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Vol. XLII, No. 1, African In This Issue
January 2009 V VV ISSN 1942-4949 V Studies Editor: Association From the Executive Director...... 2 Carol L. Martin, PhD From the President...... 3 Associate Editor, Designer and Typesetter: New Members...... 4 Kristina L. Carle Member News...... 4 Membership Rates...... 4 Published online three times a year by the In Memoriam...... 5 African Studies Association. Submissions and advertisements for the ASA News should be sent Join the ASA...... 7 to [email protected] as a PDF fi le. Contributors to the Endowment...... 8 Deadlines for submissions and advertisements are 50 Year Anniversaries Campaign...... 8 December 1, March 1, and June 1. 2008 Awards and Prizes...... 12 Coordinate Organization Corner...... 14 OFFICERS 2008 ASA Election Results...... 17 President: Paul Tiyambe Zeleza (U of Illinois-Chicago) Vice President: Charles Ambler (U of Texas at El Paso) Annual Meeting Key Information...... 18 Past President: Aliko Songolo (U of Wisconsin-Madison) Call for Proposals...... 22 Executive Director: Carol L. Martin (Rutgers U) Treasurer: Scott Taylor (Georgetown U) Annual Meeting Theme...... 26 Style Guide...... 30 DIRECTORS Call for Applications...... 31 Serving Until 2009 Jane Guyer (Johns Hopkins U) Call for Nominations...... 32 Babatunde Lawal (Virginia Commonwealth U) Call for Submissions...... 33 Elizabeth Schmidt (Loyola College) Grants and Fellowships...... 34 Serving Until 2010 Recent Doctoral Dissertations...... 36 Kelly M. Askew (U of Michigan) Advertisements...... 57 Gretchen Bauer (U of Delaware) Ad Rates...... 59 Joyce Lewinger Moock (International Development Consultant) ASA Press Order Form...... 60 Serving Until 2011 Membership Form...... 62 Emmanuel Akyeampong (Harvard University) Mary Johnson Osirim (Bryn Mawr College) Deadlines...... 64 M. Anne Pitcher (Colgate University) © 2008 African Studies Association. All Rights Reserved. organized by the Association’s coordinate Letter From The organizations. The launch is scheduled for Executive Director early January. Watch www.africanstudies. org for the exciting details.
The triumphs of 2008 would not have been The year past has been marked by possible without the deep partnership milestones, achieved within the context of a between the ASA community and the national US election year with path breaking Board’s elected and appointed leadership nominees, and an economic downturn and the tireless efforts of the ASA that deepened to profound international Secretariat staff to implement Board proportions. Chicago, still vibrant with hope policy and to manage the Association’s because resident Barack Obama will become many relationships and activities. America’s next president, was a welcoming Signifi cantly, the Association’s fi nancial venue for the ASA’s second 50th celebration: health continues to be carefully monitored the 50th anniversary of the fi rst Annual and the Board voted a 2009 budget Meeting. It was a pleasure to work with the that was balanced without investment Program Chair Patrick Manning and Local income - a remarkable feat in this volatile Arrangements Co-Chairs Fassil Demissie and economy that was accomplished by Lynette Jackson and their Committees. Their making diffi cult decisions to stay within enthusiastic dedication for advancing and the ASA’s means, i.e., by controlling AV enhancing the program theme, “Knowledge expenses at the Annual Meeting. Coupled of Africa: The Next Fifty Years,” culminated with this good news is that the ASA in wonderful success. Their exceptional remains certifi ed for participation in the efforts, along with the contributions of ASA Combined Federal Campaign through the members who volunteer their service on Aid for Africa Federation, and the 50 Year award and prize committees, as journal Anniversaries Fundraising Campaign, set editors, and on the nominating and election to end on December 31, has received committees, is key to the Association’s nearly $100,000 in contributions. Even ability to recognize excellence in the fi eld, better news, however, would be that to disseminate knowledge through outreach the Association could restore programs and publications, and, through the Annual that have been reduced due to fi nancial Meeting, to provide a face-to-face venue for realities, such as the International bringing together people with a scholarly Visitor Award, and fund new activities, and professional interest in Africa. for example, through the Memorandum of Understanding that has just been The inaugural Annual Report, which is signed with the Association of African posted on the ASA website, summarizes Universities. Once the 50 Years Campaign some of the highlights of calendar year has ended, the general endowment will 2007. The report hints at opportunities for be an increasingly important vehicle for greater engagement with Africa. The ASA ensuring that the Association will have is in an increasingly advantageous position the resources that it needs to enhance to leverage its greatest resource – its information exchange about Africa and members – to transform these opportunities to provide key support services to the into reality. As reported during the Business Africanist community. Meeting, the ASA achieved a surplus in 2007. This surplus has enabled the The future depends on the resolve of Association to invest in developing a more each one of us to make the ASA a priority robust website that will facilitate greater for giving. We are counting on your transparency, allowing Board decisions to continued support. Let’s face 2009 with be disseminated more readily. The new a strengthened commitment to the ASA’s website will also foster greater participation, mission of promoting African Studies! for example, through online communities
2 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Letter From The ASA President
Friends and Members of the ASA: counterparts on the continent. We expect to sign similar agreements with other I am writing to brief you on recent scholarly organizations based on the developments within our beloved continent. association. Our 50th Annual Meeting held in Chicago last November was, by As most of you know, over the past few all accounts, a great success. Besides years the Association has been trying the excellent facilities and layout of the to improve its fi nancial position through hotel that facilitated conversation and careful budgeting and fundraising. This conviviality, Chicago was abuzz with the has borne some fruit. The ASA’s budget excitement of the election of Senator has been balanced for the past two Barack Obama, who lives on Chicago’s years and is balanced for the coming South Side, as the next President of year. Also, through prudent investment the United States. For members of our and management, the Association has Association there was special cause for incurred much lower losses than other celebration given President-elect Obama’s academic associations in the current strong personal African connections. fi nancial crisis. The fundraising drive is making some progress, but membership Altogether, approximately 1700 registrants donations could be higher. The more attended 208 panels and roundtables and money we can raise internally, the easier a poster session during the conference, it will be to convince external donors to including board sponsored roundtables contribute and build the Association’s and the Current Issues plenary. The endowment. So I appeal to all of you to Program Committee received 862 proposals continue making donations. and approved 95%, a much higher acceptance rate than last year. Among I am delighted to report that the ASA will the highlights of the Annual Meeting was be launching a new and more effi cient the keynote address by the President of platform for its website in the New Year, the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine which will provide faster and easier T. MacArthur Foundation, Dr. Jonathan communication between members and Fanton, who expressed the Foundation’s the secretariat and the board, as well as commitment to Africa and African studies. facilitate networking among members, The invitation to Dr. Fanton is part of the and enable the Association to provide new Association’s efforts to build relations with services that will allow us to become a the philanthropic community and other more robust community of scholars and constituencies working on Africa. advocates for Africa.
I am also happy to report that during I thank you for your continued active the Annual Meeting a memorandum of membership and support and look understanding was signed between the ASA forward to a successful year for the ASA. and the Association of African Universities. This will enable the two associations to Paul Tiyambe Zeleza work on joint programs of mutual interest President and strengthen our engagements with our
3 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 New ASA Members June 2 - December 12, 2008 Edmund Abaka Paula Girshick Michael Laramee Wilma Randle David Adu-Amankwah Shelby Grossman Richard Lesage Diane Russell TJ Allan Jarvis L Hargrove Nancy Lundgren Kwame Shabazz Aurora Almada Paul Harpley Eugenia Martinez Dick Simpson Catherine Appert Genevieve Rhoda Mbimadong James Smith Stephen Backman Hill-Thomas Elizabeth Mhangami David Thomas Chikosa Banda Cynthia Ingrid Monson Daniel Turack Atoma Batoma Hoehler-Fatton Maki Motapanyane Paulette Walther Ndiouga Benga Jeffrey Jacobs Harmony O’Rourke Anita Wheeler Francis Dube Morten Jerven Katie Pickett Mary Carlin Yates Brian Ekdale Tarnjeet Kang Stephen Pierce Robert Fatton James La Fleur Peter Quella Member News
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4 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 In Memoriam
Michael Baxandall Youssef Chahine Christopher Fyfe
Michael Baxandall
Michael Baxandall, who has died aged 74, was collaboration and close association with Svetlana an art historian of extraordinary perceptive and Alpers. Together they wrote Tiepolo and the analytical powers whose writings on painting and Pictorial Intelligence (1994), an intriguing mix sculpture are as important as they are original. not only of art criticism and art history but of the styles of two contrasting personalities. In 1958, Baxandall began formulating a thesis topic on concepts of decorum and restraint in By the time these latter works were published, the Italian Renaissance and, in 1959, he was Baxandall was an academic celebrity. He had awarded a two-year fellowship at the Warburg been given a London University chair in 1981 and to work on this, under the direction of Ernst been elected to the British Academy in 1982; he Gombrich. He began investigating how humanist had also held a visiting professorship at Cornell literature on art was shaped by the traditions of University in New York state and a fellowship in classical rhetoric. Although this research never Berlin, and been awarded prizes by the University resulted in a PhD, it provided material for his of Hamburg and the MacArthur Foundation (both acclaimed fi rst book, Giotto and the Orators 1988). Since 1986 he had held a part-time post (1971), which acutely highlighted the limitations at the University of California, Berkeley, initially in as well as the achievements of Renaissance combination with his job at the Warburg Institute. discourse on art. Thereafter, until his retirement in 1996, he spent part of the year in California. But he retained old He returned to the Warburg in 1965, as a habits of thought along with old ties and loyalties. lecturer in renaissance studies. The course The work of Gombrich on perception remained on the Renaissance which he taught to an important point of reference as he himself undergraduates exploited this experience became increasingly interested in modern as and bore fruit in the bestselling Painting and well as historical theories about visual attention, Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy (1972). especially primary focus and peripheral vision. Lucid and provocative, this “primer in the The most important publication of his later years, social history of pictorial style”, as he called however, was Shadows and the Enlightenment it, continues to interest countless readers in (1995), in its persuasive juxtaposition of scientifi c early Renaissance pictures and the society in analyses of shadows with the pictorial practice which they were created. It was this book that of 18th-century artists, notably the quiet, but “in introduced the concept of “the period eye;” some ways slyly showy” Chardin. Baxandall’s idea was that at different times and places, certain features of the knowledge and Baxandall’s last years were lived under the culture of viewers attuned them to aspects of shadow of Parkinson’s disease. He had never images which are not naturally picked up today, relished large gatherings and with the progression but which the historian, with the help of texts of illness, he tended to avoid any encounters in and contexts, can elucidate and recover. The public places. His last book, Words for Pictures notion was further refi ned in relation to sculpture (2003), a collection of essays that returned to the in The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance subject of art and humanism, also included a long Germany (1980), in which, for example, the piece on Piero della Francesca’s Resurrection. scrolls of Nuremberg calligraphy were related to stylistic elements. This book, which evolved He is survived by Kay Simon, daughter Lucy and from the Slade lectures at Oxford in 1974, was son Tom. awarded the Mitchell prize for the history of art. Michael David Kighley Baxandall, art historian, He came to refl ect more and more on the born August 18 1933; died August 12 2008 diffi culties of the historian’s task. These issues, articulated in Patterns of Intention (1986), Submitted by Michael Conner, September 7, 2008 were encouraged by his friendship and then 5 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Christopher Fyfe
It is with profound sadness, and a deep and unquestionably, from Christopher’s seminal abiding sense of obligation, that the community refl ections, and, as a people, Sierra Leoneans of indigenous historians of Sierra Leone, and will always be in the debt of this illustrious man allied enthusiasts, has received news of the of letters who wore his considerable erudition passing of the much-revered Dean of the ever so lightly. history of Sierra Leone, Christopher Fyfe. Christopher devoted enormous energies, time, Sierra Leone has lost a true friend, a worthy and resources to his research and writing on champion of its past, a devoted mentor to Freetown and its Krio community, and the several generations of young scholars, and a ties between that group and the other ethnic compassionate and eager listener and promoter societies of Sierra Leone. With great insight, of all things scholarly, whose door was always profound dedication, and an uncommon open to those who came his way, be it in empathy, Christopher told the story of a people Edinburgh, or, more recently, at Spangate, that were much misunderstood in the literature in London. No one Sierra Leonean was too of slavery’s abolition, and he charted, with great insignifi cant for his attentions; no topic on circumspection, their progress in the colonial Freetown too marginal for his interest and state through timeless reviews of families, disquisition. How can we ever forget those institutions, and personalities drawn from a generous checks that came our way over the wide range of social classes. To name years; that penetrating and incisive critique, Christopher Fyfe the pioneer of Sierra Leone’s ever so politely delivered, that made your historiography is to acknowledge a reality that writing better. He was for us, his appreciative can never be controverted, and one that students and junior colleagues, the little man has been much celebrated in that nation’s with the very big heart, who brought new scholarly community. The inspiration that has meaning to “multum in parvo.” found expression in signifi cant scholarly contributions by locals over the years came, Submitted by Charles Becker, August 31, 2008
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7 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Contributors to the General Endowment
June 11, 2008 – December 12, 2008
Eric Allina-Pisano William Dewey Peter M. Lewis Elisha Renne Charles Ambler Andreas Eckert Peter Malanchuk Lynn Schler Jonathan Baker J. Jeffrey Hoover Carol Martin Prudence Gretchen Bauer Emmanuel Kreike Corann Okorodudu Woodford-Berger Barbara Blackmun Rindert Leegsma Katie Pickett
The African Studies Association has made all attempts to ensure the accuracy of the list of contributors. If we have inadvertently made an error, please accept our apologies and send your corrections to [email protected]. For questions, call 732-932-8173 x10.
