ASA Expands Taha Student Travel Award

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 30, 2025
Contact: Alix Saba, Executive Director, asaed@africanstudies.org
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African Studies Association Announces Expansion of the Mahmoud Mohamed Taha Student Travel Award Fund
 
PISCATAWAY, New Jersey – The African Studies Association is happy to announce an extra growth of the Mahmoud Mohamed Taha Student Travel Award Fund to help analysis and the trade of concepts for African research college students. The growth of this Fund was made attainable by a beneficiant present from Dr. Steve Howard to scale the award’s impression.
 
The Mahmoud Mohamed Taha Student Travel Award, established in 2023 by a beneficiant present from Dr. Howard, is awarded to competitively chosen college students who’ve displayed excellent scholarship of their space of examine. The ASA invitations nominations from ASA members or functions from presently enrolled college students for funds to facilitate analysis, examine overseas, and/or journey to current analysis on the ASA Annual Meeting. Applications for African and African descended college students finding out at U.S. Institutions are prioritized throughout the choice course of. Applications will open on-line in December 2025 for the 2026 award cycle.

To help this award, or different packages or Funds on the ASA, please take into account a present by way of our ASA Donation kind or contact the ASA Executive Director at asaed@africanstudies.org.
 
Nine college students obtained the Mahmoud Mohamed Taha Student Travel Award for the 2025 award cycle:

Nura Abubakar, Ohio University
Deborah Ariyo, University of Alabama
Oumarou Abdoulaye Balarabe, Ohio University
Sarah Djos-Raph, University of Louisiana – Lafayette
Joyce Adeola Jekanioluwa, University at Buffalo
Michael Larbi, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Oyedele Oluokun, University of Mississippi – Oxford
Azeez Sikiru, New York University
Zainab Winjobi-Arikewuyo, Florida State University

About Dr. Steve Howard
Dr. Howard grew up close to Boston, Massachusetts, graduated from Georgetown University, and determined to pursue a scholarly profession in African research following his Peace Corps service. He earned his PhD in sociology at Michigan State University, writing a dissertation on Sudan. Sudan has continued to be the middle of his analysis pursuits, writing notably in regards to the progressive Muslim social motion generally known as the Republican Brotherhood. Dr. Howard taught for 36 years at Ohio University and served 24 years because the establishment’s African Studies Program director – directing roughly 60 dissertations of African students. In 2022, Dr. Howard was awarded the ASA’s Distinguished Africanist Award. Complete biographies for Dr. Steve Howard and Mahmoud Mohamed Taha will be discovered on the award web page and in Dr. Howard’s e book, Modern Muslims: A Sudanese Memoir.
 
About the ASA
Established in 1957, the African Studies Association (ASA) is the flagship membership group dedicated to enhancing the trade of details about Africa. Based within the United States, the ASA goals to domesticate a greater understanding of the continent, taking a holistic strategy to its areas of focus. ASA offers entry to path-breaking analysis and key debates in African research and facilitates interdisciplinary exchanges with African students and establishments. The ASA Annual Meeting fosters world networks by convening individuals with scholarly and different pursuits in Africa, and in the end broadens skilled alternatives within the subject. The group publishes two main transdisciplinary journals on Africa, African Studies Review and History in Africa and promotes an knowledgeable understanding of Africa to academic establishments, in addition to to the general public, companies, media, and different communities.