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  • Emily and Nina
    2023-24 Ambassador Erik Whitaker Scholarship Awards in African Studies
    2023-05-22 - 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;...
  • Dr. Charles Fogelman
    Dr. Charles Fogelman Receives Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Grant
    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 Receives US Department of Education 2022-2026 Title VI Grant
    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...
  • Remembering 9/11: Toward a Critical Understanding of The Past, Reimagining the Future
    Come join the History Department panel this coming Tuesday, September 21st 7:00 pm-8:30 pm on 9/11.    
  • Submit proposals for possible inclusion in CAS's application to the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI program
    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 2022-2026 grant cycle.  Please send us your proposal by October 8, 2021....
  • Two CAS alumni, Adrienne Pickett and Susan Ogwal were among the six Illini Science Policy Scholars who will "tackle critical issues in Illinois."
    https://extension.illinois.edu/news-releases/six-illini-science-policy-scholars-announced-will-tackle-critical-issues-illinois
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    “Congo to the Mississippi”: Recent Socially Conscious Music from Africa and the Americas
    “Congo to the Mississippi”: Recent Socially Conscious Music from Africa and the Americas http://publici.ucimc.org/2021/02/congo-to-the-mississippi-recent-socially-conscious-music-from-africa-and-the-americas/  
  • Special issue of Studies in Comparative International Development
    Professor Matthew S. Winters (U of I Dept of Political Science) coedited a special issue of Studies in Comparative International Development with Rob Blair (Brown University).  The issue was titled "Foreign Aid, Service Delivery, and State-Society Relations in the Developing World" (https://link....
  • Beni Isguen
    Professor Valerie Hoffman at Ghardai
    Professor Valerie Hoffman (U of I Dept. of Religion) writes that she is was in Ghardaia, the main town of the Wadi Mzab in Algeria. The Wadi Mzab, a desert valley 375 miles south of Algiers, is one of the few places in the world where most of the Muslims belong to the Ibadi sect. She arrived February 2 and stayed until February 16. Then She went to Tunisia, where the island of Djerba was also a...
  • New contents for The Encyclopaedia of Islam Three
    Professor Ken Cuno (U of I Dept. of History) published “Ismāʿīl Pasha,” in The Encyclopaedia of Islam Three. He was nominated for the Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence Award. (The award ceremony is delayed indefinitely due to the pandemic.) During a spring sabbatical and over the summer, he finished an article and two more chapters of a short history of Egypt and...
  • Summer Arabic Study Application to Qatar Foundation International
    Summer Arabic Study Application to Qatar Foundation International will receive funding for the amount of $32,535.00. The money will be used to support a Summer Intensive Arabic Course for High School Students here at UIUC. This is a two-week residential program which will happen concurrently with SILMW (Summer Institute for Languages of the Muslim World).
  • Timbuktu
    Timbuktu Talks
    The city of Timbuktu in Mali epitomizes the intellectual vibrancy of African Muslim societies. These lectures explore past and contemporary aspects of Islamic Africa.  The attached flyer can be found here.
  • Global South Languages Fellowships
    Global South Languages Fellowships Global South Languages Fellowship The Center for African Studies, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, through support from the Provost Office, are proud to announce a call for applications for the Global South...
  • A headshot of Laila Hussein
    Laila Hussein Moustafa Selected as Fulbright Specialist
    Laila Hussein Moustafa, distinguished assistant professor at the University Library has been selected as a Fulbright Specialist by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and World Learning. She was recommended by the Peer Review Panel for placement on the Fulbright Specialist Roster for a tenure of three years starting this winter.   The ...
  • Matthew Winters research presentation.
    Matthew Winters (Political Science) presented his collaborative research with Kate Baldwin (Yale University) at a Workshop on Pioneering Development Research Using Geospatial Data run by AidData at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. The research studies how Ugandans react to information about foreign-funded, NGO-implemented development projects in...

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