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Friday, December 17, 2021
End of year letter from CAS Director, Leonardo Arriola |
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Berkeley Graduate Division GradNews November 2021, Graduate Student and Alumni Highlights, 2021 Mastercard Foundation Scholarship Recipient: Cecil Chikezie, MEng '22 (BioE) |
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí, an alum of Sociology and a Rocca Fellow, wins the 2021 Distinguished Africanist Award. |
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Professor Dan Kammen (Energy and Resource Group) has been selected to serve as senior adviser for energy, climate and innovation for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the agency announced in October 2021. (Berkeley News article by Kara Manke, 10/20/2021) |
Friday, September 10, 2021
In this podcast, Matrix content curator Julia Sizek interviews Juliana Friend, a PhD candidate in the UC Berkeley Department of Anthropology, whose research focuses on the intersection of technology, privacy, and culture. Juliana was also a 2017 Rocca Fellow. |
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Memory of Dr. Sam Dubal Honored Through $1M Anthropology Fellowship. Dr. Dubal was a CAS Rocca Fellow and an active participant in Center activities. |
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
UC Berkeley scientist and former CAS Rocca Fellow Patrick Gonzalez to advise White House on climate change and biodiversity |
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
The American Political Science Association's Political Science Now newsletter features an article summarizing the new APSR article "Democratic Subversion: Elite Cooptation and Opposition Fragmentation" by CAS Director Leo Arriola, Alumni Anne Meng (U of Virginia) and Jed DeVaro (CSU East Bay). |
Thursday, June 10, 2021
Four African Languages - Arabic, Amharic, Igbo and Swahili - taught at UC Berkeley Fall 2021. |
Monday, June 7, 2021
The UC Berkeley Center for African Studies is a co-sponsor of the 14th Africa Sports Conference. More details are here: https://sportsafrica.org/conferences/conferences2021/ |
Monday, April 26, 2021
From AllAfrica: Building a Resilient Business Amidst a Pandemic: How a Young Female Entrepreneur from Africa is Keeping a Business Afloat During the COVID-19 Pandemic. |
Friday, March 12, 2021
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Thursday, February 4, 2021
Gretchen Kell
COVID Stories: UCB MCF Scholar teach young Ugandan women to code. This story highlights Gloria Tumushabe, a Mastercard Foundation Scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. |
Saturday, December 26, 2020
End of year letter from CAS Director, Leonardo Arriola |
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Justine Davis wins WPSA Best Dissertation Award for work on the wartime experiences of civic leaders in Côte d’Ivoire
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Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Op Ed by Poli Sci PhD student, Andrew Wojtanik |
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Thabani Nyoni, Mastercard Foundation Scholar and Social Welfare Alum, shares insights on COVID-19-Compliant Strategies for PLWA in Africa |
Sunday, December 6, 2020
Employment Possibility for an African Student/Visitor/Spouse working with Professor Larry Hyman on a minority African language in a Linguistics Field Methods course in Spring 2021. More details below. |
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Yougin Chung is a new faculty member in ESPM and ERG at UC Berkeley. Here is her website: https://youjinbchung.net/ |
Monday, August 24, 2020
Four African Languages - Arabic, Amharic, Igbo and Swahili - taught at UC Berkeley Fall 2020. |
Friday, August 21, 2020
"Meet Berkeley Journalism’s 7 MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program Alumni," by Sam Goldman, 2020 August 20. Story published by the Journalism School: https://journalism.berkeley.edu/mastercard-foundation-scholars-alumni/ |
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Berkeley’s Center for African Studies renews Mastercard Foundation grant to support over 100 African students in degree programs |
Friday, August 14, 2020
The Center for African Studies welcomes you to visit our YouTube channel. |
Monday, May 4, 2020
Astrid R.N. Haas and Rachel Strohm explore a novel idea: integrating urban and rural safety nets in Africa during the pandemic |
Monday, April 27, 2020
Jason Corburn, UCB professor of Public Health and City & Regional Planning is lead author on COVID-19 challenges in urban slums and what government can do. Corburn, J., Vlahov, D., Mberu, B. et al. Slum Health: Arresting COVID-19 and Improving Well-Being in Urban Informal Settlements. J Urban Health (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-020-00438-6 |
Friday, April 17, 2020
Allison Grossman, Rocca Fellow and Political Science Ph.D. student, offers insights on effective public health messaging in West Africa. |
Friday, April 10, 2020
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Tuesday, March 31, 2020
