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ASA News, Vol XXXX, No. 2, April 2007 ISSN 0278-2219 In This Issue Editor: Carol L. Martin, PhD Associate Editor: Kristina L. Carle Published three times a year by the African Studies Association From the Executive Director...... 2 Website: www.africanstudies.org New Members...... 3 Submissions and advertisements for the ASA News should be sent to In Memoriam...... 5 [email protected] as a PDF fi le. Contributors to the Endowment...... 7 Deadlines for submissions and advertisements are December 1, March 1, and June 1. 50 Year Anniversaries Campaign...... 7 Join the ASA...... 10 OFFICERS President: Pearl T. Robinson (Tufts U) Annual Meeting Key Information...... 11 Vice President: Aliko Songolo (U of Wisconsin- ASA 2007 Election Announcement...... 12 Madison) Past President: Joseph C. Miller (U of Virginia) Announcements...... 14 Executive Director: Carol L. Martin (Rutgers U) Call for Proposals...... 16 Treasurer: Joel Barkan (U of Iowa) Call for Submissions...... 18 DIRECTORS Grants and Fellowships...... 18 Serving Until 2007 Recent Doctoral Dissertations...... 20 Toyin Falola (U of Texas) Corinne Kratz (Emory U) Advertisements...... 30 Kathleen Sheldon (U of California-Los Angeles) Serving Until 2008 ASA Press Order Form...... 33 Tabitha Kanogo (U of California-Berkeley) ASA 2007 Membership Rates...... 35 Elisha Renne (U of Michigan) ASA 2007 Ad Rates...... 37 Michael Schatzberg (U of Wisconsin-Madison) Serving Until 2009 ASA Deadlines...... 38 Jane Guyer (Johns Hopkins U) Babatunde Lawal (Virginia Commonwealth U) Elizabeth Schmidt (Loyola College)
© 2007 African Studies Association. All Rights Reserved. able to manipulate the directory to facilitate Letter From The networking with colleagues. The Call for Executive Director Proposals for the 50th Annual Meeting, October 18-21 at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers, received an enthusiastic response. In Congratulations to the African Studies reviewing the proposals, Program Chair Stanlie Association on its 50th Anniversary! The James (Arizona State U) and her Committee founding meeting of the ASA took place March will endeavor to ensure intellectual stimulation 22-24, 1957 in the Roosevelt Hotel in New of the highest quality. The Local Arrangements York, New York. The date was noted during this Committee, co-chaired by Carolyn Brown year’s March 22 second annual ASA Presidential (Rutgers U) and Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum Lecture at Rutgers U, which serves as the host (Lehman College-CUNY), has exciting plans for institution for the ASA Secretariat. The warmly a festive and memorable occasion. The Annual received lecture, “Ralph Bunche the Africanist,” Meeting Preliminary Program will be posted was delivered by President Pearl Robinson, to the website in July. On the publications who was introduced by Aliko Songolo, ASA Vice front, this edition of the ASA News has been President and Abena Busia, Acting Director, redesigned for the new electronic format and Rutgers U Center for African Studies. a redesigned website is on the near horizon. Watch www.africanstudies.org for updates on all The Association has evolved considerably since these exciting developments! 1957, when it was founded as a non-profi t organization open to all individuals and insti- In addition to the initiatives mentioned above, tutions interested in African affairs. The ASA’s the Board is working to strengthen the ASA’s central mission, to bring together people with a ability to achieve its mission. Alongside the scholarly and professional interest in Africa, is fundraising efforts of the 50 Year Anniversaries vibrantly manifest during the Annual Meeting, Campaign, chaired by Ned Alpers (UCLA), a which has grown over the years to an average Board-appointed Ad hoc Strategic Planning attendance of 1800 scholars and practitioners, Committee chaired by Sandra Barnes (U of including local K-12 educators and representa- Pennsylvania) is engaged in charting the course tives from the media. With nearly 250 panels, for the Association’s fi nancial and programmatic roundtables, and plenary sessions, 50 exhibit future. In anticipation that the Board will booths, and 50 fi lms in the Video Marketplace, implement Strategic Planning Committee the Annual Meeting ignites interdisciplinary recommendations, the Board is in the process thought, refl ection, collaboration, and exchange of preparing a referendum to update the that is profoundly rewarding, both professionally process and the requirements for amending the and personally. The Association’s annual publi- Association’s Bylaws and to formally change cations, ASA News, African Studies Review, and the ASA’s fi scal year from July 1-June 30 to the History in Africa, reach an ever wider audience, January-December calendar year. Information particularly through the ASA’s participation in about the referendum will follow. JSTOR and Project Muse, and the ASA’s Awards and Prizes recognize excellence that makes us In closing, please support the “$50 for the all proud. Now an increasingly diverse 2,200 50th” appeal. In addition to reaching the goal of individual and institutional members strong, the $500,000 by 2008, achieving a high percentage ASA is uniquely the leading organization that of member participation is extremely important promotes African studies in the world. to attracting outside funding. If each of us con- tributes to the “$50 for the 50th” appeal and to I am pleased to announce that the fi rst phase the general endowment, we will collectively help of the new online membership directory, the Association to build on its successes, and to which lists the current members’ names and ensure a solid foundation for “promoting African affi liations, was inaugurated in February. During studies” for the next 50 years - and beyond! the second phase, current members will be
2 ASA NEWS ~ April 2007 New ASA Members
October 1 - December 31, 2006
Sara Cole Gerald Horne Karen Liu Kwasi Prempeh Kathryn de Luna Kevin Jackson Marieme Lo Rush Rehm Brian Dowd Gibwa Kajubi Tina Mangieri Stephanie Renne Lisanne Edwards Steven Kaplan Yaw Oheneba-Sakyi Barbara Russell Nnamdi Elleh Robert Kevlihan Oyeronke Oyewumi Amy Settergren Okwui Enwezor Marie Kruger Michael Panzer Keith Weber Colin Hoag Hope Lewis Jacques Pollini James Wilson
January 1 - March 15, 2007
