Published through the University of Michigan Press, the African Perspective Book Series has capitalized on U-M’s strong and distinctive position in the field of African studies and complements the four ASC-based presidential initiatives that advance the university’s scholarly collaborations on the continent: the African Heritage and Humanities Initiative, the African Social Research Initiative, the STEM-Africa Initiative, and the U-M African Presidential Scholars Program. The series publishes the original research of both well-established and emerging scholars on topics of scholarly value.
The series privileges work grounded in field research in any of the countries of Africa and publishes studies by both well-established and emerging scholars. Monographs that offer imaginative solutions to contemporary social, cultural, technological and environmental problems are especially welcome.
Editors for the series are Kelly Askew, Founding Director of the African Studies Center and Chair of the Department of Anthropology Chair at the University of Michigan; Laura Fair, Professor of East African Studies at Columbia University and author of Reel Pleasures: Cinema Audiences and Entrepreneurs in 20th Century Urban Tanzania, which won the ASA’s Bethwell Ogot Prize; and Pamila Gupta, Research Professor in the Centre for Gender & African Studies at the University of the Free State and author of Portuguese Decolonization in the Indian Ocean World: History and Ethnography.
For additional information about the series, please contact Marcella Landri, Acquiring Editor for Asian Studies and African Studies, at mlandri@umich.edu.
