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The 2023 A.C. Jordan Prizer Winner: Erin Kitchell’s Award-Winning Dissertation

Posted on October 30, 2023

  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 …

Posted in Alumni, Awards, Environmental, Volunteer

UW-Madison African Studies Program alumnus Dr. Emmanuel Urey Yarkpawolo to run for Vice-President in Liberia

Posted on September 25, 2023

  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 …

Posted in Alumni

Asynchronous ACTFL OPI Familiarization Workshop hosted by the UF Center for European Studies, March 1-31, 2023

Posted on February 20, 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 …

Posted in Alumni, Conferences, Events, Faculty, Languages, Outreach

Pan-African Lives, Racial Politics, and Belonging in Africa Seminar

Posted on January 26, 2023

  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, …

Posted in Alumni, Conferences

Africa in Our Lives: Edward L. Powe

Posted on January 25, 2016

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 …

Posted in Africa in Our Lives, Alumni, Languages, Peace Corps, Publications, Travel

SUMMER STORIES: Field Research with A Toddler

Posted on August 12, 2015

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 …

Posted in Alumni, Summer Stories from Africa, Travel

SUMMER STORIES: Beekeeping in Comoros

Posted on August 4, 2015

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 …

Posted in Alumni, Peace Corps, Summer Stories from Africa, Travel

Assistant secretary of state visits UW-Madison, PEOPLE students

Posted on March 25, 2014

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 …

Posted in Alumni, EventsTagged Linda Thomas-Greenfield, PEOPLE Program, policy, State Department

Wisconsin State Journal interviews Scheub

Posted on December 30, 2013

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 …

Posted in Alumni, FacultyTagged African languages, African Storyteller, alumni, Harold Scheub, Wisconin State Journal

Professor Scheub’s love of stories featured in ‘Narratively on Campus’

Posted on April 12, 2013

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 …

Posted in Alumni, FacultyTagged African Languages and Literature, Harold Scheub, Storytelling, Tim McDonnell
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