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ASA NEWS African Studies Association Volume XXXX No.3 July 2007 V V V V ASA NEWS African Studies Association Volume XXXX no.3 July 2007 ASA News, Vol. XXXX, No. 3, July 2007 ISSN 0278-2219 In This Issue Editor: Carol L. Martin, PhD Associate Editor, Layout Designer and Typesetter: Kristina L. Carle Published three times a year by From the Executive Director.................2 the African Studies Association New Members.....................................3 Website: www.africanstudies.org Submissions and advertisements for the Membership Directory Announcement.....3 ASA News should be sent to In Memoriam......................................4 [email protected] as a PDF fi le. Deadlines for submissions and advertisements Contributors to the Endowment...........7 are December 1, March 1, and June 1. 50 Year Anniversaries Campaign............7 OFFICERS Join the ASA.....................................10 President: Pearl T. Robinson (Tufts U) Coordinate Organization Corner...........11 Vice President: Aliko Songolo (U of Wisconsin- 2007 Referendum Announcement.......13 Madison) Past President: Joseph C. Miller (U of Virginia) Annual Meeting Key Information..........14 Executive Director: Carol L. Martin (Rutgers U) ASA 2007 Election Announcement.......16 Treasurer: Joel Barkan (U of Iowa) $50 for the 50th Appeal.....................17 DIRECTORS Call for Papers...................................18 Serving Until 2007 Toyin Falola (U of Texas) Call for Submissions...........................19 Corinne Kratz (Emory U) Grants and Fellowships.......................20 Kathleen Sheldon (U of California-Los Angeles) ASA 2007 Membership Rates................22 Serving Until 2008 Recent Doctoral Dissertations..............23 Tabitha Kanogo (U of California-Berkeley) Elisha Renne (U of Michigan) Advertisements................................36 Michael Schatzberg (U of Wisconsin-Madison) ASA 2007 Ad Rates............................42 Serving Until 2009 ASA Press Order Form........................43 Jane Guyer (Johns Hopkins U) ASA 2007 Membership Form................45 Babatunde Lawal (Virginia Commonwealth U) Elizabeth Schmidt (Loyola College) © 2007 African Studies Association. All Rights Reserved. 5. The Local Arrangements Committee facilitates Letter From The opportunities for personal networks to form and Executive Director to grow. The extraordinarily popular Welcome Reception and Dance Party are wonderful venues for renewing and appreciating the sense of The African Studies Association, founded fi fty community that arises from a shared enterprise. years ago in 1957, has become a premiere 6. The Distinguished Africanist Award highlights source of scholarly and professional expertise a lifetime of outstanding contributions to African about Africa in the world. In thinking about the studies that others can emulate. top ten reasons for joining and remaining a 7. The African Studies Review encourages member of the ASA, an initial impulse is to list scholarly debates across disciplines. membership benefi ts, i.e., members: 8. History in Africa promotes attention to the 1. Vote to elect offi cers and members of the role of theory and non-historical data in historical Board of Directors. investigation. 2. Serve on the Nominating Committee. 9. Participating in the Annual Meeting’s 3. Serve on the Prize Committees. intense, four-day immersion in interdisciplinary 4. Serve on the Annual Meeting Program scholarship and professional work by some of Committee. the fi nest minds in the world is an unparalleled 5. Serve on the Annual Meeting Local experience. The Exhibit Hall’s wealth of Arrangements Committee. Africa-related books, materials, and fi lms is 6. Nominate individuals for the Distinguished complemented by a congenial atmosphere for Africanist Award. advancing a publishing career and locating 7. Receive a subscription to the African Studies information about job prospects and funding Review. sources. 8. Receive a discounted rate to purchase History 10. The membership directory enhances in Africa. professional networks, alerting colleagues to 9. Receive a discount rate to attend the Annual promotions, new appointments, and other Meeting. accomplishments. 