James Q. Davies is Professor of Music, editor of the UChicago Press book series New Material Histories of Music, and scholar with musicological interests and expertise in the long nineteenth century. He authored the books Romantic Anatomies of Performance (California: 2014) and Creatures of the Air: Music, Atlantic Spirits, Breath, 1817-1913 (Chicago: 2023). James grew up in Johannesburg, with first degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand. He wrote his PhD at the University of Cambridge, where he later received a Junior Research...
Fall 2025 The CAS Faculty Hour invites two on-campus professor/scholars thinking about Africa to an informal dialogue over lunch. Take time out of your hectic schedules, and join us, as UCB faculty (usually), sometimes from different disciplines, explore new connections...
Fall 2025 The Center for African Studies Colloquium Series invites lectures, book talks, and panels given by prominent Africa-focused scholars. These colloquia present the latest in Africanist and Afro-diasporic thought, drawing together with inter-...
Student Services Advisor, Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program
Center for African Studies
Meron Semedar is an Educator, community organizer, human rights and international refugee advocate. Meron has addressed the UN, USCIS, One Young World, many universities and communities on the global refugee crisis and human rights in Eritrea. His works have been featured in Vanity Fair, Huffington Post, the G7G20, the International Organization for Migrants (IOM), African Voice, BBC Tigrinya, Voice of America and SBS Australia. A short version of his story has been published in a book called Refugees in America in 2019. He...
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