IN THIS ISS U E

From the Executive Director ...... 1 From the President ...... 2 New Members...... 4 New Lifetime Members ...... 4 In Memoriam ...... 4 Contributors to the Endowment...... 6 50 Year Anniversaries Campaign ...... 6 2005/2006 Elections...... 8 2005 ASA Prizes and Awards ...... 9 Why Join the ASA...... 12 ASA Annual Meeting Key Information ...... 14 2006 Call for Proposals ...... 16 2006 Annual Meeting Theme ...... 21 Call for Papers and Proposals ...... 32 Grants and Fellowships ...... 36 Meeting Calendar ...... 37 Recent Doctoral Dissertations ...... 39 Advertisements...... 52 2006 ASA Ad Rates ...... 57 ASA Publications Order Form ...... 60 ASA Deadlines ...... 62 ASA OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS 2006 From the Executive Director...

OFFICERS On behalf of the Board and the ASA membership, I would President: Joseph C. Miller (U of Virginia) like to thank the following individuals for their tireless Vice President: Pearl T. Robinson (Tufts U) commitment in working with the Secretariat for a suc­ Past President: Bruce J. Berman (Queen's U) cessful 48th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC: Program Treasurer: Joel Barkan (U of Iowa) Chair Elisha Renne and the members of the Program Executive Director: Carol L. Martin (Rutgers U) Committee; Local Arrangements Committee Co-Chairs Gilbert Khadiagala and Margaret Lee, and the members DIRECTORS of the Local Arrangements Committee. The effervescence Serving Until 2006 of collegial encounters during the Annual Meeting often Jean Allman (U of Illinois) results in work that is published in ASA journals. I would James A. Pritchett (Boston U) like to thank the ASA journal editors Ralph Faulkingham Ahmad Alawad Sikainga (Ohio State U) (ASR), Mitzi Goheen (ASR), and David Henige (HIA) for their important service to the Association. Finally, the Serving Until 2007 dedication of the ASA Prize and Award Committees is evi­ Toyin Faiola (U of Texas) dent through the Presidential Lecture and Award Corinne Kratz (Emory U) Ceremony, and I would like to thank everyone who Kathleen Sheldon (U of California-Los Angeles) served on these committees in 2005. Serving Until 2008 Tabitha Kanogo (U of California-Berkeley) A record 1,985 payment-confirmed registrants attended Elisha Renne (U of Michigan) the Annual Meeting along with approximately thirty stu­ Michael Schatzberg (U of Wisconsin) dent volunteers and a dozen representatives from media outlets. Some ASA members took advantage of the serendipity of the overlapping meeting of the Middle East asa, "••••••••••••• asa ••••••••••••••a5a Studies Association to enjoy joint panels and roundtables and admission to the MESA Exhibit Hall and Film Festival. ASA News, Vol XXXIX, No.1, January 2006 MESA members reCiprocated, and they happily joined in ISSN 0278-2219 the celebration during the ever-popular ASA Dance Party! Editor: Carol L. Martin, PhD As always, the exhibits were highly valued, and the Acting Associate Editor: Khaawar F. Walker Secretariat invites members to help identify potential Published three times a year by the African future exhibitors. The Final Program was also replete with Studies Association advertisements. Contact the Secretariat should you know Website: www.africanstudies.org of other potential advertisers. If you have not done so Submissions and advertisements for the ASA News already, please download and complete a participant should be sent to [email protected] or ASA evaluation form from the ASA website and return it to the News, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Secretariat. The participant evaluations provide impor­ Douglass Campus, 132 George Street, New tant feedback to the Board and the Secretariat for plan­ Brunswick, NJ 08901-1400. Deadlines for sub­ ning future Annual Meetings. missions and advertisements are December 1, March 1, and June 1. Materials received elec­ tronically are given priority. Two other noteworthy events occurred in Washington, DC: a Town Meeting, which was convened in response to Domestic claims for publications that are not reactions to the Treasurer's report regarding the status of received must be made within six months of the ASA finances (please see President Joe Miller's letter in publication month. Overseas claims must be made this issue for further information). In addition, a meeting within one year. was held to discuss the mutually beneficial relationship between the ASA and ASA Coordinate Organizations. This Please note that the United States Postal Service discussion will continue in the coming year. does not forward publications. To ensure uninter­ rupted delivery, your address must be updated at least five weeks before the new address goes into ASA membership follows the calendar year, January 1 effect. Address updates may be made online at through December 31. Please renew by March 15th to www.africanstudies.org or in writing to the ensure full membership privileges, including receiving all Secretariat at ASA, Rutgers-The State University of ASA publications, voting in the ASA elections and on New Jersey, Douglass Campus, 132 George Street, other ASA matters, serving on ASA committees, and New Brunswick, NJ 08901. If a publication is nominating individuals for the Distinguished Africanist returned, the ASA will suspend all future mailings and International Visitor awards. until the new address is received. © 2006 African Studies Association All Rights Reserved continued on page 11...

1 ASA News- January 2006 Letter from the President... II Friends and Members of the ASA,

I am writing to update you on the status of the ongoing costs combined with better estimating pro­ ASA's finances. Bruce Berman, Sandy Barnes, and I cedures indicate that the deficit may double that alerted you to the basic issue in the message from amount. These costs include paying down the "the three presidents" that we sent in June: too few Association's line of credit, which has been borrowed members and too intermittent membership among up to its limit. The savings available by trimming too many people. costs are insignificant in relation to the structural shortfall in revenue from dues. Dues and registra­ The ASA's online system, inaugurated in 2004, has tion fees for the annual meetings have not been vastly improved our ability to maintain accurate and increased in recent years; the Board has increased current information about membership, addresses, both for 2006. But these, too, are minor in relation and payments. That ability, combined with the to the scale of the structural shortfall. increasingly accurate financial reports that our new online system is generating, has revealed long­ The only accessible solution lies in increasing our standing and structural shortfalls in our revenues; regular, dues-paying membership. Of the pool of deficits have been building up for many years. Africanists who have paid dues at least once during the last six years, only about 25% were current as While previous Boards have attempted to address of April 2005. That surprisingly small figure rose to the issue by trimming expenses, initiating a mem­ only 30% as the year continued toward the Annual bership drive, and launching a fundraising drive in Meeting. These numbers are not enough. The 2004, the starkness of the new numbers, which the ASSOCiation cannot serve our community's needs Board discussed during the 2005 Spring Board without the active participation of at least 45%-50% meeting, made it clear that more urgent action was of you. The Board is entirely optimistic because we necessary. We "three presidents" wrote in June, have the solution in our own hands: it is us. And so hoping that alerting everyone to the problem would we appeal to all of you to renew now, or to restore prompt enough of you to bring your membership in former memberships, or to join for the first time ­ the Association up to date (by paying dues), and and to maintain your membership every year. that the situation would right itself out of all our obvious needs of, and sense of responsibility for, The Board has also taken further steps to manage "our" ASA. responsibly the funds you contribute to the ASA, in the vitally important 50 Year Anniversaries I am writing now to inform you of the measures that Fundraising Campaign - which Ned Alpers takes the Board took in Washington. Retiring Treasurer every opportunity to encourage you to support with Sandy Barkan gave you the numbers for the ASA's your donations - and otherwise. We have persuaded current operating deficit during the Business a top (pro bono) New York financial adviser to join Meeting. Those in attendance expressed clear the Board's new Investment Committee. alarm, which confirmed to the Board that a great many members - and doubtless also our friends ­ Beyond your professional commitments to the ASA cared a great deal about their - our - Association. and your personal loyalty to the friends whom you The rumors - vastly exaggerated - that then swept meet and greet at our Annual Meetings, we also through the meeting assured the Board further of appreciate that you expect tangible returns from the deep pool of loyalty and professional responsi­ your finanCial support. The Board - your elected bility among Africanists. We then convened a Town representatives who make all Association policy ­ Meeting onsite to allow ASA members and friends has greatly elaborated its committee structure. the opportunity to hear accurate versions of the However, we acknowledge that the Board has not Association's finances and to consider steps to take reported its own proceedings fully to the ASA mem­ to regain solvency. An impressive cohort of past bership, through timely minutes of its deCisions and presidents and former Members of the Board initiatives. I am therefore re-committing the Board attended, again assuring us of the widespread com­ to providing minutes that will be posted on the ASA mitment to the AssOCiation. Consensus emerged on website. Watch for notice of their availability and the need to aggressively increase the ASA's revenue how to locate them. I encourage you to follow these - through broader and more consistent membership. reports closely and to contact your Board represen­ tatives with any questions that they might raise for Facts: As of early November, the Association was you. The Board will identify general concerns, and I running $85,000 behind its projected budget for will take those up in a series of short messages to 2005. For calendar year 2006, increases in real the membership throughout my year as your preSi­ dent. ASA News - January 2006 2 We acknowledge that member services in the past bers to non-current individuals in the ASA database. have not always been as reliable as anyone would If at least one of these individuals responds, you will have preferred. The Association has weathered have helped the ASA to reach a membership rate of some difficult transitions at the Secretariat. But we at least 50% of our community. now have the leadership of Dr. Carol Martin, who serves on the Board as the Association's Executive The bottom line thus remains the same as it was in Director, and the dedication of the skilled profes­ June: we are as close to a solution as your tele­ sional staff that Carol has built. They, with our new phone or the office next to you. Keep your member­ digital capacities, can now implement the ship current and bring your friends along for the Association's policies much better than prior stimulation and fun that we treasure in the Secretariat staff was able to do. Before 2004, for Association. Together, we can make certain that the example, an estimated one-third of Annual Meeting ASA will be there for us, and for Africa, in the future, participants may not have paid registration fees; when we will all need it even more than we do now. consider the costs to those of us who did. In 2005, the online system allowed only members who had What else can you do to help the Association to con­ paid registration fees to submit proposals. Unlike in tinue to rebuild? previous years, the Secretariat enforced the March 1. Consult ASA ONLINE to determine your cur­ 15 deadline for submitting proposals for the Annual rent membership status, to maintain the accuracy of Meeting program; as a result, the Program your member record, or to confirm meeting program Committee, chaired by Elisha Renne, was able to proposals or other current business you have with compose a fine and balanced set of panels and the Association. The database updates automatical­ roundtables, and the Secretariat was able to post ly. In keeping your records with us correct, you also the preliminary version of the resulting program to assist the Association in developing new activities the ASA website in July (rather than in September). and in approaching potential sources of grants and The Secretariat thus used its new digital capabilities other funding. to enforce longstanding policies of the Association, 2. Check the ASA website (www.africanstud­ and the Board is convinced that it has thus taken a ies.org) for information you seek and regular major step toward fulfilling its fiduciary responsibili­ updates concerning ongoing ASA activities. Contact ties to our membership. the Secretariat only if you do not find the informa­ tion that you need. You will also be able to vote online in the 2006 elec­ 3. Submit your proposal for the Annual Meeting tions, and the Board is considering further web­ well in advance of the deadline (March 15, every based member services. These enhancements of year). If you are based in Africa or plan to include member services will allow the Board to react con­ Africa-based colleagues in your proposal, start early structively. Your money is being spent responsibly enough (now is not too soon) to anticipate difficul­ and productively. ties in transferring funds to pre-register and to pay dues unavoidable in the post-9/ll environment. The ASA is a membership organization. The Board and the Secretariat can function only through the Thanks, on behalf of the Board, to the many of you efforts of the Association's members. The major who have contributed to the successes of the year gain of our new electronic capacity is to enable us all past. With your support and contributions, joined by - members - to help ourselves. the rest of us, I am firmly optimistic about the future of our Association. I look forward to working with What can you do to help now? you all as your president in the next months to lay 1. Pay your membership dues. Joining early a sound fiscal foundation for the two Fiftieth brings you a full calendar year of membership pub­ Anniversary celebrations planned for 2007 (New lications and privileges. The Secretariat will no York) and 2008 (Chicago), and beyond. We will have longer mail ASA publications to members not cur­ plenty to celebrate. rent after March 15 but will resume immediately upon renewal. Let's keep in touch. 2. Most of all - encourage at least three other friends and colleagues to renew their memberships Joe Miller or to jOin. This is the overall ratio of current mem­

3 ASA News - January 2006 ASA New Members June 16, 2005 - November 20, 2005 II Adedayo Abah Shannon Harris Gilbert Mubangi Marsha Robinson Kola Abimbola Jennifer Hart Bet'ukany Stephane Robolin Joyce Abunaw Roberta Hatcher Helen Mugambi Seraphima Rombe Badiru Adedotun Jordan Hawks Jacob Mundy Shulman Karley Ast Matthew Heaton Robert Munson Abdul Salau Masankho Banda Bruce Heilman Robert Murphy Fousseny Samoura Jean-Godefroy Bidima Rhashida Hilliard Francis Musoni Sandra Sanneh Kwasi Boadi Curtis Huff Ismael Muvingi Laura Schaeffer C. Phillip Bosserman Chris Ibeakuzie Charles Mwalimu Andrew Schmidt Brandi Brady Stan 110 Suzanne Nadal Scott Schonfeldt - Fahamisha Brown Baba Jallow Ghirmai l'Jegash Aultman Stephen Brundage Willard Johnson Kapinga Ngandu Alexandra Schultheis Coralie Bryant Fred Johnson Acacia l'Jikoi Jason Sharples Flordeliz Bugarin Amini Kamete John Nimis Emily Silberstein Ellen Caldwell Agnes Kedzierska Agnes I'Jjuguna Candis Smith James Carney Nancy Kendall Rita Nnodim Matthew Smith Andres Cartagena Annamarie Kiaga Maurice Nsabimana Adam Sneyd Koa Van Chung Joseph Kieyah Susan Ntete Lynda Spencer George Clarke Joseph Kinner Knut Nustad Daniel Stephen Becky Clarke Limnyuy Konglim Suzgo Nyirenda Elke Stockreiter Dontraneil Clayborne Napoleon Kurantin Oghenetoja Okoh Aud Talle Esther de Bruijn Claudia Lair Donald Omagu Jennifer Tappan Corrie Decker Carol Lancaster Massoud Omar Adrian Taylor EI Hadji Samba Diallo Ann Larimore Leslie Omoruyi Elizabeth Thornberry l"laud Dogoe Tia-Nicole Leak George Omwandho Dorte Thorsen Andreas Eckert Chinyelu Lee Annette Onema Tanisha Tingle Smith E Ejiogu Ashley Leinweber Ato Onoma Mary-Justine Todd Chijioke Evoh Marcelle Little Darko Opoku Obiora Udechukwu Nancy Farwell Christine Loflin Chris Osuafor Jean-Luc van de Arianna Fogelman Deborah Lustig Laverne Page Kerkhove Lynn Fredriksson Princeton Lyman Kate Patch Kwardua Vanderpuye Andrea Freidus Bavusile Maaba Angela Patrinos Emilie Venables Ramon Galinanes Azande Mangeango Tristine Perkins Monica Visona Tajudeen Gbadamosi Ruth Marshall Fratani Steven Pierce Charlotte Walker Olubukola Gbadegesin Helen Massey Flavia Pinto Evanson Wamagatta Atim George Emmanuel Mbah Martha Plettner Dianne White-Oyler Desha Girod James McDougall Manyuan Reffell Katrina Willig Kuria Githiora Eric Mclaughlin Anyango Reggy John Willis Melissa Gormley Julia Mensah Jacqualine Reid Meaghan Wilson Robert Gribbin Helina Meri Glenn Reynolds Maaria Ylank6 Maame Gyekye Jandoh Tim Moench Cherie Rivers Holger Bernt Hansen Ramosotho Mokgadi Bruce Roberts

ASA New Lifetime Members June 16 - November 30, 2005 Kearsley Stewart The ASA regrets that Kearsley Stewart, who became a lifetime member in February 2005, was inadvertently omitted from the list.

In Memoriam Helen Denniston JK Fynn Robert W July Martin Lynn Jose Negrao

ASA News - January 2006 4 I Obituary for Professor (Emeritus) J K Fynn University of Ghana History Professor (Emeritus) J. K. Washington, USA (November 20-23, 1993). Fynn (September 21, 1935-August 25, 2005)by A.B. Assensoh (African American & African Diaspora Professor Fynn's numerous local and international hon­ Studies) & Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh (Political Science), ors included Honorary Citizenships of many interna­ Indiana University-Bloomington, USA. tional cities, including Sioux City, Iowa, USA (1970); a Ghana Book Development Award (1982); and a Senior ON AUGUST 25, 2005, University of Ghana History Fulbright Research Award at University of Wisconsin Professor (Emeritus) John Kofi ("J. K.") Fynn passed (1992-1993). away suddenly. According to a family spokesman, he died peacefully in his sleep at his Accra (Ghana) resi­ University of Ghana ApPOintments: dence, barely 21 days before his 70th birthday that his From October 1964 to October 1981, Dr. Fynn held family as well as friends and professional colleagues in such University of Ghana academic appointments as and outside Ghana had initially planned to travel to the Lecturer; Research Fellow; Senior Research Fellow; and Ghanaian capital to celebrate. Professor Fynn is sur­ Associate Professor in African Studies and History. In vived by his wife of 41 years (Mrs. Theodora M. Fynn, December 1989, he was promoted to a full nee Amorin); his seven children: Mr. Kojo Fynn; Dr. Professorship of History at University of Ghana, Legon. Jennifer Fynn-Owusu; Attorney Patricia Fynn-Bentum; His numerous distinguished administrative positions Mr. John T. Fynn; Nana Ewusiwa Fynn; Dr. Theodora also included those of Head of University of Ghana's Fynn; and Dr. Theresa F. Gyan; and many other rela­ Department of History (October 1981-September tives and friends. Funeral rites were tentatively sched­ 1984); Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences (October uled for October 21, 2005 in Ghana. 1982-September 1984). Again, he became Head of the History Department at University of Ghana (October Although Professor Fynn retired from active teaching at 1988-September 1992; September 1993). Between 60 years old, he was still on contract to teach his 1982 and 1984, Professor Fynn served on numerous beloved history courses at the University of Ghana, prestigious University of Ghana Academic and Legon, where he had earlier served in varied distin­ Scholarship Boards, and was a Tutor of Commonwealth guished capacities between October 1964 and August Hall (1965-1968). For several years, Professor Fynn 2005. From 1951 to 1956, he studied at the famous served as an external Examiner in History abroad and Mfantsipim School, Cape Coast, in the former Gold at local institutions, including University of Cape Coast Coast (which became Ghana on March 6, 1957). (1987-1990), and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah University Between October 1957 and June 1961, he studied of Science and Technology (KNUST, 1990-1992). History at University of Ghana, Legon but -- through then existing external degree arrangements -- he Partial List of National Service: earned his B.A. degree (with high honors) from the Through Progress Party, the political group that was University of London. After that, the young Fynn used headed by the late Prime Minister (Professor) Kofi the University's 1961-1964 postgraduate scholarship Abrefa Busia, several Ghanaian intellectuals tried their award to enter its School of Oriental and African hands at national politics. Professor Fynn was conse­ Studies (SOAS), to study History. He earned the quently elected a Member of Parliament for Abura Doctor of Philosophy Degree (Ph.D.) in 1964. Constituency of Ghana's Central Region, after which he was appointed by the Government of Professor Busia Former African students at SOAS, who knew Dr. Fynn as Ministerial Secretary (or Deputy Minister) of Local very well, often recalled how in the very week that he Government Administration (November 1969-Januray defended his doctoral dissertation (or thesis at SOAS) 1971); and Ministerial Secretary (Deputy Minister) of on the "Asante and its Neighbors, circa 1700-1807", Ghana's Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports Longmans Publishing Company of the UK approached (January 1971-January 13, 1972). As part of his minis­ him and asked to publish the manuscript as a book of terial duties, Professor Fynn led numerous governmen­ a similar title. He followed that publication, in 1975, tal delegations, including visiting the USA at the invita­ with another Longmans book titled "A Junior History of tion of the American government (September­ Ghana." His other numerous publications included November 1970); and serving as the head of the "History for Senior Secondary Schools" (co-authored Ghana Government delegation to Paris (France) on the with Professor Addo-Fening), published in 1991 by occasion of the celebration of the 25th anniversary of Evans Brothers Limited of London. At the time of his UNESCO (November 1-6, 1971). untimely death, Professor Fynn had book manuscripts and chapters in press, including "The Fante of Ghana, Hailing from the royal house of Ghana's Abura Dunkwa circa 1600-1874"; "A New History of the Gold Coast Traditional Area (where he was born), Professor Fynn (Ghana)". Indiana University Press, for example, was received a chieftaincy title from the area. He has, since negotiating to publish one of his African history manu­ 1985, been duly selected, enstooled and recognized by scripts. Apart from publishing in numerous historical the Government of Ghana as the Nifahene (Leader of journals, Professor Fynn also served on countless edi­ the traditional Right Wing) of the Abura Traditional torial boards and held membership in professional (and Area in Ghana's Central Region. historical) associations, including African Studies Association of the USA, which extended a travel fellow­ ship for him to attend its annual meeting in Seattle,

5 ASA News - January 2006 ASA Contributors to the Endowment January 1, 2005 - November 30, 2005 Kwame Agyenim- Ide Corley Thomas Kolasa Mary OSirim Boateng Alison Des Forges Jeanne Koopman David Owusu-Ansah Chii Akporji Mac Dixon-Fyle Rindert Leegsma Tola Pearce Mary Arnoldi Marion Doro Peter Lewis Richard Peck Catherine Ash Anene Ejikeme Olga Linares Jeanne Penvenne Kelly Askew Nancy Farwell Peter Malanchuk Pauline Peters Akwasi Assensoh Pamela Feldman­ Kristin Mann Elisha Renne Thomas Bassett Savelsberg *Carol L Martin Jonathan Reynolds Julianne Beall Michael Finley Jane Martin David Robinson Wendy Belcher Christraud Geary Kim Miller Eve Sandberg Ruby Bell-Gam Roger Gocking Devra Moehler David Sandgren Louise Bourgault Beverly Gray Jamie Monson Lynn Schier Judith Byfield Judith Irvine Edwin Morgan Pamela Scully Maria Cattell Fiona Etumudon Iworh K P Moseley *Sandra Smith Brenda Chalfin David Iyam Martha Nathan Thomas Spear Hycent Chukwuka Baba Jallow Jonathan Ngate Daria Tunca Jill Coelho Joseph Kinner Lauris Olson Gretchen Walsh

