CFP for @americananthro.bsky.social panel on ethnographic work from the Swahili Coast/East Africa. Themes: memory, authority, belonging, verge-like moments. Send title + 300-word abstract to [email protected] by 1 April. Open to scholars at all stages. Join us! @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social

Hello AfAA members 👋 📢 The AAA Call for Submissions is now open! If you are submitting a panel or individual paper, please remember to select AfAA as the section you would like to review your submission. Submission details: annualmeeting.americananthro.org/submit/ #Anthropology #AAA2026 #AfAA

📢 Call for Applications ACIP Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards 2026 For African PhD students enrolled at South African universities (humanities & humanistic social sciences). 💰 Up to ZAR 50,000 🗓️ Deadline: 1 May 2026 🔗 gs.emory.edu/guides/students/acip.html #PhDFunding #AfricanStudies #SouthAfrica

📣 Call for Proposals The African Critical Inquiry Programme invites proposals to organize a 2027 workshop on public culture and scholarship in Africa. Deadline: 1 May 2026 Max award: ZAR 75,000 🔗 gs.emory.edu/guides/students/acip.html

In Memoriam: Bennetta Jules-Rosette (1948–2025). AfAA mourns the loss of a pioneering scholar of African religious movements and expressive culture. Read the obituary by her longtime friend and collaborator, J.R. Osborn, on our website.

📢 Call for Abstracts! AfAA–University of Ibadan Conference 2026: Theory & Praxis: Rethinking Anthropological Engagements in Africa. 🗓 July 2–5, Ibadan, Nigeria. Deadline: Feb 20. Details 👉 afaa.americananthro.org/call-for-abs... #AfAA #Ibadan2026

We mourn the loss of Bennetta Jules-Rosette, one of the founding members of the AfAA. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

The harvest has arrived!

Congrats to @chuckgski.bsky.social! Last night, his book God's Waiting Room was awarded AfAA's Skinner Prize for "the book that best furthers the global community of Africanist scholars & the broader interests of the African continent, as exemplified in the work of Elliott P. Skinner." #AAA2025NOLA

The African Critical Inquiry Programme invites proposals to organise the 2027 ACIP Workshop in South Africa. Up to ZAR 75,000 available for projects exploring public culture, institutions, and scholarship in Africa. Deadline: 1 May 2026 🔗 gs.emory.edu/guides/stude... #ACIP #ResearchFunding #Africa

Applications are open for the 2026 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards! African PhD students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences at South African universities can apply for up to ZAR 50,000 for dissertation research. Deadline: 1 May 2026. 🔗 gs.emory.edu/guides/stude... #ResearchFunding

Our book STRATA: Unruly Ethnographies of Troubled Worlds is out today 🎉 by Aurelie Darbouret, Petna Ndaliko, Daniela Rodrigues, Jeff Daniel Silva & Laurent Van Lancker, it reimagines how anthropology is written, shared, and felt. 📖 sunsun.fr | Launch: Nov 3 @ Mucem | 196 pages | 400 copies

Call for Participation! AAGE Biennial Conference May 8 – 10, 2026, Hosted at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Deadline Extended: Submit by November 25, 2025. anthropologyandgerontology.com/conferences/...

The Graduate Office for the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto will be holding an information session on their graduate programs (Master of Arts, Master of Science, Direct Entry-PhD and PhD). The session will be held online via Zoom. See poster for details.

local academic types: looking for a Kansai local who can teach Intro to Anthropology spring/fall 2026 term in English here at Ritsumeikan in the College of IR (Kinugasa campus NW Kyoto). flexible on which day of the week. students are very international and eager. enrollment ranges from 20-40.

🆕New Article Check out Dr. KD Thompson's @katrinadalythompson.com new article examining ✨nearly a century of Swahili-language Islamic marital booklets✨ 🧵 1/4

🧭Calling all members of the AfAA! Before the AAA 2025 Annual Meeting, we we'd love to hear from you. What kind of future do you envision for the AfAA? Share your thoughts 👉 forms.gle/aoLmbK5TYf3X... Let’s shape the next chapter together. #Anthropology #AfAA #AAA2025

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications. Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 . sudansolidarity.com

Proud to announce the 2025 AfAA Bennetta Jules-Rosette Graduate Essay Award: Adrian Wilson (UC) for “Refusing Money, Rejecting Relations: …” — a powerful critique of RCTs in Western Kenya. Honorable mention: Carl Henderson (UCL) for “Zen and the Art of Affluence Maintenance.” #AfAA2025 #Anthropology

Hearty congratulations to Huda Ahmed Name (UC San Diego), winner of the AfAA 2025 “Penny” Schwartz Undergraduate Essay Award for her essay on Somali ethnic/inter-ethnic conflicts and civil war. We are proud of outstanding undergraduate scholarship!👏 #AfAA2025 #Anthropology #Somalia

Just out: my new piece in Signs and Society looks at Swahili Islamic marital booklets and how they weave together gender, time, and religious longing. From pre-Islamic “ignorance” to the afterlife, these texts imagine marriage as a moral journey across eras. doi.org/10.1017/ #LingAnth #AcRel

We regret to share that we have lost access to our accounts on Facebook & X, possibly via hacking. If you’d like to follow us on social media, we are still active on Bluesky and now also on LinkedIn. We’d love to promote your work on these two sites!

