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| name = African Studies Association
| headquarters = [[New Brunswick, New Jersey]]
| headquarters = [[New Brunswick, New Jersey]]
| formation = 1957
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| leader_title = President
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| leader_name = [[Ousseina Alidou]]
| membership = 2000
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| leader_name = Gretchen Bauer
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| website = https://www.africanstudies.org/
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The '''African Studies Association''' ('''ASA''') is an association of scholars and professionals in the [[United States]] and [[Canada]] with an interest in the continent of [[Africa]]. Started in 1957, the ASA is the leading organization of African Studies in [[North America]]. The associations headquarters are [[Rutgers University]] in [[New Jersey]]. The ASA holds annual conferences.


The '''African Studies Association''' ('''ASA''') is a US-based association of scholars, students, practitioners, and institutions with an interest in the continent of [[Africa]]. Founded in 1957, the ASA is the leading organization of [[African Studies]] in [[North America]], with a global membership of approximately 2000.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://africanstudies.org/about-the-asa/ | title=About the ASA }}</ref> The association's headquarters are at [[Rutgers University]] in [[New Jersey]]. The ASA holds annual conferences<ref>{{Cite web |title=Annual Meeting |url=https://africanstudies.org/annual-meetings/ |access-date=2022-09-14 |website=African Studies Association Portal – ASA – ASA |language=en-US}}</ref> and virtual events for its members year-round.
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As a result of racial and political disputes over exclusion from leadership positions of black academics and ASA leaders' ties with the US intelligence and military, the ASA split in 1968, when the Black Caucus of the ASA, led by [[John Henrik Clarke]], founded the '''African Heritage Studies Association''' (AHSA).<ref name=co/><ref name="Wiley2013">{{cite journal|last1=Wiley|first1=David|title=Militarizing Africa and African Studies and the U.S. Africanist Response|journal=African Studies Review|volume=55|issue=2|year=2013|pages=147–161|issn=0002-0206|doi=10.1353/arw.2012.0041|doi-access=free}}</ref>

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As a result of racial and political disputes over exclusion from leadership positions of black academics and ASA leaders' ties with the US intelligence and military in the mid-twentieth century, the ASA split in 1968, when the Black Caucus of the ASA, led by [[John Henrik Clarke]], founded the '''African Heritage Studies Association''' (AHSA).<ref name="AHSA">{{cite web |url=https://ahsa50.org/ |title=Supporting exploration, education and preservation. |last= |first= |date=2022 |website=ahsa50.org |publisher=African Heritage Studies Association |access-date=7 January 2023 |quote=The African Heritage Studies Association (AHSA) was founded in 1969 as an association of scholars of African descent, dedicated to the exploration, preservation, and academic presentation of the heritage of African people on the ancestral soil of Africa and in the diaspora.}}</ref><ref name=co /><ref name="Wiley2013">{{Cite journal|last1=Wiley|first1=David|title=Militarizing Africa and African Studies and the U.S. Africanist Response|journal=African Studies Review|volume=55|issue=2|year=2013|pages=147–161|issn=0002-0206|doi=10.1353/arw.2012.0041|doi-access=free}}</ref>

The ASA is different from the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA), which was founded at the University of Cape Town in October 1-2, 2012'''.'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=African Studies Association of Africa - ASAA - About ASAA |url=https://as-aa.org/index.php/about-asaa |access-date=2023-01-07 |website=as-aa.org}}</ref>


==Awards given by ASA==
== Awards given by ASA ==
===ASA Best Book Prize===
=== ASA Best Book Prize ===
{{Main|ASA Best Book Prize}}
{{Main|ASA Best Book Prize}}
The ASA Book Prize is given annually for the best scholarly work (including translations) on Africa published in English in the previous year and distributed in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://africanstudies.org/awards-prizes/book-prize/ |title=ASA Best Book Prize |website=africanstudies.org |access-date=24 March 2022}}</ref> The award was originally named after [[Melville Herskovits]], one of the founders of the ASA. The name was changed in 2019 as the ASA considered how to decolonize the discipline of African studies.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/mSb_N2Ly8VY Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20191214131608/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSb_N2Ly8VY Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSb_N2Ly8VY| title = ASA 2018 Presidential Lecture | website=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
The ASA Book Prize is given annually for the best scholarly work (including translations) on Africa published in English in the previous year and distributed in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://africanstudies.org/awards-prizes/book-prize/ |title=ASA Best Book Prize |website=africanstudies.org |access-date=24 March 2022 |archive-date=16 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220516161711/https://africanstudies.org/awards-prizes/book-prize/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> The award was originally named after [[Melville Herskovits]], one of the founders of the ASA. The name was changed in 2019 as the ASA considered how to decolonize the discipline of African studies.<ref>{{Cite web|title=ASA 2018 Presidential Lecture &#124; Ghostarchive|url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/mSb_N2Ly8VY|access-date=2022-12-24|website=ghostarchive.org}}</ref>


