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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
Congratulations to Dr. Marit Østebø, recently named a 2021-2024 Term Professor at University of Florida. These three-year professorships were created by UF to recognize faculty who have established a distinguished record […]
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. […]
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Cady Gonzalez (PhD Candidate, Anthropology) recently published an article in Roadsides 005, “Exposing the Archive, Unlocking the Grid.” In the visual essay, she casts a design gaze on a roadside […]
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 […]
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Graduate Student Ben Smith published his article, “Hunting in yellow waters: an ethnoarchaeological perspective on selective fishing on Lake Turkana” in Quaternary International. CAS News Bulletin- Week of May 14, 2018
Jessica Casimir (Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology) received a Boren fellowship to conduct field research in South Africa during 2018-19. CAS News Bulletin- Week of April 23, 2018
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 […]
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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 […]
Sebastian Elischer and Lisa Mueller have a new piece in the Washington Post discussing Niger’s protests. CAS News Bulletin- Week of April 2, 2018
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Peter Schmidt. 2017. The Colonial Origins of Myth and National Identity in Uganda. In Unmasking Ideology: The Vocabulary and Symbols of Colonial Archaeology, eds. Bonnie Effros and Goulong Lai. Los Angeles: Cotsen […]
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Dr. Sandra L. Russo, Director of the Office for Global Research Engagement (OGRE) in the University of Florida’s International Center (UFIC), was recognized by the UF Association of Academic Women […]
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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 […]
In the latest OECD West African Paper, Dan Eizenga and the UF Sahel Research Group look at the short and long-term outlook for security and political stability in Chad. Read it […]
What does the future hold for Niger’s stability? In the latest OECD West African Paper, Dr. Sebastian Elischer and the Sahel Research Group gauge the state of play and look at three […]
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UF gets $8.7 million grant to improve nutritional quality and food safety in Ethiopia, Burkina Faso. To learn more read the article or read the Twitter updates. CAS News Bulletin- Week of […]
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 […]
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Hilker, F. M., L. J. S. Allen, V. A. Bokil, C. J. Briggs, Z. Feng, K. A. Garrett, L. J. Gross, F. M. Hamelin, M. J. Jeger, C. A. Manore, A. […]
Walther, O. (2017), “Wars and Conflicts in the Sahara-Sahel”, West African Papers, No. 10, OECD Publishing, Paris. https://dx.doi.org/10.1787/8bbc5813-en CAS News Bulletin- Week of October 9, 2017
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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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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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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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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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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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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 […]
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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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: […]
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 (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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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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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! […]