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Saturday, February 1, 2020 to Friday, April 3, 2020
A prize of $250 will be awarded to the best senior thesis written by a UC Berkeley undergraduate on a topic related to Africa. The thesis can be wrtitten in any discipline or major. Applicants must submit an online application form, along with submitting a copy of the paper or theis and a letter of recommendation from a faculty advisor to asc@berkeley.edu. Deadline for submission: Friday, April 3, 2020. |
Monday, January 13, 2020
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Monday, July 15, 2019
Elementary Igbo to start this Fall! Thursdays and Fridays 12 pm - 2 pm, location to be confirmed. Taught by Ugo Nwokeji and Gladys Ajaelo.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Martha Saavedra and Leonardo Arriola
Every semester, UC Berkeley offers many new courses. The Amharic language course offered this spring is especially noteworthy. Except for a brief pilot program in 2006, this is the first semester students are able to take a course in Amharic, one of the languages of Ethiopia, which is spoken by nearly 26 million people worldwide. |
Thursday, December 6, 2018
Rachel Strohm
While other major cities are blocking private cars to encourage the use of buses, Nairobi is moving in the opposite direction.
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Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Through the Black Country or, The Sources of the Thames Around the Great Shires of Lower England and Down the Severn River to the Atlantic Ocean, an exhibition by Allan DeSouza exhibition, Chair of Art Practice, runs through 4 November at the Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco. Transposing Henry Stanley's 1870 journals, the exhibition inverts the colonial expedition to trace a 2016 fictional journey to discover the source of the River Thames in England. |
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Sarah Lebu
Sarah Lebu and other UC Berkeley Mastercard Foundation Scholars facilitated a day of community outreach at the Msedo grounds in Mathare, an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. Sarah Lebu writes about this event in a post on Medium.com. |
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Monday, March 5, 2018
On Thursday, March 1st, Grant Harris shared with the UC Berkeley community his insights on why Africa matters to US national security. |
Friday, January 5, 2018
Professor Daniel Kammen (ERG, RAEL and GSPP) has authored a new report, South Sudan’s Renewable Energy Potential: A Building Block for Peace, co-authored with Mr. David Mozersky and published by the United States Institute of Peace.
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Friday, December 15, 2017
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Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Leonardo Arriola, Director of CAS and Associate Professor of Political Science, and Martha Johnson, Mills College, hosted a workshop at UC Berkeley on 3-4 September 2017 for junior and senior scholars studying the role of African women in politics. |
Monday, August 7, 2017
Leo Arriola and Danny Choi share insights on the 2017 Kenyan election on the Washington Post Monkey Cage blog. |
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
CAS Director Leo Arriola joins the editorial board for the African Studies Review. |
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
The Center for African Studies announces The Govan Mbeki Fund, inspired by South African native and Geography Professor Emerita Gillian Hart and energized by Geography and Environmental Science, Policy and Management Professor Louise Fortmann. |
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
The Center for African Studies with support from the Institute of European Studies and the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence at the University of California, Berkeley organized a two-day research workshop: African athletes & migration to the European Union – Beyond Men’s Football on May 9-10, 2017 Photo: The Senegalese Women's Basketball team prior to Rio 2016 (link currently unavailable). Most of the team members play for clubs in Europe. |
Friday, February 24, 2017
Munyaradzi Makoni
Munya Mahiya, a student from Zimbabwe, faced major challenges completing high school while enduring cancer treatments. Now as a MasterCard Foundation Scholar at Berkeley, he is studying disability and poverty with the hope of improving education for disabled students. He points out it's not just an African problem. "Globally, governments are failing to meet the basic needs - and particularly the educational needs - of its citizens living with disabilities," he says. "How we look at disability, distinguish different types of disabilities, and what kind of assistance is required for various disabilities will define how the education system can create opportunities for young people who often aren't included."
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Wednesday, February 22, 2017
ESPM doctoral student Christine Wilkerson discusses how she used the Rocca PreDissertation Fellowship to develop her research project and decide fieldwork locations. |