The Executive Board of the African Studies Association and Cambridge University Press are pleased to announce the appointment of Benjamin N. Lawrance as the Editor-in-Chief of the African Studies Review (ASR). Dr. Lawrance is a prize-winning historian ...

The ASA is pleased to announce that the 2017 preliminary program is now available online .

If you are participating in the program and have updates to the way that your name, affiliation, email, or paper title appear in the program, you will find detail...

You can now sign-up to participate in the 2017 Exhibit Hall and to advertise in the 2017 Final Program.

First, select your preferred booth by reviewing the floor plan (premium booths are designated in red): 2017 Floor Plan

Second, complete the Exhibitor a...

The Summer 2017 edition of ASA News is now available. You can find the complete newsletter here.

The US Federal budget released last week is of great concern to the field of African Studies. The President’s FY2018 budget proposes the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, African Development Fu...

The ASA secretariat is pleased to announce the 2017 Board election results as follows:

Vice President-elect
Maria Grosz-Ngate , Associate Director, African Studies Program, Indiana University

Board Members-elect
Bessie House-Soremekun , Associate Dean and ...

The African Studies Association Board of Directors awarded eight grants at its 2017 Spring Board Meeting to ASA Coordinate and Affiliate Organizations. The awarded grants were supported by the 50th Anniversary Fund of the association, and will suppor...

The ASA wishes to express its concern regarding the growing threats to academic and press freedom not only in the US but abroad. Over the past several years, scholars and journalists have been harassed, attacked, arrested, and subject to imprisonment...

The African Studies Association partnered with the Africa Past and Present podcast of Michigan State University at the 59th Annual Meeting of the ASA to launch a podcast series from the conference. The series includes “drop in” conversations, which wer...

The African Studies Association joins other scholarly associations in expressing its opposition to the federal budget cuts proposed in the President's recent 2018 Budget Blueprint . The elimination or reduction of federal funding for international educ...

The Board of Directors of the African Studies Association is aware that some of its members based outside of the US are debating whether to attend our annual conference this November owing to the current policies of the US government. The recent Exec...

History in Africa , one of the journals of the African Studies Association, has put together a collection of articles by Jan Vansina, in honor of Dr. Vansina and his pioneering research. This collection is freely available here through March 31.

Welcome to the Winter 2017 edition of ASA News ! In this issue you will find letters from the ASA President and Executive Director, member announcements, and information about new ASA initiatives and developments. This issue is our special 60th Anniversa...

On behalf of its members, the Board of Directors of the African Studies Association demands immediate reversal of the recent Executive Order barring citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen entry for 90 days into the United S...

December 2016

The African Studies Association (ASA) is pleased to announce the 2016 award winners. The ASA Awards Ceremony was held on the evening of Saturday, December 3, 2016 at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, DC. The ASA heartily congratul...

Dear ASA members,

After a long, bitter electoral campaign in the United States, we will have much to consider and discuss at our upcoming annual meeting about the future of African studies.

As leaders of the African Studies Association, we reaffirm the...

Welcome to the Fall 2016 edition of ASA News ! In this issue you will find letters from the ASA President and Executive Director, member announcements, and information about new ASA initiatives and developments. You can find the entire issue here .

Welcome to the Summer 2016 edition of ASA News! In this issue you will find letters from the ASA President and Executive Director, member announcements, and information about new ASA initiatives and developments. You can find the entire issue here .

The ASA secretariat is pleased to announce the 2016 Board election results as follows:

Vice President-elect
Jean Allman , Center for the Humanities, History, and African and African American Studies, Washington University in St. Louis

Board Members-elect...

The 11th Annual African Studies Association Presidential Lecture at Rutgers University will be held on Thursday, April 28 at 4:30 pm at the Alexander Library on the Rutgers University College Ave Campus.

ASA President Dorothy Hodgson will deliver the ...

The ASA is excited to announce the launch of our new myASA Membership Portal

This portal, hosted directly on the ASA website, allows ASA members to process their membership renewals, register for the annual meeting, edit their member profile, and acces...

  November 2015

The African Studies Association (ASA) is pleased to announce the 2015 award winners. The ASA Awards Ceremony was held on the evening of Saturday, November 21st 2015 at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina in San Diego, CA. The ASA he...

As Africanists, the members of the African Studies Association have a moral obligation to educate students and communities in ways that combat the growing hysteria surrounding the current Ebola crisis. We must respond to the fear and panic leading to...