Last week, four department graduate students (from left to right as pictured: David isiche, Kathryn Mara, Adeola Agoke, and Kevin Wamalwa) traveled to Washington DC to attend the annual meeting of the African Studies Association …
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Alum Sadam Issa sends news
Alumnus Sadam Issa (PhD 2013) reports that in 2013, he was hired by the Department of Linguistics at Michigan State University, where he teaches various courses including Arabic linguistics and Middle Eastern and world political …
Applications from UW-Madison graduate students invited for the Ebrahim Hussein Fellowship for Research in African Literature
University of Wisconsin-MadisonCollege of Letters and Science Ebrahim Hussein Fellowship for Research in African Literature Call for Applications The Ebrahim Hussein Endowment for research in African literature was established in the College of Letters and Science in 2003 …
AliBaba Sanchi, Brahim Lafdouk, and Tolulope Akinwole Received Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Awards to the University of Wisconsin-Madison
AliBaba Sanchi of Nigeria, Brahim Lafdouk of Morocco, and Tolulope Akinwole of Nigeria have been awarded Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) Program grants to serve as a teaching assistants in Hausa, Arabic, and Yoruba …
Congratulations to our successful students
Congratulations to doctoral students Adeola Agoke and Tarek Ziadna, who both passed their prelims!
Africa in Our Lives Features Professor Sam England
Professor Sam England is profiled in Africa in Our Lives. Discover why he found learning Arabic to be “the most worthwhile challenge” he experienced as an undergraduate. Read the full profile here.
Ghoneim tenured
Alumna Hala Ghoneim (PhD 2011) who was tenured this spring at UW-Whitewater in the Department of Languages and Literatures! Congratulations, Hala!
Samatar takes new position
Dr. Sofia Samatar, who had been teaching at California State University Channel Islands, has now assumed the position of Assistant Professor of English at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, beginning this Fall. Congratulations, Sofia!
Doctor Thompson Earns Award
Hongera Sana to Professor Katrina Daly Thompson! Professor Thompson has been awarded First Prize in the 2016 Ethnographic Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Writing Competition, sponsored by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology. Her piece, titled “Secrets …
Said Hannouchi accepts new position
Congratulations to doctoral student Said Hannouchi, who has accepted a position as Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and the Arabic Flagship Program at Indiana University. We will miss him …