The African Studies Association ( ASA ) is a US-based association of scholars, students, practitioners, and institutions with an interest in the continent of Africa . Founded in 1957, the ASA is the leading organization of African Studies in North America , with a global membership of approximately 2000. The association's headquarters are at Rutgers University in New Jersey . The ASA holds annual conferences and virtual events for its members year-round.
25-736: (Redirected from Herskovitz Prize ) Annual prize given by the African Studies Association The ASA Best Book Prize , formerly known as the Herskovits Prize (Melville J. Herskovits Prize), is an annual prize given by the African Studies Association to the best scholarly work (including translations) on Africa published in English in the previous year and distributed in
50-575: A Muslim Working Class 1987 – T.O. Beidelman for Moral Imagination in Kaguru Modes of Thought 1988 – John Iliffe for The African Poor: A History 1989 – Joseph Calder Miller for Way Of Death: Merchant Capitalism And The Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830 1989 – V. Y. Mudimbe for The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge 1990 – Edwin N. Wilmsen for Land Filled with Flies: A Political Economy of
75-984: A West African Town 2011 - G. Ugo Nwokeji , The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra: An African Society in the Atlantic World 2011 - Neil Kodesh , Beyond the Royal Gaze: Clanship and Public Healing in Buganda 2012 - Simon Gikandi , Slavery and the Culture of Taste 2013 - Derek Peterson , Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: A History of Dissent, c. 1935-1972 2014 - Carola Lentz , Land, Mobility and Belonging in West Africa 2014 - Allen Isaacman and Barbara Isaacman , Dams, Displacement and
100-530: A news blog. The African Heritage Studies Association was originally an offshoot of the African Studies Association, and was founded in 1968 by the ASA's Black Caucus and led by John Henrik Clarke . Sara Berry Sara Sweezy Berry (born 1940) is an American scholar of contemporary African political economies, professor of history at Johns Hopkins University and co-founder of
125-537: A well deserved ASA Best Book Award win" ( Tweet ). Retweeted by @ASANewsOnline – via Twitter . ^ "2023 ASA Award Winners" . African Studies Association (ASA) . Retrieved 1 January 2024 . External links [ edit ] ASA Best Book Prize Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ASA_Best_Book_Prize&oldid=1256595491 " Category : American non-fiction literary awards Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
150-817: Is awarded at the Annual Meeting for an essay presented at the previous year's Annual Meeting. This prize highlights exceptional scholarship produced by emerging scholars in any African studies related discipline. Winners of this award are: The Conover-Porter Award is a biannual prize presented during 1980 - 2018 by the Africana Librarians Council of the African Studies Association (US) to reward outstanding achievement in Africana bibliography and reference tools. It honors two pioneers in African Studies bibliography, Helen F. Conover, of
175-624: Is different from Wikidata African Studies Association As a result of racial and political disputes over exclusion from leadership positions of black academics and ASA leaders' ties with the US intelligence and military in the mid-twentieth century, the ASA split in 1968, when the Black Caucus of the ASA, led by John Henrik Clarke , founded the African Heritage Studies Association (AHSA). The ASA
200-639: Is different from the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA), which was founded at the University of Cape Town in October 1-2, 2012 . The ASA Book Prize 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 was originally named after Melville Herskovits , one of the founders of
225-514: The Library of Congress , and Dorothy B. Porter , of Howard University . Latest and first awards: Presidents of the ASA are elected annually by the membership. They include: Publications include History in Africa : A Journal of Method , published annually and African Studies Review , published quarterly. The Association publishes a biannual newsletter ASA News for its members, and runs
250-553: The United States . The prize was named after Melville Herskovits , one of the founders of the ASA. The title of the prize was changed in 2019 in response to efforts to decolonize African studies. Winners [ edit ] 1965 – Ruth S. Morgenthau for Political Parties in French-Speaking West Africa 1966 – Leo Kuper for An African Bourgeoisie 1967 – Jan Vansina for Kingdoms of
275-635: The 2018 Presidential Lecture, #HerskovitsMustFall? A Meditation on Whiteness, African Studies, and the Unfinished Business of 1968, at the 61st Annual Meeting of the ASA, held at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Nov. 29-Dec. 1, 2018. ^ "Van Onseln and Mamdani Share 1997 Herskovitz Award" (PDF) . ASA News . 31 . African Studies Association: 9. January 1997. ^ African Studies Review [@ASRJournal] (November 22, 2022). "Congratulations to @profiheka on
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#1732793242299300-555: The ASA. The name was changed in 2019 as the ASA considered how to decolonize the discipline of African studies. Beginning in 1984, the association has awarded the Distinguished Africanist Award. In 2000, 2001, 2022, and 2023 two awards were given. Winners include: The Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize of the African Studies Association is awarded annually at the ASA Annual Meeting to the author of
325-943: The Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins. Born in Washington, DC, Berry gained a B.A. in history from Radcliffe College in 1961 and an M.A. from University of Michigan in 1965. She received her PhD in economics at the University of Michigan in 1967 and has taught at Indiana University , Virginia Commonwealth University , Boston University , Johns Hopkins University , and Northwestern University . Berry has published four books: Cocoa, Custom, and Socio-Economic Change in Rural Western Nigeria (1975, Oxford: Clarendon Press) Fathers Work for Their Sons: Accumulation, Mobility and Class Formation in an Extended Yoruba Community (1985, University of California Press), Chiefs Know Their Boundaries: Essays on Poverty, Power and
