Dr. Jacqueline Mougoué‘s book, Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon, has been included in a summer reading list published by The Washington Post. The “African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular” features wide-ranging topics that …
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Jacqueline Mougoué Earns WAWH Book Prize
Dr. Jacqueline Mougoué‘s work titled, Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon has been awarded best monograph in the field of history published by a Western Association of Women Historians (WAWH) member. The WAWH’s Francis …
Jacqueline Mougoué Earns WARA Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr. Jacqueline Mougoué has been awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in West Africa by the West African Research Association (WARA) for her project, “Transnational Histories, Nodes of Encounter, and Belonging in Africa.” The fellowship …
Jaqueline Mougoué Joins Editorial Advisory Board for Feminist Africa
Dr. Jacquline Mougoué has accepted a position on the Editorial Advisory Board for Feminist Africa. Feminist Africa is “the continental home of Pan-Africanism and African Studies for Africans” and has been re-established at the University …
Katrina Daly Thompson wins NEH Summer Stipend
Dr. Thompson will study the formation of inclusive communities through the language used in progressive Muslim groups. The project won National Endowment for the Humanities backing in an extremely competitive environment. According to the organization, …
Samuel England Awarded IRH Summer Fellowship
Dr. Samuel England has been awarded a 2020 Summer Humanities Research Fellowship (SHRF) at the Institute for Research in the Humanities. The SHRF program and workshop support recently tenured humanities faculty in pursuing “the next …
Jaqueline Mougoué Awarded IRH Summer Fellowship
Dr. Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué has been awarded a 2020 Summer Humanities Research Fellowship (SHRF) at the Institute for Research in the Humanities. The SHRF program and workshop support recently tenured humanities faculty in pursuing “the next big …
Katrina Daly Thompson: Voicing Queer Adjustments in a Progressive Muslim Community
Maydan has just published Dr. Katrina Daly Thompson‘s essay, “Voicing Queer Adjustments in a Progressive Muslim Community.”
Adeola Agoke Awarded Language Institute Grant
Acting Language Program Director Dr. Adeola Agoke has been awarded a Language Institute Academic Staff Professional Development Grant. Agoke will present at the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLTCL) conference in Chicago, IL, …
In Praise of a Scholarly Editor: Tejumola Olaniyan, 1959-2019
On Saturday, November 30, 2019 Tejumola Olaniyan died suddenly of an asymptomatic cardiac condition at his home. During three decades of university teaching and research in Nigeria and the US, Olaniyan consistently produced matchless studies …