Individuals who are indicated by an "*" have made two contributions to the endowment. 50 Year Anniversaries Fundraising Campaign Contributors and Pledges from April 2004 through December 6, 2005 $1000+ Catharine Newbury John Hanson Dorothy Hodgson Jean Allman David Newbury Edmond J. Keller Frank Holmquist Edward Alpers Georges Nzongola- Patrick McNaughton Nicholas Hopkins Joel and Sandra Barkan Ntalaja Patrick O'Meara Nancy Rose Hunt Sandra T. Barnes Claire Robertson Simon Ottenberg John and Elizabeth Norman Bennett Pearl T. Robinson Richard Roberts Johnson Iris Berger Donald Rothchild Elliott P. Skinner In Memory of Hermanus Bruce Berman Ahmed Samatar Marion Frank Wilson G. Kreike Boston U-African Ahmad Sikainga Prudence Woodford- *Rene Lemarchand Studies Center Richard Sklar Berger John Lemly Catherine M. Coquery- *Aili IVlari Tripp Irving Leonard Vidrovitch Jan Vansina $100 - $249 Markovitz Robert J. Cummings Howard Wolpe Eric Allina-Pisano *Carol L. Martin Donald E. Crummey *M. Crawford and Kwame Anthony Appiah Marjorie McIntosh Steven Feierman Rebecca Young Misty L. Bastian Eugene Mensch Sandra Greene Ruby A. Bell-Gam Harry Mokeba Beverly Grier $500 - $999 Paul Berliner Jack Mower Jane Guyer Sara Berry Caroline Bledsoe Celia Nyamweru Angelique Haugerud Gracia Clark Catherine Boone *Corann Okorodudu David Henige Elizabeth Colson Lawrence Breitborde Jack Parson Goran and Melania Myron Echenberg Spencer Brown Anne Pitcher Hyden Maria Grosz-Ngate Thomas Callaghy Priscilla Reining Allen Isaacman Joseph Inikori Francis Deng *Allen and Mary Roberts Richard and Jennifer Harriet McGuire *William Dewey Wolf Roder Joseph Charles Merwin Henry Drewal Sandra Sanneh Kasongo M. Kapanga *Jamie Monson Philip Drouin Ann Seidman Martin A. Klein Kathleen Sheldon R.S. Ellovich Jo M. Sullivan Bernth Lindfors Ellen Sieber Gail M. Gerhart L. Carol Summers Edris Makward David Wiley Roger Gocking Thaddeus Sunseri Ali A. IVlazrui Karen Tranberg Hansen Immanuel Wallerstein Gwendolyn Mikell $250 - $499 John Harbeson *Gretchen Walsh Joseph Miller George Brooks Ernest Harsch Herbert Weiss Cheryl Benoit Mwaria *Peter Geschiere Linda Heywood- Stephen N. Ndegwa Paula Girshick Thornton

ASA News - January 2006 6 50 Year Anniversaries Fundraising Campaign continued from page 6

$1 - $99 Joy Dworkin Thomas S. Kolasa Robin Poynor Ismail Abdalla Kate Ezra Jeanne Koopman Robert Press Adeyemi Adeleke Nancy Farwell Mark Kornbluh Adrien Ratsimbaharison *Kwame Agyenim­ Alan Frishman Emmanuel Kreike Lynne Rienner Boateng Heidi Frontani Haile M. Larebo Victoria Rovine Rexford Ahene Wilfred Gabsa Rindert W. Leegsma Martha Saavedra Osaore Aideyan Christraud M. Geary Olga Linares Eve N. Sandberg Sandra Allen James Graham Julie Livingston Mette Shayne Catherine B. Ash David Groff Ghislaine E. Lyon Marilyn Silberfein Wendy L. Belcher Sondra Hale Kristin Mann Daniel Jordan Smith Carol S. Boram-Hays Richard Hull Marton Markovits Sandra Smith Louise Bourgault William Hance Dean McHenry Amy Stambach Karen Bouwer Thomas Hinnebusch *James Mittelman Edward Steinhart Cynthia Brantley John Hunwick Rodger Morton Beverly Stoeltje Judith Byfield David Iyam Helen Mugambi Margaret Ann Strobel Maria Cattell Baba Jallow Isabel Mukonyora Lessie B. Tate Joanna Chataway Debora Johnson-Ross Edwin Munger Frances Vavrus Dontraneil Clayborne Hilary Jones Bala Musa Beth Whitaker Jill Coelho Cedric Jourde Leah Niederstadt Dr. and Mrs. James Christine Ann Djondo Bennetta W. Jules­ Felicity Palmer Wunsch Rosa De Jorio Rosette Richard Peck W. Graeme Donovan Nancy Kendall Loumona J. Petroff

50 Year Anniversaries Fundraising Campaign Goal: $500,000

$62,688 Total Contributions and Pledges

$437,312 Amount to Raise We ask you to join us in supporting the ASA in achieving its mission. As you may be aware, the ASA was founded in 1957 as a non-profit organization open to all individuals and institutions interested in African affairs. Its mission is to bring together people with a scholarly and professional interest in Africa. It is now the largest organization that promotes African studies by: --publishing two journals: African Studies Review, and History in Africa and a professional newsletter, ASA News --supporting programs for Young Scholars and International Visitors --sponsoring initiatives targeted to Technology Development and African higher education --providing the African Higher Education Resource Directory --underwriting the African e-Journals Project --providing information and support to the Africanist community Please give as generously as you are able. Visit www.africanstudies.org and click on the ASA ONLINE link today! Your contributions are tax deductible. Please provide a matching gift form, if applicable.

7 ASA News - January 2006 2005 Election Results

For Vice President Pearl T. Robinson (Tufts U)

For the Board of Directors Tabitha Kanogo (U of California-Berkeley) Elisha Renne (U of Michigan) Michael Schatzberg (U of Wisconsin-Madison)

The Board of Directors is pleased to welcome Corrine Kratz (Emory U) to complete the term for Alcinda Honwana (Social Science Research Council), who resigned from the Board.

The Board of Directors is pleased to welcome Joel Barkan (U of Iowa), who has been appointed Treasurer for a five-year term. ~--::r

2006 Election Candidates

For Vice President Aliko Songolo (Literature, U of Wisconsin-Madison) Leonardo Villalon (Political Science, U of Florida)

For the Board of Directors Awkasi Aidoo (Sociology, Ford Foundation) Jane Guyer (Anthropology, Johns Hopkins U) Norma Kriger (Political Science, Independent Scholar) Babatunde Lawai (Art History, Virginia Commonwealth U) Elizabeth Schmidt (History, Loyola College in Maryland) Richard Schroeder (Geography, Rutgers U)

~SA Goes Online for VotIng In 20061

The ASA is pleased to announce that in 2006, online voting will be inaugurated to select officers and members of the Board of Directors. ASA members will also be able to vote on other ASA matters online. Visit www.africanstudies.org regularly for details!

ASA News - January 2006 8 I

The ASA Thanks the 2005 Editors

The ASA would like to thank its editors and editorial service providers for their dedication and pro­ fessionalism over the past year. We appreciate the partnership to provide ASA members with quality and informative publications.

AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW HISTORY IN AFRICA

Ralph Faulkingham, Co-Editor David Henige, Editor Mitzi Goheen, Co-Editor Jeff Kaufmann, Production Assistant Eugenia Herbert, Book Review Editor Ella Kusnetz, Copy Editor Craig Malone, Art Director

2005 ASA AWARD AND PRIZE RECIPIENTS

ASA members may make nominations for ASA Awards and serve on ASA Award Committees. Contact the Executive Director should you be interested to serve on any of the Award Committees. The ASA Board of Directors congratulates all Award recipients and extends its appreciation to the members of the Award and Prize Committees for their service to the Association.

The Bashorun M.K.O. Abiola Lecture, was established in 1992 with a generous grant from the Honorable Bashorun M.K.O. Abiola. The Lecture is presented by a senior African scholar who is selected by the ASA Board of Directors. The 2005 Lecturer was Abena Busia, Department of Literature, Rutgers University, "What is Africa to Me? Knowledge Possession, Knowledge Production, and the Health of our Bodies Politic in Africa and the African Diaspora."

The Book Donation Award makes available a total of $3,000 annually to assist groups with shipping costs for book donations to African libraries and schools. Grants are generally made in amounts from $200 to $1,000. The award is coordinated by the Africana Librarians Council on behalf of the ASA Board of Directors. The 2005 Award Committee Co-Chairs were Akilah Nosakhere and Jason Schultz. The 2005 Award recipients are: Awon Atuire and Melissa Nix, Read More Books for Westley Girls Primary and Junior Secondary School, Ghana Marigrace Becker, Education for All, Zimbabwe Cherif Correa, Friends of Sanar for Universite-Gaston Berger de Saint Louis (Sanar), Senegal Janet Jasinski for Palabana Basic School, Zambia Mark L. Lilleleht, ALA Issues Committee for Fourah Bay College Freetown, Sierra Leone Adboulaye Saine, Gambia Book Project for Latrikunda Lower Basic School and Gambia College and University of The Gambia Dr. Christine J. Weisfelder for Morogoro Youth Development Centre, Kilakala­ Community Library - Tanzania Amy West, SIBUSISO, Inc for Esikelweni Community, Eastern Cape, Natal, South Africa

The Distinguished Africanist Award is presented in recognition of lifetime distinguished contributions to African studies. The award is presented during the Annual Meeting. The award consists of a plaque and a lifetime membership in the African Studies Association. Awardees are selected by the ASA Board of Directors and two non-Board members. The non-Board members of the 2005 Distinguished Africanist Award Committee were Abena Busia and Margaret Jean Hay. The 2005 Award recipient is John Hunwick, Northwestern University.

9 ASA News - January 2006 The Graduate Student Paper Prize was established by the ASA Board of Directors in 2001 for the best graduate student paper presented during the Annual Meeting. The editors of the African Studies Review coordinate an expedited peer review process for the prize-winning paper, which is published in the ASR if the reviewers recommend publication and if any recommended revisions are received in a timely manner. The 2005 Award recipient is Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, Harvard University, "Dangerous Properties': Poisoned Arrows and the Case of Strophanthus Hispidus in Colonial Gold Coast, 1885-1922." The mem­ bers of the 2005 Prize Committee were John F. Clark, Kidane Mengisteab, and David Newbury (Chair).

The International Visitor Award funds the attendance of 3 to 5 international scholars to present a paper at the Annual Meeting. Scholars nominated may be of any nationality, though the preponderance of awards is made to Africans. Preference is given to women and junior scholars, and to individuals who have not recently visited North America. Awardees are selected by the ASA Board of Directors. The 2005 Award recipients are: Aderonke Adesanya, "A Semiotics of Clothing Insignia of Indigenous Cult Groups Among the Ijebu-Yoruba, Nigeria" Mabel Evwierhoma, "Environmental Activism Through Drama in Nigeria: The Plays of Tess Onwueme As Testaments"

The Melville l. Herskovits Award is presented annually for the best scholarly work on Africa published in English in the previous year and distributed in the U.S. The 2005 Award co-recipients are: Adam Ashforth, Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa Jan Vansina, How Societies are Born: Governance in West Central Africa Before 1600 The members of the 2005 Award Committee were Mamadou Diouf, Babatunde Lawai, George Nzongola­ Ntalaja, J.D.Y. Peel, and Elliott P. Skinner (Chair).

The Paul Hair Prize (formerly the Text Prize) is presented in odd numbered years to recognize the best critical edition or translation into English of primary source materials on Africa published during the pre­ ceding two years. The award is coordinated by the Association for the Publication of African Historical Sources (APAHS) on behalf of the ASA Board of Directors. The 2005 Award recipient is: P.F. de Moraes Farias, Arabic Medieval Inscriptions from the Republic of Mali: Epigraphy, Chronicles and Songhay-Tuareg History

For further information about ASA prizes, including the criteria and the application process, visit the ASA website at www.afrianstudies.org and click on the "Awards and Prizes" link.

ASA AWARD AND PRIZE DEADLINES

ASA members may nominate individuals and groups for ASA Awards and serve on the ASA Award and Prize Committees. Visit the ASA website, www.africanstudies.org for information about the awards, including the criteria and the application process. Contact the Executive Director should you be interest­ ed to serve on any of the Award or Prize Committees.

The Book Donation Award makes available a total of $3,000 annually to assist groups with shipping costs for book donations to African libraries and schools. The Award Committee generally provides grants in amounts from $200 to $1,000. The deadline for applications is June 1, 2006.

The Conover-Porter Award is presented in even-numbered years to the author of the most outstand­ ing achievement in African bibliography and reference works published during the previous two years. The award is administered by the Africana Librarians Council and includes a cash prize of $300. The deadline for nominations is January 1, 2006.

The Distinguished Africanist Award is presented in recognition of lifetime distinguished contributions to African studies. The Award is presented during the Annual Meeting. The award consists of a plaque and a lifetime membership in the African Studies AssOCiation. The deadline for nomination packets is February 15, 3006.

The Graduate Student Paper Prize was established by the ASA Board of Directors in 2001 for the best graduate student paper presented during the Annual Meeting. The editors of the African Studies Review

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coordinate an expedited peer review process for the prize-winning paper, which is published in the ASR if the reviewers recommend publication and if any recommended revisions are received in a timely manner. The deadline for submission is January 15, 2006.

The International Visitor Award funds the attendance of 3 to 5 international scholars to present a paper at the Annual Meeting. Scholars nominated may be of any nationality, though the preponderance of awards is made to Africans. Preference is given to women and junior scholars, and to individuals who have not recently visited North America. The deadline for applications is March 15, 2006.

The Melville J. Herskovits Award is presented annually for the best scholarly work on Africa published in English in the previous year and distributed in the US. The Award consists of a plaque and $500 and is presented at the Awards Ceremony at the Annual Meeting. The deadline for nominations is May 1, 2006.

The Paul Hair Prize (formally the Text Prize) is presented in odd-numbered years to recognize the best critical edition or translation into English of primary source materials on Africa published during the pre­ ceding two years. The deadline for nominations is May 1, 2007.

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Remember to update your personal information when you renew, realizing that ASA ONLINE functions according to WYSIWYG, or "what you see is what you get:" take care to enter name spellings and address­ es exactly as you would like to see them appear on name badges and address labels as these items are generated directly from the information that you provide.

The 49th Annual Meeting, "(Re)Thinking Africa and the World; Internal Reflections, External Responses," will be held November 16-19, 2006 at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San FranCiSCO, CA. The Program Co­ Chairs are John Harbeson and Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi. The Local Arrangements Co-Chairs are Benjamin Lawrance, Cornelius Moore, Martha Saavedra, and Kim Rapp. The Board and the Secretariat has devoted considerable time to developing improvements to the online system to enable users to navigate it more successfully to submit an Annual Meeting proposal. A particularly thorny issue for residents in Africa and in other overseas locations is the ASA's use of PayPal as the third party vendor that provides secure cred­ it card processing for Annual Meeting registration and other payments and contributions. Unfortunately, the crux of the issue is US banking regulations that have been put into place post 9/11. As always, and includ­ ing via ASA ONLINE, payments may be made by check and credit card information can be manually processed by contacting the Secretariat. In addition, members will be able to request a letter of invitation through ASA ONLINE and members who have not submitted a proposal may volunteer to serve as a chair or a discussant for panels that are created by the Program Committee from individual paper proposals. Watch the website for the announcement of when the Call for Proposals will be available - and for when ASA voting goes online!

Please also consult the website to track the progress of the 50 Year Anniversaries Fundraising Campaign and for information about the ASA's participation in the Combined Federal Campaign. Provide CFC Number 9971 to eligible familYI colleagues, and friends to encourage them to support the ASA.

As you can see from the above, the Secretariat has been working hard to make as much information avail­ able as possible on the ASA website. Initiatives to improve the website's user-friendliness and visual aes­ thetics are also being planned for 2006.

I look forward to a productive year!

11 ASA News January 2006 Why Join the ASA?

The African Studies Association was founded in 1957 to bring together people with a scholarly and professional interest in Africa.

MEMBERSHIP

ASA Members may:

• Vote to elect officers and members of the Board of Directors • Serve on ASA Committees • Nominate individuals for the Distinguished Africanist Award and the International Visitor Award Program

ASA Members receive:

• A discount rate to attend the ASA Annual Meeting • A subscription to the African Studies Review and the ASA News

ANNUAL MEETING PUBLICATIONS

• ASA Presidential Lecture • African Studies Review, a leading peer • Abiola Lecture reviewed journal of African studies • Panels, roundtables, plenary sessions scholarship. Published in April, and discussion groups September and December. • Exhibit Hall featuring Africa-related • ASA News, a professional newsletter books and materials published in January, April and July. • Awards Ceremony );> Book Donation Award The above publications are included as part );> Conover-Porter Prize of ASA annual membership. );> Distinguished Africanist Award );> Graduate Student Paper Prize • History in Africa: A Journal of Method );> International Visitor Award publishes textual analysis and );> Melville J. Herskovits Award criticism, historiographical and );> Musa Ismail Galaal Prize biographical essays, archival reports );> Paul Hair Prize and articles on the role of theory in • Coordinate Organization business historical investigation. History in meetings, receptions, and special Africa is published in September. events • Video Marketplace and film screenings ASA members can purchase History in • Welcome Reception and Dance Party Africa at a discounted rate.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT THE ASA WEBSITE AT WWW.AFRICANSTUDIES.ORG

African Studies Association Rutgers University, Douglass Campus, 132 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Tel: 732-932-8173, Fax: 732-932-3394, Email: [email protected]

ASA News - January 2006 12 I 2006 Membership Rates Membership is based on the calendar year: January 1 through December 31, 2006. Please pay online at www.africanstudies.org.Click on the ASA ONLINE link. Individuals who wish to pay by check should indicate the check number online and mail the check to the Secretariat: African Studies Association, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Douglass Campus, 132 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1400. Individuals may also contact the ASA Secretariat to process credit cards manually: Tel: 732-932-8173 ext. 10 or Fax: 732-932-3394.

Income above $90,000 ...... $150

Income from $75,000 - $89,999...... $135

Income from $60,000 - $74,999...... $125

Income from $45,000 - $59,999...... $110

Income from $35,000 - $44,999...... $100

Income from $15,000 - $34,999...... $85

Income below $14,999 and students (send a copy of a valid ID)...... $45

Faculty at African Higher Education Institution in Africa ...... $65

Staff at African Higher Education Institution in Africa ...... $65

Retirees...... $65

Joint Membership/Renewal (Second person in household) ...... $45

Gift Membership (To donate a membership to an Africa-based colleague) ...... $65

Lifetime Membership (One-time payment ) ...... $2,200

Lifetime Membership (Four annual payments) ...... $550

Postage & Handling: (No additional charge for US or Africa surface mail) Overseas & Canadian Surface Mail...... $20 Overseas Airmail ...... $35

Request Meeting Space for the 2006 Annual Meeting

ASA sponsored, associate, and affiliate organizations may request complimentary space for busi­ ness meetings during the 49th Annual Meeting, November 16-19 at the Westin St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, CA. To facilitate allocating an appropriate venue, please include the estimated num­ ber of people who will attend the meeting and three rank-ordered preferences for the meeting time. The requests will be honored to the fullest extent possible on a first come, first serve basis. Please submit requests in writing on the Coordinate Organization Information Form on or before March 15, 2006. Requests received after the deadline will incur a $25.00 adminis­ trative fee.

Please send requests to the Annual Meeting Coordinator, African Studies Association, Rutgers University, Douglass College, 132 George Street, I\lew Brunswick, NJ 08901-1400; Fax: 732-932­ 3394; or Email: [email protected].

13 ASA News - January 2006 AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION 49TH ANNUAL MEETING KEY INFORMATION

SAN FRANCISCO, CA N NOVEMBER 16-19, 2006

"(Re) Thinking Africa and the World: Internal Reflections, External Responses"

Program Co·Chairs: John Harbeson, City University of New York (CUNY) and Elisabeth Mudimbe·Boyi, Stanford University

Local Arrangements Committee Co·Chairs: Benjamin N. Lawrance, University of California-Davis, Cornelius Moore, California Newsreel Kim Rapp, Stanford University and Martha Saavedra, University of California, Berkeley

Call for Proposals Deadline Hotel Reservations Deadline March 15, 2006 Room reservations should be made on or before Beginning in January 2006, ASA ONLINE will be October 23, 2006 to receive the ASA discounted rate. accessible to individuals who have paid membership Mention ASA to receive the discounted rate: dues and pre-registration or the non-member pre- Westin St. Francis Hotel, San FranCisco, CA. registration fee. Please see the registration I Tel: 415-397-7000 or Fax: 415-774-0124. information below if you reside in Africa. Final Program Deadline for Corrections Travel Reservations: Travizon September 15, 2006 Mention ASA to receive the discounted rate Individuals may make updates to name and affiliation Tel: 800-462-6461 or 585-436-1701. by visiting ASA ONLINE. Proposal title changes may be made by sending an e- mail to [email protected]. Letters of Invitation Deadline Annual Meeting Updates and Additional September 30, 2006 Information Please note: requests require 4-6 weeks to Visit www.africanstudies.org and click on the Annual process. Requests received after September 30, Meetings link. 2006 will incur a $25 administrative fee and the individual will pay the cost of any express courier that is requested. Annual Meeting Pre-registration Deadline Questions? [email protected] or 732-932­ September 30, 2006 8173, ext. 15 Please see the registration information below if you I reside in Africa.

REGISTRATION All Annual Meeting partiCipants are required to pay the registration fee. Individuals who wish to receive the pre­ registration discount should pre-register on or before September 30, 2006. Individuals residing in Africa who wish to attend the Annual Meeting may contact the Secretariat in writing on or before September 30, 2006 to request authorization to pay registration onsite in San Francisco, CA at the pre-registration rate. Individuals residing in Africa who wish to submit an Annual Meeting Proposal must submit the request in advance of the March 15 deadline for the Call for Proposals. Requests may be sent via email to [email protected] or by fax to 732-932-3394. Individuals may check the status of their registration and print receipts through ASA ONLINE at www.africanstudies.org.

REGISTRATION RATES Please pay online at www.africanstudies.org.Click on the ASA ONLINE link. Individuals who wish to pay by check should indicate the check number online and mail the check to the Secretariat: African Studies Association, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Douglass Campus, 132 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1400. Individuals may also contact the ASA Secretariat to process credit cards manually: Tel: 732-932-8173 ext. 10 or Fax: 732-932-3394.

Members Member with income over $15,000 $110 Member with income below $15,000 $55 Member Student (send a copy of a valid ID) $55 ASA News ­ January 2006 14 Registration Rates Continued... Member Faculty at African Higher Education Institution in Africa $55 Member Staff at African Higher Education Institution in Africa $55 Member Retiree $55

Non-Members Non-Member with income over $15,000 $150 Non-Member with income below $15,000 $75 Non-Member Student (send a copy of a valid 10) $75 Non-Member Faculty at African Higher Education Institution in Africa $75 Non-Member Staff at African Higher Education Institution in Africa $75 Non-Member Retiree $75

Women's Caucus Luncheon Reservation $35

HOW TO SUBMIT AN ANNUAL MEETING PROPOSAL All proposals must be submitted through ASA ONLINE at www.africanstudies.org. Individuals who reside in Africa will be mailed a hard copy of the Call for Proposals. Incomplete proposals WILL NOT be forwarded to the Program Chair for review. Individuals residing outside of Africa must submit proposals through ASA ONLINE ONLY. Proposals that are submitted by email or fax from individuals who do not reside in Africa WILL NOT BE ACKNOWLEDGED. The Call for Proposals deadline is March 15, 2006. Beginning in July, individuals may check the status of a proposal through ASA ONLINE or they may consult the ASA website, www.africanstudies.org, for the Preliminary Program.

