Erin Kitchell, winner of the A.C. Jordan Prize 2023, wrote her award-winning dissertation on the environment, climate change and public policy in West Africa. After attending Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, earning undergraduate degrees …
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UW-Madison African Studies Program alumnus Dr. Emmanuel Urey Yarkpawolo to run for Vice-President in Liberia
Emmanuel Urey Yarkpawolo received his degrees from the UW-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies in 2018. Emmanuel’s M.S. thesis was concerned land tenure reform and his Ph.D. concerned the social and ecological consequences of oil …
Asynchronous ACTFL OPI Familiarization Workshop hosted by the UF Center for European Studies, March 1-31, 2023
The UF Center for European Studies will host an asynchronous ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) Familiarization workshop from March 1-March 31. If you would like to participate in this professional development workshop, please complete the …
Pan-African Lives, Racial Politics, and Belonging in Africa Seminar
Time: 2:00 pm GMT. Check your local time here. Abstract: In 1953, three Ugandans set out in a Peugeot station wagon on a two-month mission trip across Africa. All were recent converts to Baha’ism, …
Africa in Our Lives: Edward L. Powe
While Edward Powe’s interest in Africa and the tropical world dates back to his graduate studies, creative endeavors like the development of his NGO and promotion of a Zulu board game suggest his interest does …
SUMMER STORIES: Field Research with A Toddler
Summer Stories from Africa is a series of fresh reflections from our students, faculty, and alumni researching and studying on the continent. Bethany Wilinski shares her experiences conducting field research for the first time with her …
SUMMER STORIES: Beekeeping in Comoros
Summer Stories from Africa is a series of fresh reflections from our students, faculty, and alumni researching and studying on the continent. Ellen Geisler is currently working as a Peace Corps Response volunteer in Comoros, a …
Assistant secretary of state visits UW-Madison, PEOPLE students
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs, will visit Madison on Friday, March 28 for a series of events including a conversation with middle- and high school students involved in the PEOPLE …
Wisconsin State Journal interviews Scheub
Shortly after giving his last lecture on December 13, 2013, Harold Scheub sits down with the Wisconsin State Journal to discuss his early travels to Africa, challenges and rewards of recording oral stories in Southern …
Professor Scheub’s love of stories featured in ‘Narratively on Campus’
Harold Scheub, professor of African Languages and Literature, sat down for a phone interview with former student Tim McDonnell, an environment reporter for Mother Jones magazine. Included are sound clips featuring a young Scheub introducing …