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Opportunities

The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia (https://woodson.as.virginia.edu/) advertises two research positions focused on Africa and/or the African Diaspora: 1) a two-year residential fellowship for pre-doctoral students (deadline 1 December 2023); and 2) a one-year renewable post-doctoral position. 

CERTIZENS (Certifications of Citizenship in Africa), which is concerned with national identification systems and their significance for state-citizen relations, is the largest research project at the Centre of African Studies (CAS), where it is housed within CAS’s ‘Sovereignties and Citizenships’ research platform. It involves a partnership between CAS in Copenhagen, the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Makerere University.