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African Studies Twins Graduate Together

femiajidahun — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 18:39:36 +0000

Photos by Chris Roussakis

Congratulations Kenneth & Kennedy on your graduation!
A lot of people were doing double takes during �Ӱ�ԭ�� University’s June Convocation. Several sets of twins crossed the stage to receive their diplomas at this year’s ceremonies from June 10 through 14. We caught up with three of them. What’s it like to go to university with your twin?

We are super proud of both Kennedy Aliu (Sociology and Minor in African Studies with Distinction) and Kenneth Aliu (African Studies and Law and Concentration in Transnational and Human Rights with Distinction) as they graduate in style!

Susanne Klausen Wins Visiting Fellowship

femiajidahun — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 19:36:43 +0000

�ʰ��Ǵڱ��ǰ��Susanne M. Klausen has won a visiting fellowship to the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) in Amsterdam for ten months, from September 2019 to June 2020. Klausen will use her time as a NIAS Fellow to write the manuscript for her next monograph, tentatively titled Forbidden Desire: The Criminalization of Inter-racial Relationships in Apartheid South Africa. Klausen is extremely proud to win this prestigious award and excited to be moving to Amsterdam next year. She says she is certain that working in an inter-disciplinary intellectual community of fellows from around the world will provide the perfect environment for thinking through a range of questions about experiencing sexual and emotional intimacy in authoritarian white supremacist societies like apartheid South Africa.

African Studies congratulates Professor Susanne Klausen (History, cross-appointed to African Studies)

junepayne — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 20:14:30 +0000

African Studies congratulates Professor Susanne Klausen (History, cross-appointed to African Studies) for her success in receiving prestigious research funding for her project “The Thalidomide Disaster, the British Abortion Act (1967), and the Passage of Eugenic Abortion Laws in the Commonwealth, 1961-1977″ from the UK’s Wellcome Trust!” For full story.

African Studies faculty Blair Rutherford & Doris Buss featured in Research Works

junepayne — Fri, 01 May 2015 15:21:39 +0000

IAS Faculty Win SSHRC Grant

junepayne — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 18:11:59 +0000

IAS Faculty Win SSHRC Grant: The Institute of African Studies is pleased to announce that two of its faculty members are lead researchers on a recently announced SSHRC Insight Grant. The grant is for a 5 year project titled “Women’s Livelihoods in Artisanal Mining Sectors: Rethinking State-Building in Conflict-Affected Africa”. Blair Rutherford (African Studies/Sociology and Anthropology) and Doris Buss (African Studies/Law and Legal Studies) are part of the research team along with Eileen Alma (Coady Institute, St. Francis Xavier University), Joanne Lebert (Partnership Africa Canada) and Aisha Ibrahim (Institute for Gender Research and Documentation, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone).