PAS participation at ASA San Francisco 2023
Posted July 19, 2024
Many PAS faculty and alumni participated in the annual African Studies Association meeting in San Francisco at the end of November and early December...Blog
Remembering Jane Guyer
Posted July 17, 2024
By: Caroline Bledsoe Jane Isabel Guyer, who served as PAS Director and NU Professor of Anthropology from 1994—2001, died in Davis, California on January...
Selected attacks on security forces and peace operations resulting in diversion of arms and ammunition, January 2014–December 2023
Posted July 5, 2024
Non-state armed groups (NSAGs) secure significant quantities of lethal materiel from the very governments that seek to defeat...
Calligraphy: A bridge between the visual and the linguistic
Posted June 15, 2024
Arabic calligraphy has been a fascinating activity to participate in, revealing unforeseen dimensions of learning that extend far...
Collaboration with Boston University on Ajami in West Africa comes to fruition
Posted June 8, 2024
From 2019 to 2022, ISITA’s associate director Rebecca Shereikis and Northwestern University Libraries collaborated with a team led by Fallou Ngom and Daivi Rodima-Taylor...
Student reflections on learning Swahili
Posted June 8, 2024
by Elianna Phillips, Northwestern undergraduate student On June 2nd, 2004, I was born in the Aga Khan University Hospital in...
ISITA-CSMC workshop emphasizes multidisciplinary approaches to manuscript studies
Posted June 7, 2024
by Rebecca Shereikis, associate director of ISITA A November 16–18, 2023 workshop at the University of Hamburg marked another stage in the ongoing collaboration...
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...
Student reflections on learning Swahili
Posted April 24, 2024
by Lauren Gomez, Northwestern undergraduate student Without a doubt, embarking on my journey to learn Swahili has been one of...
My experience at the mid-year Fulbright Foreign Language Assistants conference
Posted November 17, 2023
By: Faith Jebet, Foreign Language Teaching Associate, Swahili program On November 11th, all roads led to Washington, DC, for this year’s Fulbright Foreign Language...