African Studies Association

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

In 1968, the Black Caucus of the African Studies Association, led by John Henrik Clarke, founded the African Descent(Heritage) Studies Association.

Awards given by ASA

Herskovits Award

Main article: Herskovits Prize

The Herskovits Award 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. The award is named after Melville Herskovits, one of the founders of the ASA. Winners are:

2015 Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa (University of Chicago Press)
2014 Allen and Barbara Isaacman, Dams, Displacement and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965-2007 (Ohio University Press)
2014 Carola Lentz, Land, Mobility and Belonging in West Africa (Indiana University Press)
2013 Derek Peterson, Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: A History of Dissent, c. 1935-1972 (Cambridge University Press)
2012 Simon Gikandi, Slavery and the Culture of Taste (Princeton University Press)
2012 David T. Doris, Vigilant Things: On Thieves, Yoruba Anti-Aesthetics, and the Strange Fates of Ordinary Objects in Nigeria (University of Washington Press)
2011 G. Ugo Nwokeji, The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra: An African Society in the Atlantic World

(Cambridge University Press)

2011 Neil Kodesh, Beyond the Royal Gaze: Clanship and Public Healing in Buganda (University of Virginia Press)
2010 Trevor H.J. Marchand, The Masons of Djenne (Indiana University Press)
2010 Adeline Masquelier, Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town (Indiana University Press)
2009 Sylvester Ogbechie, Ben Enwonwu: The Making of an African Modernist (University of Rochester Press)
2008 Linda M. Heywood and John K. Thornton, Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660 (Cambridge University Press)
2008 Parker Shipton, The Nature of Entrustment, Intimacy, Exchange, and the Sacred in Africa (New Haven: Yale University Press)
2007 Barbara Cooper, Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel (Indiana University Press)
2006 Matory Lorand, Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé (Princeton University Press)
2005 Adam Ashforth, Witchcraft, Violence and Democracy in South Africa (University of Chicago Press)
2004 Allen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts, A SAINT in the CITY: Sufi Art in Urban Senegal (University of California Los Angeles)
2003 Joseph Inikori, Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development (Cambridge University Press)
2002 Judith Carney, Black Rice (Harvard University Press)
2002 Diana Wylie, Starving on a Full Stomach: Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa (University Press of Virginia)
2001 Karin Barber, Generation of Plays (Indiana University Press)
2001 John Peel, Religious Encounter & the Making of Yoruba (Indiana University Press)
2000 Nancy Rose Hunt, A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo (Duke University Press)
1999 Peter Uvin, Aiding Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda (Kumarian Press)
1998 Susan Mullin Vogel, Baule: African Art Western Eyes (Yale University Press)
1997 Mahmood Mamdani, Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (Princeton University Press)
1996 Jonathon Glassman, Feasts and Riot: Revelry, Rebellion, and Popular Consciousness on the Swahili Coast, 1856-1888 (Heinemann)
1995 Henrietta L. Moore and Megan Vaughn, Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990 (Heinemann, James Curry, University of Zambia)
1994 Keletso E. Atkins, The Moon is Dead! Give Us Our Money! The Cultural Origins of an African Work Ethic, Natal, South Africa, 1843-1900 (Heinemann)
