Wendy Laura Belcher, professor of comparative literature and African American studies, has been awarded two major grants, totaling over $600,000, from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

Fellowship Program Funded More Than 500 Early-Career African Scholars in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda Inaugural Academic Association Conference Will Feature Prominent African ...

Stories about the Virgin Mary “have been told by more people, over more centuries, in more countries, and in more languages” than stories about “anyone else ever,” says Wendy Laura Belcher, professor ...

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has honored Mr. Sunday Joseph Ayodabo with the prestigious African Humanities Program (AHP) Fellowship. Ayodabo, a lecturer in the Department of ...

AAPHI scholars are fully funded Ph.D. graduate students in History, English and Art History, with intentional focus on training students for a broad range of careers in and beyond the academy. We ...

The Africa Institute in Sharjah, UAE---a center for research, documentation, and study of Africa and its diaspora---has announced seven new faculty appointments, fellows of its Research Fellowship ...

A Nelson Mandela University researcher has called for a fundamental rethinking of how artificial intelligence and digital humanities frameworks are applied in African contexts, following his ...

University of the Witwatersrand provides support as a hosting partner of The Conversation AFRICA. University of Cape Town provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Imagine bringing the ...

The University of Lagos, through its Centre for Digital Humanities, has announced the commencement of a suite of postgraduate degree programmes in Digital Humanities. According to a statement made ...

The African American Public Humanities Initiative (AAPHI) at the University of Delaware supports a dynamic community of emerging scholars — UD graduate students dedicated to exploring African American ...