This spring we will be welcoming to our IAS community not one but three new faculty members.  This on top of the terrific hires last year of Nathan Suhr-Sytsma and Abdul JanMohamed in English.

First, as you know Kristin Phillips will be a joint appointment with IAS, Anthropology, and the MDP.

Second, Art History will be making its decision following this week's visit.

Third, Alvan A. Ikoku recently accepted Emory's offer as part of the Mellon searches. He will be joining the Department of English.  Alvan is presently assistant professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and associated faculty at the Montefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics. He has a MpPhil from Oxford, a MD from Harvard, and a Ph.D. from Columbia.  Alvan's work focuses on literature and global health, bioethics and medical humanities, postcolonial theory, and Anglophone and Francophone literatures concerning Africa and its diaspora

Congratulations to Dr. Mari Webel,  (Ph.D., Columbia University), Postdoctoral Fellow in African Studies and in Global Health, Culture, and Society who has been awarded a pretigious DAAD research grant to be used for several months of archival research in Berlin this summer. 

IAS welcomes Dr. Kristin Phillips to the IAS faculty.  Dr. Phillips has a Ph. D. in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin and specializes in the politics of rural development and education in East Africa.

US News and World Report currently ranks Emory's African Studies 6th in the nation.  See below for current rankings or click here to visit their website.

#1     University of Wisconsin--Madison
Madison, WI
#2     University of Michigan--Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
#3     Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
#4     Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
#4     University of California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
#6     Emory University
Atlanta, GA
#6     Stanford University
Stanford, CA
#8     Indiana University--Bloomington
Bloomington, IN
#8     University of Minnesota--Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN

African Studies is pleased to present the 2012-13 African Studies Seminar Series!  All the talks are from 4:15-5:45 in Callaway S423. The dates and speakers are as follows:

1. Laura E. Seay - Thursday, March 28

Department of Political Science (Morehouse College)

“NGOs, Civil Society, and Authority in the Post-Conflict: Who’s in Charge?”

2. Daniel Magaziner - Thursday, April 11

Department of History (Yale University)

"Apartheid's Art School: Art, Education and Beauty in 20th Century South Africa"

                                                                                                                                                                                                            
*African Studies is pleased to announce the publication of the Ivan Karp Archive.  Please see the link above for access. If you have any questions please contact me at ccrais@emory.edu, or come by my office in Bowden 326.