Association for Africanist Anthropology

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

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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...

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Care, Life and Death in a Highly Racist World: Casey Golomski’s God’s Waiting Room Published in African Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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

Screenshot of a call for papers: We invite scholars to submit papers for a panel at the 2025 AAA meeting exploring the dynamic expressions of lived religion in Africa and the diaspora. This panel seeks to investigate how individuals and communities experience, interpret, and practice their faiths in diverse African and African diasporic contexts. We welcome contributions that engage with themes such as spirituality, rituals, social change, identity, and the intersection of religion with politics, language, economics, or culture. Papers employing innovative methodologies or offering new insights into underrepresented perspectives are especially encouraged. Please reach out to KD Thompson (kd.thompson@wisc.edu) by 1 April.

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 (kd.thompson@wisc.edu) 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 - Anthropology News The American Anthropological Association seeks applications for a new Editor-in-Chief (or Coeditors-in-Chief) of the association’s flagship journal,

Call for Editor-in-Chief: American Anthropologist

www.anthropology-news.org/articles/cal...

Associate Professorship in Social Anthropology

📢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.