Zain Abdullah John Bomba Kim Deslandes Munashe Furusa Aduke Adebayo Nina Bowen Marit Dewhurst Kyra Gaunt Mario Aguilar Lydia Boyd Boureima Diamitani Paul Wenzel Geissler Megan Ahern Nicholas Bridger Brian Dill Elizabeth Gianola Rasheed Akinyemi Nichole Bridges Yvette Djachechi John Githongo Roselyn Akombe Mirjam Bruijn Les Dlabay John Glover Amanda Alexander Ikaweba Bunting Esi Dogbe-Bani Allison Goebel Jocelyn Alexander Jenna Burrell George Dor Muriel Gomez-Perez William Allen Laurie Calhoun Erik Doxtader Katarzyna Grabska Marisabel Almer Filipe Calvao Jean-Pierre Dozon Shane Graham Catarina Alves- Bolaji Campbell Chandra Dunn Oscar Grandio Costa Leslie Campbell Grant Alexander Edwards Moraguez Abel Djassi Amado Mariana Candido Roland Edwards Robert Grey Epifania Amoo-Adare Nathan Carpenter Mfon Ekpo-Otu Jeff Grischow Elise Andaya Tracey Carter Glen Elder Chris Guillebeau John Stafford Anderson Clara Carvalho Jennifer Erickson Catherine Guimond Kwadwo Anokwa Conerly Casey Maria Eriksson Baaz Deniz Gungen Jenna Appelbaum Martin Chanock Doris Essah Shelly Habecker Semhar Araia Catherine Cole Emma Etuk Leslie Hadfi eld Fernando Arenas Jonathan Cole Iolanda Evora Bruce Hall Jeremiah Arowosegbe Clifton Crais Benedetta Faedi Shannon Harris Shiferaw Assefa Javanica Curry Douglas Falen Nadra Hashim Kara Babrowski Devon Curtis Maureen Feeley Keisha Haywood Katharine Baldwin Dominique Cyrille Eunice Ferreira Lizanne Henderson Bonnie Barthold Lisa Daniels John Fitzpatrick Christine Hentschel Yves Bashonga Allison Davis Kimberly Foulds Gerise Herndon Fodei Batty Esther de Bruijn James Foy William Hewitt Linnea Bergholm Zermarie Deacon Britta Frede Jason Hickel Jeremy Berndt Erin Dean Eveily Freeman Etelle Higonnet Erika Bernheimer Carl Death John French Joseph Hill Robert Blunt Stephanie Decker Cecile Fromont David Hoekema
3 ASA NEWS ~ April 2007 Danny Hoffman Ioannis Mantzikos Afi s Oladosu Nicholas Smith Chris Hufstader Amanda Maples Olabode Omojola Karen Stahl Hilary Hungerford Trevor Marchand Sandy Onor Ann Stahl Rebekah Hurt Clement Masakure Uchenna Onuzulike Richard Stanley Rahmane Idrissa Terence Mashingaidze Valerie Orlando Amy Staples Bayo Ijagbemi Molly McCullers Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi Brooke Stearns Jane Irungu Ramah Mckay Gnimbin Ouattara Michelle Stefanick Julie Jenkins Anne McNeely Kate Patch Charles Steinmetz Jameatris Johnson Natalie Mettler Petrus Pels Chelsea Strayer Krista Johnson Bsrat Mezghebe Tony Perman Mary Sundal Timothy Johnson Salem Mezhoud Carolyn Petersen Larry Swatuk James Jones Courtnay Micots Amy Pojar Ann Swidler Parselelo Kantai Zimmerman Francesca Polidori Peter Takirambudde Kathleen Keller Devra Moehler Stefano Ponte Radell Tankard Susan Kelliher Christopher Molem Michael Ralph John Tawiah-Boateng Tim Kelsall Ismael Montana Christian Reed Raymond Taylor James Kennell MacKenzie Moon Ruth Rempel Victor Tebid Erin Kenny Constance Morrill Stephen Reyna Makda Teklemichael Elisabeth King Lauren Morris Regina Roberts Clare Terni Rosamond King MacLean Peter Robertshaw Drew Thompson Marcel Kitissou Richard Mtisi Alexander Rodlach Susan Thomson Doreen Klassen Nansubuga Oystein Rolandsen Thomas Tieku Heinz Klug Mubirumusoke Robert Rolfe Hakeem Tijani Ousman Kobo Margaret Muchiri Lonzen Rugira Donna Tonini Micaela Kramer Ragnhild Muriaas Stephanie Rupp Admasu Tucho Jessica Krug Bala Musa Anna Rushton Caroline Tushabe Michael Kuchinsky Dalila Nadi Naaborko Sackeyfi o Aimable Twagilimana Sibel Kusimba Evelyn Namubiru- Eunice Sahle Thomas Uthup Matthew Kustenbauder Mwaura Christine Saidi Anja Veirman George La Rue Muna Ndulo Saihou Saidy Alexander Veit Lynne Lackey Abigail Neely Mohammed Salau Cassandra Veney Johan Lagae Alondra Nelson Evelyn Sallah Joseph Venosa Kimberly Lanegran Emma Nesper Richard Sandbrook Philip Verwimp Lance Larkin Dwight Newman Cristina Santinho Theodore Vestal Andrew Lawrence Mvuselelo Ngcoya Stephanie Santos Pedro Vicente Herman Lebovics Vinh-Kim Nguyen Ellen Sapega Emmanuel Viret Baz Lecocq Neil Norman Peter Schmidt Susan Vogel Nicole Lefore Sophia Nur Kate Schroeder Thembela Vokwana Kristy Leissle Lynette Nyaggah Andrea Seligman Terence Walz Amanda Lewis Sylvia Nyana Lumumba Shabaka Constanze Weise Charlotte Lewis Godriver Odhiambo Ryan Sheely Katja Werthmann David Locke Oghenekome Odu Stephanie Shonekan Madeleine Wong Allison Loconto Jay Oelbaum Peter Simatei Pablo Yanguas Ana Loso Terje Oestigaard Richard Simeon Christopher Youe Tokunbo Macaulay Opeoluwa Ogundokun Chandiwana Sithole James Zaffi ro Marsha MacDowell Elina Oinas Elizabeth Siwo-Okundi Joanne Zellers Dillon Mahoney Martin Okafor Cathy Skidmore-Hess Leo Zulu Fortunata Makene Enrique Okenve John Slocum Timothy Mangin Gary Okihiro James Smith 4 ASA NEWS ~ April 2007 In Memoriam
Greg Cherry Donald Rothchild Victor C. Uchendu
Donald Rothchild
We received word today that Professor Donald litical Science). He taught at UC Davis, Makerere Rothchild died yesterday. Our condolences to the U, UCLA, U of Nairobi, U of Zambia, U of Ghana, Rothchild family and to our colleagues at the U of and Johns Hopkins U. He was the recipient of California, Davis. Professor Rothchild was a friend numerous grants and awards and was widely pub- and colleague to many in African Studies and a lished. His most recent works include co-editing dedicated Africanist scholar. He will be missed. Africa in World Politics: The African State System in Flux (with John W. Harbeson) and Africa-US Donald Rothchild was a professor of Political Sci- Relations: Strategic Encounters (with Edmond ence at the U of California, Davis. He earned his Keller). PhD from Johns Hopkins U in 1958, his MA from the U of California, Berkeley in 1954, and his BA Submitted by the James S. Coleman African from Kenyon College in 1949 (High Honors in Po- Studies Center, January 31, 2007
Victor C. Uchendu
The Center for African Studies at the University Jan. 1 st 1930 - Dec. 7th 2006 of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign is very sadden to share the news that Prof. Victor C. Uchendu, Our father (Prof. Victor Chikezie Uchendu) was founding director of our unit has passed away on the fi rst child of the late Ezeji Isaac Uchendu Abu- December 7, 2006. He was buried in Nsirimo, Ni- ronye, of Umuerim Nsirimo, and the late Enyidiya geria on December 22, 2006. Sabanna Nwampagha Uchendu of Ezu na Erim Autonomous Community Umuahia South Local It is particularly troubling because we understand Government. from his family that he was killed in his home at Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria, and that individuals He was defi nitely in his mother’s womb during were hired to kill him to stop him from becom- the Abia Women’s Riot in 1929; hence his mother, ing the mayor of his community. According to the a woman activist, could not participate in the Nigerian newspaper, Vanguard, this violent crime Women’s Rally taking place in Aba. The exact day has not been fully or satisfactorily solved. We are and month of his birth could only be placed in late still seeking more information on this case. 1929 or early 1930.
Prof. Uchendu was the director of the Center for Education: Our father started school in 1938 at African Studies, U of Illinois from 1971-1980. He the Infant School and attended a variety of Catho- led a very distinguished career, as you can see lic schools including: St. Joseph’s Catholic School from the following biography published by his in Nsirimo, St. Jude’s Amapu Ntigha and St. An- family. thony’s Nbawsi.
