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...
- 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...
- 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 2022-2026 grant cycle. Please send us your proposal by October 8, 2021....
“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/- 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" (...
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...- 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 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).
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 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...
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 (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...
Professor Mauro Nobili has been awarded a Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for $149,742 for his research project titled, "Restoring the African Past: A Synoptic Edition and Translation of Two West African Arabic Chronicles (Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries)." This project includes preparation for print publication of a synoptic edition and English...