2006 ANNUAL MEETING KEY DATES

January 2006: The Annual Meeting Online Proposal System will become accessible to individuals with current 2006 ASA membership and registration fees or individuals who have paid the non-member pre-registration fee.

March 15,2006: The Annual Meeting Online Proposal System will close. Individuals residing in Africa may send hard copy proposals postmarked on or before March 15. Coordinate Organization Sponsored Panels and Roundtables and meeting requests are due. International Visitor Award applications are due.

July 2006: The Preliminary Program will be posted to the ASA website: www.africanstudies.org

September 15, 2006: Corrections may be made for the accuracy of name, title, and institutional affiliation ONLY.

September 30, 2006: Pre-registration closes. Individuals will be required to register on site in San Francisco after this date. Requests for Letters of Invitation are due. Requests received after this date will incur a $25 administrative fee and the individual will pay the cost of any express courier that is requested.

October 23, 2006: Closing date to be guaranteed the ASA discount rate at the Annual Meeting hotel.

SAVE THE DATE!

Mark your calendar for future Annual Meetings...

October 18-21, 2007 Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers New York November 13-15, 2008 Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers Chicago November 19-22, 2009 New Orleans Marriott Hotel New Orleans November 18-21, 2010 Westin St. Francis Hotel San Francisco November 17-20, 2011 Marriott Wardman Park Hotel Washington, DC

15 ASA News - January 2006 CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline: March lS, 2006

The 49th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association will take place from November 16-19, 2006, at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, CA. The theme is (Re)Thinking Africa and the World: Internal Reflections, External Responses. The Program Co-Chairs are John Harbeson (City University of New York) and Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi (Stanford University). Individuals who reside in Africa will be mailed a hard copy of the Call for Proposals. All other individuals are required to submit proposals online at www.afrjcanstudies.org beginning in January. Watch the ASA website for details. Hard copy proposal forms received from individuals residing outside of Africa WILL NOT be acknowledged. Proposals are due at the ASA Secretariat submitted online or postmarked on or before March 15, 2006. Incomplete hard copy proposal forms will not be forwarded to the Program Committee for review.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION Proposing a Paper, Panel, Roundtable, Young Refund Policy Scholar Paper or Poster Session During the Fall 2004 Meeting the ASA Board of Directors adopted the policy that the ASA will no Requirements for Participation longer issue pre-registration refunds of any kind. In Individuals proposing a Paper, Panel Roundtable, Winter 2006, the policy has been amended to issue Young Scholar Paper or Poster Session must be pre-registration refunds to individuals whose proposals 2006 members of the African Studies have been declined. Fees are not transferable. Association. Membership and pre-registration fees or the non-member pre-registration fee Letters of Invitation must accompany the proposal if the fee(s) have The ASA can provide Letters of Invitation to assist not already been paid. Prospective participants who individuals in expediting visas and securing funding. do not reside in the US should contact the ASA if they Requests for a Letter of Invitation should be made are unable to submit funds from overseas because of online at www.africanstudies.org or by sending an difficulties in obtaining foreign currency. Please note: email to [email protected] with "Annual the imposition of a fee for a US money order does not Meeting Letter of Invitation" in the subject line. constitute difficulty in obtaining foreign exchange. Please request the letter when the proposal is Individuals who are resident in Africa may contact the submitted. Please note: a request requires 4-6 weeks ASA to receive authorization to pay membership and to process. A request for a Letter of Invitation that is pre-registration fees onsite in San Francisco. Beyond received after September 30 will incur a $25 the International Visitor Award Program, the ASA administrative fee and the individual will pay the cost does not provide funds for individuals to attend of any express courier that is requested. the Annual Meeting. Contact the Secretariat or www.africanstudies.org for more information about the Proposal Acceptances International Visitor Award Program. The Program Co-Chairs, working with the Program Committee, bear final responsibility for accepting or Each individual may make only one presentation: declining all proposals for the Annual Meeting. The as a paper presenter, a roundtable participant, a Program Co-Chairs are responsible for ensuring that all poster session presenter, a discussant, or a co­ papers, panels, roundtables, poster sessions and discussant. Individuals may chair one panel or Young Scholar panels conform to the standards set by roundtable in addition to making one presentation. the ASA Board of Directors and the Program The online system will not allow the submission Committee. The Program Committee has full authority of more than one proposal per presenter. All to add or delete presentations on panels in order to proposals must be submitted online at accommodate proposals for individual papers and to www.africanstudies.org. Individuals who reside enhance the overall quality of the program. Efforts will in Africa will be mailed a hard copy of the Call for be made to contact the chair of the panel affected by a Proposals. Incomplete proposals will not be change when it is made; however, publication forwarded to the Program Committee for review. deadlines may take precedence over such notification. Annual Meeting Registration All paper proposals, whether submitted individually or Individuals must be pre-registered for the as part of a panel, will be reviewed separately. Annual Meeting as an ASA member or as a non­ member when the proposal is submitted. The Notification online system Annual Meeting link will only be Accepted panels and presentations will be listed in the accessible to each individual once the requisite fees Preliminary Program, which will appear on the ASA are paid. website in July.

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Coordinate Organization Panels and Roundtables up to a maximum of 250 words. The quality of the paper or poster session abstract is the main criterion ASA Sponsored Organizations may propose two panels, for acceptance. two roundtables, or a roundtable and a panel to be accepted without review by the Program Committee. The Program Committee will create panels from All proposals must be submitted online on or individual submissions with common themes and before March 15. identify an individual to chair the panel. Individual proposals may also be added to proposed panels at the The Program Committee has the discretion to accept discretion of the Program Committee. Each paper co­ panels and roundtables that will be listed in the author must submit an online proposal. Co-authors program as "Sponsored by" provided that the who are resident in Africa may contact the ASA to organizing group is an ASA Associate, Affiliate, or receive authorization to pay membership and pre­ Allied Organization. registration fees onsite in San Francisco. In no case will a co-author be added after a paper has been Submitting a Proposal accepted by the Program Committee.

Individuals who reside in Africa will be mailed a When the paper or poster session proposal is hard copy of the Call for Proposals and may completed to your satisfaction, please remember to submit a proposal by mail or by fax. All other click the "Submit" button. A paper proposal will not be individuals are required to submit proposals submitted to the Program Committee for review unless online at www.africanstudies.org beginning in you have clicked "Submit." January. Watch the website for details. Hard copy proposal forms received from individuals Non-Attending Co-Authors Residing in Africa residing outside of Africa WILL NOT be Paper proposal co-authors who reside in Africa and will acknowledged. not be attending the Annual Meeting, but wish to have their names listed in the Final Program may have their Indicating a Sub-theme membership and pre-registration fees waived. All proposals should designate the section for which Request for fee waivers can be submitted to the the proposal is most appropriate. The theme for 2006, Secretariat Executive Director at (Re) Thinking Africa and the World: Internal [email protected] on or before March 15. Reflections, External Responses, is divided into 21 Individuals who choose to attend the Annual Meeting thematic sections labeled A through U. Please review may contact the ASA to receive authorization to pay the theme statement for a listing of the sub-themes. the pre-registration fee on-site. All proposals will be reviewed by the Program Committee member who is responsible for the relevant sub-theme. The Program Committee members make Panel Proposals recommendations to the Program Co-Chairs, who bear final responsibility for the composition of the program. Individuals who reside in Africa will be mailed a hard copy of the Call for Proposals and may Each individual who wishes to be considered for submit a proposal by mail or by fax. All other participation in the program i.e., as a paper individuals are required to submit proposals presenter, a roundtable participant, a poster online at www.africanstudies.org beginning in session presenter, a discussant, a co-discussant, January. Watch the website for details. Hard or a chair, must submit an online proposal. copy proposal forms received from individuals Incomplete proposals will not be forwarded to residing outside of Africa WILL NOT be the Program Committee for review. acknowledged.

Individual Paper Proposals/Poster Session A panel typically has a chair, up to four paper Proposals presenters, and a discussant. A panel proposal consists of the abstract for the panel that is submitted Individuals who reside in Africa will be mailed a by the panel chair, who also lists the name of each hard copy of the Call for Proposals and may prospective presenter. The panel abstract should submit a proposal by mail or by fax. All other consist of a statement about the topic and a brief individuals are required to submit proposals summary of the main argument(s) to be explored, up online at www.africanstudies.org beginning in to a maximum of 250 words. The quality of the panel January. Watch the website for details. Hard abstract is the main criterion for acceptance; a panel copy proposal forms received from individuals with a weak abstract is unlikely to be accepted. Two or residing outside of Africa WILL NOT be more weak paper abstracts may eliminate the panel acknowledged. altogether. The Program Committee may add individual papers or discussants to proposed panels. The paper or poster session abstract should consist of a statement about the topic, the nature and extent of PLEASE NOTE: The panel chair must submit the panel the research on which the paper or poster session is proposal first, indicating the names of the prospective based and a brief summary of the main argument(s), panel presenters. Once the panel chair has submitted the panel proposal, the prospective individual

17 ASA News - January 2006 proposals. It a paper proposal IS submitted before the Individuals who reside in Africa will be mailed a panel chair has submitted the panel proposal, the hard copy of the Call for Proposals and may paper will be placed on a panel that has been created submit a proposal by mail or by fax. All other by the Program Committee. A panel proposal must individuals are required to submit proposals include all "Paper Proposal" submissions before the online at www.africanstudies.org beginning in panel can be submitted by the chair. Please remind January. Watch the website for details. Hard your presenters to pay membership and pre­ copy proposal forms received from individuals registration or non-member pre-registration fees and residing outside of Africa WILL NOT be submit their "Paper Proposal." If all presenters have acknowledged. not paid the required fees and submitted a "Paper Proposal" the panel cannot be submitted for review by The Young Scholar Panels are designed to highlight the Program Committee. Please check your panel research in progress and reports from the field. proposal online periodically to ensure the panel is Graduate students will be scheduled to make 15­ "complete" with all paper proposals submitted. When minute presentations on panels chaired by senior the panel is complete, you may click the "Submit" scholars. Proposals submitted for partiCipation in the button to submit the panel proposal to the Program young scholar panels must be identified at the time of Committee for review. Reminder e-mails will be sent submission. periodically. If you would like to submit the panel even The ASA Board of Directors established the Graduate though all the presenters have not submitted a paper Student Paper Prize for the best graduate student proposal, you may delete the name of the individual(s) paper presented at the previous year's Annual until you have a complete panel. Meeting. All papers presented by graduate students at the Annual Meeting are eligible for the prize, which is awarded at the subsequent Annual Meeting The editors of the African Studies Review will coordinate an Roundtable Proposals expedited peer review process for the prize-winning Individuals who reside in Africa will be mailed a paper. hard copy of the Call for Proposals and may Graduate students may submit the papers with a letter submit a proposal by mail or by fax. All other of recommendation from their advisor postmarked on individuals are required to submit proposals or before January 15 to: African Studies ASSOCiation, online at www.africanstudies.org beginning in Graduate Student Paper Prize Competition, Rutgers January. Watch the website for details. Hard University, Douglass Campus, 132 George Street, New copy proposal forms received from individuals Brunswick, NJ 08901-1400, or emailed as an residing outside of Africa WILL NOT be attachment to [email protected]. acknowledged. Volunteer Chairs and Discussants A roundtable typically consists of a chair and approximately four presenters. A roundtable proposal Individuals may volunteer as a chair or a discussant of a panel that has been created by the Program consists of the abstract for the roundtable that is submitted by the roundtable chair, who also lists the Committee. Volunteers must pay membership and pre-registration fees or non-member pre-registration name of each prospective presenter. The roundtable abstract should consist of a statement about the topic fees. The Program Committee reserves the right to and a brief summary of the main argument(s) to be place volunteers on the Annual Meeting Program as explored, up to a maximum of 250 words. appropriate. The role that is assigned by the Program Committee cannot be changed. The ASA does not The quality of the roundtable abstract is the main guarantee that all volunteers will be selected to criterion for acceptance. A roundtable with a weak partiCipate. Volunteer chairs may not chair any other abstract is unlikely to be accepted. panel or roundtable. Volunteer discussants may not participate on any other panel or roundtable. A roundtable proposal must include partiCipants who Volunteers may submit their name for consideration have paid the necessary membership and pre­ on-line at www.africanstudies.org on or before March registration or non-member pre-registration fees. If all 15. participants have not paid the required fees the roundtable cannot be submitted for review by the Audio Visual Equipment Program Committee. Please check your roundtable The ASA provides the following complimentary AN proposal online periodically to ensure that it is equipment: a slide projector, two slide projectors, an "complete" with all participant fees paid. When the overhead projector, or a TV/VCR. Poster session roundtable is complete, you may click the "Submit" presenters may also request a chalkboard or a button to submit the roundtable to the Program corkboard. AV equipment must be requested at Committee for review. If you would like to submit the the time proposals are submitted. Failure to roundtable even though all the presenters have not request AN equipment will result in the individual paid the necessary fee(s), you may delete the name of having to rent the equipment at considerable personal the individual(s) until you have a complete roundtable. expense through the on-site AV vendor. PLEASE Reminder e-mails will be sent periodically. NOTE: LCD projectors WILL NOT be provided.

ASA News - January 2006 18 Checklist for an Individual Proposal

o Pay membership and pre-registration fees; the online Annual Meeting link will then become accessible through the individual's database record. o Enter the abstract, up to a maximum of 250 words. o Indicate if the proposal is for a poster session or a Young Scholar Panel. If it is part of a panel, the panel chair must list your name on the panel proposal FIRST, before you submit your proposal o Indicate a sub-theme. o Select A/V, including "none." Note: this is the only opportunity to select A/V. o Be sure to click "Submit."

Checklist for a Panel Proposal

o Pay membership and pre-registration fees; the online Annual Meeting link will then become accessible through the individual's database record. o Enter the panel abstract, up to a maximum of 250 words. o List the names of the prospective panelists. Note: each panelist must then complete an online paper proposal. o Indicate a sub-theme. o Be sure to click "Submit."

Checklist for a Roundtable Proposal o Pay membership and pre-registration fees; the online Annual Meeting link will then become accessible through the individual's database record. o Enter the roundtable abstract, up to a maximum of 250 words. o List the names of the prospective participants. Note: each participant must pay the necessary membership and pre-registration or non-member pre-registration fees. o Indicate a sub-theme. o Be sure to click "Submit."

19 ASA News - January 2006 II African Studies Association Style Guidelines

Please print out these Style Guidelines for reference when completing your Annual Meeting proposal. Please note that Preliminary Program and the Final Program is generated directly from ASA ONLINE. The information that you provide for the spelling of your name, your institutional affiliation, and the title of your paper/poster session/panel/roundtable proposal is exported to the Annual Meeting registration badges and the Preliminary and Final Programs exactly as it has been typed.

General Guidelines All information should be provided in English and use the American convention, i.e., "color," "customize," "program," etc.

Begin all the key words in the title with upper case letters, i.e., The Future of Africa

A decade should be referred to as "the 1960s" or "the sixties." A span of years cited within a single century should appear as "1978-79" not "1978-1979"

Indicate the title of a book with quotation marks, i.e., "" and the Future of Africa

Multiple Part Panel/Roundtable proposals should be indicated in the title using Roman numerals, i.e., The Future of Africa, Part II

Abbreviations Abbreviate "University" as "U"

Abbreviations and acronyms should not carry a period, i.e., U, UCLA, UNESCO

"Circa" should be abbreviated "ca."

Do not use symbols, i.e., "&" should be spelled out as "and"

State universities with multiple campuses should use a hyphen without spaces between the state and the campus, i.e., U of California-Berkeley or U of Wisconsin-Madison

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ASA News - January 2006 20 African Studies Association respects, the theme embraces all the worlds of 49th Annual Meeting African endeavor: artists, musicians, scholars, November 16-19, 2006 literary figures, political leaders, grassroots San Francisco, CA activists, business and labor leaders, theologians, and others. The theme centers upon how these Program Theme communities have reflected on the decades since (Re)Thinking Africa and the World: Internal the formal transfers of political power to African Reflections, External Responses governments, how those reflections have already been translated into new ideas and actions across John Harbeson (City University of New the range of human experience, and what those York) and Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi (Stanford ideas and actions might portend in terms of University) broader strategies addressing the human condition in Africa. Finally, the theme focuses upon how nations and peoples may be The 2006 African Studies Association Annual collaborating across territorial or cultural divides Meeting theme returns our attention to the terms to fashion new strategies and approaches for of Africa's engagement with the world: its power addressing common problems. structures; cultural and religious currents; artistic trends; economic patterns; international Program Sub-Themes organizations; arrays of public and private bilateral agencies that have focused on Africa; A. African Urban Spaces: Portals on the World investment patterns and great transnational B. Rethinking Democracy and the State in Africa corporations; as well as international regimes C. Inter-African Peacekeeping and Conflict which are supposed to represent policy Mitigation Initiatives commitments and interests shared by strong and D. Mosque, Church, and Shrine weak nations alike. The theme draws attention to E. African Philosophy Revisited all the many dimensions of international influence F. Rethinking the African Diaspora upon Africa that its nations and peoples have had G. Rethinking African Economic Reform only limited opportunity and capacity to shape or H. International Environmental Regimes and change. The theme embraces the complexities African Initiatives and the full scope of that international influence, 1. Rethinking the Past, Toward the Future including their beneficial and deleterious effects, J. Rural Producers, Food Security, Local unintended consequences for good and for ill, Organizations, and World Markets and imponderable long term effects that can only K. African International Relations: Toward begin to be gauged at this time. Continental Self-reliance The primary focus of this year's theme, however, L. African Aesthetics is African reflections upon, and responses to the M. African Music and the Black Atlantic myriad facets of this influence. At a time when N. Toward Healthy African Societies African peoples were in the process of securing O. Gender the formal termination of colonial political rule P. Local Memories and Modernity and helping to dissolve European empires of Q. Education in Africa: International Dynamics, global reach, optimism underlay African quests External Interventions, and their Intersections for non-alignment, self-reliance, and political, R. Transnational, National, and Local Interactions economic, and cultural identity. There were great of Civil Society and Social Movements in Africa expectations concerning what these quests would S. Culture, Politics and the PolitiCS of Culture yield in contributions tOt and enrichment of world T. Rethinking Africa's Past: Distant Connections, civilizations. In the new millennium, with such Contemporary Meanings singularly important events as the formation of U. Popular Culture the Africa Union and the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Wangari Maathai, it is time to A. African Urban Spaces: Portals on the inquire anew and in focused ways into what World: Heidi Frontani (Elon University) and Africa has learned from its own post Robert Roundy (University of California­ independence experiences. It is time to explore Berkeley) what intimations of political, economic, cultural, and artistic renewal may yield in terms of new Urban areas have been important features of forms and approaches for African engagement Africa's landscape for more than two thousand with what is increasingly a global village in years. Societies have organized themselves such almost every facet of human existence. In these that cities and towns have served as centers of trade, wealth accumulation, political action and

21 ASA News - January 2006 authority, as sites of military authority, places of Democracy and Development Ghana), refuge, and of ritual power and contact with the Stephen Ndegwa (The World Bank and sacred. Africa experienced dramatic urban growth Northwestern University), and Eghosa throughout the twentieth century and the Osaghae (University of Ibadan) continent is anticipated to become more urban than rural by the year 2030. Whereas historically This section invites proposals that seek to there have been a range of settlement patterns advance our thinking, methods, and assessments and ways in which cities are structured, currently of democracy and the state in Africa, especially in two-thirds of Africa's urban population lives in the context of increasingly mixed assessments of informal settlements without adequate water, the health of nascent democracies and import for sanitation, health, or transportation services. the perennial problems of state effectiveness. Youths, including AIDS orphans, are especially present in urban informal sectors. The United Africa has been faced with questions of state Nations blames unfavorable terms of trade for legitimacy and state effectiveness since Africa's urban poverty and slums. Positive independence. Democratization and liberalization economic development and sustainable heralded an era of legitimation with the kind of urbanization will require integrated planning, enthusiasm and hope never seen since consensus and capacity building, and gender independence in the 1960s. Yet, for most mainstreaming locally as well as international countries democratization has been a more cooperation. variegated experience than expected. Similarly, African state capaCity appears not to have been Themes for which proposals are invited, with enhanced either by economic adjustment or by examples of topics that illustrate these themes: democratization. The state's effectiveness has Urban areas as conduits: creators, recipients, and appeared to decline and indeed state collapse or distributors of commodities, technologies, ideas, near collapse has occurred in democratizing and biota African countries as under civilian and military Sub-theme: Barriers to diffusion to and from the authoritarian regimes. urban area, such as o non-acceptance or restrictions on This section invites proposals to examine issues genetically modified crops in the fields and of African state effectiveness and in the marketplace democratization, separately or together. o restricted access to mass communications Theoretical and empirical explorations of the o economics, social welfare, and the emerging debate between those who view inability to provide reliable public health democratization as a prerequisite for state programs effectiveness and those who view state Sub-theme: Conduits to diffusion to and from the effectiveness as a pre-requisite for robust urban area, such as democratization would be particularly useful. o primary, secondary, and tertiary road ResolVing, or at least shedding, better light on systems - diffusers of ideas and risks to this debate has both theoretical and practical populations in the urban areas and importance for improving our understanding of beyond (a) democracy building and consolidation, (b) o literacy and the content of what is state performance, espeCially in the area of available to the u nderclass economic and social development, and (c) the o festivals for cause of population purposes of prioritization and sequencing of movement, interaction, and exchange assistance and support for democratization and Urban areas as contested places and spaces: state capacity building. among user groups due to age, gender, o religion, ethnicity, class, or other factors This section also invites proposals that examine o disconnect among local, regional, national, other aspects of the state and of democratization and/or international interests in Africa. Papers based on empirical work, o differing priorities of resident, tranSient, including recent fieldwork, done in collaboration and non-resident populations with Africa-based colleagues are especially *varied initiatives and responses to security and welcome. insecurity (of food, water supply, tenure, from violence, etc.) within the formal and informal C. Inter-African Peacekeeping and Conflict sectors Mitigation Initiatives: Terrence Lyons (George Mason University) and Carrie B. Rethinking Democracy and the State in Manning (Georgia State University) Africa: E. Gyimah Boadi (Center for

