Cool Class: A Closer Look at Soccer in Africa

Abubakar Muhammad teaches students about how Africa and the beautiful game influence and impact each other.

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Speaking Volumes

This innovative approach to learning languages opens up a world of opportunities.

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Olivia Ligman receives 2023 Richard Ralph Winter Phoenix Rising Humanitarian Scholarship

Olivia Ligman named 2023 Richard Ralph Winter Phoenix Rising Humanitarian Scholarship from the College of Letters & Science for her support on advancing labor rights for students working in campus dining and residence halls.

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Seventeen L&S graduate students honored with 2022-23 Teaching Assistant Awards

UW–Madison employs over 2,100 teaching assistants (TAs) across its 200-plus undergraduate major and certificate programs. Whether teaching in lecture halls, classrooms, and labs on campus or leading learning opportunities in the wider community, their work is vital to fulfilling the university’s educational mission and the Wisconsin Idea.

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The Ubuntu approach to research

Majoring in Computer Science with certificates in Entrepreneurship and African Studies, Sheriff Issaka, shares about his research in two "seemingly unrelated fields" technology and African Studies and how intertwined they can be.

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Dr. Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué 2021 Winner of the Aidoo-Snyder Prize

Assistant Professor of The Department of African Cultural Studies, Dr. Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué has received the 2021 Aidoo-Snyder Prize for her book Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon.

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Katrina Daly Thompson wins National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend

African Cultural Studies professor will study the formation of inclusive communities through the language used in progressive Muslim groups.

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UW-Madison mourns legendary professor/storyteller Harold Scheub

Scheub inspired thousands of students over the course of a four-plus decade UW career.

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Ronald Radano earns a Berlin Prize Fellowship

Ronald Radano, a professor of African Cultural Studies and Music, has been named a 2018-19 Berlin Prize Fellow, the American Academy in Berlin announced. The professor will analyze colonial-era African recordings in Berlin’s Ethnographic Museum.

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