2025-11-20 - The Center for African Studies was honored to welcome back Professor Paul Tiyambe Zeleza on November 18. A former CAS Director (1995–2003), he now serves as Senior Advisor for Strategic Initiatives and Professor of African Studies at Howard University.During his visit, Professor Zeleza delivered a...
2025-05-09 - CAS and our sister center, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the University YMCA embarked on a large project with support from Illinois Extension to conceptualize and produce short cooking videos by immigrant cooks in our communities who hailed from African and Latin American...
2025-04-27 - Established through the generosity of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumnus, former US Ambassador Eric Whitaker '78 and ’81, these funds recognize and encourage undergraduates with demonstrated engagement with African Studies to pursue careers in public service. The 2024-...
2025-02-28 - Last week, 6 UIUC students under the unwavering mentorship and guidance of Prof. Vieux Toure of CAS and the Department of Linguistics travelled to Washington DC to participate in the two-day Model African Union program at Howard University. These students were Simeon Onaolapo, Tobi Adewunmi,...- 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...
- Come join the History Department panel this coming Tuesday, September 21st 7:00 pm-8:30 pm on 9/11.
- 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...
“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-...- 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...
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...- 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...
- 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...
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...- 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...