ASA News - January 2006 22 The last ten years have seen some dramatic it is not only Islam that "points" its believers shifts in the principles and practice of inter­ towards distant locales. African relations. With the collapse of Mobutu's Zaire came the unraveling of constraints on inter­ Propals are invited to explore these and state war. Internal conflicts brought, for the first associated themes, and are encouraged to time, the intervention of regional actors like investigate the relations among the meanings, ECOWAS and the African Union. networks, forces, economies and resources that exercise causal influence at different scales of The past decade has also been marked by society (the body, house, community, culture, ambitious efforts to change the dynamics of region, globe, et cetera) and that become visible African states' relationships with external actors, at different scales of analysis (in space and time). as shown most clearly by the creation of the Proposals from a variety of disciplinary African Union with its ambition to place agenda­ perspectives, including religiOUS history, setting power for economic development and anthropology, the sociology of religion, security on the continent more squarely in the experimental and descriptive theology, political hands of African leaders. culture, rhetoric studies, psychology, art history, aesthetiCS, and economics are encouraged, as In keeping with the program theme, the section are rigorous interdisciplinary approaches. invites proposals that address African reflections on and responses to the challenges posed by E. African Philosophy Revisited: Sam Imbo conflict in the region. We welcome proposals (Hamline University) that conceptualize conflict and peace broadly and examine not only state actors and regional African philosophy is long past the self-definition organizations but sub-state and non-state actors stage. The twin challenges to the field emerging engaged in these processes. In particular, we from the shadows continue to be how to remain welcome proposals that address (a) the actions relevant and how to cash out the grand narrative of the AU, ECOWAS, and other regional actors in of liberation that is the ultimate framework for peace operations as well as in diplomatic the quest itself. Unavoidably, the quest for interventions to end or prevent conflict; (b) authenticity and relevance raises profoundly emerging African norms for dealing with inter­ political questions. This conference is an occasion and intra-state conflict; ( c) the responses of to pause and reflect on how far African international actors to regional peacekeeping philosophy has come and also to envision the efforts; (d) the roles of non-state actors such as future. black market networks or diasporas in shaping conflicts; and (e) other aspects of inter- or intra­ The sub-theme of will explore the state of the state conflict on the continent. discipline (African philosophy at the start of the millennium); case studies of African nationalists D. Mosque, Church, and Shrine: Sean and historical lessons for a new world; tensions Hanretta (Stanford University) between a-historical epistemological pursuits and the political implications of any philosophical From the earliest written accounts of African project; tension between the self-image of our religions up to the most recent anthropological field as Africa-centered and the projection of and theological explorations, scholars have noted Eurocentric enlightenment notions; issues of who the ways spiritual beliefs and practices in Africa the contemporary African philosopher is often mediate between the notionally external criticizing and conversely who the allies are; and the internal. The most sensitive feminist contributions to African philosophy; investigations have often revealed two apparently insider and outsider perspectives (challenges of contradictory truths: the phenomenological and identity and diversity); the usefulness of re­ cultural salience of distinctions between presenting indigenous African wisdom and autochthony and foreignness, and the inability to excavating lost bodies of authentic African definitively distinguish between the two in thought; and finally prescribing strategies and structural or semiotic terms. The heterogeneity of sharing hopes for the future. the local and the endless recontextualization of the global call into question the utility of F. Rethinking the African Diaspora: Gaurav distinctions like those between "world" and Desai (Tulane University) "local" religions (to say nothing of the "traditional"). At the same time, it still seems to The set of proposals assembled in this section will matter where it is that religion "takes place," and address issues of the relationship between contemporary Africa and its multiple diasporas.

23 ASA News - January 2006 What are the ethics and obligations involved in H. International Environmental Regimes and this relationship? How has this relationship African Initiatives: Valentine James historically manifested itself in mutual acts of (Fayetteville State University) recognition and misrecognition? What is the status of transnational activism and dialogue The threat to the African environment is today, and what, if any, is the special positioning multifaceted. The consumption of natural of subjects who identify themselves as diasporic? resources due to domestiC and international In addressing this larger ethical issue, proposals demands is changing the African environment. might usefully focus on some of the particularly Growth due to development compounds the vexing aspects of contemporary theorizations of problem of the environment for the land use diaspora. What is the relationship between activities lead to the conversion of the natural diasporic identities and the politics of citizenship? environment. Without careful planning, Do diasporas serve to disrupt the form of the conservation, preservation and environmental nation or do they instead help solidify it? How protection strategies and policies, the continent does the rhetoric of diaspora negotiate the claims faces an exacerbated environmental problem in of authenticity and/or autochthony? What are the the future. Consumption demands and political and epistemic stakes involved in development limit the environment from distinguishing between diasporas that have been functioning properly in providing humans with forced and those that have been relatively natural resources and also limit the environment voluntary? Do such distinctions threaten to from acting as "sink" for the waste generated by disintegrate a collective politics, or do they all the human activities. Exceeding the instead help appropriately distinguish between regenerative and assimilative capacities of the victims and the upwardly mobile? Can one environment threatens the survival of African conceive of diasporas in post-ethnic or post-racial people. ways or do they instead always risk ethnic or racial absolutisms? What is the relationship of Tackling the problems of environmental religion to diasporic identities, and how might degradation requires domestic and international such identification map itself onto an alternative perspectives since the problems are caused by geo-political space? Are diasporas sites of endogenous as well as exogenous factors. contesting neoliberalism and the logic of global African and international policies, programs, capital or do they serve instead as enablers of strategies and plans will be required to capital flows? Do diasporas liberate or further safeguard, protect, conserve and preserve the regulate cultural forms and practices as these environmental quality in order to fulfill the practices move across time and space? How do promise of intergenerational equity. gendered ideologies and the strictures of heteronormativity get re-negotiated in diasporic Hence, in this section which deals with spaces? What, finally, is the work of diaspora in "International Environmental Regimes and the age of the cybernetic circulation? African Initiatives," we are calling for papers, panels and roundtables, which address the G. Rethinking African Economic Reform: following issues/topiCS/ideas. Nicolas van de Walle (Cornell University) o The Impacts of Development on the African Environment Many Sub Saharan African countries have been o The Population Question and the engaged in economic policy reform for three Environment decades. There have been some successes, and o The African Ecosystems and Their Demise the region's economies are less homogeneous The Forests, Wetlands, Rivers, etc. than they once were. Yet, it remains the case o Urbanization Issues such as Pollution, Soil that many policy reform programs have largely Erosion failed to restore economic growth, and in that o Exogenous and Endogenous Factors sense a 'rethinking' is timely. I am interested in Impacting Natural Resources proposals that analyze and differentiate economic o International Organizations, Non­ policy-making and outcomes in the region. I Governmental Organizations, Multinational welcome proposals that examine the role of Influences on the African Environment external actors, such as the IFls in African o National Parks of Africa economies. Both case study work and o Nature Reserve (Man and Biosphere comparative research will be welcome. Programs in Africa) Proposals that do not preach to the choir and o National and International Conservation incorporate different view points and ideologies Policies and the African Environment will be encouraged.

ASA News - January 2006 24 o The Changing African Landscape and This sub-theme focuses on how the Government Policies Guiding Growth and contemporary is expressed in a time of African Development-Theoretical and Applied Renaissance, crises, expectations, and hopes Perspectives flourishing in pluralistic identities and o Indigenous Knowledge Systems and manifestations. Africa's Natural Resources o Issues Surrounding Biodiversity l. Rural Producers, Food Security, Local Conservation in Africa Organizations and World Markets: Raymond Hopkins (Swarthmore College) and Norman Case studies and theoretical approaches are Uphoff (Cornell University) welcome. Panels, roundtable and papers should stress: policy debates, programs, strategies and What options and outcomes are likely in African plans. countries as trade barriers and world markets evolve? Will the historical political and economic I. Rethinking the Past, Toward the Future: disadvantages of African producers be altered, Mamadou Diouf (University of Michigan) either thanks to integration into world markets, or by greater political strength arising from their Africa's past has always haunted the continent's overcoming barriers to collective action, or by future. History in Africa is understood as a larger allocations from national and international discipline and also as a linear narrative of government bodies? progress and development. The end of history proposes a unique possible future of rationality During the last decades of the 20th century, as and productivity with the triumphant free market various studies have suggested, impliCit taxes on economy. Landscapes of disease, poverty, agriculture (through overvalued exchange rates, violence, and unfulfilled consumption are blended perverse impacts from marketing boards, and with unprecedented cultural and aesthetic decline in public goods for rural areas such as creativity, religious revivals and entrepreneurial research and infrastructure) have led to a decline experimentations imprinting African heritages in rural producers relative share of income in and alternative modernities on the world stage. countries. This also accounts in part for the decline in Africa's share in world trade. Changes The politics of memory, belonging, inheritance in the 1990s in African states's poliCies, new and generations lead to a contesting and promises of greater openness by developed negotiation of the challenges, possibilities and states, and reduced shipping costs make some limitations of pre-colonial, colonial and analysts optimistic about prospective postcolonial moments. The African "historical improvements in the income, food security and inventory" has gone from Conrad's Africa, role in national policy for rural producers. history-less and devoid of a future, to the recognition of African agency in narrating and This sub-theme seeks proposals that analyze reorienting their pre-European pasts and these trends and options for producers with a imagining of the present and future. Histories particular attention to impacts on food security have been invented, nationalist futures closed, and other social safety net goals meant to reduce meanings of past verities rearticulated, and poverty. While most measures of per capita food resources recycled. availability for African countries point to declines or little gain in the last 20 years, analyses of a In the new world order, the impact of the present potential upswing in these offer optimism for the and the imagining of the future on future. Some forecast that linking producers to reconstructions of the past are debated. Various international markets will have powerful positive discursive economies are prominent. Who is effects on income, reducing poverty and creating active in the production and dissemination of incentives for large gains in food production and future's/(s') pastes), where, and for whom? What national food security. However, other studies, are the idioms of expressions and done within an integrated framework and tied to representations? What model(s) for the past are PRSP's, have significant barriers to such gains. available? How is this affecting the way These include the power of informal markets to intellectuals, scholars, artists, activists, distort trade and on negative impacts of politicians, religious leaders, donors ... are bureaucratic sluggishness and corruption. reframing their intellectual projects, Political skepticism regarding positive identifications and interventions? opportunities, or even their availability, suggest sharp limits on what farmers can do and what external market conditions will actually offer. So

25 ASA News - January 2006 what responses are likely by producers seeking from this process is: How can a balance be struck to market crops even locally under these changed between Africa's new and complex ties with the global and national conditions? We especially international community and at the same time welcome proposals that reflect insights about maintain its separate identities? producers and their situation in this dynamic current situation, drawing on any of several L. African Aesthetics: Allen Roberts social science traditions. (University of California-Los Angeles)

K. African International Relations: Toward The buzzword of the moment remains Continental Self-Reliance: Donald "globalization," as it has for quite some years Rothchild (University of California-Davis) now. Few agree to its meaning or even its utility; many relativize it through attention to African interactions with Western Europe and "discrepant modernities," "vernacular North America have a long history. Colonial cosmopolitanisms," and "coeval" sophistications; influences on the economic, political, social and and yet nearly everyone positions academic cultural life of the African territories in the arguments and artistic outcomes according to Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries were what globalization might mean. A closely related profound. Not only did the colonial powers carve set of semantic signposts-and these written in out the boundary lines of the future states but many neon scripts-is the jousting of prefixes: they enacted the rules of relations that linked will trans- win the day, relegating post- to the Africa closely with Europe. As a result, an same oblivion it has so gleefully (and some would economic and cultural dependency relationship contend, in such withering haste) aSSigned developed that has been difficult for the post­ competing theories in recent decades? It looks independent African states to shake off. so. Trans- implies bridging in time, space, and identity. It has the great advantage of With the advent of decolonization in the 1960s accommodating the realities of trans-ition: trans­ and after, the new African leaders and their colonial tactics were perfected in opposition to or parties responded forcefully in some cases but to take full advantage of the metropole, and they not in others to what they perceived as a neo­ still work today. Trans-local identities are on the colonial relationship. They sought genuine move between and among places, with independence from European and North American "migritude" a way of life and "borderization" both governments and multinational companies, not its consequence and its glory. just the formal trappings of a voice at international forums, a flag, and a national The visual, performance, mUSical, and other arts anthem. In some cases this resistance to of contemporary Africa surely thrive on just such European domination went beyond denunciation trans-creative energies-but is there anything and involved alliances with the Soviet Union and new about this? Donald Cosentino once quipped the nonaligned countries, programs of self­ that Haiti has been postmodern since the 18th reliance, and cultural transformations. This century, and the argument can be extended to process of transforming relations has proved the Africa and undoubtedly to the rest of the more difficult than originally envisaged and is world as well. This is a call, then, for proposals moving forward at different speeds in the various that will address globalization and the arts of African countries. The commitment of leaders Africa, especially as trans-insights may prove and parties to this change has proved critical in illuminating-or not. the different state environments. M. African Music and the Black Atlantic: As the different African states seek to readjust Carol Muller (University of Pennsylvania) their relationships with the former metropoles and as they seek to establish new and firm We have come to think of African music and its relationship with other African countries, they are relationship to the Black Atlantic as one shaped fashioning a complex pattern of aSSOciations with out of the experiences and consequences of the states in Europe, ASia, the Middle East and North Slave trade from West and Central Africa to the America. In addition, new contacts with non­ Americas, and the story of the music of the governmental organizations and international African Diaspora defined as African American interest groups are developing. Globalization is music history and style. In this narrative, uniting Africa with the international community "Africa" exists largely as "cultural memory"-its and complicating the efforts of African leaders to music known only as a dim reflection of past preserve their independence in the sphere of practices. Subsequent to the first African decision making. The question that emerges Diaspora, colonialism and post-colonialism have

ASA News - January 2006 26 produced a different series of narratives about have development interventionst ideas of risk, African music in the contemporary world. New and increased health funding and projects technologies -sound recording, improved vessels produced particular social relations between the for sea travel, airplanes, and computer hardware state, international donors, NGOs and the people and capacity-invented from the late nineteenth they represent? Proposals addressing these century through to the present have questions are welcomed. fundamentally reshaped the sounds of African music and the capacity for human and musical Other possible topics include studies that travel to and from the African continent. It is address: human rights discourses, "health rights" time to put the narratives of the music of the old, paradigms, and/or market-driven and what are clearly new forms of the African humanitarianism; the production of social Diaspora in dialogue with each other. inequalities; questions of citizenship, therapeutic entitlements, and African health care systems; We invite proposals that examine music of the local and global access-to-treatment and other old African Diaspora in new ways: which uncover grass roots health movements; health unknown dimensions of that history, or foster governance, national sovereignty, and new connections between Africa and the Atlantic. development ethos and interventions; analyses of We are also interested in proposals that explore global drug capital, intellectual property regimes, the complexity of the new African Diaspora­ and/or local drug manufacturing; African music that traveled along sea routes in the early scientific research and/or public-private infectious to mid-twentieth century; the circulation of disease research; clinical trials, ethics, and musical styles through new technologies; scientific and financial institutions; health policies transformations of those styles in multiple sites; and health ideals such as those found in PEPFAR, the commercial, class, religious, political, or NEPAD, WHO 3 x 5, UN Millennium Development gendered outcomes of these new forms of travel Goals, as well as national and historical policies; on African music history and practice. Finally, we relationships between therapeutic and/or debt, invite proposals that imagine what a newly military and extraction economies; therapeutic conceived history of Music of the African ideas and practices, including affliction cults, Diaspora-both old and new-might begin to witchcraft, religious movements, faith healing, look, or sound, like. This could, for example, be cure claims, traditional healing, and household examined through focus on a single style­ health as they are shaped by changing political, African American and Senegalese hip hop, or the economiC, and social contexts; enVironmental continuing conversation between jazz in the health and political economies; women and United States and South Africa; or it could health, analyses of gender, and social and compare religious musical practices between the economic forces. Proposals that explore these AME church in the United States, which sent and other disciplinary topics in African studies are missionaries to various parts of Africa, and the also welcomed. outcomes of that mission activity on local repertories and belief systems. It might be that o. Gender: Gretchen Bauer (U of Delaware) we have to devise a new idea about the "black Atlantic" because musical travel in the new The proposals in this section will focus on gender Diaspora rarely happens by means of the ocean. as it relates to rethinking Africa and the world. The overall theme provides a broad frame within N. Toward Healthy African Societies: Kristin which an array of gender related topics can be Peterson (Michigan State University) accommodated. A vast array occurs: the gendered aspects of the HIV/ AIDS pandemic in AIDS and other health crises continue to pose Africa and the muted international response, the many challenges to African communities and gendered roles that accompany migratory nation-states. As we rethink Africa in the world t patterns within Africa and without, the changing this section welcomes submissions that especially gender dynamics within education across the address shifting or emergent economic, socio­ African continent and comparisons worldwide, the cultural t and policy aspects of health t illnesst and differential impact of economic development treatment. strategies and responses of the international financial institutions, the influence of donor In reflecting upon this 'post-independent' era, agencies' normative gender agendas, gender and how important are global markets, migration, humanitarian crises, refugee streams, and the labor, free trade agreements, privatization, nature of global responses. Art and literature extractive/speculative capital, conflict, and reflect internal gender dynamics and invite structural violence in shaping public health? How external responses. African women's movements

27 ASA News - January 2006 and social movements engage in collaboration globalization, and which factors give rise to local and cross fertilization across national and memories in diasporic cultural productions, international boundaries. African women ignoring the history of diversity resulting from politicians catapult to the forefront at the local modernity? and national level but with what implications for women and men's everyday lives? What lessons Q. Education in Africa: Internal Dynamics, are to be learned globally from these and many External Interventions, and their other gender mediated phenomena in Africa Intersections: loel Samoff (Stanford today? University)

Proposals from diverse disciplines and Education in Africa has been extraordinarily interdisciplines - including anthropology, art and imaginative and innovative. With sorely strained literature, economics, history, philosophy, resources enrollments have doubled and then politics, religious studies, sociology, women's doubled again. Communities build and maintain studies - are invited, as are those that draw schools. Teachers with limited formal education insights across regions. Since we encourage a and few instructional materials learn how to draw broad range of submissions, 'gender' proposals on local resources and community expertise to need not necessarily focus only on the larger teach science. University students undertake field theme of rethinking Africa and the world. research during their long break, in the process both developing their own skills and involving P. Local Memories and Modernity: their communities in efforts to re-think major Ngwarsungu lennifer Chiwengo (Creighton events and to reflect on important national University) issues.

Guntram H. Herb contends that globalization has But this progress has proved difficult to maintain. created "feeble macro-regional identities," such In much of Africa children remain out of school as the European Union, the African Union, and and adults have few opportunities to improve the Caribbean States, but has failed to create a their literacy and numeracy. Schools have leaky global identity. Instead, it has increased peoples' roofs, fewer books and desks than learners, and awareness of group differences, incited the overburdened teachers. Promising innovations do formation of new national identities, and not survive. University libraries cannot keep up encouraged divisions among national groups. with journal, books, and technology. The problems go beyond funding. Especially as In this subsection we are foremost interested in African countries have reiterated their examining the nature of local memories and the commitment to providing education for all, this is political relationships that undergird its a time of critical reflection. One task is to construction. At a time of globalization, document the experiences, systematically and transnationalism, diasporic, and transatlantic thoroughly. What have been the trajectories of discourses, positing the disintegration of the important innovations? What have been the boundaries and shared common cultures, how is, results of system-wide reform? A second task is then, the local represented in African literary to use those experiences to review constructs works and other cultural productions, and what and categories. Why are learning and education role does it play in its relationship to modernity? so often equated with schooling, and what are Whose memory do local literary and other the consequences of doing so? What are the links cultural products represent? How are local and tensions between education and local memory narratives constructed to manipulate, culture, both processes that themselves change, reinforce, or subvert modernity ideals of often rapidly? A third task is to address education democracy and inclusion? Do local memories of as the most contested of public policies. How do dislocated and fragmented communities where research findings, community preferences, genocide or trauma has taken place, unify the special interests, and political coalition-building nation and to what extent are these narratives combine to determine language of instruction or political strategies? Who constructs local length of primary schooling or allocation of memories and for which purposes? How are resources among schools? Fourth, what are the African local memories shaped and manipulated impacts of foreign intervention in these settings, by Western discourses and instrumental in the from aid to advice to expatriate teachers to (re) construction of metropolitan identities? Do comparative international assessments? diasporic discourses narrate the local, do they also expose local nationalism within the very Reflection about education and training in Africa spaces construed as spatial metaphors of is thus a powerful opportunity to explore reforms

ASA News - January 2006 28 I and reformers, connections and disconnections, culture and to, positively, re-evaluate the notion cultural convergence and divergence, and the of an African identity. interplay of individual initiatives, organizational imperatives, and structural forces. Panelists are invited to reflect about paradigms through which African people ought to rethink R. Transnational, National and Local their culture and traditions in their quest for Interactions of Civil Society and Social selfhood in relationship to the Other. Aiml1 Movements in Africa: Aili Mari Tripp CRsaire eloquently stated that "there are two (University of Wisconsin) ways to lose oneself: through segregation walled in the particular or deletion into the universal". We invite proposals that might examine the flow How can the African reformulate his/her utopian of resources, ideas, norms, skills and strategies views and his/her expectations in the presence of between societal actors at the local, national, the current crises and failUre of the continent? continental and transnational levels. They might How can he/she impose his/her own cultural explore new forms of networking and coalition capital towards actuality or modernity? This building domestically as well as regionally and question implicitely raises themes of transnationa"y around land rights, human rights, marginalization and integration of African culture freedom of the press, poverty, debt relief and fair in the Western myths. In other words, trade, peace and conflict resolution, women's considering its colonial and slavery heritage, can rights, and many other such concerns. In the Africa affirm her identity and, at the same time, same vein they could evaluate the difficulties of successfully make "cultural contact" without advocacy, especially in states where such being crushed by Westernization and initiatives are often treated as "anti­ homogenization? All these questions show that it governmental." Proposals could evaluate the is imperative to critically reread, comprehend impact of societal efforts to resist state efforts to African history and cultures, and to re-evaluate limit their autonomy through legislation to the very concept of Culture. supervise media, NGO, and other movements, or to ban activities that are deemed too "political" or T. Rethinking Africa's Past: Distant at odds with state agendas. Proposals might Connections, Contemporary Meanings: Peter evaluate the capacity of societal organizations to Mitchell (Oxford University) create alternative institutions that supplement state efforts and whether the outcomes of such During the colonial era the twin myths were initiatives are useful in the long run. They might widely propagated that Africa had either long examine the role of international NGOs and remained isolated from the rest of the world foreign donors in building up sustainable and/or that significant changes in the lives of institutions. Proposals might alternately explore African communities had only been brought the role of indigenous forms of mobilization as about as the result of migration or diffusion from they relate to newer forms of organization in the beyond the continent's margins. An additional context of the larger mosaic of associational life. pernicious consequence of these ideas was the amputation of Egypt and North Africa in general S. Culture, Politics, and the PolitiCS of from the remainder of the continent, that 'sub­ Culture: Justin Biswanswa (Universite Saharan Africa' where both myths were thought Laval) to be most relevant. Contesting these misconceptions lay at the heart of much historical The section "Culture" invites scholars to examine, and archaeological research in and about Africa in using fictional texts and essays (in anthropology, the immediate post-independence period and sociology, philosophy) the relationship between continues to be important today, although for African culture and globalization. Binary most academic archaeologists and historians this categories, (Center vs. Periphery; Local vs. does not require adherence to alternative Global, Empire vs. Colonies; North versus South) Afrocentric models of the kind aSSOciated with used to analyze intercultural relationships result Senegalese writer Cheikh Anta Diop or popular in in two approaches. The first privileges some quarters in North America. Instead, one assimilationist aspects of the global, attesting focus of archaeological research in particular has

that the world is becoming a "vast village. II In the been on demonstrating the antiquity within Africa confrontation of Africa with the rest of the world, of such major innovations as pottery the second approach attests to the resistance of manufacture, food-production, metallurgy, social the local whose culture affirms its consistency hierarchies and urbanism. Differences in the and specificity. Therefore, it is, currently, social, economic and political pathways taken by necessary, if not urgent, to revalorize local African societies compared to those elsewhere in