We extend our condolences and deepest sympathy In our father’s primary school days, he told us to his family and friends during this diffi cult time. that he made blunders in his best subject (mathe- matics) during the Standard 6 fi nal exams (1945). From the faculty and staff of the Center for African He fi nished the paper 40 minutes early, copied Studies, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. his answers and submitted his papers. Those who completed their papers 40 minutes later came and FAMILY ORATION ON HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS, EZE compared answers with their classmate (Chike (PROF.) VICTOR CHIKEZIE UCHENDU; FATHER, Obi) and thought they had failed. Mr. V. Njoku, GRANDFATHER, BROTHER, UNCLE the headmaster at the time, solved the problems and showed that his “Agar Khan” grade class 5 ASA NEWS ~ April 2007 mathematician was wrong and others were right. * President, African Studies Association of North America (1976) Our father passed the Standard 6 exam probably * Committee member of the Harvard Col- because his processes were correct. The lesson of lege Overseer’s Committee to the Dept. of Afro- that exam on patience and thoroughness guided American Studies of Harvard U (1974-1977) his life as a pupil teacher where he came fi rst in * Consultant to many International Organiza- all the Teacher’s Grading exams, and received tions, including the U.S.A. Offi ce of Education, the the highest number of distinctions in the Teach- National Science Foundation, the World Bank and ers High Elementary exams of 1951 to 1953 at UNESCO, Bishop Shanahan Teacher’s College (BSTC). As a * Listed in the American Men and Women of mark of distinction, our father was invited to teach Science (1973); Outstanding Educators of Amer- Geography at BSC Secondary from Class 1-5 in ica (1975); Who’s Who in the Midwestern USA 1953. The following year he was moved over to (since 1975); and Who’s Who in the United States the Teachers Training Wing of Bishop Shanahan (1979). College. A professor of Sociology and Anthropology for He was an academic giant: a “teacher of teach- over 30 years, he has taught and held academic ers”, an administrator, a social anthropologist, and administrative positions in leading Nigerian and an economic and community leader. After his and international universities including Stanford U, college education at BSTC, he taught for several Makerere U, U of Ghana, Legon and U of Illinois, years before proceeding to the U College, Ibadan, Urbana. He was a widely published scholar with in 1959 where he studied Economics. “Twice-a- 15 books authored, co-authored or edited by him. Prize” winner at the U College, he led his class, His contributions to academic journals are equally earning the Departmental Prize (1959-60) and the impressive and commendable. Faculty Prize (1960-61); the fi rst student of the Faculty to achieve such a distinction at Ibadan. Other Titles Held by Prof. V.C. Uchendu He obtained the following degrees both here and abroad: B.Sc. Econ (Hons) London U; M.A. and * Member of two Title Societies in Nsirimo: Eze PhD from Northwestern U, USA. As a recipient of a Okonko (1986) and Eze Ji (1978) Rockefeller scholarship to Northwestern U in Evan- * Izumba I of Ngurunwenkwo (1988) by His ston, Illinois, our father completed his masters Royal Highness Eze I.E. Nwachukwu-Udaku and Ph.D. in record time of three years; a record * Ebube Dike I of Okata (1989) by His Royal that still stands today. Highness Igwe Dr. M.A. Okoro
Professor Uchendu has taught at all levels of Philanthropic Efforts of Prof. V.C. Uchendu education and has been associated with teaching and lectureship in three continents since 1966; Our father has always been a great philanthropist. USA (1965-1968; 1971-1980), Africa (l969-1971; He has contributed to many causes in church and 1980-2006), and Asia (1970). He has lectured society. He was a founder and manager of institu- at over 250 universities and institutions and is a tions that promote charities and benefactions. He widely published author. Suffi ce it to say that he founded the Enyidiya Uchendu Foundation that was an eminent fi gure that served on numerous contributed to secondary and university educa- bodies in a variety of capacities, including, but not tional efforts. limited to the following: In 2003, he founded the Dr. Gann Ewulonu Foun- * Consultant, Dept. of Sociology, Abia State U dation that encourages the training of general (2003-2006) medical practitioners at Abia State Teaching Hos- * Director of the Institute of Public Policy and pital. The Foundation also provides cash prizes Administration, U of Calabar, Cross River to Nsirimo students in primary and secondary (1988-200 I) schools. The Foundation is made possible by the * Professor, Dept. of Sociology, U of Calabar, generous contributions from members of the Eze’s Cross River (1980-1986) family and Committee of Friends he assembled. * Foundation Dean of the Graduate School, U of Calabar, Cross River (1982-1985) Submitted by Jamie McGowan, U of Illinois, * Appointed Professor of Anthropology by the January 16, 2007 U of Illinois, Urbana, in April, 1970 and assumed offi ce in March, 1971 as the Foundation Director of the University’s African Studies Centre
6 ASA NEWS ~ April 2007 ASA Contributors to the Endowment
December 15, 2006 – March 31, 2007
Osei-Mensah Toyin Falola Jamie McGowan David Robinson Aborampah Pamela Feldman- Jamie Monson Melissa Root Kwame Agyenim- Savelsberg K. P. Moseley Eve Sandberg Boateng Alan Frishman Akbar Muhammad* David Sandgren Patricia Alden Dokubo Goodhead Jonathan Ngate Elizabeth Schmidt Eric Allina-Pisano Shannen Hill Leah Niederstadt Nancy Schwartz Kwadwo Anokwa Rhashida Hilliard Mougo and Lynette Pamela Simon Joel Barkan Naana Banyiwa Nyaggah Jo Sullivan Misty Bastian Horne Georges Nzongola- Joseph Szlavik Barry Berk Hilary Jones Ntalaja* Scott Taylor Louise Bourgault Bennetta Jules- Simon Ottenberg Brian Thompson Sarah Brett-Smith Rosette Tola Pearce Steven Thomson Fahamisha Brown Emmanuel Kreike Philip Peek Karen Tranberg Maria Cattell Peter Lewis Deborah Pellow Hansen Ruramisai Charumbira Stephen Lubkemann Pauline Peters Aili Tripp Jennifer Coffman Peter Malanchuk John James Quinn Thomas Turner William Dewey Irving Markovitz Leslie Rabine Jacqueline Vieceli Susan Diduk Carol L. Martin Elisha Renne Gretchen Walsh Mac Dixon-Fyle Dismas Masolo Richard Roberts Christopher Youe
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7 ASA NEWS ~ April 2007 Carol Boram-Hays Pamela Feldman- Joseph Inikori Carol Martin* Louise Bourgault Savelsberg* David Iyam Dismas Masolo Karen Bouwer* Ellen Foley Baba Jallow* James Matory Merle Bowen Barbara Frank Stanlie James Cheryl McCurdy Cynthia Brantley* Marion Frank Wilson John Janzen Thomas McDow Lawrence Breit- Elliot Fratkin Alka Jauhari Jamie McGowan borde* Alan Frishman* Sheridan Johns, III Beverly McGraw* Lisa Brock Heidi Frontani John and Elizabeth Harriet McGuire* George Brooks Wilfred Gabsa Johnson-Ross Dean McHenry* Spencer Brown Jose Garcia-Rojas Debora Johnson Marjorie McIntosh* Jennie Burnet Christraud Geary Ross Patrick McNaughton Judith Byfi eld* Guluma Gemeda Hilary Jones Eugene Mensch Thomas Callaghy Abosede George Cédric Jourde Charles Merwin Tracey Carter Gail Gerhart Bennetta Jules- Gwendolyn Mikell Lee Cassanelli Peter Geschiere* Rosette* Joyce Millen Maria Cattell* Linda Giles Ngeta Kabiri Kim Miller Brenda Chalfi n Paula Girshick Kasongo Kapanga* Missouri State Joanna Chataway Harvey Glickman Ronald Kassimir University Gracia Clark Roger Gocking* Ray Kea James Mittelman* Dontraneil Clayborne Dokubo Goodhead Edmond Keller* Harry Mokeba Lynn Cockburn James Graham Nancy Kendall Jamie Monson* Jill Coelho* Suzanne Grant Lewis Vincent Khapoya Marissa Moorman* Jennifer Coffman David Groff Mae King Mark Moritz Herman Cohen Anatoly Gromyko Jacqueline Klopp Rodger Morton Robert Collins Maria Grosz Ngate Thomas Kolasa K. P. Moseley Elizabeth Colson Ricardo Guthrie Jeanne Koopman Jack Mower* Raymond Copson* Rosalind Hackett Mark Kornbluh* Eileen Moyer Catherine Coquery- Sondra Hale Corinne Kratz Nansubuga Vidrovitch* William Hance Emmanuel Kreike* Mubirumusoke R. Hunt Davis, Jr. Holger Bernt Hansen Haile Larebo Helen Mugambi Lynda Day John Hanson Joseph Lauer Sharron Muhammad Rosa De Jorio John Harbeson* Rindert Leegsma* Isabel Mukonyora Danielle de Lame Ruth Hardage René Lemarchand* Edwin Munger Francis Deng Ernest Harsch* John Lemly Bala Musa William Dewey* Joseph Hellweg Hope Lewis* Cheryl Mwaria Tatiana Deych Errol Henderson Olga Linares Garth Myers* Mac Dixon-Fyle James Hentz Bernth Lindfors* Jonathan Ngate Christine Djondo Susan Herlin Peter Little* Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Graeme Donovan Linda Heywood Julie Livingston* Banoum Marion Doro Francis Higginson Stephen Lubkemann Leah Niederstadt* Henry Drewal Catherine Higgs Ghislaine Lydon Carolyn Nolan Philip Drouin Thomas Hinnebusch Jean-Michel Mabuko-Tali Celia Nyamweru* Roberta Dunbar* Dorothy Hodgson Elizabeth MacGonagle Georges Nzongola- Myron Echenberg* Frank Holmquist Jeanne Maddox Ntalaja* Joanne Eicher Nicholas Hopkins* Toungara* Raphael Ogom Risa Ellovich* Ian Hopwood Bruce Magnusson Christian Okaegbu Kate Ezra Curtis Huff Peter Malanchuk Corann Okorodudu* Steven Fabian Richard Hull* Kristin Mann* Isidore Okpewho Kathleen Fallon Nancy Hunt Marton Markovits Patrick O’Meara Toyin Falola John Hunwick Irving Markovitz Benson Onyeji Nancy Farwell Judith Imel Van Allen Jane Martin Stephen Orvis
8 ASA NEWS ~ April 2007 Emily Osborn Elisha Renne* Ellen Sieber Dzodzi Tsikata Mary Osirim Jonathan Reynolds* Marilyn Silberfein Michael Tuck Abena Osseo-Asare Lisa Richey Pamela Simon University of Illinois Simon Ottenberg* Lynne Rienner* Elliott Skinner at Urbana- Gnimbin Ouattara Allen Roberts* Richard Sklar* Champaign Melvin Page Richard Roberts* John David Slocum Wendy Urban-Mead Felicity Palmer David Robinson Daniel Smith USA for Africa Jack Parson* Wolf Roder* Sandra Smith Ernest Uwazie Donna Patterson Melissa Root David Smock Monica van Robin Paynor Donald Rothchild Elisee Soumonni Beusekom Richard Peck Victoria Rovine* Amy Stamach Frances Vavrus* Philip Peek John Rowe Filomina Steady Jacqueline Vieceli Felton Perry Martha Saavedra Edward Steinhart* Mikhail Vishnevskiy Pauline Peters Eunice Sahle Jed Stevenson Immanuel Loumona Petroff* Saihou Saidy Kearsley Stewart Wallerstein Charles Piot Eve Sandberg* Beverly Stoeltje Gretchen Walsh* Anne Pitcher Sandra Sanneh* Margaret Ann Strobel Herbert Weiss Scopas Poggo Michael Schatzberg Jo Sullivan* Beth Whitaker Helena Pohlandt- Lynn Schler Carol Summers* Michael Whyte McCormick Elizabeth Schmidt* Thaddeus Sunseri Prudence Woodford- Robin Poynor Richard Schroeder Joseph Szlavik Berger Robert Press* Nancy Schwartz Nina Tanner Robbins Dwayne Woods John James Quinn Pamela Scully Lessie Tate* David Wunsch Brenda Randolph Edwin Segal Bridget Teboh James Wunsch Adrien Ann Seidman* Carol Thompson Christopher Youe Ratsimbaharison Mette Shayne* Alexander Tkachenko Sherilynn Young Movindri Reddy Jan Shetler Karen Tranberg Thomas Ziebell Priscilla Reining Kate Showers Hansen*
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Names marked by * have made multiple contributions.