50th Anniversaries Fundraising Campaign
June 11, 2008 – December 12, 2008
Donors and Pledges $1000 and above
African Studies Sandra Greene* Allen Isaacman Mougo and Lynette Center, Boston U Maria Grosz-Ngaté, Richard and Nyaggah Jean Allman* Patrick McNaughton, Jennifer Joseph Claire Robertson* Edward Alpers* and Indiana U Martin Klein Pearl Robinson* Charles Ambler* Africanists Bogumil Koss Ahmed Samatar Joel and Sandra Barkan Jane Guyer* Edris Makward Kathleen Sheldon* Sandra Barnes* Angelique Haugerud Ali Mazrui* Aili Mari Tripp Bruce Berman* David Henige Joseph Miller* Jan Vansina M. Crawford and Allen Howard* Stephen Ndegwa David Wiley* Rebecca Young* Goran and Catherine Newbury* Howard Wolpe* Donald Crummey Melania Hyden* David Newbury* Steven Feierman*
Donors and Pledges $1-999
Ismail Abdalla Kwadwo Anokwa Gretchen Bauer Hannah Abeodu Olayiwola Abegunrin* Anonymous* Roger Beck* Bowen-Jones Charisma Acey Kwame Anthony Wendy Belcher Cynthia Brantley* Adeyemi Adeleke Appiah Ruby Bell-Gam Lawrence Adeleke Adeyemi Mary Jo Arnoldi Norman Bennett* Breitborde* Afrika-Studiecentrum Eric Aseka Iris Berger Lisa Brock Kwame Agyenim- Catherine Ash* Paul Berliner George Brooks Boateng* Kelly Askew* Sara Berry* Spencer Brown Rexford Ahene Akwasi Assensoh Phyllis Bischof Jennie Burnet Osaore Aideyan Ralph Austen Paul Bjerk Abena Busia Omofolabo Ajayi- Gabeba Baderoon* Caroline Bledsoe Judith Byfi eld* Soyinka Jonathan Baker Jonathan Bonk Thomas Callaghy Emmanuel Teresa Barnes Catherine Boone* Tracey Carter Akyeampong Thomas Bassett Carol Boram-Hays Lee Cassanelli Richard Allen* Misty Bastian* Louise Bourgault Maria Cattell* Sandra Allen Atoma Batoma Karen Bouwer* Brenda Chalfi n Eric Allina-Pisano* Fodei Batty Merle Bowen Joanna Chataway Penelope Andrews Wenda Bauchspies Elizabeth Ciccone 8 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Gracia Clark Roger Gocking* Debora Johnson-Ross Jane Martin Dontraneil Clayborne Abraham Goldman John and Elizabeth Phyllis Martin Todd Cleveland Dokubo Goodhead Johnson-Ross Dismas Masolo Lynn Cockburn James Graham Hilary Jones James Matory* Jill Coelho* J. Andrew Grant Cédric Jourde Cheryl McCurdy Jennifer Coffman Suzanne Grant Lewis Bennetta Jules- Thomas McDow Herman Cohen Lewis Greenstein Rosette* Jamie McGowan Robert Collins David Groff Ngeta Kabiri* Beverly McGraw* Elizabeth Colson Anatoly Gromyko Tabitha Kanogo Harriet McGuire* Raymond Copson* Ricardo Guthrie Kasongo Kapanga* Dean McHenry* Catherine Coquery- Jane Guyer Ronald Kassimir Marjorie McIntosh* Vidrovitch* Rosalind Hackett Ray Kea Fiona McLaughlin R. Hunt Davis, Jr. Sondra Hale Girma Kebbede Patrick McNaughton Lynda Day William Hance Edmond Keller* Eugene Mensch Rosa De Jorio Antoinette Handley Nancy Kendall Charles Merwin Danielle de Lame Holger Bernt Hansen Vincent Khapoya John Middleton Francis Deng John Hanson Mae King Stephan Miescher William Dewey* John Harbeson* Jacqueline Klopp Gwendolyn Mikell Tatiana Deych* Ruth Hardage Thomas Kolasa Joyce Millen Mac Dixon-Fyle Joseph E. Harris Jeanne Koopman* Kim Miller Christine Djondo Ernest Harsch* Mark Kornbluh* Missouri State W. Graeme Donovan Alice Hashim Corinne Kratz University Marion Doro Angelique Haugerud* Emmanuel Kreike* James Mittelman* Henry Drewal Margaret Jean Hay Milton Krieger Harry Mokeba Philip Drouin Gabrielle Hecht Haile Larebo Jamie Monson* Roberta Dunbar* Joseph Hellweg Joseph Lauer Joyce Lewinger Joy Dworkin Errol Henderson Babatunde Lawal* Moock* David Easterbrook James Hentz Nancy Lawler Marissa Moorman* Myron Echenberg* Susan Herlin Margaret Lee Mark Moritz Joanne Eicher* Heather Hewett Rindert Leegsma* Robert Mortimer Risa Ellovich* Linda Heywood- Philip Leis Rodger Morton Kate Ezra Thornton René Lemarchand* K. P. Moseley Steven Fabian Francis Higginson John Lemly* Njayou Mounjohou Kathleen Fallon Catherine Higgs Hope Lewis* Jack Mower* Toyin Falola Thomas Hinnebusch Olga Linares Eileen Moyer Nancy Farwell Dorothy Hodgson Bernth Lindfors* Nansubuga Pamela Feldman- Frank Holmquist Peter Little* Mubirumusoke Savelsberg* Nicholas Hopkins* Julie Livingston* Helen Mugambi Ellen Foley Ian Hopwood David T. Lloyd Micere Mugo Barbara Frank Allen Howard Allison Loconto Akbar Muhammad Marion Frank Wilson Curtis Huff Carolyn Love Sharron Muhammad Elliot Fratkin Richard Hull* Stephen Lubkemann Mohamed Mukhtar Alan Frishman* Niklas Hultin Ghislaine Lydon Isabel Mukonyora Heidi Frontani Nancy Hunt Jean-Michel Edwin Munger Wilfred Gabsa John Hunwick Mabuko-Tali Bala Musa Jose Garcia-Rojas Judith Imel Van Allen Elizabeth Cheryl Mwaria Christraud Geary In Memory of MacGonagle Garth Myers* Guluma Gemeda Hermanus Jeanne Maddox Jonathan Ngate Abosede George G. Kreike Toungara* Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Gail Gerhart Joseph Inikori Bruce Magnusson Banoum Peter Geschiere* David Iyam Peter Malanchuk* Emilie Ngo-Nguidjol Gregory Ghent Baba Jallow* Zoliswa Mali Leah Niederstadt* Linda Giles Stanlie James* Kristin Mann* Carolyn Nolan Gracie Gilliam John Janzen Marton Markovits Celia Nyamweru* Paula Girshick* Alka Jauhari Irving Markovitz* Georges Nzongola- Harvey Glickman* Sheridan Johns, III* Carol L. Martin* Ntalaja* 9 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Raphael Ogom Adrien Mette Shayne* Michael Tuck Christian Okaegbu Ratsimbaharison Jan Shetler U of Illinois at Corann Okorodudu* Movindri Reddy Kate Showers Urbana- Isidore Okpewho Priscilla Reining Ellen Sieber Champaign Patrick O’Meara Elisha Renne* Marilyn Silberfein Wendy Urban-Mead Benson Onyeji Jonathan Reynolds* Pamela Simon USA for Africa Stephen Orvis Lisa Richey Elliott Skinner Ernest Uwazie Emily Osborn Lynne Rienner* Richard Sklar* Monica van Mary Osirim* Allen and Mary John David Slocum Beusekom Abena Osseo-Asare Roberts* Daniel Smith* Frances Vavrus* Simon Ottenberg* Richard Roberts* Sandra Smith Kenneth Vickery Gnimbin Ouattara David Robinson David Smock Jacqueline Vieceli David Owusu-Ansah Pearl T. Robinson Aliko Songolo Leonardo Villalon Melvin Page Wolf Roder* Elisee Soumonni Mikhail Vishnevskiy* Felicity Palmer Melissa Root John Spencer Immanuel Jack Parson* Donald Rothchild Amy Stambach Wallerstein Donna Patterson Victoria Rovine* Filomina Steady Denise Walsh Robin Paynor John Rowe Edward Steinhart* Gretchen Walsh* Richard Peck Diane Russell Jed Stevenson Herbert Weiss Philip Peek Martha Saavedra Kearsley Stewart Beth Whitaker Jeanne Penvenne Eunice Sahle Beverly Stoeltje Michael Whyte Felton Perry Saihou Saidy Margaret Ann Strobel Kenneth Wilburn Pauline Peters Eve Sandberg* Jo Sullivan* Ivor Wilks Loumona Petroff* Sandra Sanneh* L. Carol Summers* Elaine Wolo Katie Pickett Michael Schatzberg* Thaddeus Sunseri Prudence Woodford- Charles Piot Lange Schermerhorn Joseph Szlavik Berger* Anne Pitcher* Lynn Schler* Nina Tanner Robbins Dwayne Woods Scopas Poggo Elizabeth Schmidt* Lessie Tate* David Wunsch Helena Pohlandt- Richard Schroeder Bridget Teboh James Wunsch McCormick Nancy Schwartz Lynne Thomas Larry Yarak Robin Poynor Pamela Scully Carol Thompson Christopher Youé Robert Press* Edwin Segal Alexander Tkachenko Sherilynn Young James A. Quinn Ann Seidman* Karen Tranberg Hansen* Thomas Ziebell John James Quinn Elma Lorraine Shaw Dzodzi Tsikata Paul Tiyambe Zeleza Brenda Randolph
Please Note: Names marked by * have made multiple contributions within the date range specifi ed. The African Studies Association has made all attempts to ensure the accuracy of the list of contributors. If we have inadvertently made an error, please accept our apologies and send your corrections to [email protected]. For questions, call 732-932-8173 x10. 50 Year Anniversaries Fundraising Campaign Contributions from April 2004 through December 12, 2008
Goal: $500,000.00 12/12/2008
Total Contributions: $90,539.42
Amount to Raise: $409,460.58
Percentage of Goal: 18.11% 10 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey African Douglass Campus
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Dear Fellow Members of the African Studies Association,
For the past three years I have had the great honor to serve the Association as Chair of the 50th Anniversaries Campaign. You have all received numerous calls for support of the campaign from me and the four Co-Chairs of the campaign– Benetta Jules-Rosette, Ali Mazrui, Howard Wolpe, and Crawford Young– as well as from successive Presidents of the Association and Executive Director Carol Martin. Many of you have responded enthusiastically to our calls and we deeply appreciate your generosity.
As of September 30, 2008 we have raised a total of $87,514. Recognizing the diffi cult economic times that are upon us, I nevertheless write to appeal to every member of the Association to dig deep into your pockets so that we can achieve a goal of $100,000 by the time of the Annual Meeting in Chicago in November. If we can demonstrate that the members of the Association have committed $100,000 of their own funds to establish this endowment, it will enable the Board of Directors and the Executive Director to make a strong case to potential donors to the Association to match that commitment. Since the Campaign was launched, the Board has worked successfully to bring fi nancial order to the ASA’s budget; this endowment will help it to enhance and broaden ASA programs and services.
For the past two years you have heard the call for members to contribute $50 for the 50th. If all of us working together give at least that sum, we will certainly achieve our goal. To make a contribution online, go to www.africanstudies.org and click on Donate Today, or send a check to the ASA at its Rutgers University headquarters.
The African Studies Association is ours. The annual meeting provides an intellectual space where Africanists from diverse disciplines, backgrounds, and perspectives can meet and exchange ideas in a unique atmosphere. The Association’s member services and outreach activities are important contributions to promoting African Studies. Let’s show our commitment to this most important community of scholars and students of Africa by helping to raise $100,000 by the Annual Meeting!
Please also remember to continue to support the 50 year Anniversaries Campaign through December 31, 2008. Thank you!
Respectfully,
Ned Alpers 11 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 2008 ASA Award and Prize Recipients
ASA Members may submit nominations for ASA Awards and serve on ASA Award Committees. Contact the Executive Director should you be interested in serving on any of the Award Committees. The ASA Board of Directors congratulates all the Award recipients and extends its appreciation to the members of the Award and Prize Committees for their service to the Association.
Bashorun M.K.O. Abiola Lecture
The Bashorun M.K.O. Abiola Lecture was established in 1992 with a generous grant from the Honorable Bashorun M.K.O. Abiola to provide for a lecture by a senior African scholar selected by the ASA Board of Directors. The 2008 Abiola Lecturer was Bethwell Ogot, Moi University, with his lecture entitled, “Re-reading the History and Historiography of Epistimic Domination and Resistance in Africa.”
Distinguished Africanist Award
The ASA Distinguished Africanist Award was established in the 1980s to recognize and honor individuals who have contributed a lifetime record of outstanding scholarship in their respective fi eld of African studies and service to the Africanist community. The winner of the 2008 Distinguished Africanist Award was Edmond J. Keller, Department Chair of Political Science, University of California - Los Angeles. The Award Committee for 2008 consisted of the Prize Committee of the Board of Directors and non-Board members Mary Jo Arnoldi, Smithsonian Institution and Bogumil Jewsiewicki, Université Laval.
Any member of the African Studies Association is eligible to propose a candidate. Criteria for the Award are the distinction of contribution to Africanist scholarship, as measured by a lifetime of accomplishment and service in the fi eld of African studies. The nomination must include a vitae of the nominee, a detailed letter of nomination justifying the candidature in terms of the criteria for the award, and three similar letters from ASA members seconding the nomination. At least two of the latter must be affi liated with institutions other than that of the nominee. All nomination materials must be provided in English. The complete dossier of the candidate must be submitted on letterhead as a PDF emailed to [email protected] on or before February 15, 2009 or by postal mail postmarked on or before February 15, 2009 to African Studies Association, Distinguished Africanist Award, Rutgers University, Douglass Campus, 132 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1400.
Conover-Porter Book Award
The ASA Conover-Porter Book Award is presented in even-numbered years to recognize recognizes outstanding contributions to Africanist bibliography or reference works. The Award Committee for 2008 consisted of Lauris Olson, Chair, U of Pennsylvania, Marieta L Harper, Library of Congress, and Peter Limb, Michigan State University.
The 2008 awardees were Michel R. Doortmont and Jinna Smit, for Sources for the Mutual History of Ghana and the Netherlands: An Annotated Guide to Dutch Archives Relating to Ghana and West Africa in the Nationaal Archief, 1593-1960s (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2007).
12 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Graduate Student Paper Prize
The African Studies Association Board of Directors instituted the Graduate Student Paper Prize in 2001 to recognize the best paper presented by a graduate student during an Annual Meeting. The 2008 recipient of the Graduate Student Paper Prize was Kristin D. Phillips, University of Wisconsin-Madison, for “Consuming the State: Hunger, Healing, and Citizenship in Rural Tanzania” presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, October 18-21, 2007 in New York, NY.
All papers presented by graduate students at the 51st Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL are eligible for the Graduate Student Paper Prize, which will be awarded at the 52nd Annual Meeting in 2009. To apply for the Graduate Student Paper Prize, graduate students must submit their paper with a letter of recommendation from their advisor as a PDF emailed to [email protected] on or before January 15, 2009 or by postal mail postmarked on or before January 15, 2009 to African Studies Association, Graduate Student Paper Prize, Rutgers University, Douglass Campus, 132 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1400. Please note that ASA member graduate and undergraduate students with valid identifi cation cards can take advantage of a special discounted Annual Meeting student registration rates.
Melville J. Herskovits Award
The ASA annually presents the Melville J. Herskovits Award to the author of an outstanding original scholarly work published on Africa in the previous year. The 2008 Award recipients were Linda M. Heywood, Boston University, and John K. Thornton, Boston University for Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660 (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Parker Shipton, Boston University for The Nature of Entrustment: Intimacy, Exchange, and the Sacred in Africa (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007). The members of the 2008 Award Committee consisted of Diana Wylie, Chair, Boston University; Adam Ashforth, Northwestern University; Elisabeth Cameron, University of California-Santa Cruz; Toyin Falola, University of Texas; and Louise Meintjes, Duke University.
Nominations for the Herskovits Award are made directly by publishers who may nominate as many separate titles in a given year as they desire. Nominations must be sent to the Herskovits Award Committee members and postmarked on or before May 1, 2009. All nominations must meet the following criteria: * Non-fi ction scholarly works published in English in 2008 and distributed in the United States. * Only books copyrighted in 2008 are eligible for the 2009 Herskovits Award. * The subject matter must signifi cantly deal with Africa and/or related areas (Cape Verde, Madagascar, or Indian Ocean Islands off the East African coast).
Additional information about the nomination process is available at http://www.africanstudies.org/?page=herskovits
ASA Access Policy
The African Studies Association is committed to ensuring that its services and meetings are accessible to all Africanists. If you have any special needs or require special assistance to participate in an ASA event, please contact Suzanne Moyer, Senior Program Manager, at 932-732-8173 x10 or by email at [email protected].
13 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Coordinate Organization Corner
ASA Coordinate Organizations (Includes Sponsored, Associate, and Affiliate Organizations)
The ASA is delighted to partner with the following Coordinate Organizations in promoting African Studies:
Africa Today John Hanson: [email protected]
Africa-America Institute Rachel Serotta: [email protected] http://www.aaionline.org/
Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS) Patrick Chabal: [email protected] http://www.aegis-eu.org/
African Association of Political Science Adekunle Amuwo: [email protected] http://www.aaps.org.za/
African Islamic Studies Association (AISA) Lidwien Kapteijns: [email protected]
African Literature Association (ALA) Amy Elder: [email protected] http://www.africanlit.org/
African Politics Conference Group (APCG) Peter VonDoepp: [email protected] http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~dgalvan/apcg/apcg.html
Africana Librarians Council Miki Goral: [email protected] http://www.loc.gov/rr/amed/afs/alc/
Arts Council of the ASA (ACASA) Kate Ezra: [email protected] http://www.acasaonline.org/
Association for the Publication and Preservation of African Historical Sources (APPAHS) John Hanson: [email protected]
14 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Association of African Women Scholars Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka: [email protected] http://www.iupui.edu/~aaws/
Association of Concerned Africa Scholars (ACAS) Kristen Peterson: [email protected] http://www.prairienet.org/acas/
Eritrean Studies Association Kidane Mengisteab: [email protected] http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Org_Institutes/Eritrean_Studies_15742.html
Ethiopian Research Council Astair Mengesha: [email protected] http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Org_Institutes/Eth_res.html
Foundation for Contemporary Research (FCR) Denver Fourie: [email protected] http://www.fcr.org.za/
Gays & Lesbians in African Studies (GLAS) Manisha Bharti: [email protected] http://www.fhi.org/en/index.htm
Ghana Studies Council Dennis Laumann: [email protected] http://people.tamu.edu/~yarak/gsc.html
H-Africa [email protected] http://www.h-net.org/~africa/
H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online [email protected] http://www.h-net.org/
Igbo Studies Association (ISA) Gloria Chuku: [email protected] http://www.igbostudies.com/
Information and Communication Technology Group Michael Leslie: [email protected]fl .edu
Lusophone African Studies Organization (LASO) Sherilynn Young: [email protected] http://www.h-net.org/~lusoafri/
15 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Mande Studies Association (MANSA) David Conrad: [email protected] http://www.txstate.edu/anthropology/mansa/
Nigeria Studies Association Gloria Chuku: [email protected]
Outreach Council Jamie McGowan: [email protected] http://www.africa.upenn.edu/outreachcouncil/
Pan African Caucus Douglas Anthony: [email protected]
Sahara Fund, Inc. Teresa K. Smith de Cherif
Saharan Studies Association (SSA) David Gutelius: [email protected] http://www.saharanstudies.org/
Society of Africanist Archaeologists Paul Lane: [email protected] http://safa.rice.edu/
Tanzania Studies Association James R.Brennan: [email protected] http://www.csuchico.edu/soci/tanzania/
Title VI African National Resource Centers Lee Cassanelli: [email protected] http://www-sul.stanford.edu/africa/african-national-resource-centers.html
West African Research Association (WARA) Jennifer J. Yanco: [email protected] http://www.africa.ufl .edu/WARA/
Women’s Caucus Titilayo Ufomata: [email protected]
Yoruba Studies Council of the ASA (YOCASA) Adetayo Alabi: [email protected]
This list is accurate from the ASA’s last communication with each Coordinate Organization. Should you discover an error in the information, please email your corrections to [email protected]. For questions, call 732-932-8173 x16. 16 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 2008 ASA Election Results
Vice President: Charles Ambler, U of Texas at El Paso
Members of the Board of Directors: Emmanuel Akyeampong, Harvard University Mary Johnson Osirim, Bryn Mawr College M. Anne Pitcher, Colgate University
The ASA Board of Directors congratulates the new offi cer and directors and extends its sincerest appreciation to all the candidates for their willingness to serve the Association.
The ASA Board of Directors also wishes to thank the ASA members who served on the 2008 Election Committee: Mark Darko, Jubilee Revival Center, and Sean Jacobs, Brooklyn, NY. The ballot count was observed by Barbara Weldon, Rutgers University and managed by Carol L. Martin, ASA Executive Director.
New and Improved ASA Website in 2009!
In January 2009, the African Studies Association will launch an updated and more robust version of the ASA website. The website will provide ASA members, Annual Meeting attendees, and others interested in the ASA’s services with new and improved features including:
• ASA Communities: Online discussion boards and communities will allow ASA members to network around their academic and regional areas of interest.