1993 Kwame Anthony Appiah, In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (Oxford University Press)
1992 Myron Echenberg, Colonial Conscripts: The Tirailleurs Senegalais in French West Afrca, 1857-1960 (Heinemann Educational Books)
1991 Johannes Fabian, Power and Performance: Ethnographic Explorations through Proverbial Wisdom and Theater in Shaba, Zaire (University of Wisconsin Press)
1991 Luise White, The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi (University of Chicago Press)
1990 Edwin Wilmsen, Land Filled with Flies: A Political Economy of the Kalahari (University of Chicago Press)
1989 Joseph C. Miller, Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730 -1830 (University of Wisconsin Press)
1989 V.Y. Mudimbe, The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge (Indiana University Press)
1988 John Iliffe, The African Poor: A History (Cambridge University Press)
1987 Paul M. Lubeck, Islam and Urban Labor in Northern Nigeria: The Making of a Muslim Working Class (Cambridge University Press)
1987 T.O. Beidelman, Moral Imagination in Kaguru Modes of Thought (Indiana University Press)
1986 Sara Berry, Fathers Work for Their Sons: Accumulation, Mobility, and Class Formation in an Extended Yoruba Community (University of California Press)
1985 Claire Robertson, Sharing the Same Bowl (Indiana University Press)
1984 Paulin Hontoundji, African Philosophy (Indiana University Press)
1984 J.D.Y. Peel, Ijeshas and Nigerians: The Incorporation of a Yoruba Kingdom (Cambridge University Press)
1983 James W. Fernandez, Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa (Princeton University Press)
1982 Frederick Cooper, From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labor and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925 (Yale University Press)
1982 Sylvia Scribner and Michael Cole, The Psychology of Literacy (Harvard University Press)
1981 Gavin Kitching, Class and Economic Change in Kenya: The Making of an African Petite Bourgeoisie, 1905-1970 (Yale University Press)
1981 Gwyn Prins, The Hidden Hippopotamus: Reappraisal in African History: The Early Colonial Experience in Western Zambia (Cambridge University Press)
1980 Richard B. Lee, The !Kung San (Cambridge University Press)
1980 Margaret Strobel, Muslim Women in Mombasa, 1890-1975 (Yale University Press)
1979 Hoyt Alverson, Mind in the Heart of Darkness: Value and Self-Identity Among the Tswana of Southern Africa (Yale University Press)
1978 William Y. Adams, Nubia: Corridor to Africa (Princeton University Press)
1977 M. Crawford Young, The Politics of Cultural Pluralism (University of Wisconsin Press)
1976 Ivor Wilks, Asante in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge University Press)
1975 Lansine Kaba, Wahhabiyya: Islamic Reform and Politics in French West Africa (Northwestern University Press)
1975 Elliott Skinner, African Urban Life (Princeton University Press)
1974 John N. Paden, Religion and Political Culture in Kano (University of California Press)
1973 Allen F. Isaacman, Mozambique The Africanization of a European Institution: The Zambezi Prazos, 1750-1902 (University of Wisconsin Press)
1972 Francis Deng, Tradition and Modernization (Yale University Press)
1971 René Lemarchand, Rwanda and Burundi (Praeger Publishers)
1970 Stanlake Samkange, Origins of Rhodesia (Praeger Publishers)
1969 Paul and Laura Bohannan, Tiv Economy (Northwestern University Press)
1968 Herbert Weiss, Political Protest in the Congo (Princeton University Press)
1967 Jan Vansina, Kingdoms of the Savanna (University of Wisconsin Press)
1966 Leo Kuper, An African Bourgeoisie (Yale University Press)
1965 Ruth Schachter Morganthau, Political Parties in French-Speaking West Africa (Oxford University Press)