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10 ASA NEWS ~ April 2007 AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION 50th ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL MEETING KEY INFORMATION New York, NY ~ October 18-21, 2007 “21st Century Africa: Evolving Conceptions of Human Rights” Program Chair: Stanlie M. James, Arizona State U Local Arrangements Committee Co-Chairs: Carolyn A. Brown, Rutgers U, Bertrade B. Ngo-Ngijol Banoum, CUNY
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13 ASA NEWS ~ April 2007 Announcements
African Studies Review section. We will miss her been vacant for some time. Staffi ng Changes presence and collegiality, Ella Kusnetz will continue and wish her well in pursuing as Offi ce Manager and Copy Eugenia (“Fi”) Herbert, the many projects she put Editor and Craig Malone will emeritus Professor of on hold to remain part of remain with us as Production History at Mount Holyoke the African Studies Review Editor. College, is stepping down editorial team. as African Studies Review We are excited by the book review editor, having Beginning with the April 2007 opportunity to work with edited thousands of book issue (volume 50, number this stellar team, and look reviews for a total of 27 1), Professor Catharine forward to our editorial issues over the past nine Newbury, Smith College and collaboration. years (April 1998 through Five College Professor, and December 2006). Fi has Professor David Newbury, Sincerely, been an essential part of our Smith College will be the editorial collaboration; she African Studies Review Ralph Faulkingham, U of graciously stayed on as book Book Review Editors, and Massachusetts editor long after her offi cial Professor Patrick Mensah, Mitzi Goheen, Amherst retirement from Mount U of Massachusetts will join College Holyoke and did heroic work us in the role of Film Review Editors, African Studies in shaping the book review Editor, a position that has Review
Aluka: and students in Africa as well reproducing the dominant Struggles for Freedom in as around the world. nationalist narrative or Southern Africa Collection simply representing the For our “Struggles for perspective of those who Aluka (http://www.aluka. Freedom in Southern Africa” assumed power. We are in org) is a not-for-profi t collection, which is being the process of documenting international collaboration released June 11, 2007, the liberation struggles of educational and cultural the library will document in Angola, Botswana, institutions. Our mission is to the complex and varied Mozambique, Namibia, build a high-quality scholarly ways that these critical South Africa and Zimbabwe resource of materials from historical struggles unfolded. with a particular emphasis and about Africa. We seek Contributed content will be on the regional and global to attract contributed continually added, enlarging dimensions. collections about Africa from the volume of materials institutions and individuals available. We are committed If this project is to achieve around the world. Our goal to presenting multiple and its enormous potential is to create an online digital contesting perspectives we need to expand the library accessible to scholars rather than simply scope and quality of the 14 ASA NEWS ~ April 2007 oral history collections. It Since education, research, and colleagues. The Aluka is essential that the daily and cultural institutions project will thus call attention lives and lived experiences in Africa will have free to your important scholarly of peasants and workers, access to the Aluka digital contributions to the fi eld. women and men, old and library, this is a wonderful young who experienced opportunity to make a We have already received colonial oppression be told, signifi cant contribution a number of enthusiastic as well as the policies and to the intellectual life responses to the Aluka oral practices of those in power of the continent and to history project. If you are that affected their lives. It the education of future interested in learning more is also critical to document generations of Africans. about the oral history project how they coped, creatively As committed researchers within the Struggles for adapted and struggled and educators I know that Freedom in Southern Africa to gain better lives and you share this concern. collection at Aluka, please ultimately their freedom The materials will also be contact Allen Isaacman from colonial rule. Their disseminated widely at ([email protected]) and voices must constitute a universities in the Global Angelique Mahal (angelique. critical part of our online North and will be an [email protected]). We digital library. important pedagogical and would be pleased to have a research tool for our students conversation with you.
Aluka: African Plants. This set of intend to make that content Temporary Preview of the digital materials now has available as the preview Aluka Digital Library over 280,000 objects in 21 period progresses. Aluka collections, including plant envisions the development of To introduce Aluka to specimens, photographs, collections in a wide variety the broader scholarly art, reference works, and of disciplines based on community, Aluka is pleased archival records of historical feedback and contributions to announce that institutions expeditions to Africa. The from the community. participating in JSTOR content will be of interest are being offered a free not only to botanists, but If you would like to be kept preview period for Aluka. also to students and scholars apprised of and to provide The Preview is currently in many related academic input into developments at available and will continue disciplines, including ecology, Aluka, please contact info@ through the end of June. ethnobotany, history, aluka.org. Aluka is interested Simply point your browser biology, anthropology, in any and all feedback that to www.aluka.org to try out economic development, and you might be willing to share the resource. To determine environmental studies. about both the content and if your institution is a JSTOR the platform. participant, please reference Aluka has already developed the available Participants two additional content areas: lists at www.jstor.org. Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa, and African Aluka’s currently available Cultural Heritage Sites content area is focused on and Landscapes; and we
15 ASA NEWS ~ April 2007 Call For Proposals
Leadership and of July 7-11, 2008. Details Please submit your Management Studies will be announced mid-2007. competitive paper/session in Sub-Sahara Africa LMSSSA2008 will provide submission electronically to 2008 Conference an opportunity to hear and [email protected] (LMSSSA2008) present academic work that can build and inform good Proceedings will be published Full submissions invited now. management practice in Sub- via a CD with an ISSN. If you Submit early and have an Sahara Africa. Emphasis will have any questions, please opportunity to respond to be upon indigenous African feel free to contact us via the reviews and resubmit if approaches, dissemination this email address. necessary. Please use the of best practice information, APA style guide for paper and discussions of the values http://www. formatting and citations. and pitfalls of emulating crossculturalcentre. Western practice. All homestead.com/ The conference will be held topics must broadly relate LMSSSA2008.html in Accra, Ghana, for a three- to management and/or day period during the week leadership in Sub-Sahara Africa.