• Online Surveying, Polling, and Voting: Participate in polls and surveys online. New online voting system for the election of the ASA Board of Directors.
• File and Resource Sharing: Share documents, photos, and even videos with your colleagues via a new fi le-sharing system.
• Improved Call for Proposals Process: Streamlined process for submitting proposals for the Annual Meeting, instant online access to the preliminary program, and online itinerary creator to plan your participation in annual meeting sessions.
• Updated ASA Member Directory: Connect with your ASA colleagues through this searchable directory. Expanded search capabilities allow you to fi nd specifi c individuals by institution or area of interest. Improved privacy customization allows you to self-manage the information you wish to display in the directory.
• Improved Shopping Cart Functionality: Payment for your purchases with new payment methods, including internationally issued credit cards, American Express, and Discover.
• ASA journal back issues and ASA Press publications will be available for purchase online.
• Support the ASA’s activities by volunteering or donating online.
Anyone with a valid email address in the current ASA database will have access to the updated website, but many of these new features, including the Member Directory, File and Resource Sharing, and ASA communities will only be available to current ASA Members. Visit www.africanstudies.org beginning in January 2009 to access the updated site.
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African
V VVV Studies Association 52nd ANNUAL MEETING KEY INFORMATION New Orleans, LA ~ November 19-22, 2009 “Africa at a Crossroads” Program Chair: Aili Tripp, University of Wisconsin-Madison, [email protected] Local Arrangements Committee Co-Chairs: Romanus Ejiaga, Southern University-New Orleans James P. Mokhiber, University of New Orleans Steven Salm, Xavier University of Louisiana
Call for Proposals Deadline Letters of Invitation Deadline March 15, 2009 September 30, 2009 Beginning in January 2009, the Annual A request for a Letter of Invitation can Meeting Online Proposal System will become be made by sending an email to accessible to individuals who have paid [email protected] with membership dues and the pre-registration “Letter of Invitation” in the subject line. Please fee or the non-member pre-registration fee. note: requests require 4-6 weeks to process. Please see the registration information below Requests received after September 30, 2009 if you reside in Africa. are not guaranteed to be processed.
Final Program Deadline for Corrections Annual Meeting Pre-registration Deadline September 15, 2009 September 30, 2009 Individuals may make updates to name, title, Please see the registration information below. and institutional affi liation only by updating her/his member record. Proposal title Hotel Reservations Deadline changes may be made by sending an email October 23, 2009 to [email protected]. Reserve your room early. Mention “African Studies Association” to receive the discounted Africa Resident Registration Deadline rate at the Marriott New Orleans, New Orleans, September 30, 2009 LA, while rooms are available. Individuals residing in Africa who wish to Tel: 504-553-5642 or Fax: 504-581-5749 attend the Annual Meeting may contact Travel Reservations: Travizon the Secretariat in writing to request Mention “ASA” to receive the discounted rate. authorization to pay registration onsite in Tel: 800-462-6461 or 585-436-1701 New Orleans, LA at the pre-registration rate. Requests may be sent via email with “Africa Annual Meeting Updates and Resident Registration” in the subject line to Additional Information [email protected] or by fax to Visit www.africanstudies.org and click on the 732-932-3394. Individuals may check the Annual Meeting link. status of their registration and print receipts Questions? [email protected] by logging on to their ASA account at www. or 732-932-8173 x15 africanstudies.org.
18 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 REGISTRATION All Annual Meeting participants are required to pay the registration fee. Individuals who wish to receive the pre-registration discount must pre-register on or before September 30, 2009. Individuals residing in Africa who wish to attend the Annual Meeting may contact the Secretariat in writing on or before September 30, 2009 to request authorization to pay registration onsite in New Orleans, LA at the pre-registration rate. Requests may be sent via email with “Africa Resident Registration” in the subject line to [email protected] or by fax to 732-932-3394. Individuals may check the status of their registration and print receipts by logging on to their ASA account at www.africanstudies.org.
Please pay online by logging on to your ASA account at www.africanstudies.org. Payment can be made by check or credit card. International residents who experience diffi culty with the online system can pay by check and mail it to the Secretariat on or before September 30, 2009 to African Studies Association, Rutgers, The State U 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 x11 or Fax: 732-932-3394 on or before September 30, 2009.
Pre-Registration Rates
Members Member with income $35,000 and above ...... $160 Member with income $34,999 and below ...... $100 Member Student (send a copy of a valid ID) ...... $100
Non-Members Non-Member with income $35,000 and above ...... $200 Non-Member with income $34,999 and below ...... $120 Non-Member Student (send a copy of a valid ID) ...... $120
Onsite Registration Rates You can register for the Annual Meeting on-site in New Orleans, LA beginning November 18, 2009 at the following rates:
Members Member with income $35,000 and above ...... $180 Member with income $34,999 and below ...... $105 Member Student (present a copy of a valid ID) ...... $105
Non-Members Non-Member with income $35,000 and above ...... $240 Non-Member with income $34,999 and below ...... $135 Non-Member Student (present a copy of a valid ID) ...... $135
Day Passes Individuals with income $35,000 and above ...... $140 Individuals with income $34,999 and below ...... $70 Students (present a copy of a valid ID) ...... $70
19 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009
African
V VVV Studies Association Key Dates 52nd Annual Meeting New Orleans, LA ~ November 19-22, 2009
January 2009: The Annual Meeting Online Proposal System will become accessible to individuals with paid 2009 ASA membership dues and pre-registration or individuals who have paid the non-member pre- registration fee. Individuals residing in Africa may pay onsite in New Orleans, LA upon written request to [email protected] with “Africa Resident Registration” in the subject line.
March 15, 2009: The Annual Meeting Online Proposal System will close at 11:59pm EST.
March 15, 2009: Coordinate Organization Panel and Roundtable proposals are due.
April 30, 2009: Coordinate Organization business meeting requests are due.
July 2009: The Preliminary Program will be posted to the ASA website: www.africanstudies.org. No corrections will be made to the online Preliminary Program.
September 15, 2009: Deadline to make corrections to name, title, and institutional affi liation to be refl ected in the Annual Meeting Program. The Annual Meeting Program will be distributed onsite in New Orleans, LA.
September 30, 2009: Pre-registration will close at 11:59pm EST. Individuals will be required to register onsite after this date.
September 30, 2009: Deadline for Africa residents to contact the Secretariat in writing to request authorization to pay registration onsite in New Orleans, LA at the pre-registration rate.
September 30, 2009: Requests for Letters of Invitation are due. Requests received after September 30, 2009 are not guaranteed to be processed.
October 23, 2009: Closing date to be guaranteed the ASA discount rate at the Marriott New Orleans, New Orleans, LA. Reserve your room early while rooms are available. Tel: 504-553-5642 or Fax: 504-581-5749
20 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 ASA Call for Proposals Deadline
Proposals for the November 19-22, 2009 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA will be due on: March 15, 2009 For more information, please visit our website: www.africanstudies.org
All proposals must be submitted through the Annual Meeting Online Proposal System by logging into your ASA account at www.africanstudies.org. Proposals that are submitted by email, hardcopy, or fax WILL NOT BE ACKNOWLEDGED. Beginning in July, individuals may check the status of their proposal by logging onto their ASA account or by visiting the ASA website, www.africanstudies.org, to consult the Preliminary Program.
Exhibit Hall Application Deadline
June 30, 2009 Or while booth space is available.
Early Bird Special: All applications for Exhibit Booths and/or Program Ads will receive an additional 10% discount if the payment is received on or before May 15, 2009.
SAVE THE DATE! Mark your calendar for future Annual Meetings
November 18-21, 2010 Westin St. Francis Hotel San Francisco, CA November 17-20, 2011 Marriott Wardman Park Hotel Washington, DC
21 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 CALL FOR PROPOSALS DEADLINE: March 15, 2009
52nd Annual Meeting November 19-22,2009 Marriott New Orleans Hotel New Orleans, LA
“Africa at a Crossroads”
Program Chair: Aili M. Tripp, University of Wisconsin-Madison, [email protected]
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION
All proposals must be submitted online at www.africanstudies.org beginning in January. Watch the ASA website for details. Proposals sent via email, hard copy, or fax WILL NOT be acknowledged.
REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTICIPATION
PLEASE NOTE: Membership dues and the pre-registration fee or the non-member pre-registration fee must be paid before a Panel, Paper, Roundtable, and/or Poster Session proposal can be submitted. The panel/roundtable chair must submit the panel/roundtable proposal and indicate the names of all participants.
Individuals who reside in Africa may request to pay the non-member pre-registration fee onsite at the Annual Meeting hotel. All requests to pay non-member pre-registration onsite from residents of Africa are automatically granted upon receipt of written contact via email with “Africa Resident Registration” in the subject line at [email protected] or via fax at 732-932-3394. Please include full name, institution or affiliation name, and contact information in the written request.
Other prospective participants who do not reside in the US may contact the Secretariat if they are unable to submit funds from overseas because of difficulties in obtaining foreign currency. PLEASE NOTE: The imposition of a fee for a US money order does not constitute difficulty in obtaining foreign exchange. The ASA does not provide funds for individuals to attend the Annual Meeting.
Each individual may make only one presentation, as a paper presenter, a roundtable participant, a poster session presenter, or a discussant. Individuals may chair one panel or roundtable in addition to making one presentation. The ASA online system will not allow the submission of more than one Panel, Paper, Roundtable, and/or Poster Session proposal per individual. The Program Committee will not review an incomplete proposal.
AFRICA RESIDENT REQUESTS TO PAY ONSITE Individuals who reside in Africa may request to pay the non-member pre-registration fee onsite at the Annual Meeting hotel. All requests to the pay the non-member pre-registration fee onsite from
22 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 residents of Africa are automatically granted upon receipt of written contact via email with “African Resident Registration” in the subject line at [email protected] or via fax at 732-932-3394. Please include full name, institution or affiliation name, and contact information in the written request.
LETTERS OF INVITATION The ASA can provide a Letter of Invitation to assist individuals in expediting visas and securing funding. A request for a Letter of Invitation can be made by sending an email to [email protected] with “Letter of Invitation” in the subject line. Please note: requests require 4-6 weeks to process. Requests received after September 30, 2009 are not guaranteed to be processed.
ASA POLICY ON PROPOSAL ACCEPTANCES The Program Chair, working with the Program Committee, bears final responsibility for accepting or declining all Annual Meeting proposals in accordance with guidelines that have been established by the ASA Board of Directors.
All paper proposals will be reviewed separately, whether they have been submitted individually or as part of a panel. The Program Committee has full authority to add or to delete presentations on a panel in order to accommodate proposals for individual papers and to enhance the overall quality of the program. Efforts will be made to contact the chair of the panel affected by a change when it is made. Publication deadlines, however, may take precedence over such notification.
NOTIFICATION Accepted proposals will be listed in the Preliminary Program, which will appear on the ASA website, www.africanstudies.org, in July. Notice that the Preliminary Program has been posted to the website will be sent via email. Prospective presenters may also view the status of their proposal in their online record.
NON-ATTENDANCE/WITHDRAWALS If a panel/poster/roundtable presenter cannot attend the Annual Meeting, the individual’s paper cannot be presented. Individuals may not substitute as presenters for another individual in a panel/poster/roundtable session. Presenters should notify the Secretariat in writing as soon as possible if they will not be able to attend. The information will be included in the Final Program or in the Final Program addendum. Replacement presenters cannot be added after the Call for Proposals has closed.
REPLACEMENT CHAIRS If a person assigned as a Panel or Roundtable Chair cannot attend the Annual Meeting, the replacement chair will be selected from the other panel/roundtable presenters on the basis of alphabetical order by last name. Efforts will be made to contact the chair of the panel affected by a change when it is made. Publication deadlines, however, may take precedence over such notification.
REFUND POLICY As per policy established during the 2008 Fall Board Meeting, Annual Meeting pre-registration fees will only be refunded if an individual’s paper, panel, poster, or roundtable proposal has been declined and the individual will not be attending the Annual Meeting. All pre-registration fee refunds for declined proposals must be made in writing via email to [email protected] or via fax at 732-932-3394. Membership dues cannot be refunded. Membership dues and pre-registration fees are not transferrable.
COORDINATE ORGANIZATION PROPOSALS PLEASE NOTE: ASA Sponsored Organizations may submit two proposals (i.e. two panels, two roundtables, or one panel and one roundtable) to be accepted without review by the Program Committee. ASA Associate Organizations may submit one proposal (i.e. one panel, or one roundtable) to be accepted without review by the Program Committee. ASA Affiliate Organization proposals are subject to review by the Program Committee and are not guaranteed acceptance. The panel/roundtable chair must submit the panel/roundtable proposal and indicate the names of all participants. Proposals must meet all the requirements for participation that are listed above. All proposals must be submitted on or before the Call for Proposals deadline of March 15, 2009.
23 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 ACCESS POLICY The African Studies Association is committed to ensuring that its services and meetings are accessible to all Africanists. If you have any special needs or require special assistance to participate in an ASA event, please contact Suzanne Moyer, Senior Program Manager, at 932-732-8173 x10 or by email at [email protected].
SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL
All proposals must be submitted online at www.africanstudies.org beginning in January. Watch the website for details. Proposals sent via e-mail, hardcopy, or fax WILL NOT be acknowledged.
The Program Committee will not review an incomplete proposal. All proposals must be submitted on or before the March 15, 2009 Call for Proposals deadline.
CO-AUTHORS Co-authors who reside in Africa and who WILL NOT be attending the Annual Meeting are not required to pay pre-registration fees. Requests to waive payment for a non-attending Africa resident co-author will be granted upon receipt of written contact via email with “Non-Attending Africa-Resident Co- Author” in the subject line at [email protected] or via fax at 732-932-3394. Please include the co-author’s full name, institution or affiliation name, and contact information. PLEASE NOTE: A co-author cannot be added after a paper has been accepted by the Program Committee.
PANEL PROPOSALS All proposals must be submitted online at www.africanstudies.org beginning in January. Watch the ASA website for details. Proposals sent via email, hard copy, or fax WILL NOT be acknowledged.
A panel typically has a chair, at least two or up to four paper presenters, and a discussant. A panel proposal consists of the “Panel Proposal” form, the panel abstract, and a “Paper Proposal” form with an abstract for each paper presenter. The panel abstract should consist of a statement about the topic and a brief summary of the main argument(s) to be explored (approximately one paragraph, or 8-10 sentences).
The quality of the panel abstract is the main criterion for acceptance; a panel with a weak abstract or with two or more weak paper abstracts is unlikely to be accepted. PLEASE NOTE: The Program Committee may add individual papers to a proposed panel and/or a discussant if one has not been indicated.
All panel chairs are required to complete a Chair Evaluation Form at the conclusion of session. Evaluation forms will be provided onsite at the Annual Meeting hotel.
PAPER PROPOSALS/POSTER SESSION PROPOSALS All proposals must be submitted online at www.africanstudies.org beginning in January. Watch the ASA website for details. Proposals sent via email, hard copy, or fax WILL NOT be acknowledged.
The “Paper Proposal” form should be completed for each paper that is being proposed for a panel or for individual submission. The paper or poster session abstract should consist of a statement about the topic, the nature and extent of the research on which the paper or poster session is based and a brief summary of the main argument(s) (approximately one paragraph, or 8-10 sentences). The quality of the paper or poster session abstract is the main criterion for acceptance.
The Program Committee will create panels from individual submissions with common themes and identify a panel chair and, if possible, a discussant. Individual proposals may also be added to proposed panels at the discretion of the Program Committee. Potential presenters strongly are encouraged to submit a paper proposal as part of a panel.
24 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 ROUNDTABLE PROPOSALS All proposals must be submitted online at www.africanstudies.org beginning in January. Watch the ASA website for details. Proposals sent via email, hard copy, or fax WILL NOT be acknowledged.
A roundtable typically consists of a chair and at least two or up to four presenters. A roundtable proposal consists of the “Roundtable Proposal” form, the roundtable abstract, and the proposed roundtable participants. The roundtable abstract should consist of a statement about the topic and a brief summary of the main argument(s) to be explored (approximately one paragraph, or 8-10 sentences). The quality of the roundtable abstract is the main criterion for acceptance. A roundtable with a weak abstract is unlikely to be accepted.
YOUNG SCHOLAR INITIATIVE The Young Scholar Panels were initiated by the ASA Board of Directors in order to highlight graduate student research in progress and reports from the field. Graduate students were scheduled to present on a panel chaired by a senior scholar. Beginning in 2008, the “Young Scholar Panel” designation has been discontinued. Graduate students are encouraged to organize their own panels and roundtables.
GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER PRIZE The ASA Board of Directors established the Graduate Student Paper Prize in 2001 to recognize the best graduate student paper presented at the previous year's Annual 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 expedited peer review process for possible publication of the prize-winning paper. Graduate students may submit their paper with a letter of recommendation from their advisor postmarked on or before January 15 of the year following the Annual Meeting to: Graduate Student Paper Prize Competition, African Studies Association, Rutgers University, Douglass Campus, 132 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901- 1400, or emailed as a PDF attachment to [email protected].
INDICATING A SUB-THEME All proposals should designate the section for which the proposal is most appropriate. The theme for 2009, Africa at a Crossroads, is divided into 15 thematic sections labeled A through P. Please review the theme statement below for a listing of the sub-themes. All proposals are reviewed by the Sub- theme Chair(s), who, together with the Program Chair, constitute the Program Committee.
AUDIO VISUAL EQUIPMENT The ASA will provide complimentary screens ONLY. Poster session presenters may also request a chalkboard and/or a corkboard by sending an email to [email protected] with "Poster Session Materials" in the subject line, on or before September 1, 2009.
