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Audrey Thibert publishes articles on Tunisian migration

Posted on November 20, 2023

Undergraduate student Audrey Thibert, who was selected as the 2023 University of Wisconsin Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium Reporting Fellow, has recently published several impressive articles completed using her own reporting work performed in Tunisia last …

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Rosemary Popoola and Omotola Okunlola featured in Journal of African Cultural Studies

Posted on November 20, 2023

ACS graduate students Rosemary Popoola and Omotola Okunlola both have articles appearing in an important new edition of the Journal of African Cultural Studies. “Nigerian Universities’ Sexual Harassment Policies: Palliative or Provocative?” by Rosemary Popoola …

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Introducing Andrew Bartsch, Academic Advising Manager

Posted on November 15, 2023

Our department is incredibly excited to welcome Andrew Bartsch, who joined our department in early November as an Academic Advising Manager. Prior to joining CANES & ACS, Andrew worked as an academic advisor in UW-Madison …

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Adeola Agoke and Katrina Daly Thompson publish “A Multilanguage Seminar for the Twenty-First Century: Rethinking Self-Instruction for the Least Commonly Taught Languages”

Posted on November 15, 2023

Adeola Agoke and Katrina Daly Thompson have published a new book chapter titled “A Multilanguage Seminar for the Twenty-First Century: Rethinking Self-Instruction for the Least Commonly Taught Languages” in Language Program Vitality in the United States: …

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Unifier Tshimangadzo Dyer accepts faculty position at University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg

Posted on November 8, 2023

Dr. Unifier Tshimangadzo Dyer has accepted a faculty position in the Department of African Literature at Wits (University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg). She will be starting her new position at the beginning of the (South …

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Katrina Daly Thompson and Mwita Muniko coauthor “Performativity in Africa” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology

Posted on November 6, 2023

Katrina Daly Thompson and Mwita Muniko coauthored a chapter, “Performativity in Africa,” in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology, which just came out online.   A summary of their chapter is below: Judith Butler’s theory …

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Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué awarded Honorary Mention for 2023 ASAA Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award for Excellence in African Writing

Posted on October 26, 2023

Congratulations to Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué, whose book (Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon, 2019) received 1st Runner Up/Honorary Mention of the 2023 Africa Studies Association of Africa’s (ASAA) Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award for Excellence in …

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Adeola Agoke and Katrina Daly Thompson awarded U.S. Department of Education research grant 

Posted on October 2, 2023

Adeola Agoke and Katrina Daly Thompson of the African Cultural Studies department were recently awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Education International Research and Studies Program. Together they will receive $304,331 to support …

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“Playing the memories back: A summer in Nigeria and other stories” ⎻ By Abubakar Muhammad

Posted on September 20, 2023

After a long, hard winter a visit to Nigeria finally came as a refreshing sigh of relief. For one, you’re away from the cold and the burnout of academic world. My summer break was filled …

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Katrina Daly Thompson on their book, Muslims on the Margins ⎻ Interview with CaMP Anthropology

Posted on July 6, 2023

The following interview was conducted by Ben Ale-Ebrahim and was originally published on CaMP Anthropology’s website.   Ben Ale-Ebrahim: Muslims on the Margins is an ethnography of “nonconformist” Muslims living primarily in the United States and …

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