Toward an Africa without Horace Campbell, Andile Featured Panels:* Borders Conference 2007: Mngxitama, and Chengiah From Theory to Practice Rogers Ragaven. Toward Activism Across Borders an Africa Without Borders How can activism [and July 5-8, 2007 - Durban U of is dedicated to opening scholarship] cross and Technology, Durban, South borders, both physical break down borders, be Africa and metaphorical, and they geographic borders to promoting unity and or borders dividing gender, The Toward an Africa solidarity between groups in class, language, ethnicity, Without Borders organizing the Diaspora and Africa by religion, age, etc.? What are committee invites scholars facilitating strategic alliances the benefi ts or drawbacks of and activists from all and discussions that lead conceptualizing activism in disciplines and professions to partnerships for positive terms of such “borders”? to submit abstracts or panel action in the name of Pan- proposals for consideration Africanism. Africa & the Media: for our third international Borders of Perception conference to be held in The conference will consist How do media affect the Durban, South Africa July of various panels and round- perception of Africa in both 5-8, 2007. The conference table discussions, and will Africa and the Diaspora? features keynote speakers highlight four Featured How can international and Panels. domestic African media work
16 ASA NEWS ~ April 2007 to expand understanding does South Africa’s role (including telephone, fax, or facilitate cooperation? within SADC and the and e-mail). Activists are What is the role of state and African continent affect strongly encouraged to journalist control/censorship issues such as immigration submit proposals for round- in this process? and domestic and foreign table discussions on these policy, in general? What and related topics. Please Pan-Africanism: Theory are the advantages and visit our web site - www. and Practice disadvantages of the model towardanafricawithoutborders. How can Pan-African ideas of social change employed by org - for more information and theories be put into South Africa post liberation? and to submit abstracts practice in today’s Africa? and proposals online. If you How can Pan-African theory *If you would like your have any questions, please facilitate positive action and abstract to be considered for e-mail us at Durban2007@ collaboration throughout one of the featured panels, towardanafricawithoutborders. Africa and the Diaspora? please clearly indicate that org, or call Denise St. Clair What are the benefi ts and/or on your submission. In at 608-226-0535. If you are pitfalls of Pan-Africanism in addition to these featured unable to access the web site, the context of activism and panels, the conference you can also submit proposals scholarship? welcomes scholars and by mailing them to Toward an activists to discuss issues. Africa Without Borders, c/o South Africa’s Role in Denise St. Clair, 4518 Maher Africa and the World Submission of abstracts Avenue, Madison, WI, 53716. How does the idea of “South & activists’ proposals for Or, you can fax them to African Exceptionalism” discussion topics: Abstracts 608-694-4118. complement or impair the should be limited to 250 Pan-Africanist agenda? Is words, and should include Deadline for submission: South African Exceptionalism the author’s name, title, April 15, 2007 a myth or reality? How affi liation, and full address
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Special relaunch issue South, or of comparative ar- • What are the power rela- of Ecquid Novi: African ticles on journalism in other tions incumbent upon the ap- Journalism Studies regions that have a bearing on plication of global journalistic Africa, will also be welcomed. models to African journalism? ‘The local and the global in All theoretical and methodologi- • How does the political African Journalism Studies’ cal approaches are invited, al- economy of knowledge pro- though there is a preference for duction impact on the way The journal Ecquid Novi is critical approaches and qualita- journalism is studied locally entering a new phase in its tive methodologies. and globally? history. As from this year, Articles are invited for the • How can the relationship editorship of the journal has relaunch issue, 28(1&2), with between journalism and de- passed to Herman Wasserman the theme ‘The Local and the mocracy be theorised in the (Newcastle U/ Stellenbosch U). Global in African Journalism African context? The founding and former edi- Studies’. Articles that address • How is globalisation of me- tor, Arnold de Beer, will become this theme from any theoretical dia impacting on the theory the publisher. A new editorial or methodological perspective and practice of journalism in board has been appointed. The are welcomed. Africa? (newly redesigned) journal’s Articles should be approximate- revised title – Ecquid Novi: ly 6,000 words in length. Refer- Deadline for submission: African Journalism Studies encing should follow APA style May 1, 2007 – refl ects the journal’s main and address topics such as (but focus on journalism within the not limited to): Send the manuscript, to- African context. Although there • How do the local and the gether with a separate cover is a preference for manuscripts global intersect in the study or sheet with your name, affi li- dealing with journalism on the practice of journalism in Africa? ation and contact details to continent, comparative stud- • Is there such a thing as Herman Wasserman at ies of journalism in the Global ‘African journalism?’ [email protected]
Grants and Fellowships
Fulbright Scholar nities for U.S. faculty and open to any fi eld offered at a Competition professionals to conduct participating host institution. research, lecture, or to do In most countries lecturing The Fulbright Scholar a combination of the two in is in English; profi ciency in competition for 2008-2009 Africa for three to eleven French, Portuguese or Arabic opened in March with a months. Grants in a wide is needed for some awards. deadline of August 1, 2007. variety of academic Research opportunities in The Fulbright Scholar disciplines are available; Sub-Saharan Africa are Program provides opportu- indeed most awards are available through the African 18 ASA NEWS ~ April 2007 Regional Research Program Sub-Saharan Africa, contact other eligibility requirements, or the AIDS and AIDS- Debra Egan (Email degan@ detailed award descriptions, Related Research program; cies.iie.org, Tel: 202-686- descriptions of benefi ts, and research opportunities in 6230). For information an online application, visit northern Africa are available on grants to North Africa, the Council for International through the Middle East, contact Gary Garrison (Email Exchange of Scholars’ North Africa, South Asia [email protected], website, www.cies.org. Regional Research Program. Tel: 202-686-4019). U.S. For information on grants to citizenship is required. For
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Compiled by Joseph J. Lauer (Michigan State U)
The U.S. and Canadian theses listed below were reported in Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI), vol. 67, no. 6-8 (Dec. 2006-Feb. 2007). Each citation ends with the order number, if any. American and Canadian theses are usually available from Proquest. See DAI (or http://wwwlib.umi. com/dissertations/gateway) for abstracts and other details. This is the 73rd quarterly supplement to American and Canadian Doctoral Dissertations and Master’s Theses on Africa, 1974-1987 (1989).
Agriculture Bergl, Richard Alexander. Greene, Tammy Renee. Conservation biology of the Diet and dental health Cross River gorilla (Gorilla in predynastic Egypt: A Makumbi, Dan. gorilla diehli) [Central Africa]. comparison of Hierakonpolis Phenotypic and genotypic Ph.D., City U of New York, and Naqada. Ph.D., U of characterization of white 2006. 3232001. Alaska Fairbanks, 2006. maize inbreds, hybrids and 3229734. synthetics under stress and Boum, Aomar. non-stress environments. Muslims remember Jews Hamdy, Sherine F. Ph.D., Texas A&M U, 2005. in southern Morocco: Our bodies belong to God: 3231558. Social memories, dialogic Islam, medical science, and narratives, and the collective ethical reasoning in Egyptian Traore, Karim. imagination of Jewishness. life. Ph.D., New York U, Characterization of novel Ph.D., U of Arizona, 2006. 2006. 3221957. rice germplasm from West 3219836. Africa and genetic marker Krygier, Tammy A. associations with rice cooking Collins, Jendju. Late Eighteenth dynasty quality. Ph.D., Texas A&M U, The Modesty Code schema in faience and glass from 2005. 3231591. Egypt: Cultural transmission Malkata: A stylistic and and transformation. Ph.D., quantitative analysis [Egypt]. U of Alberta (Can.), 2006. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins U, Anthropology NR13954. 2006.
Asah, Stanley Tanyi. Foster, Kira Ellen. Leichtman, Mara A. Integrated analysis of Clinics and citizens: Primary A tale of two Shi’isms: human-environment systems: health care and the state Lebanese migrants and Social-ecological resilience in postapartheid South Senegalese converts in in Logone fl oodplain, Lake Africa. Ph.D., U of California, Dakar. Ph.D., Brown U, Chad Basin [Cameroon]. Berkeley with UC, San 2006. 3227874. Ph.D., U of Minnesota, 2006. Francisco, 2006. 3228544. 3230145.
