African Cultural Studies
Researching and teaching the languages and expressive cultures of Africa and Africans around the world since 1964

Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: jmougoue@wisc.edu

Address:
1402 Van Hise

Education

  • PhD Purdue University

Bio

Mougoué has a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in history and specializes in women’s and gender history in mid-20th century West Africa. Her book, Gender, Separatist Politics and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon, received the 2020 Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize, the 2021 Aidoo-Snyder Prize, and the 2023 Honorable Mention (1st runner-up) of the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award for Excellence in African Writing. Mougoué was selected as one of 15 African women historians shaping understandings of Africa’s historical past by AMAKA magazine in 2022. Mougoué co-edits a book series on women and gender in Africa for the University of Wisconsin Press.

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Selected Publications

  • “Souvenons-Nous Des Femmes! Elles Ont Joue Un Role Décisif Dans L’Histoire [Remember Women! They Have Played a Decisive Role in History]. In Résistance: Trois Générations de Lutte Anticoloniale au Cameroun [Resistance: Three Generations of Anti-Colonial Struggle in Cameroon], edited by Initiative Perspektivwechsel, 117-119. Berlin, Germany, 2021.
  • Gender, Separatist Politics and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2019.
  • “Over-Making Nyanga: Mastering ‘Natural’ Beauty and Disciplining Excessive Bodily Practices in Metropolitan Cameroon.” African Studies Review 62, issue 2 (June 2019): 175-198.
  • “Gender and (Militarized) Secessionist Movements in Africa: An African Feminist’s Reflections.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 17, no. 2 (Fall 2018): 338-358.
  • “Intellectual Housewives, Journalism, and Anglophone Nationalism in Cameroon, 1961-72.” Journal of West African History 3, issue 2 (October 2017): 67-92.

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