Message from the Director
Welcome Back from Director Brenda Chalfin Dear CAS Students, Faculty, Friends and Affiliates: Welcome Back to Campus! As the 2017-18 Academic Year takes off we look forward to your involvement […]
Graduate Student – Summer Plans
Allegra, Jacqueline – MDP program and Certificate in African Studies – Field Practicum: Environmental Health in the Artic- a documentary film, Anchorage, Alaska Borden, Jesse – 1st year MSc student (SNRE) and FLAS Fellow […]
UF and SWAC/OECD Sign MoU
SWAC/OECD Secretariat signs a memorandum of understanding w/UF On 4 April, the SWAC/OECD Secretariat hosted the Sahel Research Group of the University of Florida to celebrate the new memorandum of […]
Awards and Publications Week of April 24, 2017
Awards Fiona McLaughlin– Awarded a Residential Fellowship from the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France for Fall 2017. While in residence, she will be working on her book, Language and urban life […]
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: […]
Graduate Student Lina Benabdallah Accepts Position at Wake Forest University
Lina Benabdallah (Political Science) has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in political science at Wake Forest University! Congrats Lina! CAS News Bulletin- Week of April 10th, 2017
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Oumar Ba Published in Journal of Narrative Politics
Ba, Oumar. 2017. “Dislocated Narratives and Kenyan Life Fragments: Political Violence, Nationhood, and Justice in Flux,” Journal of Narrative Politics 3(2): 108-119. Online available here. CAS News Bulletin- Week of April 3rd, 2017
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Migration Dreams: Africans in China
“The History of African Trading Communities in Guangzhou, China” Dr. Heidi Østbø Haugen, University of Oslo “The Bridge is not Burning: Transformation and Resilience within China’s African Diaspora Communities” Dr. […]
Jessie-Leigh Seago Awarded Fulbright for Namibia
Jessie-Leigh Seago (PhD candidate, Political Science) was awarded a US Fulbright Research Grant to conduct dissertation research for 9 months in Namibia, beginning in 2017. CAS News Bulletin- Week of March […]
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Congo-Kinshasa meets Gainesville
Event 1 : Wednesday, March 29th, 6-10 p.m. at The Wooly: a screening of Djo Munga’s award-winning “sexy crime flick,” set in Kinshasa. Event 2: Thursday, March 30th, 3-5 p.m. […]
Negotiating Gender and Sexualities in Muslim Africa
The symposium explores the lived experiences related to gender and sexualities among Muslims living in diverse societies in contemporary Africa. We acknowledge and invite discussions of sub-cultures of sexual and […]
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2017 Global Nutrition Symposium
Nurturing Development: Improving Human Nutrition with Animal-Source Foods Location: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Date: Thursday, March 30, 2017 Time: 8:00 – 5:00pm EDT, reception to follow Join the Feed […]
CAS in Washington, DC
As part of a Coalition for International Education initiative to promote the Title VI and Fulbright-Hays programs, Center for Latin American Studies Director, Dr. Philip J. Williams, and Center for […]
UF CAS @ Oak Hall School International Festival
On Saturday January 28th, 2017, the African Student Union at UF represented the Center for African Studies at the International Festival at Oak Hall School in Gainesville. Felicity Tackey-Otoo […]
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 […]
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Op-Ed Written by Rene Lemarchand Published in Gainesville Sun
Rene Lemarchand, Emeritus Professor of Political Science and African Studies, wrote an op-ed in the Gainesville Sun, printed in Sunday’s Edition (Feb. 5th) but also available here. CAS News Bulletin- […]
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CAS Welcomes Visiting Scholars from University of Dar es Salaam
Please join us in welcoming Paschal Charles Mdukula and Paul Japhet, two Visiting Scholars from Tanzania attached to the UF Center for African Studies as part of the Center’s longstanding University of Dar […]
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UF Alumni in Ghana
Also, while in Ghana, CAS Director Brenda Chalfin caught up with three UF alumni! Pictured here (left to right) is Adjowa Walker (’08), Afua Entsuah (’08), and Emmanuel Gamor (’09) at the Coco Lounge in […]
Publications Week of January 16th, 2017
Pedro A. Sanchez. “En route to plentiful food production in Africa.” Nature Plants 1: 1-2. (2015). Amanda B. Edgell. “Foreign Aid, Democracy, and Gender Quota Laws.” Democratization (2017). Access the online pre-print here. CAS News […]
Message from the Director
Dear CAS Students, Faculty and Friends: Welcome back to campus and best wishes for the New Year! I’m in Ghana where I witnessed the inauguration of incoming President, Nana Akuffo-Addo! […]
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 […]
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UF @ ASA 2016
UF ASA PARTY The Center for African Studies invites UF faculty, students, alumni, and friends to join us at Duke’s Counter (3000 Connecticut Ave NW) on Friday December 2nd from 9pm – midnight. We will […]
Oumar Ba Accepts Position at Morehouse College
Oumar Ba, PhD Candidate in Political Science, has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Political Science at Morehouse College (Atlanta, GA) beginning August 2017. Congrats Oumar! CAS News Bulletin: […]
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 […]
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Dr. Rose Lugano awarded Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship
Dr. Rose Lugano (Dept. of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures) was awarded a fellowship by the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship program to travel to Kenya to work with Technical University of […]
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Emeritus Faculty Spotlight: Bernadette Cailler
1) In what years did you graduate from Cornell? The University of Paris? The University of Poitiers? I know you arrived at UF in 1974. Did you teach anywhere else […]
Dr. Ostebo Interviewed by CBS News Gainesville
A Lesson in Islam Dr. Terje Ostebo was recently interviewed for a CBS News 4 Gainesville story on Islam. CAS News Bulletin: Week of November 7th, 2016
Lina Benabdallah Comments in New Republic on Obama’s Legacy in Africa
Obama’s Legacy in Africa Check out this New Republic blog post, featuring commentary from our own Lina Benabdallah, on Obama’s Legacy in Africa, his Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), and China’s targeting […]
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Oumar Ba Reports on ICC Withdrawals in Africa is a Country
SOUTH AFRICA, BURUNDI AND GAMBIA LEAVE THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (ICC) As discussed by UF’s Oumar Ba in this contribution to the Africa is a Country blog, South Africa announced it […]
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Dr. Ostebo Comments on Oromo Protests and the State of Emergency in Ethiopia
According to Terje Ǿstebǿ, Associate Professor of Religion at UF, a great deal is at stake with the recent Oromo protests and the 6-month state of emergency issued in Ethiopia […]
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Patrick Milligan’s Eco Tones Podcast and National Geographic Blog
The Eco Tones Podcast is curated by Patrick Milligan, a 2nd year PhD student in the Biology Department at UF. Milligan works in Dr. Todd Palmer’s lab, which generally works on community […]
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Awards and Publications: Week of October 10, 2016
Awards: Nancy Rose Hunt, Professor of History & African Studies, wins the 2016 Martin A. Klein Prize from the American Historical Association (AHA) for her book A Nervous State: Violence, […]
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Livestock Innovation Lab Headed to Niger
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems was established after USAID awarded the UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) a five-year renewable $49 million grant to […]
Victoria Gorham Awarded Fulbright-Hays DDRA
Victoria Gorham, PhD Candidate in the Dept. of Political Science, was awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Award Abroad grant to conduct research in Tanzania for 9 months beginning June 2017! […]
Join our SASA Lunches
The Students in African Studies Association (SASA) hosts regular lunchtime seminars throughout the semester. Meetings occur on Wednesdays at 11:45pm in 471 Grinter.