20 ASA NEWS ~ April 2007 McCall, Grant Shields. Architecture Muehlenbachs, Atis. Lithic technological Maternal-fetal confl ict perspectives on early Radoine, Hassan. during placental hominid site use and mobility An encompassing madina: malaria: Hypertension, strategies [Namibia]. Ph.D., Toward new defi nition of trophoblastsVEGFR1 U of Iowa, 2006. 3225648. city in Morocco. Ph.D., expression and maternal U of Pennsylvania, 2006. infl ammation [Tanzania]. Mekuria, Wosenyelesh. 3225523. Ph.D., U of Washington, Modern-day griots: 2006. 3224265. Imagining Africa, choreographing experience, Biological Sciences Night, Gertrude. in a West African Mechanism and distribution performance in New York. Fisher, Jeremy Isaac. of resistance to banana Ph.D., City U of New York, Vegetation coupling to weevil (Cosmopolites 2006. 3232034. global climate: Trajectories sordidus (Germar)) and the of vegetation change and infl uence of plant nutrition on Reed, Ann. phenology modeling from expression of resistance in Gateway to Africa: The satellite observations banana [East Africa]. Ph.D., pilgrimage tourism of [Burkina Faso]. Ph.D., Brown Cornell U, 2006. 3227267. diaspora Africans to Ghana. U, 2006. 3227828. Ph.D., Indiana U, 2006. Nixon, Christian. 3223051. Konings, Franciscus A population-based approach Adrianus Jacobus. to malaria vaccine candidate Smith, Elizabeth A. Genetic and biological identifi cation [Kenya]. Ph.D., Tributaries in the stream of properties of human Brown U, 2006. 3227903. civilization: Race, ethnicity, immunodefi ciency virus type and national belonging 1 (HIV-1) in Cameroon. Pool, John Eric. among Nubians in Egypt. Ph.D., New York U, 2006. Inference of adaptive Ph.D., New York U, 2006. 3221966. evolution and demographic 3222006. history from molecular McIntyre, Peter Biek. variation in Drosophila Stevenson, Judith S. The importance of fi shes in melanogaster. Ph.D., Cornell ‘This thing it is not nutrient cycling in tropical U, 2006. 3227250. fi nished:’ Memory and the freshwaters: Species, commodifi cation of justice in community, and ecosystem Rothman, Jessica M. Munsieville Township, South perspectives [Lake Nutritional ecology and Africa, 1980-2003. Ph.D., Tanganyika]. Ph.D., Cornell parasite dynamics of U of California, Los Angeles, U, 2006. 3227265. mountain gorillas [Uganda]. 2006. 3226037. Ph.D., Cornell U, 2006. Moscovice, Liza R. 3227175. West, Colin Thor. Behavioral ecology Pugkeenga: Assessing the of chimpanzees (Pan Trujillo, Robert Greg. sustainability of household troglodytes) on Rubondo Phylogenetics of the genus extension and fragmentation Island, Tanzania: Habitat, Scotophilus (Chiroptera: under scenarios of global diet, grouping and ranging Vespertilionidae): change [Burkina Faso]. at a release site. Ph.D., U of Perspectives from paternally Ph.D., U of Arizona, 2006. Wisconsin - Madison, 2006. and maternally inherited 3227489. 3222906. genomes with emphasis on African species. Ph.D., Texas A&M U, 2005. 3231592. 21 ASA NEWS ~ April 2007 Business Administration Grandstaff, Barbara Kamiru, John Gatiba. Smith. Tax policy, corporate savings, Danso, Kwaku A. Giant fi shes from the investment behavior, and The role of government Bahariya Formation, economic growth: The Kenya leadership in meeting the Bahariya Oasis, Western experience, 1975-2002. basic needs of the people of Desert, Egypt. Ph.D., U Ph.D., Howard U, 2005. Ghana: A qualitative case of Pennsylvania, 2006. 3228588. study. Ph.D., Capella U, 3225464. 2006. 3226808. Khakoo, Farahnaaz Ren, Dianwei. Hassanali. Glidden, Suellyn H. ASTER digital image Development in sub-Saharan The balancing forward processing for geological Africa: Examining the effects theory of nongovernmental mapping: Examples from of disaggregated offi cial organizational transition in Neoproterozoic Allaqi-Heiani development assistance. sub-Saharan Africa [West Suture, Egypt. Ph.D., U Ph.D., U of Texas at Dallas, Africa]. Ph.D., Capella U, of Texas at Dallas, 2005. 2006. 3224385. 2006. 3226185. 3224362. Nolen, Patrick James. Iskander, Natasha N. Ugalde, Hernan Andres. Unemployment, identity, and Innovating government: Geophysical signature of self-confi dence: Theoretical Migration, development, and small to midsize terrestrial models and experimental the state in Morocco and impact structures [Ghana]. evidence [South Africa]. Mexico, 1963-2005. Ph.D., Ph.D., U of Toronto (Can.), Ph.D., Cornell U, 2006. Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., 2006. NR15925. 3227157. 2006. Salti, Nisreen Ibrahim. Economics Kange, Augustine E. Essays in development Governance challenges and economics [South Africa]. opportunities: A qualitative Ahmed, Meherun. Ph.D., Princeton U, 2006. exploration of leadership in Essays in labor and 3223840. Cameroon. Ph.D., Capella U, development economics 2006. 3226235. [Nigeria]. Ph.D., U of Washington, 2006. Education Somiah, Thomas. Ethical dilemmas in De Laat, Joost J. Ahanotu, Odowueze Chim. Ghana: Factors that induce Incentives to work: Three Fostering transformative acceptance or rejection of applications in development curriculum in the Nigerian bribes. D.B.A., U of Phoenix, and population economics Police Force: A new 2006. 3232331. [Kenya & Togo]. Ph.D., perspective for the 21st Brown U, 2006. 3227818. century. Ph.D., Capella U, 2006. 3226811. Earth Sciences Gandonou, Jean-Marc A. Essays on precision Anyango-Kivuva, Leonora. Buchwaldt, Robert. agriculture technology The forgotten poor: The geology of the adoption and risk Problematizing policies of Neoproterozoic and Cenozoic management [Benin]. children’s work and schooling rocks of North Madagascar. Ph.D., U of Kentucky, 2005. in Kenya. Ph.D., U of Ph.D., Washington U, 2006. 3227384. Pittsburgh, 2006. 3232787. 3223414. 22 ASA NEWS ~ April 2007 Bayisa, Megersa. Faison, Steven L. Konuwa, Ansumana A study of the effectiveness Perceptions of Ghanaian Richard. in assimilation of continuing teachers and teachers-in- The development, education community- training of the new language implementation, and based ESL classes in the policy and its implications for evaluation of a peer life of Somali refugees and linguistic minority primary education training program immigrants. Ed.D., Alliant school students. Ph.D., U for HIV/AIDS prevention in International U, San Diego, of California, Los Angeles, post war Sierra Leone, West 2006. 3227680. 2006. 3224329. Africa. Ed.D., Teachers Coll., Columbia U, 2006. 3225164. Bijura, Fortunatus S. Gichuri, Anne Nduta. Leadership in Catholic The Structural Adjustment Lewis, Joseph David. universities in East Africa: Program and education ‘52 Days to Timbuktu’: Limits and potential for reform in Kenya. Ph.D., U of Languages, literacies, and transformative action. Minnesota, 2006. 3220000. learning in Zagora, Morocco. Ph.D., U of Illinois at A narrative ethnography. Urbana-Champaign, 2006. Hodge, Kent G. Ed.D., Teachers Coll., 3223545. A formal and biblical Columbia U, 2006. 3225168. statement on the philosophy Chitiyo, Rodwell. of Christian education for Masalela, Regina Integration of instructional teacher training [Nigeria]. Kegopotswe. technology by university D.Min., Oral Roberts U, 2005. Contextual motivational lecturers in secondary school 3220445. and deterrent factors of teacher education programs faculty participation in online in Zimbabwe: An exploratory Jotia, Agreement Lathi. learning at the University of study. Ph.D., Georgia State The quest for deep Botswana. Ed.D., Northern U, 2006. 3231928. democratic participation: Illinois U, 2006. 3227650. Schools as democratic Collet, Bruce Anthony. spaces in the post-colonial Mbogho, Anthony Migration, education, and Botswana. Ph.D., Ohio U, Maghanga. perceptions of a national 2006. 3226707. The development of a identity among Somali curriculum approach for immigrants in Ontario, Katungwensi, Stanley integrating traditional art Canada. Ph.D., Loyola U Kasse. practices into the primary Chicago, 2006. 3229776. Academic staff members’ school curriculum of Kenya. lived experiences of Ed.D., Teachers Coll., Edu-Buandoh, Dora academic freedom at Columbia U, 2006. 3225177. Francisca. Makerere University Multilingualism in Ghana: Kampala. Ph.D., U of Denver, Mosoti, Zachary Mumbo. An ethnographic study of 2006. 3231086. The history and evolution college students at the U of human resource of Cape Coast. Ph.D., U of development (HRD) in Kenya Iowa, 2006. 3225597. as it relates to technical and vocational education and training (TVET). Ph.D., U of Minnesota, 2006. 3227570.
