Membership
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The New York African Studies Association(NYASA) is open to all those having a scholarly or professional interest in Africana Studies (Africa and African diaspora studies).
Membership benefits
- Support the advancement of research and scholarship in African Studies and African Diasporic Studies.
- Promote activism and community development in Africa and the African Diaspora
- Help members stay abreast with current issues and opportunities in Africa and the African Diaspora.
- Inclusion in organizational membership listing
- Access to important information on employment, research grants, fellowships, and scholarship.
- Access to activities of the Council of the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA).
- Access to colloquiums, consortiums, research forums, and workshops.
- Inclusion in electoral processes and voting for officers who govern and maintain stewardship of the organization.
- Receive discounted fees to meeting.
- Receive discounted hotel accommodation at conferences.
- Receive organizational newsletters.
- Opportunity to nominate individuals for awards.
Categories of Membership
Undergraduate Student Annual Membership: $20
- Discounted rates for NYASA annual conference registration
- Complimentary digital access to NYASA annual newsletter
- Access to NYASA Study Abroad consortium of SUNY-cross-campus programs.
Graduate Student Annual Memberships: $30
- Discounted rates for NYASA annual conference registration
- Complimentary digital access to NYASA annual newsletter
- Access to NYASA Study Abroad consortium of SUNY-cross-campus programs.
- Admission into the NYASA mentorship program, including participation in the NYASA Research Forum, an interdisciplinary peer-review network.
Professional Annual Conference Registration: $120
- For independent scholars, teachers, and university faculty
- Complimentary Annual Membership in NYASA
- Complimentary digital access to NYASA annual newsletter
- Access to NYASA Study Abroad consortium of SUNY-cross-campus programs.
- Admission into the NYASA mentorship program, including participation in the NYASA Research Forum, an interdisciplinary peer-review network.
Professional Ten-Year Membership: $500
Professional Lifetime Membership: $1000
- For independent scholars, teachers, and university faculty
- Installment Payment for Ten-year and Lifetime Membership Optional
- Discounted rates for NYASA annual conference registration
- Complimentary digital access to NYASA annual newsletter
- Access to NYASA Study Abroad consortium of SUNY-cross-campus programs.
- Admission into the NYASA mentorship program, including participation in the NYASA Research Forum, an interdisciplinary peer-review network.
Department, Programs, and Centers Membership: $200 per annum or $1600 for ten years.
- Access for one faculty OR two students to NYASA annual conference.
- Admission of one faculty OR two students into the NYASA mentorship program, including participation in the NYASA
- Research Forum, an interdisciplinary peer-review network.
- Complimentary Digital Access to NYASA annual newsletter.
- Access to NYASA Study Abroad consortium of SUNY-cross-campus programs.
Institutional Membership: $400 per annum or $3000 for ten years.
- Access for three faculty OR six students to NYASA annual conference.
- Admission of one faculty OR two students into the NYASA mentorship program, including participation in the NYASA Research Forum, an interdisciplinary peer-review network.
- Complimentary Digital Access to NYASA annual newsletter.
- Access to NYASA Study Abroad consortium of SUNY-cross-campus programs.
Individual and Corporate Sponsorship
The New York African Studies Association (NYASA) invests in collaborations with K-12 institutions including teacher training institutes and Africana Studies curricular pedagogy workshops. In collaboration with scholars and institutions across New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont, NYASA also works to advance the core missions of cognizant institutions, including the African Studies Association (ASA), African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA), Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, African Heritage Studies Association (AHSA), and The African Literature Association (ALA). As such, NYASA seeks institutional and corporate sponsorship to facilitate its diverse programs.