===Distinguished Africanist Award===
=== Distinguished Africanist Award ===
Beginning in 1984, the association has awarded the Distinguished Africanist Award.<ref>{{cite web |title=Distinguished Africanist Award |url=https://africanstudies.org/awards-prizes/distinguished-africanist-award/ |publisher=African Studies Association |access-date=23 March 2022}}</ref> In 2000 and 2001 two awards were given. Winners include:
Beginning in 1984, the association has awarded the Distinguished Africanist Award.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Distinguished Africanist Award |url=https://africanstudies.org/awards-prizes/distinguished-africanist-award/ |publisher=African Studies Association |access-date=23 March 2022}}</ref> In 2000, 2001, 2022, and 2023 two awards were given. Winners include:
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* 1984 [[Gwendolen M. Carter]]
* 1984 [[Gwendolen M. Carter]]
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* 2000 Bernth Lindfors
* 2000 Bernth Lindfors
* 2000 [[J.H. Kwabena Nketia]]
* 2000 [[J.H. Kwabena Nketia]]
* 2001 Martin A. Klein
* 2001 [[Martin A. Klein]]
* 2001 [[Bethwell Ogot]]
* 2001 [[Bethwell Ogot]]
* 2002 {{ill|Peter Geschiere|jv}}
* 2002 [[Peter Geschiere]]
* 2003 Joseph E. Harris
* 2003 Joseph E. Harris
* 2004 [[Francis Deng]]
* 2004 [[Francis Deng]]
* 2005 [[John Hunwick]]
* 2005 [[John Hunwick]]
* 2006 {{ill|Bogumil Jewsiewicki|fr}}
* 2006 [[Bogumil Jewsiewicki]]
* 2007 [[John Francis Marchment Middleton]]
* 2007 [[John Francis Marchment Middleton]]
* 2008 [[Edmond Keller]]
* 2008 [[Edmond Keller]]
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* 2011 [[Toyin Falola]]
* 2011 [[Toyin Falola]]
* 2012 [[Jane Guyer]]
* 2012 [[Jane Guyer]]
* 2013 Allen Isaacman
* 2013 [[Allen Isaacman]]
* 2014 {{ill|Boubacar Barry (historian)|lt=Boubacar Barry|fr|Boubacar Barry}}
* 2014 [[Boubacar Barry (historian)|Boubacar Barry]]
* 2015 [[Goran Hyden]]
* 2015 [[Goran Hyden]]
* 2016 [[Sara Berry]]
* 2016 [[Sara Berry]]
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* 2020 [[Frederick Cooper (historian)|Frederick Cooper]]
* 2020 [[Frederick Cooper (historian)|Frederick Cooper]]
* 2021 [[Oyeronke Oyewumi|Oyeronkẹ́ Oyěwumi]]
* 2021 [[Oyeronke Oyewumi|Oyeronkẹ́ Oyěwumi]]
* 2022 [[Steve Howard (sociologist)| Steve Howard]]
* 2022 Brenda Randolph<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brenda Randolph Receives the Distinguished Africanist Award |url=https://cfas.howard.edu/articles/brenda-randolph-receives-distinguished-africanist-award |website=Howard University |access-date=23 November 2022}}</ref>
* 2023 Richard Joseph<ref name="2023Awards">{{cite web |title=2023 ASA Award Winners |url=https://africanstudies.org/annual-meetings-asa/2023-asa-award-winners/#:~:text=The%20ASA%20Best%20Book%20Prize%20was%20awarded%20to%20Mariana%20P,Cambridge%20University%20Press%2C%202022).&text=The%20ASA%20presents%20the%20Bethwell%20A. |website=African Studies Association (ASA) |access-date=1 January 2024}}</ref>
* 2023 Kenneth Harrow<ref name="2023Awards" />
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===Bethwell Ogot Book Prize===
=== Bethwell Ogot Book Prize ===
The Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize of the African Studies Association is awarded annually at the ASA Annual Meeting to the author of the best book on East African Studies published in the previous calendar year. Initiated in 2012, the award was made possible by a generous bequest from the estate of the late Professor Kennell Jackson, the award honors the eminent historian, Professor [[Bethwell Ogot|Bethwell A. Ogot]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize |url=https://africanstudies.org/awards-prizes/bethwell-a-ogot-book-prize/ |publisher=African Studies Association |access-date=24 March 2022}}</ref>
The Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize of the African Studies Association is awarded annually at the ASA Annual Meeting to the author of the best book on East African Studies published in the previous calendar year. Initiated in 2012, the award was made possible by a generous bequest from the estate of the late Professor Kennell Jackson, the award honors the eminent historian, Professor [[Bethwell Ogot|Bethwell A. Ogot]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize |url=https://africanstudies.org/awards-prizes/bethwell-a-ogot-book-prize/ |publisher=African Studies Association |access-date=24 March 2022}}</ref>


