Category: News
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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
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Professor Opalo leads student delegation at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the World Bank and IMF
Read the full article with coverage of the event by Emily Paragamian and Ara.…
October 26, 2016
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AFSP alumna, Jescinta Izevbigie (SFS’14), shares her post-graduate experiences
"[AFSP] is at the root of where I am today and I would love to be in a position to give back to students what was given to me during my time at.”…
October 24, 2016
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Professor Scott Taylor holds conversations with Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Professor Scott Taylor, Director of the African Studies Program held a conversation with award-winning novelist Chimamanda Ngozi. …
October 13, 2014
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Visiting Professor Shankar’s article on Boko Haram on CNN-I
Shobana Shankar, visiting assistant professor in the History Department, had her article on Boko Haram featured on CNN. …
March 6, 2013
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Faith Complex episode features Professor Mikell on Nigeria & Boko Haram
Watch this interview with African Studies Professor and former director Gwendolyn Mikell on "Nigeria, Boko Haram, the Massacre of Christians, and."…
May 21, 2012