Presenters who wish to rent AV equipment through the ASA’s contracted AV vendor may consult the contact information that will be on this page on or before August 15, 2009. Presenters may also bring their own AV projection equipment onsite.
PLEASE NOTE: Should you decide to use the ASA contracted AV vendor or to bring your own equipment onsite the African Studies Association assumes no liability. Panel/roundtable chairs are requested to ensure that the AV equipment use does not prejudice the time that is allotted for others.
25 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 ASA 2009 Annual Meeting Theme
“Africa at a Crossroads” November 19-22, 2009 New Orleans, LA, at the New Orleans Marriott Hotel
Program Chair: Aili Tripp, University of Wisconsin-Madison, [email protected]
Call for Proposals opens in January, 2009 Call for Proposals closes March 15, 2009
Africa is at a watershed. It is on the cusp of some major changes in its economies, politics, technologies, cultures, and engagement with the rest of the world. This moment, like all moments of transition, is full of exciting possibilities but also many daunting challenges. The theme, “Africa at a Crossroads,” invites participants of the 2009 ASA Annual Meeting to look at Africa with a new appreciation for some of the rapid changes the continent is undergoing and to examine both the opportunities and the dilemmas posed by these developments. It invites us to think about new ways of repositioning Africa in the popular imagination and global discourse. The theme also allows us to ask: Who are the leading visionaries in Africa today and how are their ideas shaping the continent? How have Africans envisioned their futures in the past and how have these visions been realized? To mention a few of these transformations:
Africa today is experiencing the fastest economic growth rates it has seen since independence: While Africa’s economies are among the most fragile in the world as evident in the continent wide food crisis, real average GDP growth rates today are over 5.7% for the continent and no African country has succumbed to negative GDP growth rates since 1999. Africa is experiencing increases in exports, foreign reserves, remittances, and foreign direct investment, while its debt has decreased. China and India are emerging as important trading partners. In 2004, infl ation overall in Africa fell below double digits to its lowest rate in a quarter of century and these rates subsequently have been maintained.
These developments have been the result of overall continued improvement in monetary and fi scal policies, somewhat better access to markets in the global North, increased foreign aid and debt relief, as well as higher commodity prices. There also has been increased spending on pro-poor measures: major allocations of money by governments, as well as by multilateral and bilateral donors, towards education, health and other social services, including AIDS programs, improvements in infrastructure, and a larger role for microfi nance institutions. The decrease in the numbers of major civil confl icts also has allowed for recovery in many countries.
However, the global fi nancial crisis and high food and energy prices are putting whatever gains have been made through economic reform and growth strategies in peril. The benefi ts of this growth have not been uniformly felt across the continent, nor have they been enjoyed by the poorest members of society. Very few countries have maintained the 7% growth rates that would be necessary to reduce poverty. Agricultural development remains seriously ignored along with the major agricultural producers, e.g., women. Job creation remains the number one concern in opinion polls across Africa. This is an especially pressing concern given the youthfulness of the continent, with 62% of the population in Africa under the age of 24. The quest for oil and other strategic resources has expanded foreign interest in Africa, but it also brings with it its own threats of subverting African initiatives and priorities. The tax base is still limited, with implications for state building. Africa still lacks the necessary commodity diversifi cation, making it vulnerable to changes in international markets and climatic changes. Competitiveness is hampered by weaknesses in infrastructure, governance structures, skills and technology base.
There has been a steady decline in major confl icts in countries like South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique, Burundi, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Angola. This can be attributed to factors like the end of the Cold War, the increased importance of international and regional peacekeeping initiatives, greater international scrutiny of the activities of warlords and rebels, and the rise in infl uence of peace movements and women’s movements. International awareness has heightened around issues relating to child soldiers, blood diamonds, and violence against civilians, resulting in changing norms and practices. Panel/roundtable/poster session proposers might ask, can these trends be sustained given that the conditions that gave rise to confl ict remain in its aftermath? 26 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 There has been a shift, albeit tentative, towards political liberalization and democratization in Africa since the 1990s. We have witnessed an increase in civilian-led regimes, constitutional revisions and reforms in almost all countries, the introduction of multipartyism, the holding of contested elections in most countries, greater freedom of expression and association, and an increase in political and civil liberties. The number of democratic countries has increased since 1990 while most African countries today could be considered semi-democratic regimes that are neither fully democratic, nor are they the autocracies of the past. For the fi rst time, we are observing signs that legislatures and judiciaries are beginning to assert themselves in the face of efforts to expand executive powers. Panel/roundtable/ poster session proposers might ask, for example: How might the opportunities created by these political openings lead to more productive synergies between government, private sector, civil society, donor and other actors?
The growth of civil society and an independent media has been one of the most important transformations since the 1990s. Civil society has taken advantage of new openings in political space to advocate for their concerns regarding the environment, human rights, women’s rights, land rights, presidential term limits, customary laws and practices, media and NGO autonomy, and many other concerns. Since the 1990s, and especially since 2000, development and human rights discourses merged to form new rights-based approaches in Africa and also globally. Panel/roundtable/ poster session proposers might explore what the lack of full civil and political liberties means to the strengthening of this sector and the future of advocacy on the continent.
Women have become visible in new ways in African politics and societies over the past decade, often in unexpected ways, setting new precedents. Rwanda’s parliament has the highest percentage of women in the world (56%). In fact, Africa has some of the highest rates of female legislative representation in the world, with women claiming over 30% of the parliamentary seats in Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, and Burundi. In November 2005, Liberia’s Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf became the fi rst elected woman president in Africa. Uganda had a female vice president for a decade and there have been six female prime ministers in Africa since the mid-1990s. These are just a few of the dramatic changes in women’s status that are underway in Africa today. While women have emerged onto the political landscape, often as a result of the perception that they are not tainted by corruption, warmongering, and politicized ethnicity, we might ask what difference can they make and can they withstand the powerful institutional constraints that have promoted entrenched systems of patrimonial politics?
No discussion of new futures can ignore the role and predicament of the youth. Papers, roundtables, and poster sessions might explore the experiences of youth and the implications for harnessing and redirecting their energies through vocational training and other measures so that they are not relegated to lives of desperation, marginality and unemployment. The role of young people in the informal economy is of particular importance, given the creative and challenging solutions they are devising in response to betrayals by those in power.
In the area of social services, many of the traditional gaps slowly are closing, some in the context of the challenge of meeting the Millenium Development Goals. The net primary school enrollment rate in Africa increased by 20% between 1991 to 2005, reaching an average rate of 71%. The gap between girls and boys enrollment has decreased signifi cantly at the primary and secondary levels. In at least seven African countries the number of women exceeds that of men at the university level.
In the area of health, the changes have been painfully slow. While there are some bright spots (e.g., drops in mortality rates for children under 5 years of age), the average life expectancy went up by only two years to 49 years of age between 1975 and 2005 and maternal mortality rates are still very high and have only decreased minimally over the past quarter of a century.
The picture regarding AIDS is somewhat brighter in several countries. Today, HIV/AIDS affects Africa more than any other region in the world. Based on the latest 2008 data submitted to the UN General Assembly Special Session on AIDS, there have been signifi cant drops in HIV infection rates in Africa since 2001 and a leveling off in some of the worst affected countries in southern Africa. These developments are related to changing behavior, including increased use of condoms, delay of fi rst sexual experience, and fewer sexual partners. Panels/roundtable/poster session proposers might explore some of the continuing challenges in this area: universal access to healthcare services, adopting a comprehensive response that addresses all aspects of health and nutrition, violence against women, prevention and treatment strategies, and the human rights aspects of the disease. 27 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 New means of communications are revolutionizing the continent, as Internet and cell phone use has grown at an exponential rate. The new rates of increased Internet use are almost triple that of the rest of the world since 2000. Although coverage still is limited throughout most of Africa, the Internet already has been used for extraordinary and innovative purposes. For example, women in parts of rural Uganda use the Internet to track agricultural prices. New community multipurpose telecenters are being formed. New blogging communities have emerged throughout Africa, communicating in English, French, Portuguese, Arabic and Swahili. There are interactive news sites, including the reporting and tracking of outbreaks of violence by local NGOs on a map during the unrest in Kenya after the 2007 elections (Ushahidi.com). Africa also has the world’s fastest growing mobile phone market with an average growth rate (65%) that is double that of the rest of the world. Cell phones are an especially attractive medium because they do not require full literacy or the ability to read in a foreign language. The expansion of these new technologies and their various uses continues to raise questions of access while bringing attention to the creative new uses to which they are being applied.
African culture, which is constantly in fl ux, historically has borrowed from and infl uenced global trends. Popular religion, music, dance, football and other forms of culture create a range of possibilities for envisioning different sorts of futures. Afrobeat continues to evolve and claim new enthusiasts around the world, while an African hip hop scene has exploded, challenging repression, violence, and materialism. The wildly popular ndombolo, originating in Congo, has spread quickly across many parts of Africa as did kwassa kwassa two decades earlier. Nollywood fi lms and soap operas have taken Africa by storm, becoming the third largest fi lm industry worldwide. The largest African fi lm festival across the continent, the FESPACO (Panafrican Film and TV Festival of Ouagadougou), has been energized by the digital revolution and by the arrival of South Africa on the cinematic scene. Other art forms, like cartooning and popular theater, are evolving rapidly and have taken on new salience in the context of political critique. There also has been a fl owering of literary creativity throughout the continent.
Periods of rapid change also pose particular challenges to communities, which seek new meaning and ways to understand their role in a globalizing world. Panel/roundtable/poster session proposers might consider the tensions between competing values, sources of knowledge and symbolic systems and efforts to redefi ne them through greater awareness of the past.
Finally, our program should feature and engage some of the voices within Africa who are articulating new visions for the continent’s future. A few of these visionaries include:
• Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (former fi nance minister of Nigeria and current Managing Director of the World Bank) • Mo Ibrahim (Sudanese entrepreneur and philanthropist) • Herman Chinery-Hesse (owner of SoftTribe, the leading computer technology company in West Africa, pioneering “tropically tolerant software”) • Neil Turok (founder of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in South Africa who is opening 15 new math centers across Africa) • Ivorian architect and designer Issa Diabate • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (winner of the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction for Half of a Yellow Sun, Nigeria) • Youssou Ndour (Senegalese musician and mbalax innovator) • Vabah Gayfl or (Minister of Gender, Liberia) • Founders of the African Women’s Development Fund: Joana Foster (Ghana), Hilda Tadria (Uganda) and Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi (Nigeria/UK) • Journalists Andrew Mwenda (Uganda) and Sydney Masamvu (Zimbabwe) • AIDS activists Dr. Noerine Kaleeba (founder, TASO - AIDS Support Organization, Uganda) and Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge (former Deputy Minister of Health, South Africa)
28 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 • Maina Kiai (Chairman of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights) • Jacqueline Moudeina (lawyer and human rights activist, Chad) • Wangari Maathai (Nobel Prize winner, environmentalist) • Corneille Ewango (forest conservationist working in the Ituri Forest of Eastern Congo) • Zainab Bangura (Foreign Minister, Sierra Leone, and spokesperson regarding food crisis) • Dr. Leon Ngoma Miezi Kintaudi (reviving the devastated health-care system of Congo) • Sylvia Tamale (Dean of Faculty of Law at Makerere University, Uganda, leading human rights, gay rights and gender studies scholar) • Idi Alphadi (Nigerian fashion designer; instigator of recent African fashion show in Kenya with focus on peace and reconciliation).
These are just a few of the many individuals who are engaged in some of the most forward thinking on the continent today.
The program themes will include the following: A. Africa’s Evolving Engagements with the World B. Historical Perspectives on Transformation C. Economic Reconstruction and Agricultural Development D. Environmental Past, Present, and Future E. Ending and Preventing Confl ict F. Politics and Society in Transition G. Legal and Constitutional Reform H. Women as Agents of Regeneration and Change I. The Challenges of Youth J. Knowledge as Power: New Tools for Change K. Healing in Diffi cult Times L. Revolutionizing Communications M. Envisioning Change through Culture and Community N. Renaissance in Literature and the Arts O. Religious, Spiritual, and Symbolic Renewal
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African
V VVV Studies Association Style Guidelines
Please print out these Style Guidelines for reference when completing your Annual Meeting proposal.
Please note that the Preliminary Program and the Final Program are generated directly from an individuals ASA record. The information that you provide online in your ASA record for the spelling of your name, your institutional affiliation, and the title of your paper/poster session/panel/roundtable proposal is exported to your Annual Meeting registration badge and the Preliminary and Final Programs exactly as you have typed it.
General Guidelines x All information should be provided in English and use the American convention, i.e., “color,” “customize,” “program,” etc. x Begin all the key words in the title with upper case letters, i.e., The Future of Africa x 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” x Indicate the title of a book with quotation marks, i.e., “Future of Africa” x Multiple-part panel/roundtable proposals should be indicated in the title using Roman numerals, i.e., The Future of Africa, Part II
Abbreviations x Abbreviate “University” as “U” x Abbreviations and acronyms should not carry a period, i.e., Rutgers U, UCLA, UNESCO x “Circa” should be abbreviated “ca.” x Do not use symbols, i.e., “&” should be spelled out as “and” x 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
Punctuation Guidelines x Do not place quotation marks at the beginning and/or the end of the title, i.e., The Future of Africa not “The Future of Africa” x Do not place a period at the end of the proposal title, i.e., The Future of Africa not The Future of Africa. x Punctuation should be placed inside quotation marks: ,” and .” etc. x Single quotation marks (‘) should be placed within double quotation marks (“) x Use serial commas, i.e., The Future of Africa and the Experience of Men, Women, and Children
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John Q. Public Johnny Public Smithsonian Institution or Smithsonian
30 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Call For Applications
Indiana University African Studies Collection also must be used before Studies Program Short- includes several special, August 15, 2009, and term Residencies archival collections. recipients are expected Additional information to reside in Bloomington Indiana University African about the IU Libraries during the period of their Studies Program invites and its African Studies awards. applications for short-term Collection may be residencies to conduct found at: http://www. There is no special research in IU’s Libraries/ libraries.iub.edu/index. application form. African Studies Collections. php?pageId=322. Applicants are asked to Indiana University’s Questions may be directed submit a curriculum vitae African Studies Collection to African Studies Librarian and a brief proposal. The ranks among the top tier Dr. Marion Frank-Wilson proposal should include of such collections in the at 812-855-1481 or a) a description of the U.S. It comprises more [email protected] project and its intended than 130,000 volumes of or to Liberia Collections outcome, b) demonstrate monographs and over 700 Project Coordinator Dr. the relationship of the IU serial subscriptions as well Verlon Stone at 812-856- African Studies Collection as materials in other formats 0782 or stonevl@indiana. and/or special collections (e.g. posters, slides, fi lm/ edu. to the project, and c) the video, audio tapes, etc). length and preferred dates The focus of the collection This faculty residency of the visit. The deadline is on the humanities and is intended for faculty for applications is January social sciences, supporting members at HBCUs and 30, 2009. Awards will be a wide range of students colleges/universities announced by February and faculty in such with limited Africa 20, 2009. departments as history, collections to use Indiana anthropology, fi ne arts, University’s libraries and Send applications to: theatre & drama, literature, special collections for Library Residency folklore, ethnomusicology, research in support of African Studies Program communication and culture, curriculum development Woodburn Hall 221 linguistics, religious studies, or publications. Successful Indiana University education, political science, applicants will receive Bloomington, IN 47405 business, economics, an award of up to journalism, and applied $3,000 to cover travel, Deadline: January 30, health science. accommodations in 2009 Bloomington, and a modest In addition to the working per diem for a 2-4 week collection, IU’s African period of research. Awards
31 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Call For Nominations
The Holberg International one of these fi elds or through her work. Joined nominations Memorial Prize 2009 interdisciplinary work. of the same candidate are Through his/her scholarly discouraged. The Board of the Ludvig work, the prizewinner must Holberg Memorial Fund have had a decisive infl uence Nominations are strictly hereby invites nominations on international research confi dential. They shall not for the Holberg International in the fi eld, for instance be disclosed to the nominee Memorial Prize for outstanding through the development of or to others, not even after scholarly work in the new theory, knowledge or the prize winner has been academic fi elds of the arts and insight, through making new announced. humanities, social science, law use of existing theories or and theology. through the methods used. Nominations can be made online or sent by letter to the The prize, which was The Board of the Ludvig following address by January established by the Norwegian Holberg Memorial Fund will 20, 2009: Parliament in 2003, is award the prize on the basis awarded annually by the of the recommendation from The Holberg Prize Board of the Ludvig Holberg the Holberg Prize Academic University of Bergen Memorial Fund. The prize Committee. P.O. Box 7800 for 2009 is NOK 4.5 million NO-5020 Bergen (approx. 570,000/$900,000). Scholars holding a senior position at universities and For more information on The winner of the prize will other research institutions nomination to Holberg be announced in September within the above mentioned International Memorial Prize, 2009, and the award academic fi elds are entitled contact: ceremony will take place in to nominate candidates Bergen on 25 November 2009. for the Holberg Prize. The Trine Kleven, Project letter of nomination must be Manager, Holberg Prize The prize will be awarded written in English, state the Email: trine.kleven@ to scholars who have made reasons for the nomination holbergprisen.no outstanding contributions (2 to 3 pages), contain a Tel: +47 55 58 69 92 to research in the arts and brief CV for the candidate humanities, social science, and suggest referees who Deadline: January 20, law or theology, either within know the scholar and his/ 2008
ASA 52nd Annual Meeting “Africa at a Crossroads” November 19-22, 2009 New Orleans, LA, at the New Orleans Marriott Hotel
Program Chair: Aili M. Tripp, University of Wisconsin-Madison
32 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Call For Submissions
The Human Sciences aspirations. The Africa Focus internet and email address Research Council (HSRC) 2008 issue will be structured lists and, where applicable, around the broad theme attach the printed poster to The Human Sciences of governance in Africa, advertising or notice boards Research Council (HSRC), and include the following in your institution. In this South Africa’s premier sections: way you will contribute social research institution, 1. The state of the African to another step towards has identifi ed the need for state the democratization of a platform for critical and 2. Knowledge and knowledge in Africa, and the innovative debates around transformation promotion of African voices themes that will contribute 3. Environment and natural in the international debates to the dissemination of the resources on social science. views of African scholars 4. Economy and livelihoods among research, policy 5. Health and well-being Further enquiries can be and academic institutions, 6. Africa and the world made to Dr Gerard Hagg, civil society organizations Democracy and Governance and governments, both Africa Focus will be published Research Programme, in Africa and abroad. For by the HSRC Press. Human Sciences Research this purpose the HSRC Council, P Bag X41, Pretoria, has initiated a new annual To ensure that emerging 0001, South Africa; E-mail: publication under the scholars get an equal [email protected]; Fax: title Africa Focus. The opportunity to publish in +27 12 302 2801. Or Dr series’ unique trait and Africa Focus, the HSRC Peter Kagwanja, Africa Policy contribution will be its extends a call for chapters Institute, pkagwanja@ ability to illuminate African through its own and other africapi.org. Alternative voices on policy and to chart networks. For this purpose contact: Dr Priscilla Wamucii, new paths and contexts in we would like to request you [email protected]. the production of research to disseminate the attached knowledge relevant to Call for chapters as widely Deadline: January 31, Africa’s developmental as possible through your 2008
Shryock Medal Essay among historians interested research or show an Contest, 2009 in the history of medicine. unusual appreciation and The award is given for an understanding of problems Graduate students in the outstanding, unpublished in the history of medicine. In United States and Canada essay by a single author particular, the committee will are invited to enter the on any topic in the history judge essays on the quality Shryock Medal Essay of medicine. The essay of writing, appropriate use Contest. The medal honors (maximum 9,000 words, of sources, and ability to Richard Harrison Shryock including endnotes) must address themes of historical (1893–1972), a pioneer be the result of original signifi cance. 33 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 The winner will be invited to students who have been 36th St., Philadelphia, PA, attend the 2009 meeting of enrolled in such a program 19104, e-mail: linker@sas. the Association, 23–26 April, should submit their essays upenn.edu. Essays must be in Cleveland, Ohio, where the to the Shryock competition; postmarked or submitted medal will be conferred. medical students who have electronically via e-mail not done such graduate work (which is the preferred Reasonable travel expenses for should submit their essays method of submission) no the winner will be provided, as to the Osler competition. No later than January 15, 2009. will a two year complimentary student should submit an essay membership in the AAHM. If the to both competitions in the Offi ce of the Sect-Treasurer, Shryock Medal Committee also same year. Essays that have AAHM selects an essay for honorable been awarded an Honorable MS 1025 mention, its author will receive Mention are not eligible for University of Kansas Medical a certifi cate and a two-year resubmission. Center complimentary membership in 3901 Rainbow Blvd. the AAHM. Complete contest information Kansas City, KS 66160-7311 may be viewed on the AAHM 913-588-7040 This competition is open to website: www.histmed.org/ [email protected] students enrolled in a graduate Awards or obtained from the program in any discipline, Shryock Medal Committee Deadline: January 15, including medicine, in the chair: Beth Linker, Ph.D., 2009 United States or Canada at the University of Pennsylvania, time of submission. Medical 365 S. Logan Hall, 249 S.