Winners of this award are:
Winners of this award are:
*2012 Andrew Ivaska, ''Cultured States: Youth, Gender, and Modern Style in 1960s Dar es Salaam''
*2012 Andrew Ivaska, ''Cultured States: Youth, Gender, and Modern Style in 1960s Dar es Salaam''
*2013 James R. Brennan, ''Taifa: Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania''
*2013 James R. Brennan, ''Taifa: Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania''
*2014 Shane Doyle, ''Before HIV: Sexuality, Fertility and Mortality in East Africa 1900-1980''
*2014 Shane Doyle, ''Before HIV: Sexuality, Fertility and Mortality in East Africa 1900–1980''
*2015 J.J. Carney, ''Rwanda Before the Genocide: Catholic Politics and Ethnic Discourse in the Late Colonial Era''
*2015 J.J. Carney, ''Rwanda Before the Genocide: Catholic Politics and Ethnic Discourse in the Late Colonial Era''
*2016 Elena Vezzadini, ''Lost Nationalism Revolution, Memory and Anti-colonial Resistance in Sudan''
*2016 Elena Vezzadini, ''Lost Nationalism Revolution, Memory and Anti-colonial Resistance in Sudan''
*2017 Bert Ingelaere, ''Inside Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts: Seeking Justice after Genocide''
*2017 Bert Ingelaere, ''Inside Rwanda's Gacaca Courts: Seeking Justice after Genocide''
*2018 Getnet Bekele, ''Ploughing New Ground: Food, Farming, and Environmental Change in Ethiopia''
*2018 Getnet Bekele, ''Ploughing New Ground: Food, Farming, and Environmental Change in Ethiopia''
*2019 Laura Fair, ''Reel Pleasures: Cinema Audiences and Entrepreneurs in Twentieth-Century Urban Tanzania''
*2019 Laura Fair, ''Reel Pleasures: Cinema Audiences and Entrepreneurs in Twentieth-Century Urban Tanzania''
*2020 Elizabeth Giorgis, ''Modernist Art in Ethiopia''
*2020 Elizabeth Giorgis, ''Modernist Art in Ethiopia''
*2021 Mai Hassan, ''Regime Threats and State Solutions: Bureaucratic Loyalty and Embeddedness in Kenya''
*2021 Mai Hassan, ''Regime Threats and State Solutions: Bureaucratic Loyalty and Embeddedness in Kenya''
*2022 David L. Schoenbrun, ''The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930''<ref>{{Cite tweet |author=U of Wisconsin Press |author-link=University of Wisconsin Press |user=UWiscPress |number= 1594695995501301760 |title=Congratulations to David Schoenbrun |retweet=@ASANewsOnline }}</ref>
*2023 Claire L. Wendland, ''Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles''<ref name="2023Awards" />


===Graduate Student Paper Prize===
=== Graduate Student Paper Prize ===
In 2001, the ASA Board of Directors established an annual prize for the best graduate student paper. The prize is awarded at the Annual Meeting for an essay presented at the previous year’s Annual Meeting. This prize highlights exceptional scholarship produced by emerging scholars in any African studies related discipline.<ref>https://africanstudies.org/awards-prizes/graduate-student-paper-prize/</ref>
In 2001, the ASA Board of Directors established an annual prize for the best graduate student paper. The prize is awarded at the Annual Meeting for an essay presented at the previous year's Annual Meeting. This prize highlights exceptional scholarship produced by emerging scholars in any African studies related discipline.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://africanstudies.org/awards-prizes/graduate-student-paper-prize/ | title=Graduate Student Paper Prize }}</ref>


Winners of this award are:
Winners of this award are:

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* 2002 – Benjamin Lawrance, “Le Revolte des Femmes: Economic Upheaval and the Gender of Political Authority in Lome, Togo, 1931-33”

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* 2003 – Staffan Lindberg, “The ‘Democraticness’ of Multiparty Elections: Participation, Competition, and Legitimacy in Africa”


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* 2002 – [[Benjamin Lawrance]], “Le Revolte des Femmes: Economic Upheaval and the Gender of Political Authority in Lome, Togo, 1931-33”
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* 2004 – Kristin E. Cheney, “Village Life is Better than Town Life’: identity, migration and development in the Lives of Ugandan child citizens” \
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* 2003 – [[Staffan I. Lindberg|Staffan Lindberg]], “The ‘Democraticness’ of Multiparty Elections: Participation, Competition, and Legitimacy in Africa”
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* 2004 – Kristin E. Cheney, “Village Life is Better than Town Life’: identity, migration and development in the Lives of Ugandan child citizens”
* 2005 – Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, “’Dangerous Properties’: Poisoned Arrows and the Case of Strophanthus hispidus in Colonial Gold Coast, 1885 – 1922″
* 2005 – Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, “’Dangerous Properties’: Poisoned Arrows and the Case of Strophanthus hispidus in Colonial Gold Coast, 1885 – 1922″
* 2006 – Severine Autesserre, “Local Violence, National Peace? Local Dynamics of Violence during the Transition in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo”
* 2006 – [[Séverine Autesserre]], “Local Violence, National Peace? Local Dynamics of Violence during the Transition in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo”
* 2007 – Habtamu Mengistie Tegegne, “Revisiting Land Tenure in Eighteenth Century Gondärine Ethiopia: Zéga and the Land Charter of Däbrä-Sehay Qwesqwam Church”
* 2007 – Habtamu Mengistie Tegegne, “Revisiting Land Tenure in Eighteenth Century Gondärine Ethiopia: Zéga and the Land Charter of Däbrä-Sehay Qwesqwam Church”
* 2008 – Kristin D. Phillips, “Consuming the State: Hunger, Healing, and Citizenship in Rural Tanzania”
* 2008 – Kristin D. Phillips, “Consuming the State: Hunger, Healing, and Citizenship in Rural Tanzania”
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* 2010 – Laura Weinstein, “The Politics of Government Expenditures in Tanzania: 1999-2007”
* 2010 – Laura Weinstein, “The Politics of Government Expenditures in Tanzania: 1999-2007”
* 2011 – Noel Twagiramungu, “The Anatomy of Leadership: A view-from-within Post-genocide Rwanda”
* 2011 – Noel Twagiramungu, “The Anatomy of Leadership: A view-from-within Post-genocide Rwanda”
* 2013 – Jamie Miller, “Yes, Minister: Reassessing South Africa’s Intervention in the Angolan Civil War”
* 2013 – Jamie Miller, “Yes, Minister: Reassessing South Africa's Intervention in the Angolan Civil War”
* 2014 – Catherine Porter, “Bound and Unbound Identities: The Reconstruction of Katanga’s Nationhood Struggle”
* 2014 – Catherine Porter, “Bound and Unbound Identities: The Reconstruction of Katanga's Nationhood Struggle”
* 2015 – Kathleen Klaus, “Contentious Land Claims and the Non-Escalation of Violence: Evidence from Kenya’s Coast Region
* 2015 – Kathleen Klaus, “Contentious Land Claims and the Non-Escalation of Violence: Evidence from Kenya's Coast Region
* ·2016 – Moritz Nagel, “Precolonial Segmentation Revisited: Initiation Societies, Talking Drums and the Ngondo Festival in the Cameroons”
* 2016 – Moritz Nagel, “Precolonial Segmentation Revisited: Initiation Societies, Talking Drums and the Ngondo Festival in the Cameroons”
* 2017 – Amanda B. Edgell, “Vying for the ‘Man’s Seat’ – Constituency Magnitude and Mainstream Female Candidature for Non-Quota Seats in Uganda and Kenya”
* 2017 – Amanda B. Edgell, “Vying for the ‘Man's Seat’ – Constituency Magnitude and Mainstream Female Candidature for Non-Quota Seats in Uganda and Kenya”
* 2018 – Shaonan Liu, “Symbol of Wealth and Prestige: A Social History of Chinese-made Enamelware in Northern Nigeria”
* 2018 – Shaonan Liu, “Symbol of Wealth and Prestige: A Social History of Chinese-made Enamelware in Northern Nigeria”
* 2019 – Victoria Mary Gorham, “Displaying the Nation: Museums and Nation-Building in Tanzania and Kenya”
* 2019 – Victoria Mary Gorham, “Displaying the Nation: Museums and Nation-Building in Tanzania and Kenya”
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* 2021 – Justin Haruyama, “Shortcut English: A Pidgin Language and Symbolic Power at a Chinese-operated Mine in Zambia.”
* 2021 – Justin Haruyama, “Shortcut English: A Pidgin Language and Symbolic Power at a Chinese-operated Mine in Zambia.”


=== Conover-Porter Award for Africana Bibliography or Reference Work, 1980 - 2018 ===
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==Presidents of ASA==
The Conover-Porter Award is a biannual prize presented during 1980 - 2018 by the Africana Librarians Council of the African Studies Association (US) to reward outstanding achievement in Africana bibliography and reference tools. It honors two pioneers in African Studies bibliography, Helen F. Conover, of the [[Library of Congress]], and [[Dorothy B. Porter]], of [[Howard University]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://guides.library.upenn.edu/AfricanaLibrariansCouncil/ConoverPorterAward |website=guides.library.upenn.edu |access-date=16 November 2023 |publisher=Penn Libraries. University of Pennsylvania |title=ALC : Africana Librarians Council: ALC Conover Porter Award : Nominations & Winners, 1980-present |date=April 22, 2021}}</ref>
Presidents of the ASA are elected annually by the membership. They include:<ref>[http://www.africanstudies.org/p/cm/ld/fid=106 ASA, Presidents of the African Studies Association] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090803145302/http://www.africanstudies.org/p/cm/ld/fid%3D106 |date=August 3, 2009 }}</ref>
Latest and first awards:
* 2018 – co-winners ''Historical dictionary of women in sub-saharan Africa'' by Kathleen Sheldon. 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, and the project ''Dictionary of African Christian biography (DACB)'' by Jonathan Bonk, project director Overseas Ministries Study Center; Center for Global Christianity and Mission, [[Boston University]].
* 1980 – ''The United States and Africa: guide to U.S. official documents and government-sponsored publications on Africa, 1785-1975'', compiled by Julian W. Witherell. Washington: General Reference and Bibliography Division, Reader Services Dept., Library of Congress, [1978].

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== Presidents of ASA ==
Presidents of the ASA are elected annually by the membership. They include:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://africanstudies.org/about-the-asa/asa-board-of-directors/past-presidents-of-the-asa/|title=Past Presidents of the ASA}}</ref>
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* 1957–1958 [[Melville Herskovits]], [[Northwestern University]]
* 1957–1958 [[Melville Herskovits]], [[Northwestern University]]
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* 1973 [[Immanuel Wallerstein]], [[McGill University]]
* 1973 [[Immanuel Wallerstein]], [[McGill University]]
* 1974 Absolom Vilakazi, [[The American University]]
* 1974 Absolom Vilakazi, [[The American University]]
* 1975 [[John Marcum]], [[University of California, Santa Cruz]]
* 1975 John Marcum, [[University of California, Santa Cruz]]
* 1976 Victor Uchendu, [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]]
* 1976 Victor Uchendu, [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]]
* 1977 Edris Makward, [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]]
* 1977 Edris Makward, [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]]
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* 1979 [[Ali Mazrui]], [[University of Michigan]]
* 1979 [[Ali Mazrui]], [[University of Michigan]]
* 1980 Peter Gutkind, [[McGill University]]
* 1980 Peter Gutkind, [[McGill University]]
* 1981 [[Norman Bennett]], [[Boston University]]
* 1981 Norman Bennett, [[Boston University]]
* 1982 Richard Sklar, [[University of California, Los Angeles]]
* 1982 Richard Sklar, [[University of California, Los Angeles]]
* 1983 [[M. Crawford Young]], [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]]
* 1983 [[M. Crawford Young]], [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]]
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* 1986 Gerald J. Bender, [[University of Southern California]]
* 1986 Gerald J. Bender, [[University of Southern California]]
* 1987 [[Aidan Southall]], [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]]
* 1987 [[Aidan Southall]], [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]]
* 1988 Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, [[Howard University]]
* 1988 [[Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja]], [[Howard University]]
* 1989 Simon Ottenberg, [[University of Washington]]
* 1989 Simon Ottenberg, [[University of Washington]]
* 1990 [[Ann Seidman]], [[Clark University]]
* 1990 [[Ann Seidman]], [[Clark University]]
* 1991 Martin A. Klein, [[University of Toronto]]
* 1991 [[Martin A. Klein]], [[University of Toronto]]
* 1992 Edmond J. Keller, [[University of California, Los Angeles]]
* 1992 Edmond J. Keller, [[University of California, Los Angeles]]
* 1993 David Robinson, [[Michigan State University]]
* 1993 David Robinson, [[Michigan State University]]
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* 2000 Lansine Kaba, [[University of Illinois]]
* 2000 Lansine Kaba, [[University of Illinois]]
* 2001 Catharine Newbury, [[University of North Carolina]]
* 2001 Catharine Newbury, [[University of North Carolina]]
* 2002 Allen Isaacman, [[University of Minnesota]]
* 2002 [[Allen Isaacman]], [[University of Minnesota]]
* 2003 [[Beverly Grier]], [[Clark University]]
* 2003 [[Beverly Grier]], [[Clark University]]
* 2004 Sandra T. Barnes, [[University of Pennsylvania]]
* 2004 Sandra T. Barnes, [[University of Pennsylvania]]
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* 2019 Maria Grosz-Ngaté, [[Indiana University]]
* 2019 Maria Grosz-Ngaté, [[Indiana University]]
* 2020 [[Ato Quayson]], [[Stanford University]]
* 2020 [[Ato Quayson]], [[Stanford University]]
* 2021 Carolyn A. Brown, [[Rutgers University]]<ref name="ASADir2022">{{cite web |title=ASA Board of Directors |url=https://africanstudies.org/about-the-asa/asa-board-of-directors/ |website=African Studies Association |access-date=23 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200511074352/https://africanstudies.org/about-the-asa/asa-board-of-directors/ |archive-date=11 May 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 2021 Carolyn A. Brown, [[Rutgers University]]<ref name="ASADir2022">{{Cite web |title=ASA Board of Directors |url=https://africanstudies.org/about-the-asa/asa-board-of-directors/ |website=African Studies Association |access-date=24 Dec 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221224052909/https://africanstudies.org/about-the-asa/asa-board-of-directors/ |archive-date=24 Dec 2022 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 2022 [[Ousseina Alidou|Ousseina D. Alidou]], [[Rutgers University]]<ref name="ASADir2022" />
* 2022 [[Ousseina Alidou|Ousseina D. Alidou]], [[Rutgers University]]<ref name="ASADir2022" />
* 2023 Adérónké Adésolá Adésànyà, [[James Madison University]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=ASA Board of Directors |url=https://africanstudies.org/about-the-asa/asa-board-of-directors/ |website=African Studies Association |access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref>
* 2024 Gretchen Bauer, [[University of Delaware]]
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==Publications==
== Publications ==
Publications include an annual journal: ''[[History in Africa|History in Africa: A Journal of Method]]'', and ''[[African Studies Review]]''. The Association publishes a quarterly newsletter ''[[ASA News]]'' for its members, and runs a blog.
Publications include ''[[History in Africa]]: A Journal of Method'', published annually and ''[[African Studies Review]]'', published quarterly. The Association publishes a biannual newsletter ''[[ASA News]]'' for its members, and runs a news blog.


== African Heritage Studies Association ==
== African Heritage Studies Association ==


The African Heritage Studies Association is (or was) an offshoot of the African Studies Association, and was founded in 1968 by the ASA's Black Caucus and led by [[John Henrik Clarke]].<ref name=co>{{cite web|url=http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/clarke/|title=John Henrik Clarke: Historian, Scholar, and Teacher|author=Eric Kofi Acree|publisher=Africana Library, [[Cornell University]]|access-date=2009-05-16| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090531021500/http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/clarke/| archive-date= 31 May 2009 <!--DASHBot-->|url-status = live}}</ref><ref name="Diamond">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Diamond |first=Sara |editor=Nina Mjagkij |encyclopedia=Organizing Black America: an encyclopedia of African American associations |title=African Heritage Studies Association |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ymp8BOBzACYC |access-date=2009-06-10 |year=2001 |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |isbn=0-8153-2309-3 |pages=16–17}}</ref><ref name="Martin">{{cite book|last=Martin|first=William G.|author2=West, Michael Oliver|title=Out of one, many Africas: reconstructing the study and meaning of Africa|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=1999|pages=99–106|isbn=0-252-06780-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ogXchrP-4-cC|access-date=2009-06-27}}</ref>
The African Heritage Studies Association was originally an offshoot of the African Studies Association,<ref name="AHSA" /><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://ahsa50.org/our-vision | title=Our Vision }}</ref> and was founded in 1968 by the ASA's Black Caucus and led by [[John Henrik Clarke]].<ref name=co>{{Cite web|url=http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/clarke/|title=John Henrik Clarke: Historian, Scholar, and Teacher|author=Eric Kofi Acree|publisher=Africana Library, [[Cornell University]]|access-date=2009-05-16| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090531021500/http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/clarke/| archive-date= 31 May 2009 <!--DASHBot-->|url-status = live}}</ref><ref name="Diamond">{{Cite encyclopedia |last=Diamond |first=Sara |editor=Nina Mjagkij |encyclopedia=Organizing Black America: an encyclopedia of African American associations |title=African Heritage Studies Association |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ymp8BOBzACYC |access-date=2009-06-10 |year=2001 |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |isbn=0-8153-2309-3 |pages=16–17}}</ref><ref name="Martin">{{Cite book|last=Martin|first=William G.|author2=West, Michael Oliver|title=Out of one, many Africas: reconstructing the study and meaning of Africa|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=1999|pages=99–106|isbn=0-252-06780-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ogXchrP-4-cC|access-date=2009-06-27}}</ref>


==Notes==
== Notes ==
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==External links==
== External links ==
*{{Official website|www.africanstudies.org}}
*{{Official website|www.africanstudies.org}}


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[[Category:African studies]]
[[Category:African studies]]

Latest revision as of 02:54, 2 January 2024

Not to be confused with African Studies Association of the United Kingdom.
African Studies Association
Formation1957
HeadquartersNew Brunswick, New Jersey
Membership
2000
President
Gretchen Bauer
Websitehttps://www.africanstudies.org/

The African Studies Association (ASA) is a US-based association of scholars, students, practitioners, and institutions with an interest in the continent of Africa. Founded in 1957, the ASA is the leading organization of African Studies in North America, with a global membership of approximately 2000.[1] The association's headquarters are at Rutgers University in New Jersey. The ASA holds annual conferences[2] and virtual events for its members year-round.

As a result of racial and political disputes over exclusion from leadership positions of black academics and ASA leaders' ties with the US intelligence and military in the mid-twentieth century, the ASA split in 1968, when the Black Caucus of the ASA, led by John Henrik Clarke, founded the African Heritage Studies Association (AHSA).[3][4][5]

The ASA is different from the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA), which was founded at the University of Cape Town in October 1-2, 2012.[6]

Awards given by ASA[edit]

ASA Best Book Prize[edit]

Main article: ASA Best Book Prize

The ASA Book Prize is given annually for the best scholarly work (including translations) on Africa published in English in the previous year and distributed in the United States.[7] The award was originally named after Melville Herskovits, one of the founders of the ASA. The name was changed in 2019 as the ASA considered how to decolonize the discipline of African studies.[8]

Distinguished Africanist Award[edit]

Beginning in 1984, the association has awarded the Distinguished Africanist Award.[9] In 2000, 2001, 2022, and 2023 two awards were given. Winners include:

Bethwell Ogot Book Prize[edit]

The Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize of the African Studies Association is awarded annually at the ASA Annual Meeting to the author of the best book on East African Studies published in the previous calendar year. Initiated in 2012, the award was made possible by a generous bequest from the estate of the late Professor Kennell Jackson, the award honors the eminent historian, Professor Bethwell A. Ogot.[13]

Winners of this award are:

  • 2012 Andrew Ivaska, Cultured States: Youth, Gender, and Modern Style in 1960s Dar es Salaam
  • 2013 James R. Brennan, Taifa: Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania
  • 2014 Shane Doyle, Before HIV: Sexuality, Fertility and Mortality in East Africa 1900–1980
  • 2015 J.J. Carney, Rwanda Before the Genocide: Catholic Politics and Ethnic Discourse in the Late Colonial Era
  • 2016 Elena Vezzadini, Lost Nationalism Revolution, Memory and Anti-colonial Resistance in Sudan
  • 2017 Bert Ingelaere, Inside Rwanda's Gacaca Courts: Seeking Justice after Genocide
  • 2018 Getnet Bekele, Ploughing New Ground: Food, Farming, and Environmental Change in Ethiopia
  • 2019 Laura Fair, Reel Pleasures: Cinema Audiences and Entrepreneurs in Twentieth-Century Urban Tanzania
  • 2020 Elizabeth Giorgis, Modernist Art in Ethiopia
  • 2021 Mai Hassan, Regime Threats and State Solutions: Bureaucratic Loyalty and Embeddedness in Kenya
  • 2022 David L. Schoenbrun, The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930[14]
  • 2023 Claire L. Wendland, Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles[12]

Graduate Student Paper Prize[edit]

In 2001, the ASA Board of Directors established an annual prize for the best graduate student paper. The prize is awarded at the Annual Meeting for an essay presented at the previous year's Annual Meeting. This prize highlights exceptional scholarship produced by emerging scholars in any African studies related discipline.[15]

Winners of this award are:

  • 2002 – Benjamin Lawrance, “Le Revolte des Femmes: Economic Upheaval and the Gender of Political Authority in Lome, Togo, 1931-33”
  • 2003 – Staffan Lindberg, “The ‘Democraticness’ of Multiparty Elections: Participation, Competition, and Legitimacy in Africa”
  • 2004 – Kristin E. Cheney, “Village Life is Better than Town Life’: identity, migration and development in the Lives of Ugandan child citizens”
  • 2005 – Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, “’Dangerous Properties’: Poisoned Arrows and the Case of Strophanthus hispidus in Colonial Gold Coast, 1885 – 1922″
  • 2006 – Séverine Autesserre, “Local Violence, National Peace? Local Dynamics of Violence during the Transition in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo”
  • 2007 – Habtamu Mengistie Tegegne, “Revisiting Land Tenure in Eighteenth Century Gondärine Ethiopia: Zéga and the Land Charter of Däbrä-Sehay Qwesqwam Church”
  • 2008 – Kristin D. Phillips, “Consuming the State: Hunger, Healing, and Citizenship in Rural Tanzania”
  • 2009 – Bert Ingelaere, “Peasants, Power, and Ethnicity: Centre and Periphery in the Knowledge Construction in/on Post-Genocide Rwanda”
  • 2010 – Laura Weinstein, “The Politics of Government Expenditures in Tanzania: 1999-2007”
  • 2011 – Noel Twagiramungu, “The Anatomy of Leadership: A view-from-within Post-genocide Rwanda”
  • 2013 – Jamie Miller, “Yes, Minister: Reassessing South Africa's Intervention in the Angolan Civil War”
  • 2014 – Catherine Porter, “Bound and Unbound Identities: The Reconstruction of Katanga's Nationhood Struggle”
  • 2015 – Kathleen Klaus, “Contentious Land Claims and the Non-Escalation of Violence: Evidence from Kenya's Coast Region
  • 2016 – Moritz Nagel, “Precolonial Segmentation Revisited: Initiation Societies, Talking Drums and the Ngondo Festival in the Cameroons”
  • 2017 – Amanda B. Edgell, “Vying for the ‘Man's Seat’ – Constituency Magnitude and Mainstream Female Candidature for Non-Quota Seats in Uganda and Kenya”
  • 2018 – Shaonan Liu, “Symbol of Wealth and Prestige: A Social History of Chinese-made Enamelware in Northern Nigeria”
  • 2019 – Victoria Mary Gorham, “Displaying the Nation: Museums and Nation-Building in Tanzania and Kenya”
  • 2020 – Allen Xiao, “Lagos in Life: Placing Cities in Lived Experiences”
  • 2021 – Justin Haruyama, “Shortcut English: A Pidgin Language and Symbolic Power at a Chinese-operated Mine in Zambia.”

