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May 13, 2025

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May 13, 2025

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March 31, 2025

Christopher Tounsel features in Q&A on Sudan

March 27, 2025

Christopher Tounsel headshot

“Envisioning African Intersex” nominated for 2024 ASA Best Book Award

December 18, 2024

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Winter 2025 course list

December 10, 2024

The UW Seattle campus in October 2018

‘Reclaiming Venus:’ The resilience, music, and memory of Alvenia Bridges

November 19, 2024

Maya Smith, professor of French and African Studies affiliate, gives a presentation on her newest book, "Reclaiming Venus: The Many Lives of Alvenia Bridge" on Oct. 29 at Third Place Books.

Hassan Elhag Ali: Hybridity Contention and War: Post-Revolutionary Politics in Sudan

June 12, 2024

Christopher Tounsel, JSIS Interim Director of African Studies, pens a piece titled, “Sudan crisis explained: What’s behind the latest fighting and how it fits nation’s troubled past”

April 18, 2023