10. Are published in and receive access to the More than an outline of tangible benefi ts, Association’s membership directory. the “Top Ten Reasons” is thus a refl ection The catalyst for members to join the on how the African Studies Association can ASA and to renew their membership, however, transform not just members’ careers, but also is based on an essential question: How do the their very lives. I am delighted to be serving benefi ts contribute to the ASA’s mission of as the ASA’s Executive Director during its 50th “promoting African studies?” Some refl ections: year, and l am tremendously proud of the many 1. By voting, ASA members select the Associa- positive contributions that have been made by tion’s leaders, who set the policy for implement- the Secretariat staff, which includes Kristina ing the Association’s broad mission of “promot- Carle, Program Manager, Publications and ing African studies.” Information Services, Kimme Carlos, Program 2. By serving on the Nominating Committee, Manager, Annual Meeting Services, Elizabeth ASA members defi ne the qualities and the crite- Ciccone, Senior Program Manager, Financial ria for Board members, thereby infl uencing the and Administrative Services, and Margaret ASA’s leadership. McLaughlin, Program Manager, Member Services, 3. Collective celebration of individual achieve- and by my fellow offi cers and the members of ment is critical to valuing members’ contribu- the Board of Directors with whom I’ve had the tions to scholarship and to the profession – and pleasure of working. This collectivity, and the to galvanizing them for ever greater endeavors. unparalleled energy of the ASA’s members and 4. The Program Committee shapes the con- coordinate organizations, has done much to tours of scholarship that pushes the boundar- ensure that the ASA community will celebrate ies of knowledge, including shifts in paradigms many more years in the uniquely satisfying and methodologies, and policy and professional endeavor of “bringing together people with a innovation. The rich intellectual insights that re- scholarly and professional interest in Africa.” sult invigorate presenters and participants alike Congratulations to us all! when they return to their daily responsibilities. 2 ASA NEWS ~ July 2007 New ASA Members March 16 - June 15, 2007 Jamila Abubakar Patricia Daley Francisco Lara John Siewert Eric Aseka Andrew de Heer James Mokhiber Pamela Smith-Irowa Louise Bedichek Fran Etemesi Jessica Morey Allen Stack Marius Billy Lewis Greenstein Fallou Ngom Diane Turner Crystal Boling Heather Hewett Laura Pechacek Noel Twagiramungu Neil Carey Valerie Hoffman Faustino Quintanilla Jean-Luc Vande William Clontz Binta Ibrahim Don Robotham Kerkhove Karen Colvard Erik Johnson Modhumita Roy Joan Vincent Todd Crane Emizet Kisangani Victoria Schorr Harriet Walker Allison Crumly David Kraybill Amy Schwartzott Andre Wellington New ASA Lifetime Members March 16 - June 15, 2007 Cawo Abdi ASA MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY The African Studies Association is pleased to announce the inauguration of its electronic ASA Membership Directory. The Directory is accessible to ASA members only and is intended to facilitate networking within the Africanist community. Information in the listing is provided directly as each individual member has entered it in her/his member record. Don’t forget to visit the ASA Membership Directory and authorize the information fi elds that you would like to have displayed. Go to www.africanstudies.org and click on ASA ONLINE to log in to your member record. Click on the Directory link at the top/bottom of your screen. Then, click on the Directory Authorization link to make the appropriate selection(s). NEW 3 ASA NEWS ~ July 2007 In Memoriam Robert J. Cummings Elliott P. Skinner Robert J. Cummings Robert J. Cummings, better and fondly known Bob Cummings’ teaching career spanned many as Bob, was born on December 22, 1940 in decades and many institutions both in the United Tallahassee, Florida. He received a BS degree in States and Africa. He taught Social Sciences at European History from Florida A&M U in 1963, Mickens High School in Dade City, Florida from an MA in American History from North Carolina 1963-1966. During the same period (1963- Central U in 1966 and a PhD in African Economic 1965), he also worked with the Pasco County History from the U of California-Los Angeles in Unit of the Florida State Penal Institution. In 1975 with a dissertation entitled “Aspects of 1965, Bob embarked on a stellar career of Human Porterage With Special Reference to the teaching at the college and university level. His Akamba of Kenya: Towards an Economic History, initial appointments were as an Instructor of 1820-1920.” He conducted the fi eld research History at St. Leo College in Florida, Instructor of for this dissertation in Kenya, Uganda and European History (1966-1969) at Winston-Salem Tanzania between 1972-1973, with funds from State University, North Carolina, and Senior the US Department of Education and UCLA’s Teaching Associate in Afro-American History at Offi ce of Minority Fellowships. He also obtained UCLA (1970-1972). While conducting research in a Certifi cate in Ki-Swahili and African Culture in Kenya in 1972, Bob also taught African History at 1969, funded via an NDFL Fellowship in African the U of Nairobi. Upon his return to the US from Studies in conjunction with the Fulbright-Hays Kenya, he was appointed Assistant
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