Africa in Our Lives

Cecilia Kyalo is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She holds a master’s degree in Applied Linguistics from the University of Mississippi and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Nairobi (Kenya).    What brought you to Madison? …

The African Studies Program is excited to (re)introduce Professor Leif V. Brottem. Leif is a faculty affiliate at UW-Madison for the 2021-22 academic year, and an alum of the Geography Department at UW, where he …

The African Studies Program is excited to introduce Cynthia Howard, a short-term scholar, joining us from her masters of philosophy (MPhil) program at the University of Ghana, where she studies molecular cell biology of Infectious …

The African Studies Program is excited to introduce Fauzi, a PhD student in the History Department. She received her master’s from the History Department at University of Ghana where she researched migrant Sissala women in …

Justyn Huckleberry is a Ph.D. candidate in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and an editor for Edge Effects online magazine. Her current research focuses on how people experience and remember conservation and extractive-industry displacement. …

Vincent Ogoti is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of African Cultural Studies, where he is completing a dissertation on African Theatre.  He earned a master’s degree from the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and he was also a Fulbright …

Hermann von Hesse is a History PhD candidate whose research focuses on the urban, architectural, cultural, and art history of Africa and its trans-Atlantic diasporas in the 18th and 19th centuries. Before coming to UW, …

Michael Ọshindọrọ is a first-year Ph.D. student in the African Cultural Studies Department and a Racial Justice Award winner. His work, “Animation Films and Identity in Nigeria,” is situated at the intersection of language and …

Sheriff Issaka is a King-Morgridge Scholar from Ghana who recently won the African Studies Program’s Racial Justice Award. He is a Junior, majoring in Computer Science with African Studies and Entrepreneurship certificates. Sheriff developed this …

Allen Xiao is a PhD candidate in the Geography Department. His interests concern urbanism, subjectivity, mobility, ethnicity, and immigration. Allen has extensive research, teaching, and publishing experience. He recently won the African Studies Association’s Graduate …