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Professor Lahra Smith brings global curricula and opportunities for local involvement to first-year students
Through her work with the SFS Academic Council, Professor Lahra Smith has launched an international affairs teaching exchange with Roosevelt High School in.…
December 2, 2019
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AfSP professor Ken Opalo publishes his first book: Legislative Development in Africa
The book speaks to the wider comparative political economy literature on autocratic institutions and the origins of limited democratic.…
August 27, 2019
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Welcoming the newest AfSP faculty member: Khaled Esseissah, Ph.D.
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August 26, 2019
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Professor Lahra Smith publishes in the Oxford Journal of Refugee Studies
Professor Lahra Smith recently published an article on her research findings from Ethiopia and Djibouti in the Oxford Journal of Refugee.…
February 28, 2019
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AFSP Student Assistant (COL’ 18) wins prestigious Rangel Fellowship
Congratulations to Bianca Uribe (COL '18) on winning the prestigious Charles B. Rangel International Affairs.…
January 31, 2019
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Professor Kathryn DeLuna receives the Henry Wallace award from the Agricultural History Society
Professor de Luna's first book, Collecting Food, Collecting Food, Cultivating People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa, won the Henry Wallace award from the Agricultural…
January 30, 2019
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Professor Lahra Smith utilizes NEH grant to co-develop course on equality in Africa and the West
Using an earlier NEH grant, Samantha Pinto and African studies and SFS professor Lahra Smith developed a course called “Question of Equality” that compared notions of…
January 28, 2019
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Professor Alex Thurston selected for Luce/ACLS Fellowship
Congratulations to AFSP's Visiting Assistant Professor Alex Thurston who was selected as one of six scholars to receive the Luce/ACLS fellowship in Religion, Journalism, and…
January 27, 2019
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Professor Lahra Smith authors a piece on Djibouti: Hospitality and Protection over Isolationism
Professor Lahra Smith and American University Professor Lauren Carruth published an article on their recent trip to Djibouti discussing the country's acceptance of. …
March 30, 2017