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Graduate students present at ASA 2016

Posted on December 5, 2016

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 …

Posted in News, UncategorizedTagged African Studies Association, graduate students, literary ethnography

Congratulations to our successful students

Posted on September 6, 2016

Congratulations to doctoral students Adeola Agoke and Tarek Ziadna, who both passed their prelims!

Posted in News, UncategorizedTagged graduate students, preliminary exams

Said Hannouchi accepts new position

Posted on August 10, 2016

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 …

Posted in News, UncategorizedTagged arabic, graduate students, job placement, said hannouchi

Congrats to Bilal and Said!

Posted on May 19, 2016

Congratulations to Bilal Humeidan and Said Hannouchi, who both successfully defended their dissertations this week!

Posted in News, UncategorizedTagged graduate students

2015-16 Research Reports are now online

Posted on April 27, 2016

Learn more about what our faculty and graduate students have been working on over the past academic year, from motion pictures to revolution; courtly duels to political cartoons; soccer to intimacy; television to trauma; courtly …

Posted in News, UncategorizedTagged faculty, graduate students, research

Students of African Languages and Literature present: Africa and the “Postcolonial Incredible”

Posted on April 11, 2016

Keynote Speaker: Professor Adeleke Adeeko (The Ohio state university) Location: Pyle Vandeberg auditorium Topic: “Postcolonial Incredible, or Omens of the Whole” Time: 1:45 pm –3:00 pm. Abstract:This talk thinks through what arts and humanities scholarship conveniently …

Posted in UncategorizedTagged conference, graduate students

Department launches “Get to Know us Better” project

Posted on March 10, 2016

Get to know us better! Graduate student Kathryn Mara has launched a new project to share her interviews with faculty. The first one is with our Department Chair, Teju Olaniyan, and more are coming soon. …

Posted in News, UncategorizedTagged African Cultural Studies, department, faculty, graduate students

Three graduate students honored for being excellent classroom instructors

Posted on January 17, 2016

Congrats to graduate students and Arabic teaching assistants Bilal Humeidan, Said Hannouchi, and Sami Lamine! All three of them were selected as Honored Instructors by University Housing residents for Fall 2015.

Posted in News, UncategorizedTagged arabic, graduate students, honors, teaching assistants

Need a fall course? Check out our latest offerings.

Posted on August 26, 2015

Drama! Culture! HipHop! Politics! Language! Diaspora! Learn more about our offerings here.

Posted in News, UncategorizedTagged courses, graduate students, undergraduates

2014-15 Research Reports from Faculty and Graduate Students

Posted on June 22, 2015

Find out more about what our faculty and graduate students have been working on this year. http://african.wisc.edu/content/2014-15-research-reports-faculty-and-graduate-students

Posted in News, UncategorizedTagged faculty, graduate students, research

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