23 ASA NEWS ~ April 2007 Osuagwu, Peter Chidi. Wafula, Robert J. Geography The education of the whole Male ritual circumcision person: The Igbo moral among the Bukusu of Abbott, Charles Wilson. perspective [Nigeria]. Ph.D., Western Kenya: An Hometown associations Fordham U, 2006. 3222144. indigenous African system and ethnic unions in of epistemology and how twentieth century Nigeria: A Ozele, Anthony Mario. it impacts Western forms geographical and historical Nigerian family ecosystems of schooling in Bungoma interpretation. Ph.D., U of perspective as framework District. Ph.D., Ohio U, 2006. Iowa, 2006. 3229638. for religious education and 3220621. pastoral ministry in the Akiwumi, Fenda Aminata. Niger Delta region. Ph.D., Ziegler, Naomi Joy. Environmental and social Fordham U, 2006. 3221896. Culture learning in study change in southwestern abroad from the perspective Sierra Leone: Timber Shimwooshili of on-site staff in France extraction (1832-1898) and Shaimemanya, Cornelia and Senegal. Ph.D., U of rutile mining (1967-2005). Ndahambelela. Minnesota, 2006. 3230284. Ph.D., Texas State U - San Teaching desertifi cation: Marcos, 2006. 3221513. An investigation of teacher Fine Arts and classroom attributes, Davis, Diana K. instructional strategies, locus Overgrazing the range?: of control, attitudes, and Kiser-Go, Deanna. A political ecology of self-effi cacy of Namibian A stylistic and iconographic pastoralism in southern junior secondary school analysis of private Post- Morocco. Ph.D., U of teachers. Ph.D., Florida Inst. Amarna Period tombs California, Berkeley, 2001. of Tech., 2006. 3221640. at Thebes. Ph.D., U of 3228542. California, Berkeley, 2006. Solomon-Henry, Gale. 3228383. Fraser, Alistair. African indigenous Geographies of land knowledges and education: Mendoza, Barbara. restitution in northern Implications for youth of Everlasting servants of Limpopo: Place, territory, African descent and Black- the gods: Bronze priests and class [South Africa]. focused schools in Toronto. of ancient Egypt from the Ph.D., Ohio State U, 2006. Ed.D., U of Toronto (Can.), Middle Kingdom to the 3220958. 2006. NR15946. Graeco-Roman period. Ph.D., U of California, Pratt, Amy Danielle. Taylor, Aleesha Trenice. Berkeley, 2006. 3228424. Women’s livelihood strategies Questioning participation: in diverse contexts: Critical policy scholarship Zitrides, Christine. Constructing feminist and education reform in Housing and urban topographies in Appalachia Tanzania. Ed.D., Teachers transformation in Carthage, and South Africa. Ph.D., Coll., Columbia U, 2006. 400-700 CE. Ph.D., U West Virginia U, 2006. 3225202. of Illinois at Urbana- 3225387. Champaign, 2006. 3223770.
24 ASA NEWS ~ April 2007 Health Sciences Pearson, Cynthia Renee. History HIV/AIDS among Clennon, Julie A. Mozambicans: Sexual Anyanwu, Ogechi Eco-epidemiology of and HIV risk behavior, Emmanuel. Schistosoma haematobium: and development, The policies and politics of Spatial and temporal implementation, and massifi cation of university heterogeneity of infection evaluation of a highly education in Nigeria, 1952- and snail dispersal in active antiretroviral therapy 2000. Ph.D., Bowling Green Msambweni, Kenya. Ph.D., adherence intervention. State U, 2006. 3231023. U of Illinois at Urbana- Ph.D., U of Washington, Champaign, 2006. 3223568. 2006. Bier, Laura Elizabeth. From mothers of the nation Ferguson, Yvonne Owens. Sahasrabuddhe, Vikrant. to daughters of the state: A process evaluation of Cervical cancer screening Gender and the politics of nurses’ implementation of for HIV-infected women inclusion in Egypt, 1922- an infant feeding counseling in Zambia. Dr.P.H., U of 1967. Ph.D., New York U, protocol for HIV-infected Alabama at Birmingham, 2006. 3221928. mothers: The Breastfeeding, 2006. Antiretroviral and Nutrition Cuthbertson, Susan Elyse. (BAN) Study in Lilongwe, Soroses, Florence Wilma. Politics, empire, and the Malawi. Ph.D., U of North Assessment of factors Italian nation, 1896-1949. Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006. infl uencing participation Ph.D., U of Virginia, 2006. 3219100. in HIV/AIDS voluntary 3220486. counseling and testing in Impoinvil, Daniel Edward. Namibia. Ph.D., U of South Diptee, Audra Abbe. Impact of socio-economic Carolina, 2006. 3224478. Atlantic connections: African factors and engineered cohort in the making of a systems on anopheline larval Thairu, Lucy Nduta. slave society, Jamaica, 1775- mosquitoes and economic Ethnography of infant feeding 1807. Ph.D., U of Toronto evaluation of larval control in sub-Saharan Africa: Case (Can.), 2006. NR15822. interventions in urban studies in the context of Malindi, Kenya. Ph.D., U of HIV/AIDS and newborn care Kozma, Khaled. Miami, 2006. 3228180. [South Africa & Tanzania]. Women on the margins Ph.D., Cornell U, 2006. and legal reform in late Lifshay, Julie. 3227201. nineteenth-century Egypt, Factors impacting the sexual 1850-1882. Ph.D., New York behavior of HIV-positive Van Dyke, Melissa Kim. U, 2006. 3221967. individuals in Uganda. Epidemiology of urinary Ph.D., U of California, schistosomiasis in Coastal Land, Joy. Berkeley, 2006. 3228402. Kenya: Spatial and social Corresponding lives: Women patterns. Ph.D., U of educators of the Alliance Michigan, 2006. 3224775. Israelite Universelle school for girls in the city of Tunis, 1882-1914. Ph.D., U of California, Los Angeles, 2006. 3224335.
25 ASA NEWS ~ April 2007 Luongo, Katherine Settergren, Amy Lassadi, Boutheina. Angela. Elizabeth. The syntax and semantics Confl icting codes and Royal marriage in Asante, of optional wh-movement: contested justice: Witchcraft 1701-2001. Ph.D., The case of Egyptian Arabic. and the state in Kenya. Northwestern U, 2006. Ph.D., U of Ottawa (Can.), Ph.D., U of Michigan, 2006. 3221851. 2005. NR10982. 3224688. Volz, Stephen C. Lawrence, Susan. Makana, Nicholas Ekutu. “From the mouths of our Accounting for the past: Changing patterns of countrymen:” The careers Memory, responsibility, indigenous economic and communities of Tswana and the political motivation systems: Agrarian change evangelists in the nineteenth requirement in the and rural transformation century [Botswana]. Ph.D., South Africa Truth and in Bungoma district, 1930- U of Wisconsin - Madison, Reconciliation Commission 1960 [Kenya]. Ph.D., West 2006. 3222971. amnesty hearings. Ph.D., Virginia U, 2006. 3225378. Carnegie Mellon U, 2005. Wright, Christopher 3228008. Murphy, Jane Holt. James. Improving the mind and Ibn ‘Abd al-Hakam’s ‘Futuh Mahfoudhi, Abdessatar. delighting the spirit: Misr:’ An analysis of the text Morphological and Jabarti and the sciences in and new insights into the phonological units in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Islamic conquest of Egypt. Arabic mental lexicon: Cairo. Ph.D., Princeton U, Ph.D., U of California, Santa Implications for theories 2006. 3227344. Barbara, 2006. 3226284. of morphology and lexical processing [Tunisia]. Ph.D., Rahman, Ahmad Abdur. U of Ottawa (Can.), 2005. The call, quest, and return Information Science NR10991. of Kwame Nkrumah: Epic heroism in Africa and the Kaaya, Janet Obedi. Marfo, Charles Ofosu. diaspora. Ph.D., U of Examining the adoption, Aspects of Akan grammar Michigan, 2006. 3224728. implementation, and the phonology-syntax institutionalization and interface. Ph.D., U of Hong Rogers, Jaye Lee. sustainability of e- Kong (China), 2005. ‘Ye are all one:’ Missionaries government strategies: The in the Congo and the case of Tanzania using an Rasolofo, Andoveloniaina. dynamics of race and gender, institutional perspective. Malagasy transitive clause 1890-1925. Ph.D., Union Ph.D., U of California, Los types and their functions. Inst. & U, 2006. 3224996. Angeles, 2006. 3226084. Ph.D., U of Oregon, 2006. 3224112. Ross, Micah Tecumseh. Horoscopic ostraca from Language Woods, Andreas. Medinet Madi [Egypt]. A grammatical analysis of Ph.D., Brown U, 2006. Diamitani, Viviane H.T. the late Demotic tale Setne 3227924. La pluralité des exils et leurs II (papyrus BM EA 10822). problematiques dans la Ph.D., Brown U, 2006. littérature francophone de 3227972. la diaspora Nord-Africaine. Ph.D., U of Iowa, 2006. 3225595. 26 ASA NEWS ~ April 2007 Literature Medevielle, Nicolas P. A. Physical Sciences La racialisation des Africains: Abderrezak, Hakim. Recits commerciaux, Atzberger, Craig Philip. Ferdiyya and para- religieux, philosophiques A complex systems approach community in Maghrebi et litteraires, 1480-1880. to sustainability: Can peak literature and cinema. Ph.D., Ohio State U, 2006. oil fuel the sub-Saharan Ph.D., Northwestern U, 3226523. AIDS epidemic? Ph.D., Case 2006. 3230116. Western Reserve, 2007. Romanow, Rebecca Fine. 3226715. Bekrou, Viviane Gbadoua The postcolonial body in Uetto. queer space and time [South Magi, Brian Indrek. Le roman ivoirien au Africa & Sudan]. Ph.D., Optical properties and feminin: Une écriture U of Rhode Island, 2006. radiative forcing of southern plurielle. Ph.D., U of 3225329. African biomass burning Maryland, College Park, aerosol. Ph.D., U of 2006. 3222511. Washington, 2006. Music
