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CAS faculty affiliate Katherine Casey, assistant professor of political economy at the Stanford GSB is interviewed by Stanford Graduate School of Business's Kathleen O'Toole in the Stanford Business Magazine, Autumn 2013 edition.…

Nelson Mandela’s inauguration on May 10, 1994, is nearly 20 years ago. That day, in language reminiscent of Lincoln, he said, “The time for the healing of wounds has come.”

The new president praised his apartheid-era…

The Center for African Studies at Stanford would like to add its condolences and words of tribute to those of the rest of the world in marking the passing today of Nelson Mandela.

More than most world figures, Mandela…

By: Sarah Quesada Class Year: 2016 Concentration: Division of Literatures Cultures and Languages

Do African intellectuals and writers write of the African slave the way we do in the Caribbean? Do writers’ imagination of this enslaved…

Two Stanford students – one who has spent summers working in a Modesto canning factory and with a global anti- hunger nonprofit in Uganda; the other, an American Studies major with a focus on food, class and health – came together to transform an…