From her graduate studies to participating as an African Studies Outreach Scholar, a love for teaching continually motivates graduate student Beatrice Mkenda. Field of study: African Languages and Literature From: Tanzania What brought you to …
Month: August 2014
Course Spotlight: Gender and Sexuality in African History
Course Description This course explores the historiography of gender and sexuality in Africa. Through reading a selection of classic and recent works, seminar participants will engage some of the central questions that have animated historical …
Dr. Alhaji N’jai on Ebloa: Behind the Scary Headlines
Dr. Alhaji N’jai, a UW-Madison Research Fellow with the Department of Pathological Sciences, discusses Ebola and its contributing factors in West Africa on The Progressive. N’jai argues that while Ebola is a very deadly disease, …
Africa in Our Lives: Bethany Wilinski
Graduate student Bethany Wilinski came to Madison with an interest in Tanzanian education policy and will bring that passion to a faculty position at Michigan State University in January 2015. Field of study: Joint PhD …