Grants and Fellowships
The Africa-U.S. Higher Focus areas include: For details on the Initiative, Education Initiative 1) agriculture, environment contact Teshome Alemneh at and natural resources [email protected]. HED anticipates making 2) health For additional information 20 awards of up to 3) science and technology on CBNRM, contact $50,000 for planning 4) engineering Marilyn Crane at mcrane@ grants. The application 5) education and teacher hedprogram.org. Program deadline is February 2, training offi cers are also available by 2009. The purpose of the 6) business, management, phone at 202-243-7680. awards is to plan for long- and economics. term collaboration that Deadline: February 2, empowers higher education For more information about 2009. institutions to contribute these competitions, view more effectively to African the full announcements development. online at www.hedprogram. org.
34 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Newberry Library around those collections. of short-term fellowships Fellowships in the Long-term residential varies form one week to two Humanities, 2009-2010 fellowships are available months. The amount of the for periods of six to eleven award is generally $1600 The Newberry Library, months to postdoctoral per month. Applications an independent research scholars who must hold for long-term fellowships library in Chicago, Illinois, the PhD at the time of are due January 12, 2009; invites applications for its application. The stipend for applications for most short- 2009-2010 Fellowships in these fellowships ranges term fellowships are due the Humanities. Newberry from $25,500 to $70,000. March 2, 2009. For more Library fellowships support In 2008-2009 the Library information or to download research in residence inaugurated a new Terra application materials, visit at the Library, and all Foundation for American our website at: http://www. proposed research must Art Fellowship in Art History newberry.org/research/ be appropriate to the carrying an academic-year felshp/fellowshome.html collections (excluding the stipend of $70,000 for a full Terra Foundation Fellowship professor (or its equivalent If you would like materials and certain short-term outside the academy) sent to you by mail, write to awards). Our fellowship and $50,400 for all other the Committee on Awards, program rests on the belief awardees. Short-term 60 West Walton Street, that all projects funded residential fellowships are Chicago, IL 60610-3380. If by the Newberry benefi t intended for postdoctoral you have questions about the from engagement both scholars or PhD candidates fellowships program, contact with the materials in the from outside the Chicago [email protected] or Newberry’s collections and area who have a specifi c 312-255-3666. with the lively community need for Newberry of researchers that gathers collections. The tenure Deadline: January 12, 2009 and March 2, 2009
Southern Africa: Angola, Botswana, Namibia, the full announcements Transforming Zambia, South Africa and online at www.hedprogram. Community-Based Zimbabwe. Partners will org. For details on the Natural Resource collaborate with NGOs Initiative, contact Teshome Management (CBNRM) already working to promote Alemneh at talemneh@ effective management HEDprogram.org. For HED expects to make one of game parks and additional information on (1) award of up to $600,000 natural resources in the CBNRM, contact Marilyn for a three-year higher Kavano-Zambezi (KAZA) Crane at mcrane@ education partnership Transfrontier Conservation hedprogram.org. Program to enhance community- Area in Southern Africa. offi cers are also available by based natural resource The application deadline is phone at 202-243-7680. management in southern January 26, 2009. African higher education Deadline: January 26, institutions in three or more For more information about 2009. of the following countries: these competitions, view
35 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Recent Doctoral Dissertations
Compiled by Joseph J. Lauer (Michigan State University)
The US and Canadian theses listed below were reported in Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI), vol. 68, no. 12-vol. 69, no. 5 (June-Nov. 2008). Each citation ends with the order number, if any. American and Canadian theses are usually available from Proquest. See UMI Dissertation Publishing at http://www.proquest.com/products_umi/dissertations/ for abstracts and other details.
Agriculture Diarra, Aminata Sidibe. Manyame, Comfort. Predicting amounts of rock On-farm yield and water use response of pearl millet Breeyen, Alana Den. phosphate needed for crop to different management Biological control of production in West African practices in Niger. PhD, Texas Imperatus cylindrica in soils [Mali & Senegal]. PhD, A&M U, 2006. 3296467. West Africa using fungal U of Hawai’i at Manoa, 2007. pathogens. PhD, U of Florida, 3302131. Muton, Beatrice Njweng 2007. 0820053. Kasozi, Gabriel Nuffi eld. Gwena. Decentralizing forest Cavane, Eunice. Characterization of sorption management in Cameroon: Farmers’ attitudes and and degradation of pesticides A conceptual look at the adoption of improved maize in carbonatic and associated perception of procedural varieties and chemical soils from South Florida and justice in community forest fertilizers in the Manica Puerto Rico, and oxisols from management process. District, Mozambique. PhD, Uganda. PhD, U of Florida, PhD, U of Minnesota, 2007. Michigan State U, 2007. 2007. 0820063. 3292967. 3298028. Konare, Hamidou. Onyango, Margaret A. Dagnoko, Sokona. Adapting loss-on-ignition and Characterization of East Dissecting heterosis in guinea visible near infrared methods African accessions of Musa race sorghum: Simultaneous of measuring soil organic AAB “Apple” and Musa AA analysis by conventional carbon to Sahelian soils of “Muraru” dessert bananas. breeding and molecular West Africa [Mali]. PhD, U PhD, U of Hawai’i at Manoa, marker approaches. PhD, of Hawai’i Manoa, 2007. 2007. 3302162. Cornell U, 2008. 3300229. 3302143.
Querido, Antonio Luis deGraffenried, Jeffries Manganyi, Tirhani Evora Ferreira. Blunt Jr. Prudence. Quantifying and mapping soil Rapid prediction of tropical Perceived group cohesiveness organic carbon in Mali, West soil degradation using diffuse among participants in Africa using spatiotemporal refl ectance spectroscopy: redistributed farms of methods. PhD, U of Hawai’I Method verifi cation in the Capricorn District, Limpopo at Manoa, 2008. 3311897. Saiwa River basin, western Province. PhD, U of Florida, Kenya. PhD, U of Alabama at 2007. 0820069. Birmingham, 2008. 3310531.
36 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Sirrine, Dorothy. Bortolot, Alexander Ives. Horsburgh, Katherine Agroforestry, soils, and A language for change: Ann. food security in southern Creativity and power in The origins of southwestern Malawi: Interdisciplinary Mozambican Makonde African pastoralism: on-farm research linking masked performance, circa Addressing classic debates sustainability and livelihoods. 1900-2004. PhD, Columbia using ancient DNA. PhD, PhD, U of California, Santa U, 2008. 3299248. Stanford U, 2008. 3313587. Cruz, 2008. 3301345. BurnSilver, Shauna B. Hubbard, Laura. Takimoto, Asako. Pathways of continuity and Idol hopes: Media dream Carbon sequestration change: Diversifi cation, worlds and the politics of potential of agroforestry intensifi cation and mobility youth futures in Zambia. systems in the West African in Maasailand, Kenya. PhD, PhD, U of California, Sahel: An assessment of Colorado State U, 2007. Berkeley, 2007. 3306170. biological and socioeconomic 3299802. feasibility [Mali]. PhD, U of Hynes, Bridget. Florida, 2007. 3300795. Davidson, Joanna. Children of the borderlands: Feet in the fi re: Social Young soldiers in the Tanner, Randy. change and continuity reproduction of warfare Legitimacy and the use of among the Diola of Guinea- [Namibia & Sierra Leone]. natural resources in Kruger BissaU PhD, Emory U, 2008. PhD, U of Denver, 2008. National Park, South Africa. 3298738. 3306983. PhD, U of Montana, 2007. 3284388. Debsu, Dejene Negassa. Jabbour, Rebecca S. Surviving the state: Resource Geographic variation in Tumwebaze, Susan B. tenure and confl ict dynamics the forelimb and hindlimb Quantifying the amount among the Guji-Oromo of skeletons of African apes. and spatial distribution of southern Ethiopia. PhD, U of PhD, City U of New York, soil organic carbon under Kentucky, 2008. 3299379. 2008. 3310585. the linear simultaneous agroforestry system Dugas, Marylene. Kostick, Kristin Marie. [Uganda]. PhD, State Prise en charge préventive- Buying into culture: An U of New York Coll. of curative du paludisme: exploration of the effects of Environmental Science and Articulations entre quatre cultural conformity on the Forestry, 2008. 3303955. espaces éducationnels island of Mauritius. PhD, U of d’acquisition de compétences Connecticut, 2008. 3313282. [Burkina Faso]. PhD, U de Anthropology Montreal (Can.), 2007. Linder, Joshua Matthew. NR37149. The impact of hunting on Bolten, Catherine E. primates in Korup National “The place is so backward:” Frank, Rebecca Ellen. Park, Cameroon: Implications Durable morality and The role of contingent for primate conservation. creative development in reciprocity and market PhD, City U of New York, northern Sierra Leone. exchange in the lives of 2008. 3310653. PhD, U of Michigan, 2008. female olive baboons 3304926. [Kenya]. PhD, U of California, Los Angeles, 2007. 3304666.
37 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Mains, Daniel. Rodima, Daivi. Waithanji, Elizabeth “We are only sitting and “Sharing work and sharing Muthoni. Gendered impacts waiting:” Aspirations, money:” Cooperative work of sedentarization of nomads unemployment, and status groups and personhood on the Somali community in among young men in Jimma, among the Kuria of Tanzania. Mandera Central division of Ethiopia. PhD, Emory U, PhD, Brandeis U, 2007. northeastern Kenya. PhD, 2007. 3298450. 3295286. Clark U, 2008. 3298288.
Margaretten, Emily. Sherrow, Hogan M. Young, Alyson G. A place on the point: South Variation in and ontogeny Young child health among African street youth and of social behavior in young Eyasi Datoga: Socioeconomic informal street shelters. male chimpanzees (Pan marginalization, local PhD, Yale U, 2007. 3296193. troglodytes schweinfurthii) at biology, and infant resilience Ngogo, Kibale National Park, within the mother-infant McMillen, Heather L. Uganda. PhD, Yale U, 2008. dyad [Tanzania]. PhD, U of Conserving the 3317213. Arizona, 2008. 3303981. roots of trade: Local ecological knowledge of Skinner, Matthew. ethnomedicines from Tanga, Enamel-dentine junction Architecture Tanzania markets. PhD, U morphology of extant of Hawai’i at Manoa, 2008. hominoid and fossil hominin Osayimwese, Itohan I. 3312595. lower molars [Southern Colonialism at the center: Africa]. PhD, George German colonial architecture Mitchell, Judith Dale. Washington U, 2008. and the design reform Gender and property among 3296891. movement, 1828-1914. sedentarized pastoralists of PhD, U of Michigan, 2008. northern Kenya. PhD, McGill Spruill, Jennifer Helen. 3305052. U (Can.), 2007. NR38621. When the rainbow is not enough: Sexual citizenship in Ngaruiya, David Kimiri. post-apartheid South Africa. Biological Sciences Death and burial practices: A PhD, U of Chicago, 2008. study of contextualization of 3300452. Atuke, Dickson Misati. rituals in some Nairobi multi- Effectiveness of riparian ethnic, multi-racial churches. Tami, Nicole. forestry best management PhD, Trinity International U, Romancing strangers: The practices to protect stream 2008. 3308064. intimate politics of beach habitat and biota: Lessons tourism in Kenya. PhD, from temperate and tropical Pilkington, Maya Metni. U of Illinois at Urbana- systems [Kenya]. PhD, U of An apportionment of Champaign, 2008. 3314912. Minnesota, 2007. 3292937. African genetic diversity based on mitochondrial, Ting, Nelson. Bechtold, James Scott. Y chromosomal, and X Molecular systematics Fluvial sediment chromosomal data. PhD, U of of red colobus monkeys infl uences on fl oodplain Arizona, 2008. 3303581. (Procolobus [Piliocolobus]): soil biogeochemistry Understanding the evolution [South Africa]. PhD, U of of an endangered primate. Washington, 2007. 3293454. PhD, City U of New York, 2008. 3310752.
