 Many top African studies scholars have been affiliated with the ASC, including Sara Berry (history), John Thornton (history), Linda Heywood (history), John Harris (economics), Norman Bennett (history), Wande Abimbola (religion and African languages), and James McCann (history).ASC faculty who have won the Herskovits Prize for the most important book in African studies include Sara Berry (1986), Diana Wylie (2002), Linda Heywood, John Thornton, and Parker Shipton (2008), and Fallou Ngom (2017).The African Studies Center has over 100 faculty affiliates from nearly every school, college, and department at Boston University.