{"id":2975,"date":"2025-10-31T22:25:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/africa\/?p=2975"},"modified":"2025-10-31T22:25:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:25:50","slug":"south-africa-sudan-and-howard-university-chris-tounsel-recognized-for-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/africa\/south-africa-sudan-and-howard-university-chris-tounsel-recognized-for-article\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa, Sudan, and Howard University: Chris Tounsel recognized for article"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_43126\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 200px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-43126 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/tounsel_christopher_-_copy.jpeg\" alt=\"Christopher Tounsel\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">African Studies Program Chair Christopher Tounsel<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/africa\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">African Studies Program<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Chair <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/people\/christopher-tounsel\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Christopher Tounsel<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> recently received an Honorable Mention for the Best Article Prize from the African Studies Review (ASR) for his article &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/history.washington.edu\/research\/publications\/tale-two-divestments-south-africa-sudan-and-howard-university\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Tale of Two Divestments: South Africa, Sudan, and Howard University<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the article, Tounsel examines Howard University\u2019s divestment from both South Africa and Sudan, and how each divestment fits within the university\u2019s history of engagement with Africa; this is Tounsel\u2019s most recent publication following his 2024 book, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/news\/bounds-of-blackness-sudans-legacy-in-todays-black-america\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tounsel will be recognized during the ASR Distinguished Lecture on Friday, Nov. 21 during the 68th annual African Studies Association meeting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African Studies Program Chair Christopher Tounsel recently received an Honorable Mention for the Best Article Prize from the African Studies Review (ASR) for his article &#8220;A Tale of Two Divestments: South Africa, Sudan, and Howard University.&#8221; In the article, Tounsel examines Howard University\u2019s divestment from both South Africa and Sudan, and how each divestment fits<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/africa\/south-africa-sudan-and-howard-university-chris-tounsel-recognized-for-article\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-2975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-news","tag-christopher-tounsel"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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