29 ASA News- January 2006 the world have also been explored; Susan o investigate the persistence of African McIntosh's edited volume Beyond Chiefdoms, identities outside Africa and how those which brings together contributions from identities have, in turn, impacted within Africanist archaeologists, historians and linguists the continent itself; to challenge Near Eastern-derived, unilinear o examine how archaeological or historical evolutionary models of the development of evidence for Africa's distant connections is political complexity, is a good illustration of this receiving new meanings in Africa today. approach. Archaeologists, historians, anthropologists and others interested in the study or critique of Recently, archaeologists have located exciting Africa's past are encouraged to offer proposals on new possibilities for the antiquity and scale of these or related topics. Africa's interactions with the rest of the world: o disconnect among local, regional, national, the identification of banana phytoliths in mid-first and/or international interests millennium BC contexts in Cameroon and of o differing priorities of resident, tranSient, broadly contemporary Indian pottery on Mafia and non-resident populations island, Tanzania, and the yet older presence of o varied initiatives and responses to security sorghum, pearl millet and other crops of African and insecurity (of food, water supply, origin in the Indian sub-continent, are just three tenure, from violence, etc.) within the examples of this. Others could be adduced from formal and informal sectors other parts of the continent and from more recent periods, including the growing evidence U. Popular Culture: Benetta lules-Rosette for the wide variety of ways in which distinctively (University of California-San Diego) and African identities were transmitted, maintained Peter Bloom (University of California-Santa and recreated in the diaspora brought about by Barbara) the trans-Atlantic slave trade and simultaneously among communities within Africa itself. However, The section will address popular culture in Africa the archaeological evidence that is helping to and the African diaspora with a special emphasis reshape knowledge of the distant connections on the diasporic links of popular cultural forms African societies maintained with other continents and expressions in the areas of film, visual and remains widely underappreciated. The performing arts, music, and youth culture. consequences of those connections and of that knowledge for how African societies may Of particular interest are proposals that open up themselves think about the past and the ways in new data sources and introduce new theoretical which archaeologists work also merit increased paradigms for the study of popular culture. A attention. This session therefore seeks significant area of interest is the formation of contributions that: intra-African networks of cultural production both o reassess earlier models of Africa's within and outside of Africa as a decisive factor in connections with the rest of the world in the gendering of popular cultural forms. While

the tight of new field research; the question of gender identity I such as the o question the persistence of the Saharan changing role of women as powerful economic divide in African history and prehistory; actors has been an important element in social o explore hitherto overlooked connections science and humanities research, the issue of between Africa and the rest of the world; how both male and female roles have shifted o consider why Africa has been (and informs the reception and production of meaning continues to be?) neglected in many is worthy of further exploration. broader syntheses or syllabi examining Old World history;

ASA News - January 2006 30 Coordinate Organization Corner

Coordinate Organizations are invited to provide text for the ASA News. Items may be sub­ ject to editing for space limitations and preference will be given to items that are received electonically. The deadlines for submission are December 1, March 1, and June 1.

The Outreach Council established the Children's Africana Book Awards in 1991 to encour­ age the publication and use of accurate, balanced children's materials on Africa. ASA News regrets that 2004 winners for the Children's Africana Book Awards were not published and would like to take this opportunity to recognize them below. The 2005 CABA Winners were announced in Volume 38, 1 and 2 (January-April 2005) of ASA News. The 2004 Award recipients were:

Best Book for Older Reader: Beverley Naidoo, Out of Bounds Best Book for Young Children: Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen and Arron Boyd, Babu's Song Honor Book for Older Readers: Jane Kurtz, Saba: Under the Hyena's Foot Honor Book for Young Children: Niki Daly, Once Upon a Time

The Women's Caucus announces its 2005 Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize Winners: Heidi Nast: Concubines and Power Lynn M. Thomas: Politics of the Womb: Women. Reproduction. and the State in Kenya

New Coordinate Organizations The ASA is pleased to welcome the Eritrean Studies Association as an ASA Affiliate Organization and the Yoruba Studies Association as an ASA Associate Organization. For more information about ASA Coordinate Organizations, please visit www.africanstudies.org.

Working in partnership with Aid to Africa Federation, the ASA is delighted to be certified for participation in the 2005-06 Combined Federal Campaign for the first time in the Association's history!

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31 ASA News - January 2006 Call for Nominations The Board of the Ludvig may nominate candidates for the the first Cape Town Book Fair, Holberg Memorial Fund is calling Holberg Prize. The nomination June 17-20, 2006. The Cape for nominations for the Holberg deadline is February 15, 2006. Town Book Fair is a joint venture International Memorial Prize The winner of the Prize will be by the Publishers Association of for outstanding scholarly work in announced in September 2006 South Africa and the Frankfurt the fields of the arts and human­ and the official award ceremony Book Fair. The cooperation marks ities, social SCience, law, and the­ will take place on November 29, a new partnership between the ology for 2006. The prize has a 2006. For more information, Noma Award and UNESCO. The value of !\10K 4.5 million, approx­ please contact: Project Noma Award is sponsored by imately Euro 575,000/US$ Coordinator Bodil Kjelstrup, Tel: Kodansha Ltd., Japan. For further 700,000. The prize, which was + 7 55 58 69 92; Email: information about the Noma established by the Norwegian [email protected]; Website: Award, please contact Mary Jay, Storting, aims to increase soci­ www.holbergprize.no. Secretary to the Noma Award for ety's awareness of the value of Publishing in Africa, PO Box 128, research in the above mentioned The Noma Award for Witney, Oxon OX8 5XU, UK. Tel: fields. Scholars holding a senior Publishing in Africa, under the +44(0)1993-775235; Fax: position at universities and other auspices of UNESCO, is delighted +44(0)1993-709265; Email: research institutions within the to announce that the 25th Award [email protected]; Website: above mentioned academic fields presentation will be hosted by www.nomaaward.org. Call for Papers and Proposals First World Conference: Research Institute First World table discussions: Typically a Aswan, Egypt Re-educating Conference strives to balance rel­ 1,000-word synopsis of the topic the African in the 21st evance and rigor. In pursuit of area to be presented. Panel pro­ Century: Through Balance, this aim, we will attract both posal: Typically a 1,000-word Peace and Justice July 19-25, academics and practitioners. The description, identifying the pan­ 2006 presentations are expected to be elist to be involved. Nature and Scope: around the conference theme, as Documentary/Media What are the reviews and cited above. The topics include (Film/video): Typically a 500­ implications of the United the following: economic devel­ word description with a 20-30 Nations' Decade for the opment in relationship to the minute DVD format. Spoken Eradication of Poverty (1997­ family, health, culture, politics, Word Artist: Typically 4-5 versa­ 2006)? Further, why is the con­ religion, gender, intergenerational tile performance pieces on versation about the eradication relationships, and science and preferably DVD format. of poverty, the call by many global technological strategies to In preparing your papers, African nations to eliminate huge connect and maintain the global please use the APA referencing national debts from multi-nation­ African family. It is our intention style. In-text Citation should be al agencies, and the intense for the presentations to be in an Author (date) format with spotlight on Africa critical for informative and set the tone for the bibliographical list inserted at Africans on the continent and in interesting research and consult­ the end of the paper. the African Diaspora? ing opportunities. Submission and review Notably, this First World process will be handled electroni­ Conference in Aswan, Egypt pro­ Submission Instructions: cally. Please make your submis­ vides comprehensive conference Submissions can be made sion as one MS Word file. Include facilities including a full program in the following categories: all figures and tables in relevant of featured speakers, papers, Completed research papers, places in the text. The title page panel presentations, small group research-in-progress papers, should indicate the title, author plenary sessions, publishing panels and posters, and round and affiliations including, tele­ opportunities and book exhibi­ table discussion papers. Please phone number, fax and email. In tions. Quality contributions for follow the guidelines in preparing case of multiple authors, corre­ papers, panels, posters and your submission. Completed sponding author details should round table discussions are invit­ research papers: Typically 5,000 be clearly identified. The title ed. A double blind review process words (excluding abstract and page should also identify the is employed in the selection of references). Research-in­ track for which you wish your presentations. progress papers: Typically 2,500 paper to be conSidered. All sub­ The John Henrik Clarke­ words (excluding abstract and miSSions will be double blind C.L.R. James African World references). Posters and round peer reviewed. Deadline for

ASA News - January 2006 32 Submission of papers is to Africa, doing so in ways which Rei nvention/RevitaIisation of February 15, 2006. Selection promote fresh insights and inno­ National/Regional Identities; notification is March 31, 2006. vative approaches that could 13. Diasporas and the Email:[email protected] both advance knowledge and pol­ Contemporary Quest for a and [email protected]; icy. Renascent Africa. Tel (718) 756-8904 Mailing Participants in the MWG Beyond the broad intellec­ address: Dr. Clinton Crawford, are expected to conduct both pri­ tual and policy benefits which are John Henrik Clarke-C.L.R. James mary and secondary research. expected to accrue from the African World Research Institute, Primary research will be support­ MWG, it is also expected that the P.O. Box 473592, Brooklyn, New ed in carefully selected sites in studies that will be carried out York 11247. each of the mqjor regions from will result in the publication of a which Africans have multi-volume series on the histo­ The Council for the migrated and in which African ry of African dispersals and dias­ Development of Social Diaspora populations are poras, the development of an Science Research in Africa domiciled. Secondary research, archival and online depository of (CODESRIA) invites proposals by way of the collection of pub­ important documents and mate­ from researchers for possible lished materials on the various rials on African diasporas, gradu­ inclusion in its new multinational African diasporas, as well as the ate training for selected research working group (MWG) on the engagement of the bigger litera­ assistants involved in the project, theme of Africa and its ture and debates on diasporas in and the organisation of interna­ Diasporas. The changing compo­ general, will be facilitated too. tional conferences bringing sition and geography of Africa's Efforts aimed at undertaking together leading scholars from Diasporas, and the shifting re­ comparative studies between the around the world on African composition of all aspects of the African and non-African diasporas Diaspora studies. linkages between these diasporas will also be encouraged. The CODESRIA invites propos­ and the continent, is one of the research that will be carried out als from interested researchers thematic areas at the core of the will focus on the following key on any of the issues raised current intellectual agenda of the areas: above, or on related questions Council. The MWG is the flagship 1.African Diasporas: Conceptions, not explicitly identified in this research vehicle employed by Constructions, and Critiques; announcement but which are CODESRIA for the promotion of 2. The Making of the Historic deemed to be germane to the multi-country and multidiscipli­ (Pre-20th Century) African quest for a comprehensive nary reflections on critical ques­ Diasporas; understanding of Africa's tions of concern to the African 3. The Making of the Diaspora communities. Proposals social research community. Each Contemporary Diasporas of the should not exceed 3000 words or MWG is led by two to three coor­ 20th and 21st Centuries; 12 double-spaced pages. They dinators and includes a maxi­ 4. Demographic and Cultural should include: mum of fifteen researchers. Linkages and Counter-Flows 1. A clear statement of the pur­ Three senior scholars are between Africa and its Diasporas; pose of the project and the prob­ designated as independent 5. Educational and Scientific lematic to be researched; reviewers who serve as discus­ Flows between Africa and its 2. A thorough review of the liter­ sants during the meetings of the Diasporas; ature on the sub-theme selected; group. The lifespan of the aver­ 6. Intellectual and Ideological 3. A description of the research age MWG is two years during Flows between Africa and its methodology to be used; which time all aspects of the Diasporas; 4. Samples of previous publica­ research process are expected to 7. The Political and Economic tions, if any, related to the topic; be completed and the final Linkages between Africa and its 5. A detailed calendar of work; results prepared for publication Diasporas; 6. A draft budget; and in the CODESRIA Book Series. 8. Relations Between the 7. The curriculum vitae of the More details on the MWG and Historic and Contemporary author(s). CODESRIA activities are available Diasporas; All proposals must be on the Council's website: 9. Actors and Factors in the received by Feb. 28, 2006. www.codesria.org . Flows between Africa and its Proposals submitted will go Through the MWG that Diasporas; through an independent evalua­ forms the object of this call for 10. Diasporas and their tion process the results of which proposals, CODESRIA seeks to Interfaces with and Impact on will be made available by 31 promote a critical reflection on Domestic Processes; March, 2006. The selected appli­ the historical and contemporary 11. Diasporic Processes and their cants will be invited to partici­ processes of Diaspora formation Interfaces with Globalisation; pate in a launch methodological and re-composition as it pertains 12. Diasporas in the workshop to be held in May 33 ASA News- January 2006 2006. All proposals should be and Continuity, discontinuity and The conference is sent to: "rhe CODESRIA MWG on dissolution. designed to be an encounter Africa and its Diasporas, The call goes out at this between and across disciplines. Research Department CODESRIA, time to give scholars ample time Proposals are invited from indi­ Avenue Cheikh Anta Diop x Canal to prepare proposals for papers viduals working in such areas as IV P.O. Box 3304, Dakar, 18524 or to arrange panels on related history, literary and cultural stud­ Senegal. topics. The conference will also ies, film or art history, political Tel: +221 825 9822/8259823 include a novice section where theory, human geography, and Fax: +221 824 12 89/825 66 51 postgraduate students can show­ philosophy. Possible topics to be Email: [email protected] case their research. All papers treated could include: Website: www.codesria.org presented at the conference will * the State and theories of sov­ be considered for possible publi­ ereignty Jubilee Conference of cation in Historia, HASA's accred­ * legacies of war the Historical Association of ited journal. Abstracts of no * war and the military

South Africal June 26-28 more than 300 words should be * medicine 2006 submitted before February 15, * gender and the gendering of "Belonging and not 2006, preferably as MS Word war belonging: a historical perspec­ documents. Proposals for panels * terrorism and war tive" must include names and affilia­ * the justice/injustice of war The year 2006 marks the tions of participants, as well as * rites and rituals jubilee of the establishment of abstracts of the respective pro­ * trauma the Historical Association of posed contributions. For further * commemoration South Africa, the oldest existing information or queries about the * war and race / class / gender national historical society in the conference, contact: * borders and boundaries country. [email protected] or HASA * images of war - documents, To commemorate this half Conference, Department of documentaries, the archive century, the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies, * writing/filming/staging war Historical and Heritage Studies at University of Pretoria, Lynnwood A 300-word summary of the University of Pretoria will be Road, Hillcrest, 0002 Pretoria, the conference paper proposed hosting an international South Africa. must be submitted by February conference in June 2006. At this 15, 2006. The summary should time, it seems appropriate to "Spaces of War: France be submitted electronically either reflect on the place, role, rela­ and the Francophone World/" in the body of an email or as a tions and nature of associations October 26-281 20061 MS Word or PDF attachment to as a particular phenomenon Minneapolisl Minnesota "Spaces of War" [email protected]. within society in historical per­ Organized by the All presentations will be consid­ spective. Associations can be Departments of History and ered for publication in an edited broadly defined as the constructs French & Italian, University of volume of essays. to which societies typically gravi­ Minnesota For more information, see tate and include groups, clubs, Wars have marked the http://www.esc.umn.edu/Spaces institutions, fraternities, organi­ history, thought, and culture of ofWar.htm. For further informa­ zations, unions and parties. France, wars that extend well tion, please contact Patricia These can be of a kin, local, beyond the geo-political bound­ Lorcin or Daniel Brewer, at regional, African or global nature aries of this European nation. [email protected]. and could be based on cultural, The aim of this conference is not political, religious, secular, tradi­ so much to recount the story of tional, academic, environmental, these wars once again, but alternative, gender, minority, rather to reflect critically upon business, underground, recre­ their effects. The conference ational, sport or other concerns. title, "Spaces of War," is meant Aspects to be considered include: to suggest that these effects are Role and impact; Being inside both local and far-flung. The and out; Inclusion, exclusion and spaces the conference will inves­ abstention; Implications of tigate can be thought of as sym­ belonging and not belonging; bolic and discursive as well as Intrigue and secrecy; Sense of geographical - "theaters of war" community, identity and memo­ in which cataclysmic events are ry; Comparative perspectives; made visible and can be seen to Leaders, followers and the alien­ raise issues that are political, ated; Co-opting and boycotting; social, ethical, and esthetic. ASA News - January 2006 34 Call for Submissions Critical Interventions hard copy and also in electronic 2006/2007, under their new Journal of African Art History form saved in Microsoft Word. 'Inscribe', imprint, which will and Visual Culture Articles should be between 6500­ focus on publishing new work by Critical Interventions: 8500 words and may include writers of African and Asian Journal of African Art History and black and white and color images descent in the North and Visual Culture is a new peer­ scanned to disk at 300dpi. All anthologies of groundbreaking reviewed publication for studies copyright resolution issues are new work from Blackwriters in the history of classical, mod­ the responsibility of the author nationally. ern, and contemporary African and copyright permissions must Guidelines for submis­ arts, slated to begin publication be included at the time of sub­ sions: *Up to 3 poems *Any in Spring 2006. We invite sub­ mission. Submissions are due on length*Any style *Poets of any missions for the inaugural issue February 28, 2006. Send articles age or gender can submit work titled, Is African Art History? to: *Poems must be new and previ­ Essays addressing the John Peffer, Editor ously unpublished work. *Poems problem of history in continental Critical Interventions must be sent on one side of A4 African art practice are welcome, Co HAVC, Porter Faculty Services only and must be 1.5 spaced. especially those that engage University of California *Poems must be on white paper directly with ideas of modernity Santa Cruz, CA 95064 only in an easily readable font and that propose or critique a (Times/Times New Roman is sug­ clearly articulated methodology. 'Red' a new anthology gested) and an easily readable Critical Interventions will of contemporary Black British point size (12 point suggested) publish scholarly Art Historical poetry *Deadline for submissions: April essays about objects and critical Internationally renowned 1, 2006. Please send submissions discourses in African arts and and award winning poet, Kwame as an attachment to visual cultures. Comparative Dawes is editing a new collection [email protected] and cc your work rooted in developments in of contemporary Black British submission to Kadija Sesay on Africa that links African art to the poetry. The theme for this excit­ kadija@peepaltree press.com Diasporas, to Europe, Asia, or to ing new anthology is 'Red'. If you cannot send your work by the Americas will be considered. How do you interpret email, please send hard copies We are seeking essays that illu­ Red? Red, anyway that you see to: Kadija Sesay, Series Editor, minate the place of art in specific it, feel, it smell it, taste it - this Inscribe/Peepal Tree Press, 17 historical processes and evaluate is Red, anyway you love it hate it King's Ave, Leeds, LS6 1QS. the theories and methods pro­ or covet it. What does Red mean Please note that work will be not duced through the study of to you? Toss it around, turn it returned so please do not send African art history. around, pull it apart - we want your only copy. Critical Interventions will your Red poem. What can you N.B. Terminology: In this provide a forum for established deliver? context we take 'Black' to mean and younger scholars whose Red poems must be previ­ anyone who considers them­ writing is based on extensive ously unpublished or published selves of Black African or Asian research into the problems of within the last two years. (If pre­ descent including mixed race modernism and modernity in viously published, please provide with at least one parent of Black African art and comparable areas details of who to obtain permis­ African or Asian descent. of research. Submissions may sion from.) This anthology will For a list of FAQ's or any focus on any area of modern and include new work from estab­ other queries regarding Inscribe contemporary art and visual or lished Black British poets residing or the Red anthology contact: material culture, including popu­ inside and outside the UK, Black [email protected] lar art, neotraditional forms, stu­ poets who have made Britain dio art, film, photography, archi­ their home, as well as the fresh tecture, and new media. Essays and exciting new poets around that review the history, appraise the country who have recently the present situation, or propose emerged and will emerge as they the future course of modern explore their reddest ideas. African art studies will be viewed The Red Letter Day for favorably. your final submission is April 1, Submissions must be 2006. original and previously unpub­ The anthology will be lished work submitted both in published by Peepal Tree Press in

