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 …
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From On Wisconsin: African Studies faculty affiliate Richard Keller counts heat wave deaths
Blizzards are bad. Hurricanes are worse. But when it comes to killing power, no weather packs the punch of a heat wave, according to the numbers that Richard Keller has crunched. Read more.
Ambassador John Hirsch meets with African Studies graduate students
John L. Hirsch (History PhD’65) met with graduate students from History, Political Science, Geography, and Development Studies to discuss their research topics. As a former U.S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone in the 1990s and having …