Recent additions to the collections of the Herskovits Library
Posted October 21, 2025
By Esmeralda Kale, Librarian Two summers ago, while packing up materials at the home of Jean Herskovits, this item on display caught my attention....Category: From the Mellville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies
Lovejoy presents his papers to the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies
Posted October 21, 2025
By Esmeralda M. Kale, Librarian Paul E. Lovejoy is Distinguished Research Professor, Emeritus, Department of History, York University, and Fellow of the Royal Society...
PAS Bookshelf
Posted October 16, 2025
Kathleen Sheldon, The Mackerel Years: A Memoir of War, Hunger, and Women’s History in 1980s Mozambique (African World Press, 2024). Alumna Kathleen Sheldon (BA...
African queens regnant
Posted May 25, 2024
By: Esmeralda Kale, LaRay Denzer, Gene Kannenberg, Jr…. From the very beginning of African history, many women have acted as queens, assuming roles of...
In memoriam: Hannah Abeodu Bowen-Jones (1934-2023)
Posted October 16, 2023
by Florence Mugambi, Librarian, Northwestern Libraries Hannah Abeodu Bowen-Jones died on July 9, 2023. Bowen-Jones was the first PhD in African history at Northwestern....
PAS bookshelf
Posted October 12, 2023
Dress Cultures in Zambia: Interwoven Histories, Global Exchanges, and Everyday Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023) Emerita Karen Tranberg Hansen (anthropology) distills five...
Augmented Curiosities virtual experience exhibit at the Herskovits
Posted October 8, 2023
“Augmented Curiosities: Virtual Play in African Pasts and Futures” is the Fall quarter exhibit at the Herskovits Library. It uses augmented and virtual reality...
Update on the African Poetry Digital Portal Collections
Posted October 7, 2023
by Esmeralda M. Kale, Librarian, Herskovits Library The spring conference of the African Poetry Digital Portal was convened on April 27–29, 2023, at the...
Recent additions to the Herskovits Library
Posted October 6, 2023
The archives of the historian Dr Jean Herskovits have recently been deposited at the Herskovits Library of African Studies. Jean was the daughter of...
PAS participation in Ghana summer conferences
Posted October 1, 2023
Northwestern faculty and alumni made an impressive turnout at the 47th International Traditional Music World Conference and the Association for the Study of the...