staff, and broader community.
CAS Highlights Book Releases

CAS Highlights Book Releases

Wednesday March 10, 2021

The Center for African Studies highlights new book releases by our very own faculty members: Terje Østebø, Marit Østebø, Adrienne Strong and Luise White. Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia, The Bale Insurgency, 1963-1970 by Terje Østebø Village Gone Viral, Understanding the Spread of Policy Models in a Digital Age by Marit Tolo Østebø Documenting […]
Happy Birthday Chinua Achebe: Tribute to a master storyteller from Ogidi, Anambra State, Nigeria

Happy Birthday Chinua Achebe: Tribute to a master storyteller from Ogidi, Anambra State, Nigeria

Tuesday March 24, 2020

March 21st marked seven years since Prof. Chinualumogu Albert Achebe joined his ancestors. He died in Boston, USA on 21st March 2013, after a brief illness, aged 82. In life and in death he remains many things to many people. His Son, Dr. Chidi Achebe in remembrance of his father sent a message around on […]

Happy Retirement

Monday May 14, 2018

Dr. Peter Schmidt is professor of anthropology and a former director of the Center for African Studies. He has conducted archaeological research in Tanzania, Eritrea, Kenya, Ethiopia, and throughout eastern Africa. His work has a strong focus on facilitating community archaeology in the regions he conducts research. His publications include: “Hardcore Ethnography: Interrogating the Intersection of […]

Congratulations to all students graduating this semester!

Monday April 23, 2018

Jesse B. Borden Department: School for Natural Resources and Environment Thesis Title: “Ecological Disturbances and Canopy Communities”Ann Lee Grimstad Department: History Dissertation Title: “Zanzibar: the Nine Hour Revolution”Erik Timmons Department: Anthropology Dissertation Title: “Hip-Hop Life and Livelihood in Nairobi, Kenya.” Jacqueline Allegra Curnick Department: MDP Field Practicum: “Environmental health and justice in Alaska and Documentary: Pulling […]

Dr. Nancy Hunt Announced 2018 Guggenheim Fellow.

Monday April 9, 2018

Dr. Nancy Hunt has been announced as a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. Congratulations! Her project, “Ideation as History: Dream Collectors and Picture Archives from Post-1968 Urban Congo” seeks to join images and words to dreaming in the ex-Belgian Congo. Her approach uses both history and anthropology to consider how text-image links to Congo’s postwar period. She will […]

Graduate Student Mandissa Haarhoff Featured in Mural Downtown

Monday April 2, 2018

A portrait of Mandissa Haarhoff (PhD student, English) was recently painted in downtown Gainesville. The mural, located at the entrance of the Gainesville Southwest Downtown Parking Garage, is part of the Urban Revitalization Project and 352walls project. If you want more info on the Urban Revitalization Project, click here.   CAS News Bulletin- Week of April 2, […]
Livestock, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Child Growth: Exploring the complex underlying causes of child stunting

Livestock, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Child Growth: Exploring the complex underlying causes of child stunting

Tuesday February 20, 2018

Undernutrition is an underlying cause of nearly half of all deaths among children under five, and, in Africa, nearly one third of children are chronically undernourished. Chronic malnutrition – as indicated by stunted growth – is not completely reversed by optimized diet and reduced diarrhea. This has led to the hypothesis that a primary underlying […]

Alumni Lina Benabdallah Quoted in New York Times

Monday February 19, 2018

African Studies alumni, Lina Benabdallah quoted in New York Times article, which discusses portrayals of Africa featured in China’s televised Lunar New Year Show.   CAS News Bulletin- Week of February 19, 2018
2018 Carter Conference: Text Meets Image and Image Meets Text

2018 Carter Conference: Text Meets Image and Image Meets Text

Tuesday January 30, 2018

The 2018 Carter Conference will take place February 8-10. For more information on the conference including this year’s program, visit the Carter Conference page.

Graduate Student Zoe Nhleko featured in UF News

Monday January 29, 2018

To see more of UF student Zoe Nhleko’s work on white rhino conservation, read the feature from UF News. Photo by Lyon Duong/UF Photography; Story by Alisson Clark/UF News.   CAS News Bulletin- Week of January 29, 2018  

Center for African Studies Historical Marker Dedication

Monday January 15, 2018

On Friday January 12, the Center for African Studies celebrated the unveiling of the Historical Marker located on Grinter Lawn. The event began with songs by Pazeni Africa Choir, as well as lectures by Brenda Chalfin (Director, Center for African Studies), David Richardson (Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences), Leonardo Villalon (Dean, UF International […]

UF Faculty Present at Workshop in Niger

Monday December 11, 2017

  Leonardo A. Villalón and Olivier Walther presented their new OECD project Cities and Borders at a workshop entitled “Linking borderlands research and policy in Africa and Europe” in Niamey, Niger on December 1. The workshop was organized by Point Sud, the African Borderlands Research Network (ABORNE) and the Laboratory of Studies and Research on Social Dynamics and Local Development (Lasdel). CAS News […]
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