Rhiannon Stephens was named as a recipient of the 2024 Faculty Mentoring Award, which recognizes senior faculty who have demonstrated an exceptional commitment to faculty mentoring through their work with tenure-track and mid-career faculty in developing their careers. Read more here.

Jordan Villegas-Verrone, PhD Candidate, Columbia University, Receives 2024 Louis Pelzer Memorial Award from the Organization of American Historians. To see the full announcement please click this link here.

Rhiannon Stephens has been shortlisted for the African Studies Association UK (ASAUK) Best Book Prize 2024 for her book Poverty and Wealth in East Africa: A Conceptual History.