Calarge, Carla Albert. McHugh, Oloro Vahid. A la recherche du dialogue Callen, Jeffrey. Integrated water perdu: Les écrivains French fries in the Tagine: resources assessment and francophones face à Re-imagining Moroccan management in a drought- l’intégrisme religieux dans popular music. Ph.D., U prone watershed in the le bassin de la Méditerranée of California, Los Angeles., Ethiopian highlands. Ph.D., [Algeria & Morocco]. Ph.D., 2006. 3226016. Cornell U, 2006. 3228097. U of Iowa, 2006. 3229647. Kaminski, Joseph S. Stephen, Haroon. Dibble-Dieng, Meadow. Asante ivory trumpets Microwave remote sensing Liberation journals: in Ghana: Traditions, of Saharan ergs and Amazon Twentieth-century repertories, histories, vegetation. Ph.D., Brigham francophone literary metaphysics. Ph.D., Kent Young U, 2006. 3228648. journals and the struggle for State U, 2006. 3227403. sovereignty. Ph.D., Brown U, 2006. 3227819. Thomas, Anne Elise. Political Science Developing Arab music: Dieme, Joseph Claude. Institutions, individuals, and Altan, Ozlem. L’inscription du Code noir discourses of progress in The American Third World: dans la littérature coloniale Cairo, 1932-2005. Ph.D., Transnational elite networks et son évolution dans les Brown U, 2006. 3227948. in the Middle East [Egypt]. littératures francophones Ph.D., New York U, 2006. de la diaspora. Ph.D., U of Van Buren, Kathleen 3221921. Iowa, 2006. 3229655. Jenabu. Stealing elephants, creating Konkobo, Christophe. futures: Exploring uses of Contemporary sub-Saharan music and other arts for theater in French and the community education in aesthetics of the mask. Nairobi, Kenya. Ph.D., U Ph.D., U of Iowa, 2006. of California, Los Angeles, 3229678. 2006. 3226048.
27 ASA NEWS ~ April 2007 Feeley, Maureen McDougal, Brent Patrick. Psychology Catherine. The divisive role of ideology Transnational movements, in the 1994 Rwandan Gatobu, Anne Kiome. human rights and genocide. Ph.D., U of Towards an interpretive democracy: Legal Alabama, 2006. 3223316. understanding of survivors mobilization strategies and of domestic violence: A majoritarian constraints in McLaughlin, Eric S. psychosocial and religious Kenya, 1982-2002. Ph.D., Embracing Babel: study of the understandings U of California, San Diego, Language, democracy, and held by female survivors of 2006. 3220378. entrepreneurship in the new domestic violence in Kenya. South Africa. Ph.D., Indiana Ph.D., Iliff Sch. of Theo. & U Fujii, Lee Ann. U, 2006. 3223071. of Denver, 2006. 3231735. Killing neighbors: Social dimensions of genocide in Ogbonna, Jonathan Sethlhare-Oagile, Rwanda. Ph.D., George Chima. Nomagugu. Washington U, 2006. An assessment of the impact A phenomenological 3229621. of political regime type on exploration of intermarriages socioeconomic development between men of European/ Hansen, Sally. in Nigeria, 1972-2001. United States/Australian International and domestic Ph.D., Howard U, 2005. heritage and Batswana roots of American 3228591. women of African heritage intervention [Liberia & [Botswana]. Ph.D., Seton Mozambique]. Ph.D., U Onoma, Ato Kwamena. Hall U, 2006. 3226858. of South Carolina, 2006. Securing property rights: 3224437. Politics on the land frontier in postcolonial Africa Religion Hoffman, Barak Daniel. [Botswana, Ghana & Kenya]. Political accountability at the Ph.D., Northwestern U, 2006. Kirsch, William A. local level in Tanzania. 3230111. Beyond the indigenous Ph.D., U of California, San Church: A biblical model Diego, 2006. 3229904. Pape, Marc Adoux. for leadership development Hopes and impediments for the Assemblies of God Lowther, Adam B. for a democratic transition in sub-Saharan Africa [East America’s experience with in Africa: The case of Africa]. D.Min., Assemblies asymmetric warfare: Past, “Francophone West-Africa”. of God Theo. Sem., 2006. present and future [Somalia, Ph.D., Florida State U, 2006. 3232073. Lebanon & Afghanistan]. 3232426. Ph.D., U of Alabama, 2006. Signie, Jean-Marie. 3223313. L’administration des biens temporels de la paroisse McCalpin, Jermaine O. d’après le Code de droit Justice under constraints: canonique de 1983: The nature of transitional Application à l’Eglise du justice in deeply divided Cameroun. Ph.D., U of societies [South Africa]. Ottawa (Can.), 2005. Ph.D., Brown U, 2006. NR15043. 3227887.
28 ASA NEWS ~ April 2007 Stern, Karen B. de Buhr, Elke Johanna. Quenum, Andre S. Inscribing devotion Risk factors associated with From communicative silencer and death in context: care for orphaned children: A to responsive listener: Deciphering Jewish culture case-control study of orphans Participation and public of Roman North Africa (2nd- in orphanages and orphans dialogue in Benin. Ph.D., 6th centuries, C.E.). Ph.D., in family care in Kinshasa. Duquesne U, 2006. Brown U, 2006. 3227941. Ph.D., Tulane U, 2006. 3221898. Theology Social Work Mott, Tamar E. Pathways and destinations: Doss, Gordon R. Togo, Patience. African refugees in the A Malawian Seventh-day The nexus of parenting United States. Ph.D., Ohio Adventist theology of wealth practices and acculturation State U, 2006. 3230903. and poverty and missiological challenges among African implications. Ph.D., Trinity immigrants and refugees in Nkonya, Leticia Evangelical Divinity Sch., the United States [Ghana Kuchibanda. 2006. 3221668. & Liberia]. Ph.D., U of Drinking from own cistern: Minnesota, 2006. 3227591. Customary institutions and Knox, Peter. their impacts on rural water AIDS and the ancestor management in Tanzania. cult: Toward a contextual Sociology Ph.D., Kansas State U, 2006. theological conversation 3229965. in the ‘New’ South Africa. Bezner Kerr, Rachel Ph.D., U of Ottawa (Can.), Nicole. Shio, Thadeus Joseph. 2005. NR15027. Contested knowledge and Housing experiences of disputed practice: Maize and Somali immigrants in the groundnut seeds and child Twin Cities, Minnesota: A Women’s Studies feeding in northern Malawi. housing careers perspective. Ph.D., Cornell U, 2006. Ph.D., U of Minnesota, 2006. Weber-Feve, Stacey. 3227111. 3220034. There’s no place like home: Homemaking, making Chida, Meriem Mahmoud. Vachon, Pierre Jean. home, and femininity in Tunisian dress, 1881-1987 Agency and social networks: contemporary women’s and new nation building. Family planning and AIDS fi lmmaking and literature Ph.D., U of Minnesota, 2006. in rural Malawi. Ph.D., U of of the Metropol and the 3225721. California, Berkeley, 2006. Maghreb [Algeria & Tunisia]. 3228516. Ph.D., Ohio State U, 2006. Conry Murray, Clare 3220976. Elizabeth. Moral reasoning about Speech Communication gender hierarchy in marital decisions in Benin, Paroske, Marcus. West Africa: The role of The rhetoric of AIDS policy informational assumptions in South Africa. Ph.D., U of about capabilities and Pittsburgh, 2006. 3224025. concerns with punishment. Ph.D., U of California, Berkeley, 2006. 3228296. 29 ASA NEWS ~ April 2007 New African & Development Studies Journals from Routledge
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36 ASA NEWS ~ April 2007 African Studies Association Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Douglass Campus 132 George Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1400 Tel: 732-932-8173 Fax: 732-932-3394 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.africanstudies.org
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37 ASA NEWS ~ April 2007 AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION DEADLINES 2007
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