38 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Blackburn, David C. Karsten, Kristopher Brett. Ribeiro, Natasha Sofi a. Evolution of diversity in Sexual selection, social Interaction between fi res African frogs (Arthroleptis behavior, and conservation of and elephants in relation and Cardioglossa). PhD, chameleons in southwestern to vegetation structure and Harvard U, 2008. 3312294. Madagascar. PhD, Oklahoma composition of miombo State U, 2008. 3306992. woodlands in northern Bourguinat, Catherine. Mozambique. PhD, U of Effects of ivermectin on Kenfack, David. Virginia, 2007. 3294814. Onchocerca volvulus adult Systematics and evolution worms [Cameroon]. PhD, of Carapa Aubl. (Meliaceae- Ries, Lydia Polek. McGill U (Can.), 2007. Swietenioideae). PhD, U of Nutrient and light limitations NR38563. Missouri-Saint Louis, 2008. on vegetation dynamics in 3308635. the savannas of southern Davidson, Mark Africa. PhD, U of Virginia, Montague. Sulfate Korte, Lisa Marie. 2007. 3300260. reduction in the deep The spatial and social terrestrial subsurface: A organization of forest buffalo Wood, Kathy L. study of microbial ecology, (Syncerus caffer nanus) at Life-history and behavioural metabolic rates and sulfur Lope National Park, Gabon. characteristics of a semi- isotope fractionation [South PhD, Michigan State U, 2007. wild population of drills Africa]. PhD, Princeton U, 3298065. (Mandrillus leucophaeus) 2008. 3305297. in Nigeria. PhD, U of McCollum, Andrea M. Massachusetts, Boston, Dembele, Bassidy. Drug resistant Plasmodium 2007. 3299094. Malaria model in periodic falciparum: Genetic environments [Mali]. PhD, hitchhiking, selective sweeps, Howard U, 2008. 3303738. and multiple origins. PhD, Business Administration Emory U, 2007. 3298920. Fatoyinbo, Temilola Aluya, Joseph Usunobu. Elisabeth. Minhas, Veenu. A phenomenological study Growth, dynamics and Seroepidemiological of affordable housing for the distribution of mangrove studies on human gamma- middle-income population in forests in Mozambique. herpesvirus and human Abuja, Nigeria. D.B.A, U of PhD, U of Virginia, 2008. immunodefi ciency virus Phoenix, 2007. 3294995. 3300236. infection in a mother-infant cohort in Zambia. PhD, U Annan, Bennett. Hedt, Bethany Lynn. of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2008. West African managers in Novel methods for effi cient 3297662. American businesses: A surveillance and monitoring cross-cultural adaptation [Eritrea]. PhD, Harvard U, Mosser, Anna Alice. model. Ed.D., Pepperdine U, 2008. 3312379. Group territoriality 2007. 3296766. of the African lion: Jacobsen, Anna Linden. Behavioral adaptation in a Bayode, Bolarinwa. Woody plant adaptations to heterogeneous landscape Analysis of organizational water stress in arid shrub [Tanzania]. PhD, U of leadership: A communities [South Africa]. Minnesota, 2008. 3291990. phenomenological study of PhD, Michigan State U, organizational leaders in the 2008. 3312697. private sector in Nigeria. PhD, Walden U, 2008. 3279180. 39 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Fakinlede, Solomon. Okere, Harold Chime. Casal, Tania Gil Duarte. Poverty and morality: The effects of the investment The structure of the Agulhas Assessing the infl uence of activities of multinational Current system during poverty on moral judgment oil corporations on the the Agulhas Undercurrent in Nigeria. PhD, Walden U, fi scal policy of Nigeria: The experiment [South Africa]. 2008. 3291493. implications for Niger Delta PhD, U of Miami, 2008. region. D.B.A, Argosy U/ 3306747. Kuekam, Charlemange. Chicago, 2007. 3306905. Examining the environment- Collick, Amy Sue. strategy-performance Sawalha, Nabeel Nassri. Community water use in relationship in Cameroon’s The role of the multinational the Yeku watershed and emerging economy. PhD, corporations in economic hydrological modeling in Northcentral U, 2007. development for countries watersheds of the upper Nile 3295502. with limited resources basin, northern Ethiopia. [Benin, Burundi & PhD, Cornell U, 2008. Medhin, Sertsu G. Madagascar]. D.I.B.A, Nova 3295814. The challenges of privatizing Southeastern U, 2008. state-owned enterprises in 3295970. Crane, Pamela E. a transition economy: The An investigation of data case of Ethiopia. D.B.A., U of collection methods applicable Phoenix, 2007. 3313177. Cinema in groundwater research in rural regions of developing Mongo, Eric Achiri. Tamis-Nasello, AnneMarie. nations [Benin]. PhD, U of The decision-making process Italian colonial cinema: Notre Dame, 2008. 3299133. in road infrastructure Nationalism and notions of development in Cameroon alterity [Ethiopia & Libya]. Keranen, Katie M. since 1980. PhD, Walden U, PhD, New York U, 2008. Lithospheric structure in 2008. 3310745. 3310569. the Main Ethiopian Rift from active and passive source Morehead, William seismic data. PhD, Stanford Alonzo. Earth Sciences U, 2008. 331772. Internal control and governance in non- Abdelaziz Ali Ismael, Kim, Ungtae. governmental organizations Abdulaziz Mohamed. Regional impacts of climate designed to provide Applications of remote change on water resources accountability and deter, sensing, GIS, and of the upper Blue Nile River prevent and detect fraud groundwater fl ow modeling Basin, Ethiopia. PhD, Utah and corruption [West in evaluating groundwater State U, 2007. 3306428. Africa]. PhD, U of Southern resources: Two case studies; Mississippi, 2007. 3300861. East Nile Delta, Egypt and Kinabo, Baraka Damas. Gold Valley, California, USA. Incipient continental rifting: Odiaka, Emeka. PhD, U of Texas at El Paso, Insights from the Okavango Process and performance 2007. 3291015. Rift Zone, northwestern optimization strategies by Botswana. PhD, Missouri U labor-intensive, small- and of Science and Technology, medium-sized industries: 2007. 3298513. Cross-cultural cases from America and Nigeria. PhD, Walden U, 2008. 3297178. 40 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Kinyangi, James Mukidza. Economics Dickinson, Katherine Lee. Soil degradation, thresholds Indian toilets and and dynamics of long-term Ambel, Alemayehu Azeze. Tanzanian mosquito nets: cultivation: From landscape Essays on intrahousehold Understanding households’ biogeochemistry to allocation and the family: environmental health nanoscale biogeocomplexity Fertility, child education, and decisions in developing [Kenya]. PhD, Cornell U, nutrition [Ethiopia]. PhD, countries. PhD, Duke U, 2008. 3295855. Western Michigan U, 2007. 2008. 3297870. 3293156. Little, Mark Gabriel. El-Mattrawy, Khaled A. Broadening theories of Banful, Afua Branoah. Total factor productivity, soils genesis: Insights from Essays on the political human capital, knowledge, Tanzania and simple models. economy of public good and the growth path of PhD, Rice U, 2007. 3309908. provision in developing Egypt. PhD, New School U, countries [Ghana]. PhD, 2006. 3308707. Lucier, Amie Marie. Harvard U, 2008. 3312285. Geomechanical analysis Hamoudi, Amar Ala. applied to geological carbon Berger, Guy. Living arrangements and dioxide sequestration, Three essays in development economic decision making induced seismicity in deep and international economics in households and families mines, and detection of [Ethiopia]. PhD, Yale U, [South Africa]. PhD, U of stress-induced velocity 2007. 3293292. California, Los Angeles, anisotropy in sub-salt 2007. 3304715. environments [South Africa]. Cham, Tamsir. PhD, Stanford, 2008. Benefi ts and costs of Ksoll, Christopher 3292392. currency union: A case study Johannes. Extended family of the West African Monetary networks and the caretaking Milewski, Adam M. Zone (WAMZ). PhD, Howard of orphan children: Evidence Remote sensing solutions U, 2007. 3299672. from Tanzania. PhD, Yale U, for estimating runoff 2007. 3293337. and recharge in arid Cohen, Jessica Lee. environments [Egypt]. PhD, Essays on the economics Magruder, Jeremy R. Western Michigan U, 2008. of education and health Intergenerational networks, 3316928. [Kenya]. PhD, Massachusetts AIDS, and schooling Inst. of Tech., 2007. decisions in South Africa. Silver, Bianca Jane. 0819988. PhD, Yale U, 2007. 3293347. The nutritional and energetic constraints on life in the Czubala, Witold. Malikane, Christopher. deep biosphere of South Essays on economic aspects Essays on monetary Africa. PhD, Princeton U, of technological growth and policy rules in small open 2008. 33057760. globalization. PhD, Johns economies [South Africa]. Hopkins U, 2008. 3309632. PhD, New School U, 2007. Yidana, Sandow Mark. 3308709. Management of groundwater for productive uses in the Afram Plains area, Ghana. D.Env., Montclair State U, 2008. 3313832.
41 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Nzuma, Jonathan Makau. Akata, Gerald I. Chukwube, Okwuchukwu An economic analysis Leadership in the Niger Delta Stan. of the impacts of trade region of Nigeria: A study of Renewing the community liberalization on Kenya’s the perceptions of its impact and fashioning the individual: maize sector. PhD, U of on the acquired leadership A study of traditional Guelph (Can.), 2008. skills of expatriate Nigerian communal reconciliation NR36116. postgraduates. Ed.D., East among the Igbo. PhD, Tennessee State U, 2008. Fordham U, 2008. 3312005. Solomon, Blen. 3308015. Three essays on the impacts Classens, Anver Edmond. of risk and uncertainty on Amayo, Osagie Festus. The effects of the Education foreign direct investment Evaluation of Nigerian 1 Project on the vocational (FDI) and remittances fl ows immigrant parenting skills and prospects of into developing countries. practices in preparing their students at a secondary PhD, Western Michigan U, children for college. Ed.D., school in Swaziland: A case 2007. 3293189. U of the Pacifi c, 2007. study. Ed.D, U of North 3314129. Carolina at Charlotte, 2008. Thompson, Benjamin K.B. 3303930. Foreign direct investments Anderson, Victor Dale. and their effect on an Implicit rhetorical theory Diallo, Aminata. embryonic private sector in of preachers in Wolaitta Language education policy the economic development Ethiopia with implications and its implementation in of Ghana. PhD, Walden U, for homiletics instruction in three schools in Windhoek, 2007. 3290883. theological education. PhD, Namibia’s capital city. PhD, Sch. of Intercultural Studies, U of Pennsylvania, 2008. Xu, Zhiying. Biola U, 2008. 3308531. 3309425. Essays on applied production analysis in agriculture Arku, Frank Sena. Dillon, Etrenda C. [Zambia]. Water, time and gender: The role of education in the PhD, Michigan State U, Assessing the impact of a rise and fall of Americo- 2008. 3312757. water project in rural Ghana. Liberians in Liberia, West PhD, U of Guelph (Can.), Africa (1980). PhD, Georgia Younas, Javed. 2007. NR36093. State U, 2007. 3306837. Essays in trade, foreign aid and investment. PhD, West Castillejo-Cuellar, Dudzik, Diana L. Virginia U, 2007. 3306710. Alejandro. The invisible English policies, curricular corner: Violence, terror and reforms, and teacher memory during the state of development in multilingual, Education emergency in South Africa. postcolonial Djibouti. PhD, PhD, New School U, 2006. U of Minnesota, 2008. Aikhionbare, Cecelia E. 3308706. 3313436. Transition of African adolescent immigrants into Chareka, Ottilia. Ejimofor, Francis O. urban or suburban schools. Conceptions of democratic Principals’ transformational Ed.D., U of Cincinnati, 2007. participation among recent leadership skills and their 3295411. African immigrants and teachers’ job satisfaction in native-born Canadians. PhD, Nigeria. PhD, Cleveland State U of New Brunswick (Can.), U, 2007. 3298282. 2005. NR35739. 42 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Fletcher, Mitalene. Hervey, Joy Gorham. Mutai, F. Wairimu Wanjau. The role of teacher- “Success is a journey:” An Perceptions of current educators during South exploration of curriculum and and prospective Kenyan Africa’s post-apartheid social school infl uences on the work international students on the transformation. PhD, New aspirations, skills, decisions, Kenyan international student York U, 2007. 3295338. and destinations of Ghanaian lifestyle in the United States. senior secondary school PhD, Kent State U, 2007. Fretheim, Ann Margaret. alumni. Ed.D., Teachers Coll., 3313804. Assessing the intercultural Columbia U, 2008. 3314568. sensitivity of educators in Natogma, Emmanuel A. an American international Husain, Altaf. Leadership styles in school [Southern Africa]. The impact of religiosity, Assemblies of God Bible Ed.D., U of Minnesota, 2007. ethnic identity, acculturation Colleges in West Africa: A 3292934. and discrimination on the study of perspectives of self-esteem and academic alumni, Academic Deans, and Gebre, Daniel Z. achievement of Somali youth Presidents [Ghana, Togo & Perceptions of African in the United States. PhD, Burkina Faso]. Ed.D., Azusa immigrant students Howard U, 2008. 3304203. Pacifi c U, 2007. 3311851. regarding the factors leading to persistence in ESL classes Ibanga, Francis Ngaujah, Dorris E. in a community college Imeobong. Child labor Suehn Industrial Academy, “Education is my mother and in Nigeria: A religious Liberia, West Africa: A study father”. Ed.D., Temple U, educational response. PhD, of the shift in secondary 2008. 3300351. Fordham U, 2007. 3298793. curricular emphasis from industrial to academic, Ghong, Mary Njang. Jepkemboi, Grace. 1944-1974. PhD, Sch. of Examining aspects of The educational and Intercultural Studies, Biola U, linguistic knowledge of psychological experiences of 2008. 3308534. anglophone primary school children orphaned by AIDS teachers of North West in Western Kenya. PhD, U Ngolovoi, Mary. Province of Cameroon in of Alabama at Birmingham, Means testing of student relation to children’s literacy 2007. 3301380. loans in Kenya. PhD, State U achievement. PhD, Texas of New York at Buffalo, 2008. A&M U, 2006. 3296387. Jones, David C. 3307681. The origin of civilization: Hamilton, Mark Anthony. The case of Egypt and Okeke, Chikpe Winifred. Success, participation and Mesopotamia from several Dimensions of child development: Marking the disciplines. PhD, Union Inst. abuse and neglect: Their progress of education reform and U, 2007. 3305288. relationship to academic in the Republic of Guinea. achievement [Nigeria]. Ed.D., PhD, Michigan State U, Muhirwa, Jean-Marie K. Texas Southern U, 2006. 2007. 3298048. The performance of foreign 3317508. aid-funded distance Henry, Patricia C. education projects in sub- Overage students in the Saharan Africa: A qualitative classroom: Teachers lived analysis [Mali & Burkina experiences [Nigeria]. PhD, Faso]. PhD, Concordia U Walden U, 2008. 3291491. (Can.), 2008. NR37728.
43 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Olaly, Wilfrida H.A. Ugochukwu, John Jude Worden, Jeffery S. A comparative study on HIV- Chimezie. Fragmentation and related knowledge, attitude, Developing relationships in settlement pattern in and HIV high risk behavior Catholic nursery/primary Maasailand: Implications for among Kenyan and American schools in Anambra, Nigeria: pastoral mobility, drought university students. Ed.D., Partnerships of family, vulnerability, and wildlife Texas Southern U, 2007. community, school, church, conservation in an East 3317509. and state. PhD, Fordham U, African savanna [Kenya]. 2008. 3303096. PhD, Colorado State U, 2007. Ombonga, Mary Mokeira. 3299804. Understanding experiences Wilmot, Eric Magnus. of girls in a Center of An investigation into the Excellence in Kajiado district, profi le of Ghanaian high Fine Arts Kenya: An exploratory case school mathematics teachers’ study. PhD, Michigan State knowledge for teaching Fromont, Cecile. U, 2008. 3312727. algebra and its relationship Under the sign of the cross with student performance. in the kingdom of Kongo: Sampong, Kwasi Addo. PhD, Michigan State U, 2008. Shaping images and molding An evaluative study of a 3312753. faith in early modern Central distance teacher education Africa. Alice, Harvard U, program in a university in Wojnowski, David. 20083. 3312361. Ghana. Ed.D., Oral Roberts Traditional and scientifi c U, 2007. 3313873. conceptions of snakes Kahlaoui, Tarek. in Kenya: Alternative The depiction of the Tadesse, Selamawit. perspectives for teaching. Mediterranean in Islamic The education of African PhD, Kent State U, 2008. cartography (11th- refugee preschoolers: 3302667. 16th centuries): The Views of parents suras (images) of the toward appropriate Wood, Jane C. Millar. Mediterranean from the practices, experiences The impact of globalization bureaucrats to the sea of parents/teachers and on education reform: A case captains [North Africa]. PhD, encouragement/barriers to study of Uganda. PhD, U U of Pennsylvania, 2008. greater parent involvement of Maryland, College Park, 3309450. [Liberia, Sudan, Ethiopia & 2008. 3307946. Somalia]. PhD, State U of Molholt, Rebecca. New York at Buffalo, 2007. On stepping stones: The 3297054. Environmental Sciences historical experience of Roman mosaics [North Tchameni Ngamo, Dear, Chad E. Africa]. PhD, Columbia U, Salomon. Stratégies Causes and consequences 2008. 3317590. organisationnelles of displacement decision- d’integration des TIC dans making in Banhine National Puppin-Lerch, Sabrina. l’enseignement secondaire Park, Mozambique. PhD, U of Contemporary African women au Cameroun: Etude Montana, 2008. 3307221. artists: Commentaries on d’écoles pionnieres. PhD, U everyday life in art. PhD, de Montreal (Can.), 2007. Union Inst. and U, 2007. NR36658. 3305737.
44 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Simbao, Ruth Helen. Koroma, Joseph T. Tshiguvho, Thidinalei. Escorting tradition: The Geography, poverty, and Sacred traditions and contemporary performance development policy in the biodiversity conservation in of Afropolitanism in Zambia’s new African millennium: the forest montane region traditional ceremonies. PhD, Monitoring the Millennium of Venda, South Africa. PhD, Harvard U, 2008. 3312521. Development Goals through Clark U, 2008. 3305603. human development. PhD, Stevens, Cheryl M. Indiana State U, 2008. One language, different 3305416. Health Sciences dialects: The cross-cultural investigation of Ghanaian Kweka, Opportuna Leo. Abbas, Muneer M. students learning the The impact of structural Association of Umfundalai African dance adjustment program on the polymorphisms in innate technique. PhD, Temple U, refugee policy in Tanzania: and specifi c immune 2007. 3293259. Implications for survival response genes in Trachoma strategies of Burundian [Tanzania]. PhD, Howard U, refugees in camps. PhD, U of 2008. 3304465. Geography Minnesota, 2007. 3292957. Addo-Atuah, Joyce. Aryee, Abednego Ayitey. Nethengwe, Nthaduleni. Access to antiretroviral Environmental Information Integrating Participatory GIS therapy (ART) in Ghana: Systems and community- and political ecology to study Factors relating to access. based resource management fl ood vulnerability in the PhD, U of Tennessee Health in Ghana: An investigation Limpopo Province of South Science Center, 2008. of institutional policy and Africa. PhD, West Virginia U, 3291629. implementation context. 2007. 3298733. PhD, Wilfrid Laurier U (Can.), Aja, Godwin Nwadibia. 2008. NR38000. Neuenschwander, Amy Application of the asset Lynn. mapping model to church Butt, Bilal. Remote sensing of vegetation based HIV/AIDS prevention Grazing on the edge: Cattle dynamics in response to and control in Aba, Abia mobility, ecology and Maasai fl ooding and fi re in the State, Nigeria. Dr.P.H., Loma herding in southern Kenya. Okavango Delta, Botswana. Linda U, 2008. 3307334. PhD, Michigan State U, PhD, U of Texas at Austin, 2007. 3298026. 2007. 3290839. An, Ming-Wen. On the importance of Gardner, Benjamin Shabazz Sanders, G. designs in better addressing Richard. Rashad. missing data due to death Producing pastoral power: “They imprison the whole and to loss-to-follow-up Territory, identity and rule in population:” US. and South [Kenya]. PhD, Johns Hopkins Tanzanian Maasailand. PhD, African prison literature and U, 2008. 3309593. U of California, Berkeley, the emergence of symbiotic 2007. 3306142. carcerality, 1900-present. Apers, Ludwig. PhD, U of California, Santa Aspects of TB control in low Cruz, 2008. 3317409. income countries with high HIV prevalence [Zimbabwe]. PhD, U Antwerpen (Belg.), 2008. 3300323.
