Congratulations to Professor Nevine El-Nossery, who was awarded a Vilas Associates Award. This award provides summer salary for the summers of 2019 and 2020, and flexible research funding each year for the next two fiscal …
News
Alumna Harriet Masembe sends news from Uganda, solicits folktales
Harriet Masembe (Ph.D. in African Languages & Literature, 1982) sends us news from Uganda. “This year,” she writes, “I am compiling for publication a collection of Uganda folktales to include several that I collected from …
Edoro’s “Brittle Paper” Announces 101 Notable Writings
Brittle Paper, published by our own Ainehi Edoro, announced its annual list of notable short writings by African writers. Have a look at the list!
Welcome Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué to ACS!
We are delighted to announce that Professor Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué will join our department in August as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Mougoué, currently an assistant professor of History at Baylor University, is an interdisciplinary feminist scholar …
Ethnographic Approaches to Language: Mara interviews Thompson
Doctoral student Kathryn Mara served as ASAPOD host at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting in November 2018, where she hosted interviews with many ASA participants. Here she is joined by Rudolf Gaudio and our own Katrina Daly Thompson …
Salah Algabli Named Future Faculty Partner
Arabic teaching assistant Salah Algabli, has been selected as a 2019 Future Faculty Partner as part of UW-Madison’s Teaching Academy program. Future Faculty Partners are graduate students who have been formally recognized by the Teaching Academy as having demonstrated …
Astou Gueye’s Research Featured in UW’s Sociology of Gender
Gueye is an African Cultural Studies PhD student researching the Senegalese concept of “Jonge.” Her work explores the various meanings of this term as it relates to womanhood and gender practice. Learn more!
Rebecca Mandich Earns Teaching Assistant Award
Recent graduate Rebecca Mandich was selected to receive a 2018 Teaching Assistant Award. During the fall 2018 semester, she served as instructor for African 331: First Semester Swahili. Full Article To recognize the excellence of TAs across campus, …
Happy Holidays in Swahili and Arabic!
Wishing you a safe, happy, healthy, holiday season! UW's Holiday Wish in Many Languages
ACS Major Max Bobholz Featured on CNN
Over the weekend, CNN aired its 12th annual "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute." The show focused on the contributions of African Cultural Studies undergraduate major Max Bobholz, along with four other extraordinary young people who are "making a …