Grad Students

PhD student Jibril Gabid has earned a Language Institute Grant to attend Content-Based Language Instruction and Curriculum Development, an online institute to be held June 21-25.  

Dissertator Sami Lamine has earned the Letters and Science Continuity of Instruction Award which recognizes his work as a Teaching Assistant. The Continuity of Instruction Award was created to identify and acknowledge those graduate students …

Applications due March 8 by 5pm The Ebrahim Hussein Endowment for research in African expressive cultures was established in the College of Letters and Science in 2003 thanks to the generosity of Robert M. Philipson, …

The Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship provides financial support for students interested in learning an African language. FLAS fellowships are funded by the U.S. Department of Education and administered by the UW’s National Resource …

Kevin Wamalwa, a PhD candidate in the Departments of Anthropology and African Cultural Studies, is serving as a Ripple Project Fellow at Dane County Library Services (DCLS). Wamalwa is supporting racial equity training for DCLS …

PhD student Angeline Peterson was recognized as a Transfer Champion during National Transfer Student Week. The student who nominated Angeline wrote: “Whether Angeline has known about my being a transfer student or not, I wanted …

Rebecca Ajulu-Bushell, slated to begin graduate work with the department in fall, has launched a research project titled, #MeTooSport & Beyond. The project “grew from the belief that the structures, values, and norms that enable …

The African Centre for the Study of the United States is hosting a webinar titled, “Imagined Identities, Boundaries and Relations Among People of African Descent.” Harry Kiiru, who recently earned his M.A. in African Cultural …