Afghan Scholars

Building a community

The Center has played a role in supporting ASU’s Afghan Scholars Program which, in the 2021-2022 academic year, recruited a group of displaced Afghan academics, journalists, artists, and professionals to travel to AZ with their families to work at ASU for a year (with the possibility of renewed appointments). The program was created in response to Pres. Crow’s offer of support for displaced Afghans in need of assistance who might also be valuable members of the ASU community. In addition, Candace Rondeaux, Center faculty, co-directs the Afghanistan Observatory run out of New America to support a group of Afghan journalists and researchers.