CAS is delighted to announce that two UIUC undergraduate students, Emily Brooks, and Nina Stepaniants, have been awarded tuition scholarships for 2023-24. These scholarships are possible through the generous support of UIUC alumnus Ambassador Erik Whitaker, and this will be the third year of the program.
Emily and Nina will be third-year students in 2023-24;...
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Dr. Charles Fogelman, Teaching Assistant Professor in the LAS Global Studies Program, has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad grant to spend six months conducting qualitative research in Lesotho, from June until December 2023. Dr. Fogelman's project, titled "Developing the Mountain Kingdom's Landscapes: Poverty Alleviation, Land, and Horticulture in Lesotho,"...- CAS is thrilled to report the success of our application for FLAS and National Resource Center funding from the Title VI program of the Department of Education. CAS is one of the six area studies centers of the Illinois Global Institute that received Title VI support in the 2022-26 cycle. According to CAS Director, Prof. Teresa Barnes, many people share in this achievement. "CAS and IGI staff...
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- The Center for African Studies (CAS) invites UIUC faculty from any college or department to submit proposals for possible inclusion in its application to the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI program as a National Resource Center (NRC) for the AY 2022...
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GEOG 455Rather than the old adage: “To think of Africa is to think of poverty” (O’Connor 1991), in the year 2020, any geographer would agree that “To think of Africa is to think of many things”, like all places! To name a few: its 55 diverse countries; economic growth over the last two decades; new...
