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The Dean of International Studies and Programs, Prof. Jeffrey Riedinger, and Professor Robert Hitchcock, chairperson of the Department of Anthropology, are pleased to announce that Prof. James Pritchett, now at Boston University, has accepted Michigan State University's offer for appointment as Director of its African Studies Center and full professor in the Department of Anthropology. Professor Pritchett will assume these positions effective 1 January 2009.

More information on the search can be found at: http://www.isp.msu.edu/ASCDirector/announcement.php.

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