Afripod Centenary!

Episode 100 of Africa Past and Present — the podcast about African history, culture, and politics — is now available at: http://afripod.aodl.org/2016/04/afripod-100/ This special centenary episode brings together curated selections from the first eight years of the podcast. The segments broadly represent examples from our… Continue Reading Afripod Centenary!

Pauly wins Fulbright grant for research in Ukraine

Prof. Matthew Pauly has won a 2016–17 Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant to Ukraine for research on a project, “City of Children: Juvenile Poverty, Crime, and Salvation in Odessa, 1881–1940.” Pauly will spend Fall 2016 at the Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University (ONU), studying orphanages and children’s institutions in Odessa through two political… Continue Reading Pauly wins Fulbright grant for research in Ukraine

Gonzalez Wins Paper Prize

8th year PhD candidate Jennifer Gonzalez, was just awarded the Adrian Bantjes Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper by the Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies.