Center for African Studies

The Center for African Studies (CAS) is the umbrella organization for all things Africa-related at Harvard University. In 2010, CAS became a National Resource Center for African Studies through the United States Department of Education. The Center serves as an intellectual hub, connecting students, faculty, and members of the wider Africanist community with shared interests through seminars, workshops, and conferences held throughout the academic year. CAS also funds research and travel in Africa through grants and internships. It sponsored the Africa in Motion multimedia documentary in 2010, launched the AfricaMap (housed at the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard), supports an ongoing digital library project for information in rare hand-written and out-of-print African language documents of non-Latinate scripts, and sponsors the African Studies Workshop and the Harvard South Africa Fellowship Program. Current fellows include researchers in the arts, public health, public policy, leadership development, and oral history. Faculty affiliates have engaged in global health-related topics that include the reconciliation of the Mau Mau, women’s health, law and human rights, the effects of sociopolitical concepts of race and sexuality, agricultural innovation, and ethnography.

 

See also: Regional Center