Distinguished Africanist Award

Beginning in 1984, the association has awarded the Distinguished Africanist Award.^[1] In 2000, 2001, 2010 and 2011 two awards were given. Winners include: {

1984 Gwendolen M. Carter
1985 Elliott Skinner
1986 Jan Vansina
1987 Joseph Greenberg
1988 Elizabeth Colson
1989 Roland Oliver
1991 Howard Wolpe
1992 Philip D. Curtin
1993 J. Ade Ajayi
1994 Leopold Sedar Senghor^[2]
1995 Ali A. Mazrui
1996 Thandika Mkandawire
1997 Akin Mobogunje
1998 Ivor Wilks
1999 Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
2000 Bernth Lindfors
2000 J.H. Kwabena Nketia
2001 Martin A. Klein
2001 Bethwell Ogot
2002 Peter Geschiere
2003 Joseph E. Harris
2004 Francis Deng
2005 John Hunwick
2006 Bogumil Jewsiewicki
2007 John Francis Marchment Middleton
2008 Edmond Keller
2009 Sylvester Ogbechie
2010 Terence Ranger
2011 Toyin Falola
2012 Jane Guyer
2013 Allen Isaacman
2014 Boubakar Barry
2015 Goran Hyden

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 A. Ogot.

Winners of this award are:

2015 J.J. Carney, Rwanda Before the Genocide: Catholic Politics and Ethnic Discourse in the Late Colonial Era (Oxford University Press)
2014 Shane Doyle, Before HIV: Sexuality, Fertility and Mortality in East Africa 1900-1980 (British Academy Press)
2013 James R. Brennan, Taifa: Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania (Ohio University Press)
2012 Andrew Ivaska, Cultured States: Youth, Gender, and Modern Style in 1960s Dar es Salaam (Duke University Press)

Presidents of ASA

Presidents of the ASA are elected annually by the membership. They include:^[3]

1957-1958 Melville Herskovits, Northwestern University
1958 Gwendolen M. Carter, Smith College^[4]
1959 William O. Brown, Boston University
1960 Cornelius W. deKiewiet
1961 William O. Jones, Stanford University
1962 Vernon McKay, Johns Hopkins University
1963 E. Franklin Frazier, Howard University^[5]
1963 James Smoot Coleman, University of California, Los Angeles
1963 Hans Wolff, Michigan State University
1964 Paul J. Bohannan, Northwestern University
1965 Joseph H. Greenberg, Stanford University
1966 Rupert Emerson, Harvard University
1967 William A. Hance, Columbia University
1968 James S. Duffy, Brandeis University
1969 Benjamin E. Thomas, University of California
1970 L. Gray Cowan, Columbia University
1971 Philip D. Curtin, University of Wisconsin
1972 Carl G. Rosberg, University of California-Berkeley
1973 Immanuel Wallerstein, McGill University
1974 Absolom Vilakazi, The American University
1975 John Marcum, University of California-Santa Cruz
1976 Victor Uchendu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1977 Edris Makward, University of Wisconsin–Madison
1978 J. Gus Liebenow, Indiana University
1979 Ali Mazrui, University of Michigan
1980 Peter Gutkind, McGill University
1981 Norman Bennett, Boston University
1982 Richard Sklar, University of California-Los Angeles

1983 M. Crawford Young, University of Wisconsin–Madison
1984 Laura Bohannan, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle
1985 Robert J. Cummings, Howard University
1986 Gerald J. Bender, University of Southern California
1987 Aidan Southall, University of Wisconsin–Madison
1988 Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, Howard University
1989 Simon Ottenberg, University of Washington
1990 Ann Seidman, Clark University
1991 Martin A. Klein, University of Toronto
1992 Edmond J. Keller, University of California-Los Angeles
1993 David Robinson, Michigan State University
1994 Edward A. Alpers, University of California-Los Angeles
1995 Goran Hyden, University of Florida
1996 Iris Berger, State University of New York at Albany
1997 Gwendolyn Mikell, Georgetown University
1998 Sandra Greene, Cornell University
1999 David Wiley, Michigan State University
2000 Lansine Kaba, University of Illinois
2001 Catharine Newbury, University of North Carolina
2002 Allen Isaacman, University of Minnesota
2003 Beverly Grier, Clark University
2004 Sandra T. Barnes, University of Pennsylvania
2005 Bruce J. Berman, Queen's University
2006 Joseph C. Miller, University of Virginia
2007 Pearl T. Robinson, Tufts University
2008 Aliko Songolo, University of Wisconsin–Madison
2009 Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Loyola Marymount University
2012 Aili M. Tripp, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2013 Abdi Samatar, University of Minnesota
2014 James Pritchett, Michigan State University
2015 Toyin Falola, University of Texas, Austin
2016 Dorothy Hodgson, Rutgers University

Publications

Publications include an annual journal: 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.

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.^[6]^[7]^[8]

Notes

↑ "Distinguished Africanist Award 2009" African Studies Association
↑ 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
↑ ASA, Presidents of the African Studies Association Archived August 3, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
↑ Elected ex-officio.
↑ Died before taking office.
↑ 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.
↑ Diamond, Sara (2001). "African Heritage Studies Association". In Nina Mjagkij. Organizing Black America: an encyclopedia of African American associations. Taylor & Francis. pp. 16–17. ISBN 0-8153-2309-3. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
↑ 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.

External links

Official web site

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