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Lahra Smith is a first-gen college grad. She's now a widely respected African studies expert. This is how she became a Georgetown professor.

Georgetown's inaugural program offers training and resources for undergraduates from historically underrepresented populations who are considering applying to Ph.D. programs.

Student efforts around academics have shifted to establishing more diverse curricula, deepening regional studies, rethinking diversity requirements, and hiring faculty of color.

Structural vulnerability: migration and health in social context Format Abstract Based on the authors’ work in Latin America and Africa, this article describes and applies the concept ‘structural vulnerability’ to the challenges of clinical care and healthcare advocacy for migrants. This concept helps consider how specific social, economic and political hierarchies and policies produce and pattern poor health in two case studies: one at the USA–Mexico border and another in Djibouti. Migrants’ and providers’ various entanglements within inequitable and sometimes violent global migr...

A Reading Featuring Caine Prize-winner Irenosen Okojie Join us for a virtual reading and conversation with Irenosen Okojie, winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing. This event will be hosted by Prof. Lahra Smith, Director of African Studies Program. Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian-British writer. She is the winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize For Fiction for her story, “Grace Jones.” Her debut novel  Butterfly Fish won a Betty Trask award and was shortlisted for an Edinburgh International First Book Award. Her work has been featured in the  New York Times, the  Guardian, ...