35 ASA News - January 2006 Grants and Fellowships

The American Council of Research Fellowships. These fel­ The Institute of Learned Societies is pleased to lowships, funded by The Andrew International Education's Scholar announce the 2005-2006 compe­ W. Mellon Foundation, provide a Rescue Fund provides fellowships titions for fellowships and grants. stipend of $64,000 for an aca­ for scholars whose lives and The central ACLS demic year of research, plus an work are threatened in their Fellowships, for tenure beginning allowance of $2,500 for research home countries. These fellow­ in 2006-2007. Maximum stipends and travel, and the possibility of ships permit scholars to find are $50,000 for full Professors funding for an additional sum­ temporary refuge at universities and career equivalent, $40,000 mer, if justified. The fellowships and colleges anywhere in the for Associate Professors and support tenure-track Assistant world, enabling them to pursue equivalent, and $30,000 for Professors and untenured their academic work and to con­ Assistant Professors and equiva­ Associate Professors in the tinue to share their knowledge lent. This program requires the humanities and related social sci­ with students, colleagues, and Ph.D. conferred by September ences whose reappointment the community at large. When 28, 2003 and the last supported reviews have been successfully conditions improve, these schol­ research leave concluded by July completed but whose tenure ars will return home to help 1, 2003. Some of the central reviews will not be completed rebuild universities and societies ACLS Fellowships awarded are before February 1, 2006, whose ravaged by fear, conflict and designated as ACLS/SSRC/NEH scholarly contributions have repression. international and area studies advanced their fields, and whose How the Scholar Rescue fellowships. These encourage plans for new research are well Fund Works: Academics, humanistic research on the soci­ designed and carefully devel­ researchers and independent eties and cultures of Asia, Africa, oped. scholars from any country, field the Middle East, Latin America For further information, or discipline may qualify. and the Caribbean, Eastern please visit the ACLS Fellowship Preference is given to scholars Europe, and the former Soviet Competitions site: www.acls.org with a Ph.D. or other highest Union. In addition, the joint degree in their field; who have ACLS/I\lew York Public Library The Bread Loaf Writers been employed in scholarly activ­ Fellowships are awarded to appli­ Conference, which is the oldest ities at a university, college or cants chosen by both the central and most distinguished writers' other institution of higher learn­ ACLS Fellowships program and conference in America, founded ing during the last four years the NYPL's Dorothy and Lewis B. by Robert Frost in 1925, is offer­ (excluding displacement or prohi­ Cullman Center for Scholars and ing a fellowship to either an bition); who demonstrate superi­ Writers. These are residential fel­ African or Caribbean poet, fic­ or academic accomplishment or lowships for research that would tion, or nonfiction writer to promise; and whose selection is benefit from residence at the attend the 2006 conference, likely to benefit the academic Library and use of its collections. August 16-27. The conference is community in the home and/or The Fredrick Burkhardt sponsored by Middlebury College host country or region. Residential Fellowships for and is held every summer at the Applications from female scholars recently tenured scholars. The Bread Loaf campus in the Green and under-represented groups Burkhardt fellowships this year Mountains of Vermont. are strongly encouraged. will support scholars tenured no The fellowship is con­ Universities, colleges and earlier than the fall 2001 semes­ ceived as a way to include inter­ research centers in any country ter or quarter, who are engaged national writers who would bene­ may apply to serve as hosts. in long-term, unusually ambitious fit from exposure to the North Applications and nomina­ projects in the humanities and American literary and publishing tions should be made to the related social sciences. Stipends world. For more information, Fund's Selection Committee. will again be $75,000. Burkhardt please contact Jennifer Grotz, Institutions interested in hosting fellowships may be used in 2006­ Assistant Director, Bread Loaf a particular scholar should sub­ 2007, or in either of the two suc­ Writers' Conference, Middlebury mit a letter with the scholar's ceeding years, and entail an aca­ College, Middlebury, Vermont application. Fellowships are demic year of residence at one of 05753; Tel: 802-443-5286; awarded to institutions for sup­ eleven participating national Email: [email protected]; port of specific individuals, to be research centers, plus support www.middlebury.edu/rvblwc. matched inmost cases by the from the Fellow's institution for institution or third-party. an additional period. Fellowships for Fellowship recipients are expect­ The Charles A. Ryskamp Threatened Scholars in Africa ed to continue their work in safe­

ASA News ~ January 2006 36 ty at the host institution-teach­ For additional information son of another nationality who is ing, lecturing, conducting and to learn how your institution matriculating toward a Doctorate research, writing and publishing. might host an SRF scholar, con­ or a Masters Degree in African Fellowships from 3 months to tact: lIE Scholar Rescue Fund History and/or Culture, and who one calendar year will be consid­ Fellowships, 809 U.N. Plaza, has completed at least one year ered with up to 25 fellowships Second Floor, New York, New of graduate study at a college or awarded annually. The maximum York 10017 university in the United States. award is US $20,000. Tel: (USA) 1-212-984-5472 The scholarship is a $1,000 per Applications are accepted Fax: (USA) 1-212-984-5401 semester award, for a maximum at any time. Emergency applica­ E-mail: [email protected] award of $2,000 per academic tions receive urgent Web: www.iie.org/SRF year. Applications must be post­ consideration. Non-emergency marked by April 1, 2006. For fur­ applications will be considered Stanley 1. Tarver ther information, contact The according to the following sched­ Memorial Scholarship: The Stanley J. Tarver Memorial ule: Community Foundation of Scholarship, c/o the Community Spring 2006: Applications Dutchess County, located in Foundation of Dutchess County, received by April 1; decision by Poughkeepsie, New York, is 80 Washington Street, Suite 201, June 1. To apply, please down­ pleased to offer the scholarship, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601; Tel: load the information and applica­ which is allocated to a graduate 845-452-3077; Website: tion materials from: student of African descent, an www.cfdcny.org. www.iie.org/SRF African American, or a Black per­ Meeting Calendar UK African Studies 'eclecticism, dynamism and inno­ 95819-6085, USA. Tel. (916) 278 Association Biennial vation' -6282; Fax (916) 278 -3429. Conference, September 11­ Series F: education, 13, 2006: books, and late-breaking news ­ Eastern Illinois The 2006 ASAUK Biennial 'education, education, education!' University will be hosting an Conference will take place For more information con­ international conference on the September 11 - September 13 tact ASAUK, SOAS, Thornhaugh theme "Images of African 2006, at the School of Oriental Street, Russell Square, London Peoples: Photography, History and African Studies, University of WCIH OXG; 0207-898-4390 or and Culture in Africa and London. The conference will con­ [email protected] the African Diaspora," from sist of 48 panels in six parallel March 31 to April 2, 2006 in series. Each panel will last 90 Center For African Charleston, Illinois. minutes and will usually allow Peace 8t Conflict Resolution The topics to be explored three paper-givers 20 minutes And The Pan African Studies at the conference include, but for presentation and 10 minutes Program are not limited to the following: for discussion each. 15th Annual Africa/ Photography and African The conference will be Diaspora Conference and African Diaspora identity; organised in six parallel themat­ Place: California State Photography as a tool for cultural ic/subject areas as follows: University, Sacramento, USA. expression and awareness; Series A: history, politics, Dates: April 27-29, 2006 Photographs as sources for his­ economics and urban studies ­ Theme: Traditional ­ torical reconstruction, gender 'economic forces and political Indigenous African Institutions and photography; Photography, change: past and present' and Systems in an era of global­ anthropologists and the black Series B: enVironment, ization: Beyond Research and female body; Photography, race, development and human rights ­ Theory. The conference examines ethnicity and representation; 'development intervention: expe­ the state of indigenous African Social and political uses of pho­ rience and prospects' systems in the global village, tographs - anti-colonial struggles Series C: natural and with a focus on their changes, and the civil rights movements; health sciences - 'challenges to continuities, and displacement. Photographs as visual and cultur­ human, animal and plant health For more information, al memories;African and African Series D: anthropology contact Professor Ernest E. Diaspora images in films; and religious studies - 'disloca­ Uwazie, Director Center for Photography, black femininity tion, resilience and new social African Peace & Conflict and masculinity; Children as formations' Resolution, California State photographic subjects; and Series E: language, litera­ University, Sacramento Photography, environmental and ture, film, and the visual arts ­ 6000 J Street, Sacramento CA ecological history.

37 ASA News ~ January 2006 Please visit: Madison, WI 53706. Tel 608 ­ Confirmed speakers http://www.eiu .edu/rvafriamer/aa 265-7903; Fax 608 265 7904. include Professor Gauri dc2006/ for more information. Viswanathan, Columbia University of University, NY; Dr. Leela Gandhi, The Ninth Annual Meeting Newcastle, United Kingdom La Trobe University, Melbourne; of the National Council of Less Conference on "Ethics and Professor David Scott, Institute Commonly Taught Languages Postcolonialism", April 8-10, for Research in African American is scheduled for April 28-30, 2006. Studies, Columbia University; 2006, in Madison, Wisconsin. This conference attempts and Dr Heather Widdows, Centre The theme is "Expanding the to explore and articulate some of for Global Ethics, University of LCTL Capacities in the United the visible intersections between Birmingham. States Conference." ethics and postcolonialism. In This conference is being More information can be this field, ethics can be described organized in conjunction with obtained by contacting as a "hidden term" underlying Interventions: International [email protected]. If discussions around the supposed Journal of Postcolonial Studies. email is not available, proposals "ruins" of a universal code of For more information, please go may be sent by hard copy to: human rights and the unmasking to our NCOLCTL 4231 Humanities of processes of economic website:www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/et Building 455 N. Park Street exploitation in the world today. hics/index.htm.

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ASA News - January 2006 38 Recent Doctoral Dissertations compiled by Joseph J. Lauer (Michigan State University)

The U.S. and Canadian theses listed below were reported in Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI), vol. 65, no. 12 (June 2005)-v. 66, no. 5 (l\Jov. 2005). Each citation ends with the order number, if any. American and Canadian theses are usually available from Proquest. See DAI (or http://wwwlib.umi.com/dis­ sertations/gateway) for abstracts and other details. This is the 67th and 68th quarterly supplement to American and Canadian Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses on Africa, 1974-1987 (ASA/Crossroads Press, 1989).

AGRICULTURE Sengupta, Nina. Detection and Garcia, Judy Person. Awuma, Kosi Semebia. prediction of biodiversity patterns International engagement through Application of NIRS fecal profiling as a rapid assessment tool in the cultural understanding: An inter­ and geostatistics to predict diet tropical forest of East Usambara, pretive analysis of the Akha of quality of African livestock. Ph.D., Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania. northern Laos and the Kikuyu of Texas A&M U., 2003. 3156741. Ph.D., Virginia Poly. Inst. & State eastern Kenya, in the face of glob­ U., 2003. 3157786. al change. Ed.D., U. of San Botanga, Christopher Jomia. Francisco, 2005. 3169707. Genetic and molecular analyses of ANTHROPOLOGY factors defining host-specificity and Agrama, Hussein Ali. Law courts Gitahi, George G. Missiological virulence in Striga species [West and fatwa councils in modern and cultural implications for Africa]. Ph.D., U. of Virginia, Egypt: An ethnography of Islamic Kenyan immigrants in the United 2005. 3161228. legal practice. Ph.D., Johns States: A case study of Kenyan Hopkins U., 2005. 3172536. immigrants in metro Atlanta, Chapotin, Saharah Moon. Why Georgia. Ph.D., Reformed Theo. are baobab trees so fat? Water AI-Sharmani, Mulki. Refugees Sem., 2005. 3166821. relations and biomechanics in the and citizens: The Somali diaspora genus Adansonia L [Madagascar]. in Cairo. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins U., Glenzer, Kent. 'Politics is a thing Ph.D., Harvard U., 2005. 2005. 3172537. that passes': A historical ethnogra­ 3173875. phy of power, development, and Alzouma, Gado. The popular democracy in Mali's Pondori flood Kang'ombe, Jeremiah. reception of new information and plain, c. 1818-2002. Ph.D., Emory Development of feeding protocols communication technologies in U., 2005. 3176024. for Tilapia rendalli in Malawi reared Niger. Ph.D., Southern Illinois U. in semi-intensive culture systems. at Carbondale, 2005. 3176485. Harmon, Elizabeth Hunt. A Ph.D., Memorial U. of comparative analysis of femoral Newfoundland (Can.), 2004. Burnet, Jennie E. Genocide lives morphology in Australopithecus NR02397. in us: Amplified silence and the afarensis: Implications for the evo­ politics of memory in Rwanda. lution of bipedal locomotion. Maurihungirire, Moses. Analysis Ph.D., U. of North Carolina at Ph.D., Arizona State U., 2005. of demersal fishery bycatch off the Chapel Hill, 2005. 3170406. 3173236. coast of Namibia. Ph.D., U. of Maryland Eastern Shore, 2002. Collier, Richard. Of autarchic Harris, Tara Renee. Roaring, DP12531. expressionism: Rethinking resist­ intergroup aggression, and feeding ance and subjectivity through competition in black and white Mcharo, Thomas Mwamburi. Ahmad ar-Raysuni during colobus monkeys (Colobus Associating molecular markers with Morocco's colonial encounter. guereza) at Kanyawara, Kibale phenotypes in sweet potatoes and Ph.D., Duke U., 2004. 3174111. National Park, Uganda. Ph.D., Yale liriopogons using multivariate sta­ U., 2005. 3168905. tistical modeling [Tanzania]. Dower, Kana. Strong to serve: Ph.D., Louisiana State U., 2005. The Alliance High School of Kikuyu, Haugh, Wendi A. Singing the 3167112. Kenya. Ph.D., Yale U., 2005. nation: Discourses of identity and 3176259. community in northern Namibia. Mulumba, Lukman Nagaya. Ph.D., U. of Pennsylvania, 2005. Land use effects on soil quality and Gale, Lacey Andrews. Home is 3165693. productivity in the Lake Victoria who you make it: Place, agency, Basin of Uganda. Ph.D., Ohio and relationships among Fula Kelly Spurles, Patricia L. Henna State U., 2004. 3159939. refugees in Guinea. Ph.D., Brown for brides and gazelles: Ritual, U., 2005. 3174605. women's work and tourism in Morocco. Ph.D., U. de Montreal (Can.), 2004. NQ97895.

39 ASA News - January 2006 Kimura, Birgitta K. An archaeo­ Teelen, Simone. The impact of Cordeiro, Norbert J. logical investigation into the histo­ hunting by chimpanzees (Pan Fragmentation impacts on verte­ ry and socio-political organization troglodytes) on demography and brates and disperser-plant mutu­ of Konso, southern Ethiopia. behavior of red colobus monkeys alisms in an East African forest Ph.D., U. of Florida, 2004. (Procolobus rufomitratus) at [Tanzania]. Ph.D., U. of Illinois at l\Jgogo, Kibale National Park, Chicago, 2005. 3174169. Lepkin, Murray Scott. 'Birds of Uganda. Ph.D., Yale U., 2005. paradise': The discourse semiotics 3169000. Dandajena, Tarisai C. of co-operative work in pre­ (Mukundwa). Craniofacial charac­ Saharan Morocco. Ph.D., U. of Wright, David K. Environment, teristics of the Shona: A compari­ Arizona, 2004. 3158120. chronology and resource exploita­ son with other ethnic groups tion of the Pastoral Neolithic in [Zimbabwe]. Ph.D., U. of Motty, Bauta D. Relevant indige­ Tsavo, Kenya. Ph.D., U. of Illinois Oklahoma Health Sciences Ctr., nous disciple-making in the at Chicago, 2005. 3174226. 2005. 3163127. Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA): A case study of the BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Gatumu, Evanson M. Kaninkon people in Nigeria. Ph.D., Abera-Kanyamuhungu, Agnes Redescription of the genera Asbury Theo. Sem., 2005. Matilda. Patterns of predation by Nimbochromis and Tyrannochromis 3170731. natural enemies of the banana (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Malawi, Africa. Ph.D., U. of Murray, Shawn Sabrina. The in Indonesia and Uganda. Ph.D., Maryland Eastern Shore, 2003. rise of African rice farming and the U. of Massachusetts Amherst, DP12321. economic use of plants in the 2005. 3163645. upper Middle Niger Delta [Mali]. King, Elizabeth Gallant. Aloe Ph.D., U. of Wisconsin - Madison, Anderson, T. Michael. secundiflora shrubs as facilitators 2005. 3175547. Determinants of plant species in degraded Kenyan rangelands, diversity across spatial scales in and their potential use in restora­ Poehlman, Jon Aaron. Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. tion. Ph.D., U. of California, Davis, Community participation and con­ Ph.D., Syracuse U., 2004. 2004. 3161441. sensus in HIVj AIDS prevention: An 3160379. exploration of the Suzgo, the LaManna, Justin R. Experimental issues of AIDS in Malawi. Ph.D., Balakrishnan, Christopher N. investigations of factors that influ­ U. of South Florida, 2004. Behavioral and genetic tests of ence territorial defense and mating reproductive isolation among brood behavior in a cichlid fish [Central Price, Jennifer L. Blinded by parasitic indigobird species and Africa]. Ph.D., U. of Louisville, inequality: Poverty and blindness host races [Cameroon]. Ph.D., 2004. 3164643. in Malawi. Ph.D., U. of California, Boston U., 2005. 3157355. San Francisco, with UC, Berkeley, Meloni, Seema Thakore. 2004. 3159478. Barr, Norman Benjamin. Characterization of new HIV-1 sub­ Molecular diagnostics and system­ subtype in West Africa: HIV-1 A3 Salo, Elaine Rosa. Respectable atics of the genus Ceratitis [Senegal]. Ph.D., Harvard U., mothers, tough men and good (Diptera: Tephritidae). Ph.D., 2005. 3173981. daughters: Producing persons in Pennsylvania State U., 2004. Manenberg township South Africa. 3157518. Saah, David Samaan. Ph.D., Emory U., 2004. 3159110. Partitioning of spatial heterogene­ Bouchard, Sylvie. Social interac­ ity in an object-oriented riparian Suzuki, Yuka. Black baboons and tions and communication in two boundaries classification system white rubbish trees: The cultural African bats (Chiroptera: for a South African savanna. politics of race and nature in Molossidae). Ph.D., York U. Ph.D., U. of California, Berkeley, Zimbabwe. Ph.D., Yale U., 2005. (Can.), 2004. NQ99145. 2004. 3167218.

Tactikos, Joanne Christine. A Cooley, Paul Mason. The coastal Stump, Aram Daniel Donovan. landscape perspective on the habitats, species composition, rich­ Selection and speciation in Oldowan from Olduvai Gorge, ness, and temporal variation of Anopheles gambiae [Kenya & West Tanzania. Ph.D., Rutgers, 2005. haplochromine cichlids in an Africa]. Ph.D., U. of Notre Dame, 3176224. African great lake: Implications for 2005. 3165189. biodiversity conservation [Malawi]. Taylor, Tonya Nicole. Healing Ph.D., U. of Manitoba (Can.), Thompson, Melissa Emery. the trauma of everyday life: 2004. NQ97264. Endocrinology and ecology of wild Un'anga (traditional medicine) and female chimpanzee reproduction mukondombera (HIVjAIDS) in [Uganda & Tanzania]. Ph.D., Chipinge, Zimbabwe. Ph.D., U. of Harvard U., 2005. 3161201. Pennsylvania, 2005. 3165806. ASA News - January 2006 40 BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Lyons, William J. Quantifying Gakure, Maina. Modeling the Elyse, Kimberly. The pastor, the channelized submarine depositional Sub-Saharan financial markets people, and the protege: A systems from bed to basin scale using the GARCH models (volatility grounded theory study of how sen­ [Namibia]. Ph.D., Massachusetts transmission and the influence of ior evangelical pastors in West Inst. of Tech., 2004. exchange rate). D.B.A., Alliant Africa impart leadership to the IntI. U., San Diego, 2005. next generation of leaders McKenzie, Jeffrey M. Wetland 3173420. [Ghana]. Ph.D., Capella U., 2005. geochemical and thermal process­ 3174329. es at the watershed scale Gebreselassie, Tesfayi. Two [Ethiopia]. Ph.D., Syracuse U., essays in child nutritional status Mbah, Chris Hyginus Ndubueze. 2005. 3177007. and urban poverty dynamics in Market orientation profiles: An Ethiopia. Ph.D., Pennsylvania intrinsic study of an organization in Whatley, Robin Leigh. State U., 2005. 3173792. a structural adjustment program­ Phylogenetic relationships of induced business environment Isalorhynchus genovefae, the He, Lixia. Improving irrigation [Nigeria]. D.B.A., Argosy rhynchosaur (Reptilia, water allocation efficiency: U.jSchaumburg (Chicago Archosauromorpha) from Analysis of alternative policy Northwest), 2005. 3163349. Madagascar. Ph.D., U. of options in Egypt and Morocco. California, Santa Barbara, 2005. Ph.D., Purdue U., 2004. 3166626. Udemezue, Chike C. Selected 3174393. issues and problems in accounting Iroghama, Iroghama Paul. organizations and professional ECONOMICS Bandits or rulers? Sources of per­ practices in Nigeria. Ph.D., Walden Akay, Gokhan H. Trade, wages ceived political corruption in sub­ U., 2005. 3176242. and the specific factors model with Saharan Africa. Ph.D., U. of Texas an empirical application to African at Dallas, 2005. 3176128. EARTH SCIENCES manufacturing industries. Ph.D., Allou, Assaoule Benjamin. U. of Houston, 2005. 3167466. Mabrouk, Ahmed Fekri Facteurs, parametres, dynamique Mohamed. Causality linkages de distribution et genese des Akombe, Roselyn Kwamboka. between inward foreign direct depots de columbo-tantalite d'Issia Regional integration and the chal­ investment and economic growth: centre-ouest de la Cote d'Ivoire. lenge of economic development: The case of the Middle East and Ph.D., U. du Quebec a Chicoutimi The case of the Common Market North Africa from a regional per­ (Can.), 2005. NR02422. for Eastern and Southern Africa spective. Ph.D., Colorado State U., (COMESA). Ph.D., Rutgers, 2005. 2004. 3160077. Barra Pantoja, Luis Fernando. 3170743. Applications of the rhenium-osmi­ Makaudze, Ephias M. Do sea­ um isotopic system in the study of Bamba, Ibrahima. Essays on the sonal climate forecasts and crop mineral deposits: Geochronology source, measurement, and man­ insurance matter for smallholder and source of metals [South Africa agement of agricultural market risk farmers in Zimbabwe? Using con­ & Zambia]. Ph.D., U. of Arizona, [IVlorocco]. Ph.D., U. of Kentucky, tingent valuation method and 2005. 3162994. 2004. 3158237. remote senSing applications. Ph.D., Ohio State U., 2005. Beaulieu, Alexandre. Scaling Cinyabuguma, Matthias M. 3161127. and anisotropic properties of ero­ Theories and empirics of economic sional landforms [Ethiopia]. Ph.D., growth. Ph.D., Brown U" 2005. Mogues, Tewodaj. The accumu­ U. du Quebec a Chicoutimi (Can.), 3174591. lation of social capital: Implications 2004. NR02420. for the dynamics of inequality and EI-Haddad, Amirah Moharram. the management of shocks Boice, Anand Erik. Sulfur iso­ Vertical integration and institution­ [Ethiopia]. Ph.D., U. of Wisconsin topic evidence of microbial activity al constraints on firm behavior: - Madison, 2005. 3175502. during deposition of a Neoarchean The case of the garment industry shale and in modern deep ground­ in Egypt. Ph.D., U. of Maryland, Nelufule, Avhafarei Alpheus. water, Witwatersrand Basin, South College Park, 2005. 3175126. Africa Growth and Opportunity Act Africa. Ph.D., Indiana U., 2004. in the context of Southern African 3162226. Evans, David Kirkham. Orphans Development Community: FDI, and vulnerable children: Direct trade, regionalism and economic Brown, Wesley A. An integrated effects, spillover effects, and assis­ growth. Ph.D., Colorado State U., geophysical study of the lithos­ tance [Kenya]. Ph.D., Harvard U., 2005. 3173078. pheric structure beneath Libya. 2005. 3173893. Ph.D., U. of Texas at EI Paso, 2004. 3158433,