350-711: The City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal 2005 – Adam Ashforth for Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa 2005 – Jan Vansina for How Societies Are Born: Governance in West Central Africa Before 1600 2006 – J. Lorand Matory for Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble 2007 – Barbara MacGowan Cooper for Evangelical Christians in
375-1495: The Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965-2007 2015 - Abena Dove Osseo-Asare , Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa 2016 - Chika Okeke-Agulu , Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria 2017 - Fallou Ngom , Muslims beyond the Arab World: The Odyssey of Ajami and the Muridiyya 2018 - Lisa A. Lindsay , Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa 2019 - Michael A. Gomez , African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa 2020 - Adom Getachew , Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination 2021 - Naminata Diabate , Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa 2022 - Cajetan Iheka , African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics 2023 – Mariana P. Candido , Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola: A History of Dispossession, Slavery, and Inequality References [ edit ] ^ ASA President Jean Allman delivers
400-670: The Kalahari 1991 – Johannes Fabian for Power and Performance: Ethnographic Explorations Through Proverbial Wisdom and Theater in Shaba, Zaire 1991 – Luise White for The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi 1992 – Myron Echenberg for Colonial Conscripts: The Tirailleurs Senegalais in French West Africa, 1857-1960 1993 – Kwame Anthony Appiah for In My Father's House: Africa in
425-1187: The Making of the Yoruba 2001 – Karin Barber for The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theater 2002 – Diana Wylie for Starving on a Full Stomach: Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa 2002 – Judith A. Carney for Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas 2003 – Joseph E. Inikori for Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development 2004 – Allen F. Roberts , Mary Nooter Roberts , Gassia Armenian , Ousmane Gueye for A Saint in
450-629: The Muslim Sahel 2008 - Linda Heywood and John K. Thornton , Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660 2008 - Parker Shipton , The Nature of Entrustment: Intimacy, Exchange, and the Sacred in Africa 2009 - Sylvester Ogbechie , Ben Enwonwu: The Making of an African Modernist 2010 - Trevor H.J. Marchand , The Masons of Djenne 2010 - Adeline Masquelier , Women and Islamic Revival in
475-1578: The Nineteenth Century: The Structure and Evolution of a Political Order 1977 – Crawford Young for Politics Cultural Pluralism 1978 – William Y. Adams for Nubia: Corridor to Africa 1979 – Hoyt Alverson for Mind in the Heart of Darkness: Value and Self-Identity among the Tswana of Southern Africa 1980 – Margaret Strobel for Muslim Women in Mombasa, 1890-1975 1980 – Richard Borshay Lee for The !Kung San 1981 – Gavin Kitching for Class and Economic Change in Kenya: The Making of an African Petite-Bourgeoisie 1981 – Gwyn Prins for The Hidden Hippopotamus: Reappraisal in African History: The Early Colonial Experience in Western Zambia 1982 – Frederick Cooper for From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labor & Agriculture in Zanzibar & Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925 1982 – Sylvia Scribner , Michael Cole for The Psychology of Literacy 1983 – James W. Fernandez for Bwiti: An ethnography of
500-839: The Past in Asante , 1896-1996 (2001, Heinemann), and No Condition is Permanent: The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub-Saharan Africa (1993, University of Wisconsin Press). Fathers Work for Their Sons won the 1986 Herskovits Prize for the year's best book on Africa. She has worked as a consultant for the Rockefeller Foundation , the Ford Foundation , the US Agency for International Development ,
525-575: The Philosophy of Culture 1994 – Keletso E. Atkins for The Moon is Dead! Give Us Our Money!: The Cultural Origins of an African Work Ethic, atal, South Africa, 1843-1900 1995 – Megan Vaughan , Henrietta L. Moore for Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990 1996 – Jonathon Glassman for Feasts and Riot: Revelry, Rebellion, & Popular Consciousness on
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#1732793242299550-824: The Savanna 1968 – Herbert Weiss for Political Protest in the Congo 1969 – Paul J. Bohannan , Laura Bohannan for Tiv economy 1970 – Stanlake Samkange for Origins of Rhodesia 1971 – René Lemarchand for Rwanda and Burundi 1972 – Francis Deng for Tradition and Modernization 1973 – Allen F. Isaacman for Mozambique The Africanization of a European Institution 1974 – John N. Paden for Religion and Political Culture in Kano 1975 – Elliott Skinner for African Urban Life 1975 – Lansine Kaba for Wahhabiyya: Islamic Reform and Politics in French West Africa 1976 – Ivor Wilks for Asante in
575-634: The Swahili Coast, 1856-1888 1997 – Mahmood Mamdani for Citizen and Subject 1997 – Charles van Onsen for The Seed is Mine 1998 – Susan Mullin Vogel for Baule: African Art, Western Eyes 1999 – Peter Uvin for Aiding Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda 2000 – Nancy Rose Hunt for A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo 2001 – J. D. Y. Peel for Religious Encounter and
600-472: 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: In 2001, the ASA Board of Directors established an annual prize for the best graduate student paper. The prize
625-794: The religious imagination in Africa 1984 – J. D. Y. Peel for Ijeshas and Nigerians: The Incorporation of a Yoruba Kingdom, 1890s-1970s 1984 – Paulin Hountondji for African Philosophy 1985 – Claire C. Robertson for Sharing the Same Bowl: A Socioeconomic History of Women and Class in Accra, Ghana 1986 – Sara Berry for Fathers Work for Their Sons: Accumulation, Mobility, and Class Formation in an Extended Yoruba Community 1987 – Paul Lubeck for Islam and Urban Labor in Northern Nigeria: The Making of
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