Consortium for the Global South

The Centre of African Studies was founded in 1965 by pathbreaking anthropologist Audrey Richards, who came to Cambridge from Makerere University, Uganda. The Centre was established with the aim of expanding interdisciplinary research and teaching on Africa on the area studies centre model. It was developed to provide a...

The Centre of Latin American Studies was founded in 1966 to promote research and teaching on Latin America in the University. It is one of the five original “Parry Centres” that were established in Oxford, London, Cambridge, Glasgow and Liverpool following the report of the Parliamentary Committee on Latin American Studies...