Distinguished Africanist Awards
Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo
Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of International Studies at Wells College in Aurora, NY.
A Visiting Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of International Cooperation in Education (CICE) at Hiroshima University in Higashi-Hiroshima in Japan from 2002-7, he is the Co-Founder and Director of CEPARRED (Centre Panafricain d’Etudes et de Recherches en Relations Internationales et en Éducation pour Développement) in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. He has published extensively in international relations, world and African politics, political theory, and political economy. He is editor-in-chief of African and Asian Studies and editor of the African Journal of International Affairs. At Harvard University, he received an MA and at University of Chicago, he obtained an MA and a Ph.D.
N’Dri T. Assie-Lumumba
Professor of African and Diaspora Education in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
She is a member of four other Cornell graduate fields: Education; International Development; International Agriculture and Rural Development; and the Cornell Institute of Public Affairs (CIPA). She has been a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science since 2006. She earned her Ph. D. in Comparative Education (Economics and Sociology of Education) from the University of Chicago. She earlier studied and received degrees from Université Lyon II, Lyon (France), Université d’Abidjan, Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire), and Université Laval, Québec, (Canada). In 2003, she was a Visiting Professor in the Center for the Study of International Cooperation in Education (CICE) at Hiroshima University, Hiroshima (Japan). She is the author and editor of several books on women and higher education in Africa, reconceptualizing gender-based human capabilities, and distance learning, and higher education in developing countries.
Distinguished K-12 Teacher Award
Jane Stuart-Andrus
Co-owner, RiverRead Books, Binghamton, NY
A graduate of SUNY New Paltz with a BA, at a time when every student was expected to study Africa, Asia, and Latin America, she also obtained an MS in Education. She taught at the Binghamton University Campus Preschool for 34 years, 25 teaching Kindergarten. As an adjunct she shared her philosophy of education as well as supervised a few hundred adult students and interns over the years. She traveled to all continents except Antarctica (too cold). Her African experience was gained in Senegal and Kenya, and she shared her respect for the richness of the diverse African culture through the folk literature, geography, language, and guests she brought into the classroom. Though she didn’t have any bookselling experience, she teamed up with one who did and in 2009, they opened an independent bookstore near the new downtown campus of Binghamton University. Among the store’s shoppers are faculty and students from the city’s four colleges. RiverRead offers free coffee and hopes soon to start serving “delicacies.”
Distinguished Service Award
Not given
