BU Graduate student, Philip D. Rotz, wrote an article titled “Sweetness and Fever? Sugar Production, Aedes aegypti, and Dengue Fever in Natal, South Africa, 1926–1927” which was the winner of The Southern African Historical Society’s student essay prize in 2015. It was more recently published in the Special Conference Issue of the South African Historical Journal (Vol. 68, issue 3). […]
Lilly Havstad recently wrote an article titled “Multiracial Women and the African Press in Post-World War II Lourenço Marques, Mozambique” which has been published in the Special Conference Issue of the South African Historical Journal (Vol. 68, issue 3) available online and in print. Lilly is currently studying history and recently went abroad to the South African […]
Machozi’s Calling The priest’s return to the people of eastern Congo surprised few of his friends. His murder surprised no one. By Art Jahnke Here was one thing about Father Vincent Machozi that worried his religious sueriors in the Brighton, Mass., house of the Augustinians of the Assumption. Machozi, a contemplative priest from the Democratic Republic of […]
By Michelle Samuels “My heart was left in Senegal,” says Faith Umoh. After two years there with the Peace Corps, she returned to the US last spring to pursue an MPH at the School of Public Health—and discovered a way to stay connected to Senegal and Wolof, its main language, at the same time. Foreign Language […]
Fr. Vincent Machozi (STH’15), a Catholic priest of the religious order Augustinians of the Assumption (Assumptionists), who for several years documented human rights abuses in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was murdered Sunday night by armed gunmen, shortly after he posted an online article denouncing the involvement of the Congolese and Rwandan presidents in the […]
Cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Need for New Paradigms in Global Health Cancer is the leading global cause of death, and has been on the rise in low- and middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa and worldwide, which are projected to account for roughly 80 percent of global cancer diagnoses by 2030. Much like the inadequate […]
For many decades, Boston University’s African Studies Center (ASC) has produced top scholars in the field. Now part of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, the ASC trains students in multiple African languages and academic disciplines. In the last two years, eleven BU doctoral students have conducted field research in Africa through the ASC, with eight of them […]
As the inaugural Newman Fellow, Jaeger will delve into patterns of voting in US mayoral races to determine which factors attract voters to minority and immigrant candidates. Her interest in the subject grew out of her studies of partisanship, political behavior, and incorporation of minorities and immigrants in the United States and Western Europe. “I […]
Bethany Bell, MA candidate at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, traveled to Ghana to work in that nation’s Ministry of Gender, Children, and Social Protection. More
“I wasn’t learning how to order food from a restaurant,” says Zak Gersten (CAS ’11, MPH ’15). “I was learning how to actually hold a conversation with somebody about some specific area of public health.” Public health doesn’t often make it onto a language curriculum, unless the class is small, and public health work is […]