41 ASA News - January 2006 Neven, David. Three essays on Arogundade, Jude Ayodeji. Conger, Amy Jane. Remote pos­ the rise of supermarkets and their Catholic communities, parents, and sibilities: Constructing college impact on fresh fruits and vegeta­ schools in service of educational opportunity in rural South Africa. bles supply chains in Kenya. development in Southwestern Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 2005. Ph.D., Michigan State U., 2004. Nigeria: A theoretical model. 3163777. 3158986. Ph.D., Fordham U., 2005. 3166558. Dzansi-McPalm, Mary Priscilla. Nnaji, Ozoemena S. Capital Children's playground music as flight and economic growth: The Bajaj, Monisha Indu. cultural expressions in Ghanaian sub-Saharan Africa experience. Conceptualizing agency amidst cri­ schools. Ph.D., U. of Illinois at Ph.D., Howard U., 2004. 3162053. sis: A case study of youth respons­ Urbana-Champaign, 2004. es to human values education in 3160880. Padro i Miquel, Gerard. Essays Zambia. Ed.D., Columbia U. in political accountability. Ph.D., Teachers Coli., 2005. 3175663. Etsey, Kafui Felicia. The effects Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., 2005. of comprehension strategy instruc­ Balde, Aissatou MBambe. The tion on Ghanaian English language Rainer, Ilia. Essays in political schooling experiences of Fulani learners' comprehension processes economics. Ph.D., Harvard U., Muslim girls in the Fouta Djallon and text understanding. Ph.D., U. 2005. 3174018. region of Guinea: Forces influenc­ of Iowa, 2004. 3157971. ing their retention in a rural sec­ Sackey, Harry A. Labour market ondary school of Dalaba. Ph.D., Gado, Issaou. PsychometriC participation and poverty in Ghana. Ohio U., 2004. 3160192. properties of teacher-made science Ph.D., U. of Manitoba (Can.), tests used in national examinations 2004. NQ97307. Byerly, Glenn Phillmore. for middle-grade students in Benin Improving interpersonal relation­ (West Africa): A longitudinal study. Serero, Matlhodi M. The effects ships between African Bible College Ph.D., Kent State U., 2004. of the bank supervisory framework professors and students enhances 3158492. on bank performance: Policy impli­ learned outcome [Malawi]. D.Min., cations for Botswana based on a Reformed Theo. Sem., 2005. Galadima, Rose B. Theological cross-country analysis of a group 3158308. education of women leaders in the of African countries. Ph.D., Evangelical Church of West Africa Colorado State U., 2005. 3173087. Capacci Carneal, Christine. (ECWA). Ph.D., Trinity Evan. Div. Community schools in Mali: A mul­ Sch., 2005. 3165196. Vicente, Pedro Camarinha. tilevel analysis. Ph. D., Florida Essays on corruption and the natu­ State U., 2004. 3156061. Ikeke, Mark Omorovie. ral resource curse [Sao Tome and Redesigning an ecosolidarity and Principe]. Ph.D., U. of Chicago, Carrol, Bidemi. Private monies, indigenously informed education 2005. 3168507. public universities: Implications for [Nigeria]. Ph.D., Fordham U., access and university behavior. A 2005. 3158544. Werker, Eric. Essays on the study of Makerere University political economy of development. [Uganda]. Ph.D., Stanford U., Johnstone, Christopher Joseph. Ph.D., Harvard U., 2005. 3174071. 2005. 3171774. The promise and peril of national educational policy implementation: EDUCATION Che, S. Megan. Cameroonian A multi-method case study of Adisu, Mitiku. Rethinking educa­ teachers' perceptions of culture, inclusive education in Lesotho. tion and social cohesion in education, and mathematics. Ph.D., U. of Minnesota, 2005. Ethiopia, 1941-1994. Ed.D., Ph.D., U. of Oklahoma, 2005. 3167729. Vanderbilt U., 2005. 3174497. 3164559. Kagima, David Kariuki. Training Aklog, Fenot Berhan. Teacher Chekaraou, Ibro. Teachers' programs in sustainable agriculture job satisfaction and dissatisfaction: appropriation of bilingual educa­ for postharvest loss minimization An empirical study of urban teach­ tional reform policy in sub-Saharan and storage: A case study in ers in Ethiopia. Ed.D., Columbia U. Africa: A sOcio-cultural study of Ethiopia. Ph.D., Iowa State U., Teachers Coil., 2005. 3175660. two Hausa-French schools in Niger. 2005. 3172225. Ph.D., Indiana U., 2004. 3162228. Anderson, Sonya. Girls' educa­ Kang, Henry. Stakeholders' tion and the 'pedagogy of differ­ Clarke-Okah, Willie. receptiveness to an ethnomathe­ ence': A study of teacher attitudes Partnerships in sector-wide pro­ matics curriculum foundation: The and gender-equitable pedagogy in gramming in education in case of Cameroon. Ph.D., U. of Benin. Ed. D., Harvard U., 2005. Tanzania: Narratives of experience. British Columbia (Can.), 2005. 3176322. Ph.D., McGill U. (Can.), 2004. NQ99487. NQ98228.

ASA News January 2006 42 Kwon, Sohyun. Doing business Opiyo, Marvin Ochieng. Brain ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES across cultures: A study in busi­ drain: A case study investigation of Donkor, Augustine Kwame. ness ethics accommodation. factors influencing and affecting Bogeochemistry of mercury in an Ph.D., Colorado State U., 2004. Africans who live and work in the impacted gold mining tropical 3160075. United States. Ed. D., La Sierra U., aquatic system: The Pra River 2005. 3168538. basin in southwestern Ghana. Lecha, Moiteelasilo Dickson Ph.D., U. of Florida, 2005. Ngamula. The causes and extent Rabley, Jennifer Patton. 3174973. of school dropout in Botswana Displacement: The impact of public senior secondary schools. forced removal on memory recon­ Senghor, Jean-Pierre. Prise en Ph.D., Boston U., 2005. 3171163. struction at the District Six compte du risque environnemental Museum and beyond [South dans les systemes irrigues Lubega, Khalid. Understanding Africa]. Ed.D., Columbia U. saheliens: Etude de cas au social capital in Buganda using Teachers CoiL, 2005. 3175719. Senegal. Ph.D., U. de Montreal proverbs and implications for (Can.), 2004. NQ97913. human resource development Rochefort, Corinne. [Uganda]. Ph.D., U. of Minnesota, L'identification des savoirs chez Vogt, Nathan. Mechanisms of 2005. 3165890. I'enfant Lebou de six ans land-cover change in Uganda: (Senega!), avant son entree dans Longer-term analyses of the role of Mlenga, Francis Howard. An Ie reseau scolaire officiel. Ph.D., institutional arrangements. Ph.D., investigation of factors affecting U. du Quebec a Montreal (Can.), Indiana U., 2005. 3167802. elementary female student teach­ 2005. NR00997. ers' choice of science as a major at FINE ARTS college level in Zimbabwe. Ph.D., Santos, Helena Lucas. The Cooksey, Susan Elizabeth. Iron Wayne State U., 2005. 3168501. socialization experience of Cape staffs in the crossroads: Art and Verdean, Latina, and Portuguese divination in Toussiana, a south­ Nandzo, John. Oral reading mis­ women faculty at four-year institu­ western Burkina Faso community. cues and retellings in English and tions. Ed. D., U. of Massachusetts Ph.D., U. of Iowa, 2004. 3157963. in Sissali: A comparison [Ghana]. Boston, 2005. 3172755. Ed.D., Tennessee State U., 2005. Firstenberg, Lauri Michelle. 3167782. Shepard, Raynel Mary. Acting is Against the archive: Toward inde­ not becoming: Cultural adaptation terminacy and the internationaliza­ Nderu, Evangeline Nyawira. among Somali refugee youth. tion of contemporary art. Ph.D., Parental involvement in education: Ed.D., Harvard U., 2005. 3161646. Harvard U., 2005. 3173898. A qualitative study of Somali immi­ grants in the Twin Cities area. Susuwele-Banda, William John. Salami, Gitti. Ordinarily extraor­ Ph.D., U. of Minnesota, 2005. Classroom assessment in Malawi: dinary: Yakurr priest-chief's ritual 3160164. Teachers' perceptions and practices performances and the Leboku fes­ in mathematics. Ph. D., Virginia tival [Nigeria]. Ph.D., U. of Iowa, Ndletyana, Dorothy. Team Poly. Inst. & State U., 2005. 2005. 3172436. teaching and culture: A study of 3161930. two multicultural engagement Van Dyke, Kristina Marie. The teams in a global professional Swanson, Dalene M. Voices in oral-visual nexus: Rethinking visu­ services organization in South the silence: Narratives of disad­ ality in Mali. Ph.D., Harvard U., Africa. Ed.D., Columbia U. vantage, social context and school 2005. 3174059. Teachers CoiL, 2005. 3175714. mathematics in post-apartheid South Africa. Ph.D., U. of British FOLKLORE Ochukpue, Winnie Edith Ngozi. Columbia (Can.), 2005. NQ99559. Ballard, Eoghan C. Ndoki bueno A qualitative study of African immi­ ndoki malo: Historic and contem­ grant professors in two historically Tsemunhu, Rudo E. Educational porary Kongo religion in the Black institutions in a southeastern leadership: A case study of African diaspora [Angola]. Ph. D., state. Ph.D., North Carolina State Zimbabwean high school princi­ U. of Pennsylvania, 2005. U., 2004. 3162467. pals. Ph.D., Pennsylvania State U., 3165638. 2005. 3173836. Offoh-Robert, Chidinma. Nhlekisana, Rosaleen Oabona African/Nigerian immigrant stu­ Wideman, Ruth-Anne E. Brankie. Wedding songs in dents in higher education: Empathy development in under­ Botswana: A reflection of the Academic and social preparation graduate students through the dynamics of marriage, gender rela­ for higher education in the United cross-cultural learning experience tions and familial conflicts. Ph.D., States. Ph.D., U. of California, [Lesotho]. Ed.D., Regent U., 2005. Indiana U., 2005. 3167806. Santa Barbara, 2004. 3156372. 3163482.

43 ASA News - January 2006 GEOGRAPHY Dzvimbo, Wonaindini Jessie. Lithgow, Diana Irene. C-reac­ Husak, Gregory John. Methods The effect of insurance coverage tive protein, an inflammation for the statistical evaluation of on Zimbabwean physicians' treat­ marker, in nipple aspirate fluid: African precipitation. Ph.D., U. of ment decisions for HIV and AIDS Relation to breast cancer risk, California, Santa Barbara, 2005. patients. Ph.D., U. of Wisconsin ­ body mass index, lipids and 3174375. Madison, 2005. 3175449. carotenoids [Kenya]. Ph.D., U. of California, Los Angeles, 2005. Koti, Francis Tama. Same place Fotso, Jean-Christophe. 3175176. yet different worlds: A GIS and Malnutrition et morbidite chez les society perspective on Kenyan enfants en Afrique: Concentration Lukobo, Mainza Diana. Male cir­ peri-urbanization. Ph.D., West et inegalites socioeconomiques cumcision and HIV prevention in Virginia U., 2004. 3156457. familiales et communautaires. Zambia. Dr.P.H., U. of Illinois at Ph.D., U. de Montreal (Can.), Chicago, 2005. 3160850. McCormick, Cameron K. 2004. NR00068. Geography of rural water develop­ Masaki, Emiko. Economic evalu­ ment in northern Cameroon. Howard, Debra Mayes. A cross­ ation of HIV/AIDS interventions in Ph.D., U. of Kansas, 2004. field literature review of the HIV resource scarce settings [Kenya]. 3164776. and AIDS impacts on the Ugandan Ph.D., U. of California, Berkeley, workforce through the HRD lens. 2004. 3165486. Suarez, Pablo. Decision making Ph.D., Texas A&M U., 2004. for reducing vulnerability given 3157436. Mirchandani, Gita Gidwani. The new climate predictions: Case demand and supply of child health studies from metro Boston and Jacob, Benjamin George. services in Uganda in the context rural Zimbabwe. Ph.D., Boston U., Comparing the predictive power of of the integrated management of 2005. 3171199. field survey and multithermal spec­ childhood illnesses strategy. Ph.D., tral imager (MTI) remote-sensed Johns Hopkins U., 2005. 3172654. Wessels, Konrad J. Monitoring environmental data for the identifi­ land degradation in Southern Africa cation of Anopheles (Diptera: Modjarrad, Kayvon. The impact by assessing changes in primary Culicidae) aquatic larval habitats in of treating intestinal helminth productivity [South Africa]. Ph.D., Kisumu and Malindi, Kenya. Ph.D., infections on surrogate markers of U. of Maryland, College Park, U. of Miami, 2004. 3160282. human immunodeficiency virus 2005. 3175149. type 1 disease progression among Kanchense, Jane Handina coinfected Zambian adults. Ph.D., GERONTOLOGY Murigwa. Patriarchy and the U. of Alabama at Birmingham, Biratu, Belay T. Living arrange­ struggle for women's health in 2004. 3157910. ments of older persons in Ethiopia. Zimbabwe from 1980 to 2005. Ph.D., Brown U., 2005. 3174578. Ph.D., U. of Nebraska Medical Ctr., Murray, Melisse E. Morbidity 2005. 3165176. questionnaires and color terms: HEALTH SCIENCES Evaluation of a school-based Boersma, Rachel R. Depression Kasim, Moyo. Assessing knowl­ approach to identify communities and somatization in community edge, beliefs, and attitudes regard­ with an elevated prevalence of uri­ based asylum-seekers. Ph.D., ing smoking among youths in nary schistosomiasis in an area of Boston Coil., 2005. 3167369. Nigeria. D.H.A., Central Michigan low school enrollment in the U., 2005. 3169210. Republic of Guinea. Ph.D., Johns Boone, David M. Factors associ­ Hopkins U., 2005. 3155657. ated with relapse in the treatment Kayanja, Harriet Kose. Short of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense course zidovudine and nevirapine Nanama, Simeon. Experience, in south Sudan. Ph.D., Tulane U., for prevention of mother to child trends, and consequences of food 2005. 3170356. transmission of HIV in Uganda: A insecurity in complex households propensity score application. in rural Burkina Faso. Ph.D., Dorosko, Stephanie. Exploring Ph.D., Case Western Reserve U., Cornell U., 2005. 3162890. the applicability of the California 2005. 3172188. Mastitis Test to detect clinical and Rowe, Samantha Y. subclinical mastitis in milk from Leroy, Jef Leo Jose Piet. Determinants of community health HIV-infected women [Zambia]. Childcare in developing societies: workers' adherence to clinical Ph.D., Tufts U., 2005. 3158231. The importance of distinguishing guidelines for the management of between behaviors, resources and ill children in Siaya, Kenya. Ph.D., Dyer, Jean A. Self-reported field agents of disease in health and Emory U., 2005. 3176052. dependent/independent character­ nutrition [Ghana]. Ph.D., Cornell istics in immigrant adult learners U., 2005. 3163344. [Sudan]. Ph.D., U. of Maine, 2004. 3155921.

ASA News - January 2006 44 Traore, Fatoumata. Davie, Dorothy Grace. Poverty Kodesh, Neil. Beyond the royal Understanding sexual risk behav­ knowledge in South Africa: The gaze: Clanship and collective well­ iors among persons living with everyday life of social science being in Buganda. Ph.D., HIV/AIDS in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. expertise in the twentieth century. Northwestern U., 2004. 3156600. Ph.D., Case Western Reserve U., Ph.D., U. of Michigan, 2005. 2005. 3176531. 31633786. Kusiak, Pauline Marie. The machine that 'makes the inside Vanie Bi, Dje Jules. L'evaluation Davis, Christian Stuart. visible': Medical instruments, men­ de I'implantation de la politique du Colonialism, antisemitism, and talities-talk, and the politics of recouvrement des couts des actes Germans of Jewish descent in technology in colonial and post­ de sante en Cote d'Ivoire. Ph.D., Imperial Germany, 1884-1912. colonial Senegal. Ph.D., Cornell U., U. de Montreal (Can.), 2004. Ph.D., Rutgers, 2005. 3176161. 2005. 3163347. NR00056. el-Leithy, Tamer. CoptiC culture Martyn, Robert Bruce. Zablotska, Iryna. Alcohol con­ and conversion in medieval Cairo, Cassandra's dilemma: Intelligence sumption with sex and HIV infec­ 1293-1524 A.D. Ph.D., Princeton support to multinational peace­ tion [Uganda]. Ph. D., Johns U., 2005. 3156038. keeping [Congo]. Ph.D., Queen's Hopkins U., 2005. 3172732. U. at Kingston (Can.), 2004. Heath, Gordon L. A war with a NQ99945. Zelnick, Jennifer R. Who is silver lining: Canadian Protestant nursing them? It is us: The occu­ churches and the South African Mulford, Martin R. Changing pational health of South African War, 1899-1902. Ph.D., U. of St. models: The discord between the nurses on the frontlines of the Michael's Coil. (Can.), 2004. European settlers and the adminis­ global HIV/AIDS pandemic. Sc.D., NQ97504. tration of German East Africa U. of Massachusetts Lowell, 2005. [Tanzania]. Ph.D., U. of Rochester, 3175292. Jacob, Wilson Chacko. Working 2005. 3169584. out Egypt: Masculinity and subject HISTORY formation between colonial moder­ Munson, Robert B. The land­ Bekele, Getnet. Knowledge, nity and nationalism, 1870-1940. scape of German colonialism: Mt. powe~ and a region: The making Ph.D., New York U., 2005. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Meru, ca. of Ethiopia's south-central Rift 3170838. 1890-1916 [Tanzania]. Ph.D., Valley agricultural environment and Boston U., 2005. 3167744. society, 1892-1975. Ph.D., Jean-Baptiste, Rachel. Une ville Michigan State U., 2005. 3171439. libre? Marriage, divorce, and sexu­ Ojo, Olatunji. Warfare, slavery ality in colonial Libreville, Gabon, and the transformation of eastern Bernard, Puchu Leona. 1849-1960. Ph.D., Stanford U., Yorubaland, c. 1820-1900 Nongovernmental organizations 2005. 3162395. [Nigeria]. Ph.D., York U. (Can.), (NGOs) and Liberian society: 2003. NQ99219. 1970-2000. Ph.D., Howard U., Jennings, Christian Charles. 2004. 3162034. Scatterlings of East Africa: Osseo-Asare, Abena Dove Revisions of Parakuyo identity and Agyepoma. Bitter roots: African Boittin, Jennifer Anne. Soleil history, c.1830-1926 [Tanzania]. science and the search for healing noir: Race, gender and colonialism Ph.D., U. of Texas at Austin, 2005. plants in Ghana, 1885-2005. in interwar Paris. Ph.D., Yale U., 3174492. Ph.D., Harvard U., 2005. 3173997. 2005. 3168860. Jones, Tiffany F. 'Dis-ordered' Peterson, Brian James. Brower, Benjamin Claude. A states: Views about mental disor­ Transforming the village: desert named peace: Violence and der and the management of the Migration, Islam and colonialism in empire in the Algerian Sahara, mad in South Africa, 1939-1989. French southern Mali (West Africa), 1844-1902. Ph.D., Cornell U., Ph.D., Queen's U. at Kingston 1880-1960. Ph.D., Yale U., 2005. 2005. 3173381. (Can.), 2005. NQ99812. 3168968.

Brucher, Markus D. Swiss Khumalo, Cyrius Vukile. Polanah, Paulo S. visions and interests in the coloni­ Epistolary networks and the poli­ Exceptionalism and the imperial sation of Algeria: 'La compagnie tics of cultural production in mystique: National and colonial Genevoise de Set if' (1853-1871). KwaZulu-Natal, 1860 to 1910 discourse and the forging of a Ph.D., State U. of New York at [South Africa]. Ph.D., U. of Portuguese imperial identity, 1928­ Albany, 2005. 3159694. Michigan, 2005. 3163843. 1945. Ph.D., U. of California, Santa Barbara, 2005. 3159310.

