Harold Scheub retires after four decades

Harold Scheub
UW students have been at the center of Professor Scheub’s life for 43 years and over the decades more than twenty thousand students have enrolled in AFRICAN 210: The African Storyteller. (Photo by Catherine A. Reiland/UW-Madison)

After 43 years of passionate and dedicated teaching and service to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Harold Scheub, Evjue-Bascom Professor of Humanities, announced his retirement at the end of the Fall 2013 semester. Professor Harold Scheub gave his last lecture for his famous course, AFRICAN 210: The African Storyteller on Friday, December 13, 2013. Over the decades more than twenty thousand students have enrolled in the course.

More photos of Harold Scheub

“Storied professor Scheub retires after 43 years,” by L&S Communications.

African storyteller professor left imprint on students,” from the Wisconsin State Journal, 12/30/2013.