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

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

Wednesday March 22, 2023

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 publishes article with SAGE Publishing and Progress in Development Studies

Tuesday November 8, 2022

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

Monday October 4, 2021

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

Thursday September 30, 2021

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

Monday September 20, 2021

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, […]

Marit Østebø Named 2021-2024 Term Professor

Monday August 23, 2021

  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 of research and scholarship that is expected to lead to continuing distinction in their field.

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

Monday August 23, 2021

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 Graduate Student Publishes in Roadsides 005

Monday April 26, 2021

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 sanitation program in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to explore the “city-as-archive” by making visible the affinity between archive and the public utility grid.

CAS Grad Student Ayobami Edun Awarded Prestigious College Distinction

Monday April 5, 2021

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 […]

Ben Smith Published in Quaternary International

Monday May 14, 2018

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 Receives Boren Fellowship

Monday April 23, 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 Awarded Grant at American Association of Geographers Conference

Monday 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 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

Monday April 16, 2018

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 […]

Dr. Elischer and Lisa Mueller Published in Washington Post

Monday April 2, 2018

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

Dr. Peter Schmidt Publishes Chapter in Unmasking Ideology

Monday March 19, 2018

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 Institute of Archaeology, UCLA.   CAS News Bulletin- Week of March 19, 2018
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