Author: alegi

The Canadian Association of African Studies announced that Katie Carline won this year’s Fraser Taylor Award for the best graduate student paper presented at the CAAS annual conference. Katie’s paper was titled “Mothers on the Move: Manyanos and the Social History of Transportation in a… Continue Reading Katie Carline wins Best Graduate Student Paper Prize

Prof. Peter Alegi gave a presentation on the history of the Olympic boycott against apartheid South Africa in an online seminar on “Africa and the Olympics: Race, Gender, and Power on the Road to Tokyo.” The event featured African Studies scholars with expertise in sport… Continue Reading Alegi on “Africa and the Olympics”

Episode 131 of Africa Past and Present features an interview by Prof. Peter Alegi with Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson (ex-MSU, now at Johns Hopkins). The conversation focuses on her award-winning new book, Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World and leadership… Continue Reading New Afripod with Jessica Johnson

The Football Scholars Forum, based in the History Department and convened by Prof. Peter Alegi, recently held two sessions. On February 25, the fútbology collective discussed Soccer Diplomacy: International Relations and Football since 1914 (Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2020) with the volume editor, historian Heather… Continue Reading Football Scholars Forum holds two events

Bernie Moore published an article in the prestigious Journal of Southern African Studies, as part of a special issue on Nambian labor history that he co-edited with Stephanie Quinn, William Blakemore Lyon, and Kai F. Herzog. Moore is a PhD candidate in African history supervised… Continue Reading Bernie Moore publishes in Journal of Southern African Studies