African Studies @ 50: Academic Hub, Supportive Home [125 Stanford Stories]
Stanford University features the Center for African Studies in their 125 Stanford Stories series celebrating Stanford's 125th anniversary.
"Stanford’s Center for African Studies is simultaneously a place of rigor and one of support and acceptance. It’s a home, says Associate Director Laura Hubbard – a spiritual and intellectual home where great talents meet, uniqueness is nurtured and futures become real. For 50 years, the interdisciplinary center has fostered research and teaching on all aspects of Africa, from biomedical research to language study... To the center’s academic interdisciplinarity is added its goal of welcoming Stanford students and scholars who share an interest in Africa, whatever their discipline. The social and intellectual mix makes the Center for African Studies an especially lively and diverse place."