45 ASA News - January 2006 Ruffini, Giovanni Roberto. Ferrari, Franca. A syntactic LAW Social networks in Byzantine analysis of the nominal systems of Aksikas, Jaafar. Islamic moder­ Egypt. Ph.D., Columbia U., 2005. Italian and Luganda: How nouns nities: SOciety, politics, culture, 3174885. can be formed in the syntax and the war of ideology in [Uganda]. Ph.D., New York U., Morocco. Ph.D., George Mason U., Sessions, Jennifer Elson. 2005. 3170827. 2005. 3163517. Making colonial France: Culture, national identity and the coloniza­ Gaudard, Francois P. The LITERATURE tion of Algeria, 1830-1851. Ph.D., Demotic drama of Horus and Seth Abdo, Diya Mohammed Daoud. U. of Pennsylvania, 2005. (P. Berlin 8278a, b, c; 15662; Double agent: Fatima Mernissi's 3165749. 15677; 15818; 23536; 23537a, b, interventions in the narratives of c, d, e, f, g) [Egypt]. Ph.D., U. of the self, the nation, and the Other Shirley, J.J. The culture of offi­ Chicago, 2005. 3168344. [Morocco]. Ph.D., Drew U., 2005. cialdom: An examination of the 3166955. acquisition of offices during the Hachimi, Atiqa. Dialect leveling, mid-18th Dynasty [Egypt]. Ph.D., maintenance and urban identity in Adamson, Sophie Rigolot. Johns Hopkins U., 2005. Morocco Fessi immigrants in Ethics, politics and poetics: Tahar Casablanca. Ph.D., U. of Hawai'i, Ben Jelloun's 'Harrouda't 'La Stephen, Daniel Mark. 'Yoking 2005. 3171049. Reclusion solitaire' and 'L'Ange West Africa to the chariot of aveugle' [Morocco]. Ph.D.t U. of progress': The Gold Coast, Nigeria, Houroumtcho, Dogossou. The North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Sierra Leone at the British effects of gender, major, and a new 2005. 3170390. Empire Exhibition, 1924-1925. socioeconomic context on the Ph.D., U. of Colorado at Boulder, motivational orientations of Artese, Brian. Testimony on trial: 2005. 3168300. Chadian university EFL students. Conradt James and the contest for Ph.D., Florida State U., 2004. modernism [Central Africa]. Ph.D.t Syahuka-Muhindo, Arthur. The 3160564. Northwestern U't 2004. 3156564. role of violence in state formation in Mid-western Uganda: 1850­ Makalela, Leketi. Language har­ Babana-Hampton, Safoi. La 1982. Ph.D., Queen's U. at monization in South Africa: 'Nouvelle' litterature Marocaine de Kingston (Can.), 2004. NR00006. Practices and attitudes of universi­ langue Fran<;aise et I'espace public: ty students. Ph.D., Michigan State Le cas d'Abdeliatif Laabi. Ph.D., U. Venghiattis, Claire B. Mobilizing U., 2005. 3171493. of Marylandt College Park, 2005. for nation and empire: A history of 3175129. the German Women's Colonial Manassa, Colleen Marie. The Organization, 1896-1936. Ph.D., Late Egyptian underworld: Collins, Walter P. Tracing per­ Columbia U., 2005. 3174912. Sarcophagi and related texts from sonal expansion: Reading selected the Nectanebid period. Ph.D., Yale novels by Buchi Emecheta, Tsitsi Zucconi, Laura M. 'Can no physi­ U., 2005. 3168946. Dangarembga, and Calixthe Beyala cian be found?': The influence of as modern African bildungsromane religion on medical pluralism in Ochieng, Milcah Atieno. [Nigeria, Zimbabwe & Cameroon]. ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Secondary VOices, familiar territo­ Ph.D., U. of South Carolina, 2004. Israel. Ph.D., U. of California, San ry: An exploratory study of ESL 3157126. Diego, 2005. 3175285. academic writing practices. A case study of Kenyan students in a Djungu-Simba K., Charles. The LANGUAGE North American university. Ph.D., literary institution in Congo-Zaire: Adesola, Oluseye. Pronouns and Indiana U. of Pennsylvania, 2005. The morphology of the Congolese null operators: A-bar dependencies 3173709. literary world (1939-2004) (French and relations in Yoruba [Nigeria]. text). Ph.D., U. Instelling Ph.D., Rutgers, 2005. 3160009. Przezdziecki, Marek A. Vowel Antwerpen (Belg.), 2004. harmony and coarticulation in 3158641. AI-Jamhoor, Meteab M. three dialects of Yoruba: Phonetics Connecting Arabs and Americans determining phonology. Ph.D., Edwin, Shirin E. Negocier pour online to promote peace and to Cornell U., 2005. 3162192. (sur)vivre: La representation de increase cultural awareness l'Islam dans les productions [Egypt]. Ph.D., U. of Pennsylvania, Siomanson, Peter. The verbal romanesques francophones de 2005. 3164696. morphosyntax of non-canonical l'Afrique de !'Ouest (1950-2002). contact languages: Malay-derived Ph.D., Vanderbilt U./ 2005. Elias, David Lyndon. Tigre of constraints and the inflectional 3170626. Habab: Short grammar and texts domain in Afrikaans and Sri from the Rigbat people [Eritrea]. Lankan Malay [South Africa]. Ph.D., Harvard U./ 2005. 3174095. Ph.D., City U. of New York, 2005. 3169983. ASA News - January 2006 46 Erritouni, Ali. Nation-states, Kremins, Kathleen A. An ethics Pettigrew, Mark Fraser. The intellectuals, and utopias in post­ of reading: The broken beauties of wonders of the ancients: Arab­ colonial fiction [Nigeria & South Toni Morrison, Nawal EI Saadawi, Islamic representations of ancient Africa]. Ph.D., U. of Miami, 2004. and Arundhati Roy [Egypt]. Egypt. Ph.D., U. of California, 3159145. D.Utt., Drew U., 2005. 3166249. Berkeley, 2004. 3167215.

Fainman-Frenkel, Ronit. 'On the Liatsos, Vianna. Historical Popescu, Monica. South Africa in fringe of dreamtime...': South catharsis and the ethics of remem­ transition: Theorizing post-colonial, African Indian literature, race and bering in the post-apartheid novel post-apartheid and post-commu­ the boundaries of scholarship. [South Africa]. Ph.D., Rutgers, nist cultural formations. Ph.D., U. Ph.D., U. of Arizona, 2004. 2005. 3176197. of Pennsylvania, 2005. 3165744. 3158088. Lugano, Rose Sau. The portrayal Praud, Julia Marie. Nationalism's Finley, Michael Charles. The of the girl child in selected African discontents: Postcolonial contesta­ contribution of the historiography female Bildungsromane. Ph.D., tions in the writings of Mariama of Angolan literature to the devel­ Pennsylvania State U., 2005. Ba, Assia Djebar, Henri Lopes, and opment of a national conscious­ 3172988. Ousmane Sembene [Algeria, ness, 1930-1960. Ph.D., U. of Congo & Senegal]. Ph.D., Ohio California, Santa Barbara, 2005. Mahamdi, Cynthia Stella. 'The State U., 2005. 3174370. Renegado': A novel of North Africa and accompanying commentary. Rutledge, Gregory E. The epic Flaugh, Christian. On normali­ Ph.D., State U. of New York at trickster: From Sunjata to Jim ties: Freaks of culture, bodies, and Albany, 2004. 3159685. Crow. Ph.D., U. of Wisconsin ­ ability in the late twentieth-century Madison, 2005. 3175533. Francophone novel. Ph.D., U. of Mboup, Babacar. The Negro­ Wisconsin - Madison, 2005. African theater beyond its tradi­ Salama, Mohammad Ramadan. 3175430. tional boundaries: Development, Reading the modernist event from functions and new challenges the margins of history: The Fofana, Amadou T. The films of [French language] [West Africa]. Denshawai inCident, the trial of Ousmane Sembene: Discourse, Ph.D., U. of Massachusetts Djamila Bouhired and the question politics, and aesthetics [Senegal]. Amherst, 2005. 3165627. of Egyptian modernity. Ph.D., U. Ph.D., U. of Wisconsin - Madison, of Wisconsin - Madison, 2005. 2005. 3175526. McDonnell, Maureen Elizabeth. 3175571. Crossing the line: Performing cul­ Gajarawala, Toral. Sites of tural identities through global Shalan, Jeff. Writing the nation struggle: Articulations and defor­ Shakespearean drama [South and its others: Fictions of commu­ mations of power in marginal liter­ Africa]. Ph.D., U. of IVlichigan, nity and exile in the North African ature [North Africa]. Ph.D., U. of 2005. 3163883. novel. Ph.D., U. of Wisconsin ­ California, Berkeley, 2004. Madison, 2005. 3175515. 3165370. Murray, Cara. Imperial ways: The Victorians, the Suez Canal, Sicard-Cowan, Helene Giovannucci, Perri. The modern­ and narrative [Egypt]. Ph.D., City Catherine. La politique de I'em­ izing mission: Literature and devel­ U. of New York, 2005. 3169956. prunt dans les litteratures de opment in North Africa [Algeria & langue fran<;aise. Ph.D., U. of Egypt]. Ph.D., U. of Miami, 2005. Musselman, Kristin Swenson. California, Berkeley, 2004. 3177068. Reading the narrative child in 3165563. twentieth-century French-language Gnakpa, Georges G. Veronique literature. Ph.D., Northwestern U., Stranges, Peter Bart'es. Tadjo, Joachim Bohui Dali, Tanella 2004. 3156623. Rebellion and nihilism in the works Boni: Promethees pour une redefi­ of Leila Sebbar and V. S. Naipaul nition de la feminite africaine dans Petnkeu, Zacharie Nzepa. [Algeria]. Ph.D., Rice U., 2005. la poesie ivoirienne. Ph.D., U. of Cinema and myths in the 3168142. Connecticut, 2004. 3156391. Fra ncophone world: Representations of historical lead­ Toler, Michael. The nation Goellner, Samedi Sage. Writing ers in Francophone films of black rewritten: History, fiction, transla­ with the past: Intertextual repre­ Africa and the Caribbean. Ph.D., tion and the Francophone novel in sentations in Algerian Francophone U. of Maryland, College Park, the Maghreb. Ph.D., State U. of literature. Ph.D., U. of Wisconsin ­ 2005. 3175116. New York at Binghamton, 2005. Madison, 2005. 3175443. 3164706.

47 ASA News - January 2006 Walsh, John Patrick. What chil­ Dikirr, Patrick Maison. Africa's Musonera, Etienne. A theoretical dren say: Childhood in francopho­ environmental crisis: Unmapped model to optimize foreign direct ne literature of the French Antilles terrain, existing challenges, and investment inflows: World class and north and west Africa. Ph.D., possible solutions. Ph.D., State U. manufacturing best practices and Harvard U., 2005. 3174066. of New York at Binghamton, 2005. spillover effects in value added 3164703. activities [East Africa]. Ph.D., Woodall, Richardine G. 'Not Wayne State U., 2005. 3168502. know me yet?': The metamorpho­ Eberhard, Julaine. Recognizing sis of Cleopatra [Egypt]. Ph.D., justice: A study of the connections Pierotti, Joseph Anthony. York U. (Can.), 2004. NQ99261. between human recognition, real­ Isolation and characterization of ization and restorative justice lignan and secoiridoid glucosides MASS COMMUNICATIONS [South Africa]. Ph.D., New School from Schrebera alata [Southern & Chikombero, Pamela U., 2005. 3161870. Eastern Africa]. Ph.D., Virginia Mandinyanya. An analysiS and Commonwealth U., 2005. interpretation of televised anti­ Eisikovits, Nir. Sympathizing 3166839. HIV/AIDS public service announce­ with the enemy: A theory of politi­ ments in Zimbabwe. Ph.D., Kent cal reconciliation [South Africa]. Ragheb Mohamed, Mohamed State U., 2004. 3158477. Ph.D., Boston U., 2005. 3171141. Abdel Salam. Decision support model for a seaport [Egypt]. Farag, Ahmed M. The Internet in Makuru, Simon John. Violence Ph.D., Florida Inst. of Tech., 2005. Egyptian society and its use as a and liberation: Fanon's political 3166182. news medium. Ph.D., McGill U. philosophy of humanization in the (Can.), 2004. NQ98251. historical context of racism and Richter, Ingo. Impact of the colonialism. Ph.D., Boston CoiL, large-scale environment on sub­ Kaswoswe, Wenceslous. The 2005. 3167363. tropical stratocumulus clouds politics of broadcasting policy [Southern Africa]. Ph.D., U. of reform in Zimbabwe, 2000-2004: Padmanabhan, Sudarsan. Two California, Los Angeles, 2005. Breaking away from the past? models of consensus [Ghana]. 3169186. Ph.D., Ohio U., 2005. 3162659. Ph.D., U. of South Florida, 2005. 3168728. Tabu, (Richard) Whithende Nana Kamga, Osee Sylvain. De Musa. Development of telecom­ I'utopie du developpement a Shea, Shannon Anne. Between munications in the Democratic I'analyse des pratiques communi­ intervention and indifference: The Republic of the Congo. Ph.D., cationnelles: Les usages de la tele­ ethics of humanitarian intervention Nova Southeastern U., 2005. phonie mobile en Cote d'Ivoire [Rwanda]. Ph.D., Loyola U. 3167548. dans une perspective de praxis Chicago, 2005. 3174264. africaine. Ph.D., U. du Quebec it Traore, Zan N'Tio. Methodology Montreal (Can.), 2005. NR02416. PHYSICAL SCIENCES for drought impacts management Demissie Gebirrye, Tesfaye. in developing countries [West Visser, Muriel. The impact of Investigating scale, rainfall-runoff Africa]. Ph.D., Colorado State U., individual differences on the will­ sequences and BMP effects on 2005. 3173095. ingness of teachers in Mozambique phosphorus, runoff and sediment to communicate about HIV/AIDS in yield [Ethiopia]. Ph.D., Oklahoma POLITICAL SCIENCE schools and communities. Ph.D., State U., 2004. 3159187. Arai, Tatsushi. Creativity for Florida State U., 2004. 3156254. peace: Exploring unexplored path­ Hopkins, Omar Snowden. ways to conflict resolution [South MUSIC Planning rural water supply sys­ Africa]. Ph.D., George Mason U., McClung, James Matthew. Five tems in developing countries: The 2005. 3176647. percussion pieces of the Ewe tribe: case of Rwanda. Ph.D., U. of Analysis and performance guide­ North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Aryee, James Bennett. A critical lines [Ghana]. D.M.A., Rice U., 2004. 3156156. analysis of Moscow's external poli­ 2005. 3168102. cies towards Africa and the Middle Hsieh, Jen-Shan. Generation of East from Lenin to Gorbachev. PHILOSOPHY African easterly waves: Ph.D., U. of Manitoba (Can.), Andretta, Alberto. An interpre­ Convectively induced synoptic dis­ 2005. NQ97258. tive analysis of work: Inquiry into turbances. Ph.D., Cornell U., sustainable development in 2005. 3173340. Bah, Alhaji Mohamed Sirjoh. Tanzania and Jilin, China. Ed.D., ECOWAS and the dynamics of con­ U. of San FranciSCO, 2005. structing a security regime in West 3166363. Africa [Liberia & Sierra Leone]. Ph.D., Queen's U. at Kingston (Can.), 2004. NQ99958.

ASA News -" January 2006 48 Bekele, Badeg. Effective leader­ Gabsa, Wilfred Nyongbet. Metz, Daniel M. Two paths to ship in Ethiopia: Perceived needs Democratization and ethnic differ­ nationhood: Explaining the goals of of prominent Ethiopian leaders to entiation in Africa: An analysis of ethnic rebellions [Ethiopia]. Ph.D., demonstrate effective leadership in the impact of the democratization Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., 2005. the country and the formation of a process on the politics of ethnicity relevant leadership program to in Cameroon, 1971-2002. Ph.D., Muthumbi, Jane W. Religious meet the need. Ph.D., Azusa Georgia State U., 2004. 3173431. activism and international politics: Pacific U., 2005. 3160495. Christian and Islamic fundamental­ Gathuo, Anne W. A country in ist anti-abortion networks and the Bumgardner, Justin Noel. democratic transition: Kenyan United Nations [Egypt]. Ph.D., Choices to save the suffering: churches in civil society. Ph.D., U. State U. of New York at Albany, What prompts humanitarian mili­ of Massachusetts Boston, 2004. 2005. 3164603. tary intervention? [Somalia & 3176251. Sudan]. Ph.D., U. of Illinois at Niksic, George Martin. Urbana-Champaign, 2004. Greene, Brian W. State identity, Democratizing decentralization in 3160869. foreign policy, and systemic norm South Africa: A case study of local diffusion: Towards humanitarian government in Port Elizabeth. Caliskan, Koray. Making a global intervention [Somalia, Rwanda & Ph.D., York U. 2003. NQ99218. commodity: The production of DR Congo]. Ph.D., McGill U. markets and cotton in Egypt, (Can.), 2004. NQ98264. Nystrom, Anna Christina. The Turkey, and the United States. patrimonial straitjacket: A study of Ph.D., New York U., 2005. Heinze, Eric A. 'In extreme cases Namibian liberation and path 3170808. only': Humanitarian intervention in dependency. Ph.D., Northwestern theory, law and practice [DR Congo U., 2004. 3156628. Chogugudza, Patricia. Race, & Sudan]. Ph.D., U. of Nebraska ­ gender, class, sexuality, and cul­ Lincoln, 2005. 3176784. Ross, Andrew A. G. Affective ture: The lives of Zimbabwe states: Rethinking passion in glob­ women under patriarchy. Ph.D., U. Hill, George James. Intimate al politics [Rwanda]. Ph.D., Johns of Texas at Dallas, 2005. 3163241. relationships: Race, religion, rub­ Hopkins U./ 2005. 3172685. ber and politics in the foreign Clinkenbeard, Steven E. Donors affairs of the United States and Saleh, Nivien. Integrating the versus dictators: The impact of Liberia, 1917-1947. D.Utt., Drew South: The political economy of multilateral aid conditionality on U./ 2005. 3166248. connecting Egypt to the Internet. democratization. Kenya and Malawi Ph.D., American U./ 2005. in comparative context, 1990­ Kulkarni, Anupma Logani. 3161508. 2004. Ph.D., Massachusetts Inst. Demons and demos: Violence, of Tech., 2004. memory and citizenship in post­ Tshitereke, Nyelisani Clarence conflict states [South Africa]. Muofhe. GEAR and labour in Das, Tara Rupa. Power and Ph.D., Stanford U., 2005. 3171727. post-Apartheid South Africa: A authority of international organiza­ study of the gold mining industry, tions: Interpreting HIV/AIDS poli­ Kwiatkowski, Karen Unger. The 1987-2004. Ph.D., Queen's U. at tics in sub-Saharan Africa through overt/covert war in Angola: A case Kingston (Can.), 2004. NQ99955. international discourse [Kenya, study of the implementation of the Rwanda & Uganda]. Ph.D., U. of Reagan Doctrine. Ph.D., Catholic Woodwell, Douglas Richard. Pennsylvania, 2005. 3165661. U. of America, 2005. 3169862. Nationalism in international rela­ tions: Norms, foreign policy, and Dobson, Laura Mullen. Lawrence, William A. enmity [Somalia]. Ph.D., Yale U., Cultivating participatory democracy Representing Algerian youth: The 2005. 3169020. at the grassroots: A case study in discourses of cultural confrontation Middle Belt Nigeria. Ph.D., U. of and experimentation with democ­ Youde, Jeremy Roger. The Massachusetts Amherst, 2005. racy and Islamic revival since the development of a counter-epis­ 3163662. riots of 1988. Ph.D., Tufts U., temic community: AIDS, South 2004. 3158306. Africa, and international regimes. EI Moutadayene, Abdellatif. Ph.D., U. of Iowa, 2005. 3172462. Developpement economique et Mady, Abedl-Fattah. Islam and changement politique au Maroc. democracy: Elite political attitudes Zagorski, Kimberly Lynn. Dying Ph.D., U. Laval (Can.), 2005. and the democratization process in for attention: Television coverage NR00651. the Arab region [Egypt]. Ph.D., and American partiCipation in Claremont Grad. U., 2005. humanitarian crises during the 3165232. post-Cold War era [Somalia, Sudan & Rwanda]. Ph.D., U. of Kentucky, 2005. 3159423.

49 ASA News - January 2006 PSYCHOLOGY Gruen, William C. The compila­ SOCIAL SCIENCES Feder, Michael A. Mental health tion and dissemination of 'The Life Chitnavis, Sham M. Uganda and academic skills of Sierra of Antony' [Egypt]. Ph.D., U. of Asian refugees and expellees in Leonean children from refugee Pennsylvania, 2005. 3165686. Los Angeles, the American EI families. Ph.D., George Mason U., Dorado. Ph.D., U. of Hawai'i, 2005. 3163725. Kajangu, Kykosa. Beyond the 2005. 3171039. colonial gaze: Reconstructing Marinze, Mary Providentia. A African wisdom traditions [Burkina SOCIAL WORK phenomenological study of Igbo Faso, South Africa & DR Congo]. Fahmi, Kamal. PARTICIPATORY religious women in mid life transi­ Ph.D., U. of California, Santa action research (PAR): A view from tion [Nigeria]. Psy.D., Chicago Barbara, 2005. 3174958. the field [Egypt]. Ph.D., McGill U. Sch. of Professional Psychology, (Can.), 2004. NQ98249. 2004. 3177430. Lee, Kuem Ju. Bible storying: A recommended strategy for training Kreitzer, Linda. Indigenization of Mbulo, Lazarous. Alcohol use church leaders in oral societies social work education and practice: and alcohol-sexual expectations as [Sudan]. Ph.D., Southern Baptist A partiCipatory action research risk factors for HIV/ AIDS among Theo. Sem., 2005. 3173108. project in Ghana. Ph.D., U. of young people in Zambia. Ph.D., U. Calgary (Can.), 2004. NQ97749. of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2005. M'Mworia, Damaris Kaari. 3176794. Gender poverty and wife battering: An examination of their interlock­ SOCIOLOGY Thompson, Vanessa. Healing ing roles in contemporary church Andrzejewski, Catherine Stiff. violence in South Africa: A textual and society in Kenya. Ph.D., Drew Health knowledge and child health reading of Kentridge's 'Drawings U., 2005. 3166355. in coastal Ghana: What do people for Projection'. Ph. D., Duquesne know, how do they know it, and U., 2005. 3162814. M'Mworia, Miriti Silas. An does it matter? Ph.D., Brown U., examination of the Wesleyan doc­ 2005. 3174678. RELIGION trine of Christian perfection with Asante, Samuel Kwesi. Process particular reference to its socio­ Batnitzky, Adina Keryn. and qualities for developing ser­ cultural implications and its signifi­ Household roles and obesity: vant-shepherd leaders within the cance in shaping the polity and Gender, culture and social class in Church of Pentecost for effective practice of Methodist Church in Morocco. Ph.D., Brown U., 2005. cross-cultural ministry [Ghana]. Kenya. Ph.D., Drew U., 2005. 3174576. D.Min., Oral Roberts U., 2005. 3166356. 3163178. Braun, Yvonne Alexandra. Moon, Walter Jay. Using Feminist political ecology in prac­ Cheggeh, Armstrong Kamau. proverbs to contextualize tice: The social impacts of the Developing church-planting leaders Christianity in the Builsa culture of Lesotho highlands water project. for the Fountain of Life churches Ghana, West Africa. Ph.D., Asbury Ph.D., U. of California, Irvine, based upon the principles derived Theo. Sem., 2005. 3159526. 2005. 3167921. from Paul's speech at Miletus in Acts 20:17-38 [Kenya]. D.Min., Nelson, Julius Sarwolo. Campbell, Elizabeth H. Refugee Asbury Theo. Sem., 2004. Peacemaking and Muslim-Christian protection challenges in the era of 3163224. dialogue: Learning from the exam­ globalization: The case of Nairobi. ples of the Inter-Religious Council Ph.D., State U. of New York at Critser, Sherman L. Equipping of Liberia. D.Min., United Theo. Binghamton, 2005. 3164737. the church in Africa for difficult Sem., 2004. 3173449. times: A pastoral training program Goldberger, Jessica Rule. from the book of Revelation. Njoroge, Leah N. A qualitative Farming on the boundary: Organic D.Min., Anderson U., 2005. assessment of the impact of agriculture in semi-arid Kenya. 3164862. female circumcision on the spiritu­ Ph.D., U. of Wisconsin - Madison, ality of Christian women from 2005. 3175583. Grahl, Helena Hope Araba. select denominations in Kenya. Developing adult supervisors for Ph.D., Biola U., 2005. 3171430. Le Jeune, Gael. Les migrations teenage peer-teachers: A case feminines du milieu rural vers Ie study of the Achimota School Ouellet, Brigitte. Le milieu urbain au Burkina Faso: Gospel Outreach Club [Ghana]. 'Desillusionne et son ba' du Faits, causes et implications. D.Min., Andover Newton Theo. Papyrus Berlin 3024: Ph.D., U. de Montreal (Can.), Sch., 2005. 3167286. L'hermeneutique d'une experience 2004. NQ97900. ontophanique [Egypt]. Ph.D., U. de Montreal (Can.), 2004. NR00050.

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