Spotlight On Africa: 2019 Summer Research Grants

Please join Maxwell African Scholars Union (MASU) for a panel presentation by MASU-funded PhD students on their research projects in Africa.

Panelists:

Samuel Amartey

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University

Gin, Rum, and Akpeteshie: Settlement Archaeology and (“illicit”) Liquor Economy along the Pra River, Southern Ghana, c. 1900-1950s 

Siaw Appiah-Adu

Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University

An Unexplored Past: Challenges and Prospects for Studying Exchange, Contact and Settlement at the Kadelso Mound-Site, Northern Ghana 

Jinpu Wang

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, Syracuse University

Family and Migration Decision-Making among New Chinese Migrants in Ghana

Sponsored by Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, and Maxwell African Scholars Union

Contact Havva Karakas-Keles for more information: hkarakas@syr.edu