45 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Bazant, Eva S. Ellis, Amy A. Israel-Ballard, Kiersten Women’s place of delivery Intra-household dynamics Anne. and experience of quality and treatment responses Demonstrating the safety in delivery care: A to severe febrile illness in of fl ash-heated breast milk: quantitative and qualitative children in Koulikoro region, A potential infant feeding study in Nairobi’s informal Mali. PhD, Johns Hopkins U, option for HIV positive settlements. Dr.P.H., Johns 2008. 3309649. mothers in developing Hopkins U, 2008. 3302017. countries [South Africa]. Emusu, Donath. DrPH, U of California, Bobrow, Emily Anton. Sexual violence and Berkeley, 2007. 3306037. Factors that infl uence correlates among women disclosure and program in HIV discordant union, Jaenisch, Thomas. participation among Uganda. Dr.P.H., U of Parasite genotypic variability pregnant HIV-positive Alabama at Birmingham, as a cumulative exposure women: A mixed methods 2007. 3301369. variable for incidence of study in Lilongwe, Malawi. malaria and anemia in a PhD, U of North Carolina at Essuon, Aba Delores. cohort of children on Pemba Chapel Hill, 2008. 3304402. Constructs of masculinity: Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania. The role of gender and PhD, Johns Hopkins U, 2008. Coly, Astou. incarceration in potential 3309686. Estimating HIV prevalence in HIV transmissions in South Ghana: The role of selection Africa. PhD, U of South Kiwanuka, Noah. bias. PhD, U of California, Carolina, 2007. 3296653. The effect of HIV-1 subtypes Los Angeles, 2007. 3295741. on HIV transmission and Flynn, Priscilla Moen. disease progression in Rakai Deacon, Zermarie. Effects of acculturation District, Uganda. PhD, Case An examination of factors on Somali women’s birth Western Reserve U, 2008. infl uencing Mozambican outcomes: Implications for 3302489. women’s attainment of healthcare policy. DrPH, U of post-war well-being. PhD, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Koyanagi, Ai. Michigan State U, 2007. 2008. 3304280. Childhood morbidity in an 3298033. HIV endemic area of Africa Flys, Tamara S. [Zimbabwe]. PhD, Johns Dowdy, David W. Emergence and fading of Hopkins U, 2008. 3309696. Impact and cost- HIV drug resistance after effectiveness of improved single dose nevirapine for Liu, Li. diagnostics for tuberculosis prevention of mother-to- Desire for HIV testing and in high-burden countries child transmission [Uganda]. counseling in Kenya: The [South Africa]. PhD, Johns PhD, Johns Hopkins U, 2008. individual, couple and Hopkins U, 2008. 3309642. 3309653. community perspectives. PhD, Johns Hopkins U, 2008. Dunbar, Megan S. Iqbal, Shehzad Mustafa. 3309707. Hormonal contraception and The mucosal basis of natural the risk of HIV acquisition: immunity to HIV infection The program and policy [Kenya]. PhD, U of Manitoba implications of differential (Can.), 2007. NR36266. effects among subgroups. Dr.P.H., U of California, Berkeley, 2007. 3306036. 46 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Lowther, Sara Ann. Outwater, Anne H. History The effect of human Risk and protective factors immunodefi ciency virus for homicide death in Dar Berndt, Jeremy Raphael. on population immunity es Salaam, Tanzania 2005. Closer than your jugular to measles virus among PhD, Johns Hopkins U, 2008. vein: Muslim intellectuals in children in an urban 3309805. a Malian village, 1900 to the township in Zambia. PhD, 1960s. PhD, Northwestern Johns Hopkins U, 2008. Taylor, Sylvia Mingo. U, 2008. 3303648. 3309709. HPV and the role of HPV testing in a screen-and-treat Boucher, Ellen R. MacLachlan, Ellen W. cervical cancer prevention “An imperial investment:” Factors that infl uence trial in South Africa. PhD, British state-assisted child risk behavior in HIV Columbia U, 2008. 3317623. emigration to Australia and infected women receiving Southern Rhodesia, 1869- antiretroviral therapy in Vaz, Lara M.E. 1967. PhD, Columbia U, Kampala and Masaka, Understanding the process 2008. 3317532. Uganda. PhD, Oregon State of disclosure to HIV-infected U, 2008. 3295637. children in Kinshasa, Briggs, Jo. Democratic Republic of the Imperial analogies: Global Megazzini, Karen M. Congo. PhD, U of North events, local visual culture, Provision of rapid HIV Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. 1899-1901 [South Africa]. testing and nevirapine 3304255. PhD, Yale U, 2007. 3293300. administration in Zambian labor wards to improve Watt, Melissa Harper. Choi, Sung-eun. population antiretroviral Understanding patients’ From colonial citizen to coverage of HIV-infected adherence to antiretroviral postcolonial repatriate: The women and their HIV- therapy: A mixed-methods politics of national belonging exposed infants. Dr. P.H., U study in Arusha, Tanzania. and the integration of the of Alabama at Birmingham, PhD, U of North Carolina at French from Algeria after 2008. 3311724. Chapel Hill, 2007. 3304297. decolonization. PhD, U of California, Los Angeles, Mullen, Patrick M.D. Yatich, Nelly J. 2007. 3304713. Protracted confl ict, economic The effect of malaria and status and health services intestinal helminth coinfection Edun Adebiyi, Nike L. as determinants of health on birth outcomes in Ghana. Radical nationalism in British outcomes among the general Dr. P.H., U of Alabama at West Africa, 1945-1960. population in Burundi. PhD, Birmingham, 2008. 3310532. PhD, U of Michigan, 2008. Johns Hopkins U, 2008. 3304963. 3309804. Young, Sera Lewise. A biocultural study of the Germain, Felix Fernand. Njie-Carr, Veronica P.S. relationship between pica Dangerous liaisons: The The infl uence of attitudes, and anemia [Tanzania]. PhD, lives and labor of working beliefs, and knowledge on Cornell U, 2007. 3300216. class Antilleans and sub- health-seeking behaviors of Saharan Africans in 1960s adults living with HIV/AIDS Paris. PhD, U of California, (ALHA) in the Gambia. PhD, Berkeley, 2007. 3306147. Catholic U of America, 2008. 3294704.
47 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Gitari, Joseph Bradley. Metcalf, Cynthia Gray- Shanguhyia, Martin The politics of stability and Ware. Shidende. domination in Africa: A study From morality play to The state, ecology, and of political repression in celebrity: Women, gender, society in Western Kenya: Kenya, 1902-2002. PhD, U of and performing modernity in Politics of soil conservation Denver, 2007. 3291971. Egypt: c. 1850-1939. PhD, U and land management in of Virginia, 2008. 3312192. Vihiga 1930-1950. PhD, Hayden, Christopher Ellis. West Virginia U, 2007. Of medicine and statecraft: Mustakeem, Sowande. 3306708. Smallpox and early colonial ‘Make haste & let me see vaccination in French West you with a good cargo Van Sickle, Eugene S. Africa (Senegal-Guinea). of Negroes:’ Gender, A transnational vision: John PhD, Northwestern U, 2008. health, and violence in the H. B. Latrobe and Maryland’s 3303521. eighteenth century Middle African colonization Passage. PhD, Michigan State movement. PhD, West Hughes, Deborah. U, 2008. 3312724. Virginia U, 2005. 3306709. Contesting whiteness: Race, nationalism and British Nelson, David Berry. Werthmuller, Kurt James. Empire exhibitions between Emplacing Africans: An in-between space: An the wars. PhD, U of Illinois Ruralization in French archival and textual study of at Urbana-Champaign, 2008. colonial education in West Coptic identity and Ayyubid 3314795. Africa, 1920-1940. PhD, U politics in Egypt, 1171-1250 of California, Irvine, 2008. CE. PhD, U of California, Janssen, Katherine M. 3302772. Santa Barbara, 2007. Cultivating a colony: Science 3291306. and social history at the Ochwada, Hannington. Botanic Gardens, Entebbe, Negotiating difference: The Uganda, in the 20th century. Church Missionary Society, Language PhD, U of Pennsylvania, colonial education, and 2008. 3310378. gender among Abetaaluyia Diallo, Mamadou Salif. and Joluo communities of English needs analysis of Klots, David. Kenya, 1900-1960. PhD, science and technology Kneph: The religion of Indiana U, 2007. 3297112. students at Cheikh Anta Roman Thebes [Egypt]. PhD, Diop University in Dakar Yale U, 2008. 3317145. Osborne, Myles Gregory. (UCAD). PhD, U of Maryland, Changing Kamba, making Baltimore County, 2007. Lee, Anthony Asa. Kenya, c. 1880-1964. PhD, 3290993. The establishment of the Harvard U, 2008. 3312478. Baha’i Faith in West Africa: Donnelly, Simon Scurr. The fi rst decade, 1952-1962. Pizzo, David. Aspects of tone and voice PhD, U of California, Los “To devour the land of in Phuthi [Lesotho & South Angeles, 2007. 3295716. Mkwawa:” Colonial violence Africa]. PhD, U of Illinois at and the German-Hehe War Urbana-Champaign, 2007. Mader, Jodie Noelle. in East Africa c. 1884-1914. 3301128. Patriotic dissent: The Pro- PhD, U of North Carolina at Boer/anti-war movement in Chapel Hill, 2007. 3304421. the South African War, 1899- 1902. PhD, U of Kentucky, 2008. 3310466. 48 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Ekou, Tano Williams Law Foster, Lloren Addison. Jacob. The Politics of Creation: Approach to the phonenic Hussin, Iza R. The short story in South and phonological study of The politics of Islamic Africa and the US. PhD, U the Agni Moronou language law: Local elites, colonial of Massachusetts Amherst, [Cote d’Ivorie]. Dr., U de authority and the making of 2007. 3299400. Valladolid (Spa.), 1998. the Muslim state [Egypt]. 3313413. PhD, U of Washington, 2008. Gursel, Burcu. 3303293. Invasive translations: Futamura, C. Wakaba. Violence and mediation Crossing frames of art and of the false-colonial, identity: Baya, Cixous, and Literature France and Ottoman Beji [North Africa]. PhD, Rice Egypt (1780-1840). PhD, U, 2008. 3309870. Azzam, Julie Hakim. U of Pennsylvania, 2008. The alien within: Postcolonial 3309438. Gandt, Lois. gothic and the politics A philological and theological of home [South Africa & Harsh, Mary Anne. analysis of the ancient Sudan]. PhD, U of Pittsburgh, From Muse to militant: Latin translations of the 2007. 3300570. Francophone women “Vita Antonii” [Egypt]. PhD, novelists and Surrealist Fordham U, 2008. 3310418. Cole, Ernst Dominic. aesthetics [Algeria]. Post-apartheid and its PhD, Ohio State U, 2008. Lehmil, Linda S. representation: The 3292755. French colonial education: interregnum as motif in The empire of language, selected South African Hopkins, Rebecca. 1830-1944 [Algeria, novels. PhD, U of Islands and oases: Italian Madagascar & Senegal]. Connecticut, 2008. 3313268. colonial cultures, migration, PhD, Tulane U, 2007. and utopia in women’s 3293891. El Farri, Abdeslam. writing in Italian and The representation of English. PhD, U of California, Mbaye, Abdoulaye. ambivalence facing Islam Los Angeles, 2007. Outcomes and impact of in the maghrebin et 3299517. adult literacy programs in subsaharian novel. A cross Senegal: examination. PhD, U of Howell, Jessica May. Two case studies. PhD, U of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2007. Under the weather: Disease, Maryland, Baltimore County, 3294842. race and climate in Victorian 2007. 3291003. tales of travel. PhD, U of Ellis, Marie-Therese California, Davis, 2007. Okeke, Amaka A. Cecilia. 3303165. The acculturation model: Empire or umma writing A case of the recent adult beyond the nation in Huntington, Julie Ann. Sudanese and Somalis Moroccan periodicals. PhD, U Transcultural rhythms: An immigrant English language of California, Berkeley, 2007. exploration of rhythm, music learners. Ed.D., Alliant 3306127. and the drum in a selection International U, San Diego, of Francophone novels 2007. 3298899. from West Africa and the Caribbean. PhD, Vanderbilt U, 2005. 3305900.
49 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Ivanchikova, Alla. Michel, Monique A. Powers, Nicholas. Sidewalks of desire: The myths of Genesis in J. The undertow of reason: Re- Paradoxes of the postmodern M. G. Le Clezio’s Mauritius defi ning the sublime through fl aneur in contemporary narratives: Michel. PhD, U of the Middle Passage. PhD, queer fi ction [South Africa]. Louisiana at Lafayette, 2008. City U of New York, 2007. PhD, State U of New York at 3313951. 3296999. Buffalo, 2007. 3291578. Muhonja, Brillian Besi. Sayeh, Samira. Kabanda, Theopiste. Ogu Ndem: Agressive Silence From Algeria to France and Mots de guerre et guerre [Nigeria]. PhD, State U of back: The changing literary de mots dans l’oeuvre New York at Binghamton, identity of Mouloud Feraoun, romanesque d’Ahmadou 2008. 3307261. Mohammed Dib and Mouloud Kourouma. PhD, U de Mammeri. PhD, Pennsylvania Montreal (Can.), 2007. Murphy, Laura Teresa. State U, 2005. 3308900. NR37154. Enduring memory: Metaphors of the slave trade in West Serrano, Jorge Luis. Kellough, Gretchen African literature. PhD, African antiquity and the Elizabeth. Harvard U, 2008. 3312467. African-American literary Tisseroman: The weaving design of civilization: of female selfhood within Myambo, Melissa Tandiwe. Frances Ellen Watkins feminine communities in The Politics of Blood: The Harper, William Edward postcolonial novels. PhD, poetics of (un)belonging in Burghardt Du Bois and the Northwestern U, 2008. the era of globalization. PhD, case for multiplicity. PhD, 3303811. New York U, 2007. 3310558. Temple U, 2008. 3300376.
Kerszberg, Annik Doquire. Naaman, Mara. Simedoh, Kokou Vincent. The voice of the child in In the shadows of Wust al- L’humour et l’ironie en Francophone literatures Balad: Modern migrants littérature francophone (1953-2003): Narrative and the centrality of space subsaharienne: Une structures and socio in contemporary Egyptian poetique du rire. PhD, cultural constructions. PhD, literature. PhD, Columbia U, Queen’s U (Can.), 2008. Pennsylvania State U, 2005. 2008. 3317593. NR37104. 3301300. Nack Ngue, Julie Christine. Sy, Kadidia. Lachman, Kathryn M. Critical conditions: Refi guring Women’s relationships: The music of voice: bodies of illness and disability Female friendship in Toni Transnational encounters in francophone African Morrison’s “Sula” and between music, theory and and Caribbean women’s “Love”, Mariama Ba’s “So fi ction [Algeria & South writing [Senegal]. PhD, U of Long a Letter” and Sefi Africa]. PhD, Princeton U, California, Los Angeles, 2007. Atta’s “Everything Good Will 2008. 3308047. 3299535. Come”. PhD, Georgia State U, 2008. 3308463. Lyons, Leah Tolbert. Ndagijimana, Etienne. Making sense of madness: La mémoire de la violence A study of the theme of dans le roman africain madness in selected novels contemporain. PhD, U de by Mariama Ba, Ken Bugul, Montreal (Can.), 2007. and Myriam Warner-Vieyra NR37408. [Senegal]. PhD, Vanderbilt U, 2007. 3293877. 50 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Thomas, Jennifer R. Patterson, Karin Gaynell. Goto, Felix. Literary landscapes of Expressions of Africa in Los Establishing strategic energy disturbed minds: Madness, Angeles public performance, assessment indicators narrative, and healing in 1781-1994. PhD, U of for Zimbabwe: A key to Bessie Head’s “A Question of California, Los Angeles, improving electrical energy Power” and Erna Brodber’s 2007. 3295731. effi ciency. PhD, Walden U, “Jane and Louisa Will Soon 2007. 3291624. Come Home”. PhD, Emory U, 2007. 3298929. Philosophy Hagos, Samson. The West African Monsoon: Yapo, Louis P. Caulker, Tcho Mbaimba. Dynamics, decadal variability The dynamics of subversion The African-British long and interaction with the and resistance in Ahmadou eighteenth century and eastern tropical Atlantic Kouroma’s novels. D.A., Sierra Leone: A reading of SSTs. PhD, Cornell U, 2008. State U of New York at diplomatic treaties, economic 3300168. Albany, 2008. 3312241. and anthropological discourse, and Syl Cheney- Lautze, Jonathan. Coker’s “The Last Harmattan Incorporating malaria control Mass Communications of Alusine Dunbar”. PhD, into reservoir management: Michigan State U, 2008. A case study from Ethiopia. Wachanga, David 3312669. PhD, Tufts U, 2007. Ndirangu. 3291025. Sanctioned and controlled message propagation in Physical Sciences Li, Zhuobin. a restrictive information Schistosomiasis transmission environment: The small Bouziani, Mourad. and control in a distributed world of clandestine radio Détection automatique heterogeneous human- broadcasting [Zimbabwe]. des changements du snail environment in coastal PhD, U of North Texas, 2007. bati en milieu urbain sur Kenya. PhD, Case Western 3300980. des images à très haute Reserve U, 2008. 3292790. résolution spatiale (Ikonos et QuickBird) en utilisant des Mekonnen, Ademe. Music données cartographiques Synoptic scale convection numériques [Morocco]. PhD, and wave activity over Ciucci, Alessandra Maria. U de Sherbrooke (Can.), tropical Africa and the Poems of honor, voices of 2007. NR37953. Atlantic. PhD, State U of shame: The ‘aita and the New York at Albany, 2007. Moroccan shikhat. PhD, Chavula, Geoffrey 3312238. City U of New York, 2008. Mudolole. 3296928. Development of remote Millham, Rosemary sensing tools to improve Assunta. Clements, Gillian Leigh. understanding and Mineralogy of dust emissions Exploring bi-musicality: A management of Lake Malawi. from the Bodele Depression case study of the Mount PhD, U of Minnesota, 2008. [Chad]. PhD, Oklahoma Kenya Academy. D.M.A, 3308088. State U, 2007. 3297489. Boston U, 2008. 3308129.
