The Center for African Studies would like to acknowledge some of our affiliated faculty who have passed this last year. We hope you will also be able to attend this year's Noon September 14th Memorial at the flagpole west of California Hall to honor them as well. Here is the link to this event [link].
We are grateful to Martha Saavedra, the former CAS Associate Director for many years, who has graciously provided the following links to some of the obituaries and remembrances. We have also linked the names of these individuals in our People lists on our website where you will find these additional links as well.
Many of these colleagues have contributed to the Center and its mission in many ways over the years. For this we will be forever grateful.
- Elisabeth "Betty" Sadoulet, Agricultural and Resource Economics, October 17, 2025
- ARE page: https://are.berkeley.edu/people/elisabeth-betty-sadoulet (more links found at the bottom of her webpage).
- Donald Moore, Anthropology, April 19, 2026
- Thomas R. Metcalf, India Studies, and History, June 18, 2026. (He also wrote on South Africa and Indian Ocean)
- History page: https://history.berkeley.edu/news/memoriam-thomas-r-metcalf-1934-2026
- Institute for South Asia page: https://southasia.berkeley.edu/news/remembering-prof-thomas-metcalf-may-31-1934%E2%80%93june-18-2026
- Durba Ghosh writes about his legacy in the Wire: https://thewire.in/history/remembering-thomas-r-metcalf-the-historian-who-reinvented-himself-again-and-again
- Raka Ray's Linked In Post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/raka-ray_university-of-california-berkeley-history-activity-7477394162217103360-dqEJ
- James Midgley, Social Welfare, June 21, 2026
- Social Welfare page: https://socialwelfare.berkeley.edu/people/james-midgley
- Tribute page: https://jamesmidgley.org/
- ICSD page: https://www.socialdevelopment.net/in-memoriam-professor-james-midgley/