Conover-Porter Award for Africana Bibliography or Reference Work, 1980 - 2018[edit]

The Conover-Porter Award is a biannual prize presented during 1980 - 2018 by the Africana Librarians Council of the African Studies Association (US) to reward outstanding achievement in Africana bibliography and reference tools. It honors two pioneers in African Studies bibliography, Helen F. Conover, of the Library of Congress, and Dorothy B. Porter, of Howard University.[16] Latest and first awards:

  • 2018 – co-winners Historical dictionary of women in sub-saharan Africa by Kathleen Sheldon. 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, and the project Dictionary of African Christian biography (DACB) by Jonathan Bonk, project director Overseas Ministries Study Center; Center for Global Christianity and Mission, Boston University.
  • 1980 – The United States and Africa: guide to U.S. official documents and government-sponsored publications on Africa, 1785-1975, compiled by Julian W. Witherell. Washington: General Reference and Bibliography Division, Reader Services Dept., Library of Congress, [1978].

Presidents of ASA[edit]

Presidents of the ASA are elected annually by the membership. They include:[17]

Publications[edit]

Publications include History in Africa: A Journal of Method, published annually and African Studies Review, published quarterly. The Association publishes a biannual newsletter ASA News for its members, and runs a news blog.

African Heritage Studies Association[edit]

The African Heritage Studies Association was originally an offshoot of the African Studies Association,[3][22] and was founded in 1968 by the ASA's Black Caucus and led by John Henrik Clarke.[4][23][24]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ "About the ASA".
  2. ^ "Annual Meeting". African Studies Association Portal – ASA – ASA. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
  3. ^ a b "Supporting exploration, education and preservation". ahsa50.org. African Heritage Studies Association. 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2023. The African Heritage Studies Association (AHSA) was founded in 1969 as an association of scholars of African descent, dedicated to the exploration, preservation, and academic presentation of the heritage of African people on the ancestral soil of Africa and in the diaspora.
  4. ^ a b Eric Kofi Acree. "John Henrik Clarke: Historian, Scholar, and Teacher". Africana Library, Cornell University. Archived from the original on 31 May 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-16.
  5. ^ Wiley, David (2013). "Militarizing Africa and African Studies and the U.S. Africanist Response". African Studies Review. 55 (2): 147–161. doi:10.1353/arw.2012.0041. ISSN 0002-0206.
  6. ^ "African Studies Association of Africa - ASAA - About ASAA". as-aa.org. Retrieved 2023-01-07.
  7. ^ "ASA Best Book Prize". africanstudies.org. Archived from the original on 16 May 2022. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  8. ^ "ASA 2018 Presidential Lecture | Ghostarchive". ghostarchive.org. Retrieved 2022-12-24.
  9. ^ "Distinguished Africanist Award". African Studies Association. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  10. ^ The award to Senghor was not without controversy. Bensaid, Alexandra and Whitehead, Andrew (1995) "Literature: Award to Senghor Triggers Debate" IPS-Inter Press Service, 18 April 1995, accessed via the commercial service Lexis/Nexis, 30 December 2008
  11. ^ "Brenda Randolph Receives the Distinguished Africanist Award". Howard University. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  12. ^ a b c "2023 ASA Award Winners". African Studies Association (ASA). Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  13. ^ "Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize". African Studies Association. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  14. ^ U of Wisconsin Press [@UWiscPress] (November 21, 2022). "Congratulations to David Schoenbrun" (Tweet). Retweeted by @ASANewsOnline – via Twitter.
  15. ^ "Graduate Student Paper Prize".
  16. ^ "ALC : Africana Librarians Council: ALC Conover Porter Award : Nominations & Winners, 1980-present". guides.library.upenn.edu. Penn Libraries. University of Pennsylvania. April 22, 2021. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  17. ^ "Past Presidents of the ASA".
  18. ^ Elected ex-officio.
  19. ^ Died before taking office.
  20. ^ a b "ASA Board of Directors". African Studies Association. Archived from the original on 24 Dec 2022. Retrieved 24 Dec 2022.
  21. ^ "ASA Board of Directors". African Studies Association. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
  22. ^ "Our Vision".
  23. ^ Diamond, Sara (2001). "African Heritage Studies Association". In Nina Mjagkij (ed.). Organizing Black America: an encyclopedia of African American associations. Taylor & Francis. pp. 16–17. ISBN 0-8153-2309-3. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
  24. ^ Martin, William G.; West, Michael Oliver (1999). Out of one, many Africas: reconstructing the study and meaning of Africa. University of Illinois Press. pp. 99–106. ISBN 0-252-06780-0. Retrieved 2009-06-27.

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