September 28, 2018

Director of the West African Research Association, US Office

The West African Research Association is seeking a motivated, detail-oriented, independent individual to serve as Director of the Association, to be based at Boston University’s African Studies offices. This is a full-time position (40 hours/week). Read More...

Call for Papers - Religions Special Issue: ‘My Soul is a Witness: Reimagining African American Women’s Spirituality and the Black Female Body in African American Literature

Katherine Clay Bassard declares nearly twenty years ago in her formative text Spiritual Interrogations, that in order to more fully consider the multiple ways Black women have spiritually represented themselves as sacred subjects in African American literature, Read More...

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position in Sub-Saharan African History - Department of History and Geography at Elon University

Assistant Professor of History (Sub-Saharan African History). The Department of History and Geography at Elon University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Sub-Saharan African history, beginning mid-August 2019. Read More...

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Scholars-in-Residence Fellowships

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a unit of The New York Public Library, invites applications for its Scholars-in-Residence Program for the 2019-2020 academic year. The program offers long-term and short-term research fellowships to scholars and writers Read More...

PHD Doctoral Program Offered at Oxford University

Oxford is offering a fully-funded doctoral program on the subject of "Trading Texts: publication beyond print in Anglophone Africa." According to the program's statement: Trading Texts is a comparative doctoral project that will explore two or three ‘beyond print’ publishing environments Read More...