Archives: African Studies

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

African Studies Twins Graduate Together

Congratulations Kenneth & Kennedy on your graduation! A lot of people were doing double takes during Carleton University’s June Convocation. Several sets of twins crossed the stage to receive their diplomas at this year’s ceremonies from June 10 through 14. We caught up with three of them. What’s it like to go to university with... More

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Susanne Klausen Wins Visiting Fellowship

Professor Susanne M. Klausen has won a visiting fellowship to the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) in Amsterdam for ten months, from September 2019 to June 2020. Klausen will use her time as a NIAS Fellow to write the manuscript for her next monograph, tentatively titled Forbidden Desire: The Criminalization of Inter-racial... More

Monday, March 21, 2016

African Studies congratulates Professor Susanne Klausen (History, cross-appointed to African Studies)

African Studies congratulates Professor Susanne Klausen (History, cross-appointed to African Studies) for her success in receiving prestigious research funding for her project "The Thalidomide Disaster, the British Abortion Act (1967), and the Passage of Eugenic Abortion Laws in the Commonwealth, 1961-1977" from the UK's Wellcome Trust!" For full... More

Friday, May 1, 2015

African Studies faculty Blair Rutherford & Doris Buss featured in Research Works

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Monday, April 21, 2014

IAS Faculty Win SSHRC Grant

IAS Faculty Win SSHRC Grant: The Institute of African Studies is pleased to announce that two of its faculty members are lead researchers on a recently announced SSHRC Insight Grant. The grant is for a 5 year project titled “Women’s Livelihoods in Artisanal Mining Sectors: Rethinking State-Building in Conflict-Affected Africa”. Blair... More

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