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 …
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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 …
Professor Dustin Cowell retires
Professor Dustin Cowell officially retired yesterday, after 43 years of meritorious service to our department as Arabic faculty, director of our Arabic language program, and three-time chair of the department (a total of nine years!). …
Department mourns the loss of Professor Emerita Hazel Carter
We are saddened to announce the passing of Hazel Carter, Professor Emerita, African Languages and Literature, on August 3. An accomplished linguist who studied both Kongo and Shona, she was chair from 1992 until 1995 …
Distinguish Yourself! Take an African Language!!
Learn all about what we’re doing this fall!