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📚Penn Libraries & the Center for Africana Studies invite applications for the 2026 Holman Fellow for African Health & Medicine Research, a 3-year position supporting scholarship on Africa’s medical & health histories and futures. Apply by September 12, 2025: wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...

📢Louisa Lombard (Yale) will give the 2025 AfAA Distinguished Lecture at the AAA Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Titled "Studying Soldiers," exploring armed life in Central Africa, a compelling dialogue with the conference theme, "Ghosts". #AfAA #AAA2025 More: afaa.americananthro.org/event/2025-a...

For a limited time only, we're pleased to offer a 50% #SALE off ALL #Anthropology and #Sociology paperbacks and eBooks purchased via our website. Get these discounts automatically when you shop, no discount code required: bit.ly/3HjF9X5 Don’t miss out, offer ends soon! #academicsky #booksale

Book review roundtable with a new generation of writers on my creative and experimental ethnography, out now! "Care, Life and Death in a Highly Racist World: Casey Golomski’s God’s Waiting Room," in African Studies - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to Maja Jakarasi, winner of the 2025 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award from the African Critical Inquiry Programme for research exploring spirit, healing & mental illness in Zimbabwe & Mozambique More: www.facebook.com/share/p/19ZxWAP9W4/ www.gs.emory.edu/about/special/acip.html

Call for Pitches | Anthropology News: Fluidity Do you have any bold ideas that cross boundaries? Submit by Aug 10. See details below #Anthropology #AfricanistAnthro #AfAA

Announcing the Africa Thesis Award 2025 for outstanding research on Africa by PhDs completed between Aug 31, 2024 & Aug 31, 2025, at a Dutch or African university. 🔗https://ascleiden.nl/news/submit-your-thesis-africa-thesis-award-2025 #PhD #AfricaResearch #AfAA #GradAwards

Apply now for the 2025 AfAA Graduate Travel Awards for the 2025 Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association—open to students & recent PhDs in Africanist anthropology. Deadline: July 10, 2025 #Anthropology #AfAA #AAA2025

We are excited to share the Call for Applications for Junior Fellowships 2026 at the Forum Basiliense, University of Basel. Theme: Conflict and Cooperation—an invitation to explore global transformations through interdisciplinary dialogue. Find more: forum-basiliense.unibas.ch/en/news/deta...

The 2026 African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) Workshop will be "Revisiting and Reimagining Imvo Zabantsundu," organized with support from the Ivan Karp & Corinne Kratz Fund. See announcement at www.facebook.com/share/p/15viNaRyBc/ Also coming soon to: www.gs.emory.edu/about/special/acip.html

🎉 Congratulations to AfAA member Jennifer Coffman, recipient of the 2025 AAA Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in Anthropology! Nominated by the AfAA board, Coffman is recognized for her outstanding dedication to undergraduate education #AAA2025 #AfAA

Can't make it to New Orleans for #AAA2025? Join the 100% Virtual Annual Meeting, Nov 14–15, designed for those who can't attend in person. Share your work and stay part of the conversation from anywhere. Submit your proposal via annualmeeting.americananthro.org/virtual-call by May 16, 11:59 PM ET.

Greetings! The Association for Africanist Anthropology (AfAA) is offering Graduate Travel Awards to support graduate students and recent graduates to present and/or attend the 2025 meeting of the American Anthropological Association. More information at afaa.americananthro.org/awards/#Travel

Dear colleagues, the AAA 2025 Annual Meeting's General Call for Participation closes in a week's time. Please visit annualmeeting.americananthro.org/event/general-call-for-participation for more information. When submitting, please indicate that you would like AFAA to review your abstract/panels.

The African Critical Inquiry Programme is pleased to announce the 2025 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards for African doctoral students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences enrolled at South African universities. See ACIP Opportunities at www.graduateschool.emory.edu/about/specia...

ACIP CALL FOR PROPOSALS The African Critical Inquiry Programme invites proposals from scholars and/or practitioners in public cultural institutions in South Africa to organise a workshop in 2026. More information under ACIP Opportunities at www.graduateschool.emory.edu/about/special/acip.html

I’m seeking papers for a panel at the 2025 @americananthro.bsky.social meeting exploring the dynamic expressions of lived religion in Africa and the African diaspora. Please reach out to me ([email protected]) by 1 April. #cfp #aaa2025

Congratulations to N. Fadeke Castor, Winner of the 2025-2026 Wenner-Gren Fellowship in Anthropology and Black Experiences! buff.ly/3EVoAzo

Call for Editor-in-Chief: American Anthropologist www.anthropology-news.org/articles/cal...

📢Job alert - Associate Prof in Social #Anthropology @ox.ac.uk - particular interest in gender and sexuality, environment, race or religion www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/article/asso...

The General Call for Submissions for the American Anthropological Association’s 2025 Annual Meeting is now open. As you submit your proposal, please name AfAA as the section to review your submission. Read more on the call at annualmeeting.americananthro.org/event/genera...

The American Anthropological Association’s 2025 annual meeting Executive Call for Participation is open! The deadline is February 27 at 11:59 PM EST. More information is available at annualmeeting.americananthro.org/executive-ca... Please select AfAA as the section that will review your submission.

The Black Women Studies Association (BWSA) is currently accepting submissions for the 2025 Cheryl A. Wall Graduate Student Paper Prize and the Toni Cade Bambara Article Prize from February 1, 2025, to March 8, 2025. For more information, please visit blackwomensstudies.org/awards.