51 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Murphy, Brian Thacher. Arriola, Leonardo Rafael. Daadaoui, Mohamed. Isolation and structure Between coordination and Rituals of power and elucidation of cooptation: The opposition’s the Islamist challenge: antiproliferative natural dilemma in Africa. PhD, Maintaining the Makhzen products from Madagascar. Stanford U, 2008. 3313530. in Morocco. PhD, U of PhD, Virginia Poly. Inst. & Oklahoma, 2008. 3307016. State U, 2007. 3310195. Asare, Bossman E. Federalism, multi-level Duggan, Catherine S.M. Quagraine, Victor K. governance and tobacco Money from strangers: New strategies to improve control: Comparative public Indirect regulation in the management capacity policy in the United Kingdom developing fi nancial markets of contractors for labor- and South Africa. PhD, West [Uganda]. PhD, Stanford U, based methods in road Virginia U, 2007. 3298704. 2008. 3292346. rehabilitation in Ghana. PhD, Virginia Poly. Inst. and State Brooks, Murrell Lamont. Ellett, Rachel L. U, 2007. 3310202. Coffee, liberalization and Emerging judicial power in democratic development transitional democracies: in Tanzania: A study in the Malawi, Tanzania and Political Science politics of agriculture and Uganda. PhD, Northeastern development in transitional U, 2008. 3304101. Abebe, Tehitna. states. PhD, U of California, Electoral freedom and Los Angeles, 2007. 3295773. Gelbman, Shamira Michal. institution building: Coalitions of the Expectations of progress Carr, Oyeshiku Burgess. unwilling: Insurgency and towards democratic The idea of nationalism in enfranchisement in the consolidation in Ethiopia, the African context [Eritrea United States and South 1991-2007. PhD, Claremont & Rwanda]. PhD, Boston U, Africa. PhD, U of Virginia, Graduate U, 2008. 3294586. 2008. 3295999. 2008. 3294818.
Apori-Nkansah, Lydia. Conteh, Charles. Girod, Desha Mercedes. Transitional justice in Capacity and legitimacy Foreign aid and post- postconfl ict contexts: The in policy implementation: confl ict reconstruction. PhD, case of Sierra Leone’s dual Singapore and Botswana. Stanford U, 2008. 3313577. accountability mechanisms. PhD, McMaster U (Can.), PhD, Walden U, 2008. 2007. NR36078. Gorden, Kea L. 3291475. Conjuring power: The Cossa, Josa Augusto. politics of culture and Appah, Frederick. Global International Regimes democratization in post- The politics of health and Regional International apartheid South Africa. PhD, promotion: Analyzing Regimes: Power dynamics U of California, Santa Cruz, healthy public policy’s impact and their consequence on 2008. 3317376. on tobacco control in United the educational autonomy States and South Africa. of local governments in Gupta, Devashree. PhD, West Virginia U, 2007. Southern Africa. PhD, Loyola Militant fl anks and moderate 3298703. U, Chicago, 2007. 3295450. centers: The struggle for power and infl uence in nationalist movements [South Africa]. PhD, Cornell U, 2008. 3295802. 52 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Hogan, Kathleen M. Munemo, Ngonidzashe. Tompihe, Jean Gondo. Divide or share: The role Politics during dry times: Ethnicity and institution- of norms in water-sharing Incumbent insecurity and the building in Africa. PhD, U arrangements in the Indus, provision of drought relief in of California, Los Angeles, Jordan, and Senegal River contemporary Africa. PhD, 2007. 3295786. basins. PhD, Georgetown U, Columbia U, 2008. 3299285. 2006. 3302087. Torreguitar, Elena. Okafor-Dike, Lillian C. National liberation Ichino, Nahomi. The effect of leadership on movements in offi ce: Forging Essays on ethnic diversity economic development: A democracy with African and political instability in case study of Nigeria. D.M., U adjectives in Namibia. PhD, sub-Saharan Africa. PhD, of Phoenix, 2008. 3304797. Boston U, 2008. 3314080. Stanford U, 2008. 3302834. Robinson, Raymond Peter. Turotte, Heather M. Kimani, James Kelly. Incomplete democratic Petro-sexual politics: Knowledge of HIV/AIDS and transitions, nationalism, and Global oil, legitimate HIV voluntary counseling increased bellicosity: The violence and transnational and testing: What’s their Arab experience [Algeria & justice [Nigeria]. PhD, U of infl uence on risky sexual Tunisia]. PhD, Catholic U of California, Santa Cruz, 2008. behavior in Kenya? PhD, U of America, 2008. 3310036. 3317419. Maryland, Baltimore County, 2007. 3297582. Shehata, Dina S. Woldermariam, Islamists and non- Yohannes. Kiriaghe, Uzziah Maate. Islamists in the Egyptian A critical assessment of The impact of opposition: Patterns of international relations decentralization on health confl ict and cooperation. theories for managing service delivery in Western PhD, Georgetown U, 2007. transboundary water Uganda. PhD, Southern 3313035. resources: The case of the New Hampshire U, 2006. Nile basin [Egypt, Sudan 3303373. Steffenson, Anne & Ethiopia]. PhD, U of Elizabeth. Massachusetts Amherst, Kosack, Stephen. Toward a better 2007. 3299125. Predicting good governance: understanding of HIV risk Political organization and among young South Africans: Ziemke, Jennifer J. education policymaking in Risk perceptions and the From battles to massacres Taiwan, Ghana, and Brazil. risk of concurrent sexual [Angola]. PhD, U of PhD, Yale U, 2008. 3317147. partnerships. PhD, Harvard Wisconsin-Madison, 2008. U, 2008. 3312530. 3314364. Mampilly, Zachariah Cherian. Taylor, Adrian T. Stationary bandits: The War on Terror in the Psychology Understanding rebel Horn of Africa: Human governance [DR Congo & Security matters. PhD, Ferguson, Kim Theresa. Sudan]. PhD, U of California, Howard U, 2007. 3299681. Infant development in the Los Angeles, 2007. 3295784. context of Malawian infant homes. PhD, Cornell U, 2008. 3300231.
53 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Hennessey, Moira. Halverson, Jeffry R. Muhomba, Thomas. Body dissatisfaction, eating Theology and creed in Sunni The church’s changing disorders and a media literacy Islam: Kalam, Islamism, and mission: Working with HIV/ intervention among Tanzanian the postulates of political AIDS among the Shona females. PhD, Boston U, Sunnism [Egypt]. PhD, people of Zimbabwe. PhD, 2008. 3298643. Arizona State U, 2008. Asbury Theo. Sem., 2008. 3304841. 3313402. Yeomans, Peter Douglass. The effect of Posttraumatic Kahumburu Kiragu, Nina, Aliou Cisse. Stress Disorder Joseph. Faith and freedom in psychoeducation on the St. Augustine’s methods Galatia: A Senegalese nature and severity of of preaching: A model for Diola sociopostcolonial traumatic stress symptoms renewing the preaching hermeneutics. PhD, Texas in a Burundian sample. PhD, ministry in an African context Christian U, 2007. 3290964. Drexel U, 2008. 3308225. [Kenya]. PhD, Fordham U, 2008. 3312007. Ntagengwa, Jean- Baptiste. Religion Lawanson, Tesilimi Overcoming cycles of Aderemi. oppression and violence: Adoyo, Priscilla Anyango. Exploring organizational A proposal for ethical The application of biblical performance: A case study of leadership in Rwanda. Th.D., principles of confl ict four Christian organizations Boston U Sch. of Theology, transformation in ethno- in Nigeria. PhD, Fuller Theo. 2008. 3305869. religious situations in Jos and Sem., 2007. 3313344. Kaduna, Nigeria. D.Miss., O’Connell, Elisabeth R. Fuller Theo. Sem., 2008. Maxey, James. Tombs for the living: 3317675. Bible translation as Monastic reuse of contextualization: The role monumental funerary Berna, D. Dustin. of oral performance in New architecture in late antique A revolutionary perspective Testament and African Egypt. PhD, U of California, on social movements: contexts [Cameroon]. PhD, Berkeley, 2007. 3306280. Fundamentalism in the Lutheran School of Theo. at Islamic world [Egypt]. PhD, Chicago, 2008. 3293076. Samaila, Nahor Hato. U of New Orleans, 2008. Christian-Muslim religious 3313859. Mohr, Adam. confl icts in Nigeria and their “Their journeys were implications for the church: Emetuche, Damian not without demonic A case study of Kaduna Okwudiri. confrontation:” Healing and religious crises 1987-2000. An analysis of worldviews of migration in the Presbyterian D.Miss., Ashbury Theo. West African immigrants to Church of Ghana. PhD, Sem., 2008. 3313404. Greater Cincinnati and their U of Pennsylvania, 2008. missiological implications. 3309477. Spevack, Aaron. PhD, Southern Baptist The archetypal Sunni Theological Seminary, 2007. scholar: Law, theology, and 3300628. mysticism in the synthesis of al-Bajuri [Egypt]. PhD, Boston U, 2008. 3308160.
54 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Trinitapoli, Jenny Ann. Nsonwu, Maura Busch. Bieri, Franziska. The role of religious God-talk and kin-talk in the From confl ict diamonds to organizations in the HIV survival epistemology of the Kimberley Process: How crisis of sub-Saharan Africa Liberian refugee women: A NGOs reshaped a global [Malawi]. PhD, U of Texas at radical challenge for social industry. PhD, Emory U, Austin, 2007. 3294283. work. PhD, U of North 2008. 3310238. Carolina at Greensboro, Wright, Peter Matthews. 2008. 3307314. Gatimu, Simon N.N. Modern Qur’anic Tourism in Kenya, Tanzania, hermeneutics [Egypt]. PhD, Olusesi, Olatunde Atanda. and Uganda: Grounded U of North Carolina at Chapel The relationship between theory development. PhD, Hill, 2008. 3304296. causal beliefs about mental Walden U, 2007. 3303746. illness and marital instability, and help-seeking preferences Ibezim, Felicia E. Social Work of Nigerian immigrants. PhD, Cultural confl icts and New York U, 2008. 3303131. crises in marriages among Green-Smith, Dianne the Igbo ethnic group of Marie. The infl uence of Nigerian-Americans living in culture: African immigrant Sociology metropolitan New York. PhD, women’s experiences of Capella U, 2008. 3297540. their HIV/AIDS status in the Akhidenor, Charles D. United States. PhD, Loyola Nigerians’ attitudes toward Mills, Jesse. U, Chicago, 2008. 3313144. people with disabilities. PhD, Racing to refuge: Ethnicity, Capella U, 2007. 3291444. gendered violence, and Hassan Elbessaty, Somali youth in San Diego. Elsayed. Le role des acteurs Allen, Ryan. PhD, U of California, San de la société civile: Le “Sometimes it’s hard here Diego, 2008. 3308929. cas des organisations non to call someone to ask gouvernementales et des for help:” Social capital in Odubote, Bamidele groupes communautaires a refugee community in Andrew. dans la gestion des déchets Portland, Maine [Somalia & Parenting style, race and solides urbains au Caire. Sudan]. PhD, Massachusetts delinquency: A comparative PhD, U of Montreal (Can.), Institute of Tech., 2007. study of European American, 2007. NR36647. 0819845. African American and Nigerian families. PhD, U of Nadeau, Carla T. Avogo, Winfred Aweyire. Minnesota, 2008. 3299418. The effi cacy of pre-departure Social diffusion and fertility cultural orientation as a processes in Sub-Saharan Orieny, Paul Okeyo. social work intervention Africa: Longitudinal evidence African immigrants’ in acculturation [Sudan, from Ghana. PhD, Arizona stressful marital and family Somalia & Liberia]. PhD, State U, 2008. 3314631. experiences. PhD, U of Catholic U of America, 2008. Minnesota, 2008. 3313460. 3310032. Bartlett, Anne L. Insurgent politics: London, the Darfur crisis and the new landscape of transnational political action. P, U of Chicago, 2008. 3309002.
55 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 Sausele, Elizabeth J. Theology Ndive-Hill, Nessie. Perceptions of former A retrospective investigation children at risk on social Azetsop, Jacquineau. of women’s education in trust towards leaders in Preferential option for the the South West Province post-war and genocide poor and health equity in of Cameroon with a look Rwanda. PhD, Trinity Africa: A theological approach towards the future. PhD, international U, 2007. to population-level bioethics. Union Institute and U, 2008. 3308063. PhD, Boston Coll., 2007. 3300399. 3301784. Sears, Jonathan Michael. Ngunjiri, Faith Wambura. Deepening democracy Chukwu, Donatus Oluwa. Tempered radicals and and cultural context in the The extended family in servant leaders: Portraits of Republic of Mali, 1992-2002. Africa as a model for the spirited leadership amongst PhD, Queen’s U (Can.), Church: Towards an ecclesio- African women leaders 2008. NR37100. missioncentric theology [Kenya]. Ed.D., Bowling of inculturation for the Green State U, 2006. Steinmetz, Michele. evangelization of the Igbos 3305315. A multi-level study of of Nigeria. PhD, Loyola U, reproductive outcomes in Chicago, 2008. 3295447. Okoli, Eugene. Kenya: Quality of care and Gender disparity in Nigerian community factors. PhD, Ogunyemi, Emmanuel T. education: Women’s Pennsylvania State U, 2007. Perspectives of Nigerian experience of barriers 3299059. theological educators about to equal educational the role of theological opportunity. PhD, Western Wood, Steven R. education in addressing Michigan U, 2007. 3293182. Regulatory capture and the HIV/AIDS crisis. PhD, the South African Judicial Trinity International U, 2008. Sam, Nana Aba Kweiba. Inspectorate of Prisons. PhD, 3308219. The feminization of City U of New York, 2008. sustainable development: 3310599. Addressing the participation Urban & Regional Planning of women in achieving food security in Ghana-a study Theater Agina, Michael Anene. of rural Greater Accra. PhD, Analyses of traffi c congestion Howard U, 2008. 3307111. Donkor, David Afriyie. in urban Sub-Sahara Africa: A Spiders in the city: Trickster case study of Lagos, Nigeria. and the politics/economics PhD, Texas Southern U, 2007. of performance in Ghana’s 3317483. popular theatre revival. PhD, Northwestern U, 2008. 3303771. Women’s Studies
McMahon, Christina S. Leissle, Kristy. Theatre in circulation: Cocoa and cash, culture and Performing national identity chocolate: A feminist analysis on the global stage in Cape of development and trade in Verde, West Africa. PhD, Ghana and Britain. PhD, U of Northwestern U, 2008. Washington, 2008. 0820211. 3303670. 56 ASA NEWS ~ January 2009 $66,67$1725$662&,$7()$&8/7<326,7,21 $IULFDQ$PHULFDQDQG$IULFDQ6WXGLHV
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January 15 Graduate Student Paper Prize deadline. February 1 African Studies Review deadline for payment and ad submission for the April issue. 15 Distinguished Africanist Award nomination packets deadline. March 1 ASA News deadline for payment and ad submission for the April issue. 15 Annual Meeting Proposals are due. Letters of Invitation should be requested at this time. 15 Membership deadline for maximum benefits. Individuals who join/renew after this date risk not receiving maximum membership benefits. April 30 Coordinate Organizations ASA Coordinate Organization Annual Reports deadline (maximum of 5 pages) Coordinate Organization Reporting Form deadline (including Business Meeting requests) May 1 Melville J. Herskovits Award nominations deadline. June 1 ASA News deadline for payment and ad submission for the July issue. July 1 African Studies Review deadline for payment and ad submission for the September issue. 1 History in Africa deadline for payment and ad submission for the September issue. September 1 Annual Meeting Program deadline for payment and ad submission. 1 Deadline to cast a vote for the ASA Officers and Board of Directors Elections. 30 Annual Meeting pre-registration deadline. 30 Letters of Invitation requests deadline. October 1 African Studies Review deadline for payment and ad submission for the December issue. December 1 ASA News deadline for payment and ad submission for the January issue.
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