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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.
Attamah came to the United States to study Museum Studies and Cultural Heritage Preservation at Syracuse University, New York. [ 18 ] [ 2 ] She performed chants in the university's events. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] In May 2023, she graduated with a master's degree and was the graduate closing speaker during the College of Visual and Performing Arts Masters ...
The Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) was founded on October 24, 2007 by Bernard Lewis of Princeton University and Fouad Ajami of the Hoover Institution as a counter to the learned society Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA), which they regarded to have become "dominated by academics who have been critical of Israel and of America's role in the ...
The Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC) is an independent study group organization founded in 1984 by Drs. John Henrik Clarke, Asa Grant Hilliard, Leonard Jeffries, Jacob H. Carruthers, Yosef Ben-Jochannan, and Maulana Karenga that is devoted to the rescue, reconstruction, and restoration of African history and culture. [1]
In June 1957, the American Society of African Culture (AMSAC) was officially founded by five African-American intellectuals: the political scientist and civil rights activist John A. Davis, historian and social scientist Horace Mann Bond (1904–1972), professor of French and future American ambassador Will Mercer Cook (1903–1987 ...
The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) is a learned society dedicated to the study and appreciation of African-American History.The association was founded in Chicago on September 9, 1915, [1] during the National Half Century Exposition and Lincoln Jubilee, as the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) by Carter G. Woodson, William B ...
The current major problem in African studies that Mohamed (2010/2012) [4] [5] identified is the inherited religious, Orientalist, colonial paradigm that European Africanists have preserved in present-day secularist, post-colonial, Anglophone African historiography. [4]
In 2015, Mutua received the Distinguished Africanist Award from the New York African Studies Association at its 40th Annual Conference. [ 12 ] He was elected vice president of the American Society of International Law from 2011 to 2013 after serving on its executive council from 2007 to 2010.