Ousseina D. Alidou is Distinguished Professor of Humane Letters in the School of Arts and Science, Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She teaches in the Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures and The Graduate Program in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She recently served as The President of the African Studies Association (2022-2-23). She served as the Director of the Center for African Studies at Rutgers University from (2009-2015). Dr. Alidou's specialization is Theoretical Linguistics, Gender, and African Studies. Her research focuses on women's agency in African Muslim societies; gendered discourses of citizenship and rights; gender, education, politics, and leadership. Dr. Alidou single-authored Protest Arts, Gender and Social Change: Fiction and Popular Songs in Hausa Societies Across Borders (Michigan University Press, April 2023); Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya: Leadership, Representation, Political and Social Change (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013); Engaging Modernity: Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005, a runner-up Aidoo-Schneider Book Prize of Women's Caucus of the Association of African Studies); and co-edited Writing through the Visual and Virtual: Inscribing Language, Literature, and Culture in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean with Renée Larrier (Kentucky: (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France) Lexington Book, 2015); Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Africa with Ahmed Sikainga (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2006) and A Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles Against Structural Adjustment in African Universities, Co-edited with Silvia Federici and George Caffentzis (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2000). In addition, she has published over 50 book chapters and articles which appear in Research in African Literatures, Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika (SUGIA); Comparative Literature; and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East; and Africa Today.
Alidou is the recipient of several national and international scholarly and service awards including: Rutgers University's Chancellor-Provost Award for Global Impact (2022); African Studies Association Outstanding Service and Commitment Award (2013-2016); Obafemi Awolowo Center for Gender and Social Policy Studies Distinguished Visiting Scholar Service Award (2015); Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Award (2015); Newark Women-in-the Media Distinguished Community Service Award (2015); Rutgers University 2011 Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching; Africa America Institute's Distinguished Alumni Award (2010); Ford Foundation Human Rights and Social Justice Grant Award (2005); Rutgers University Board of Trustee's Scholarly Excellence Award (2005); University of Hamburg, Germany, Visiting Professor Fellowship, Department of Linguistics and African Studies and Graduate Faculty of Intercultural Education (2003); and University of Lueneburg Graduate Faculty in Postcolonial Cultural Studies Visiting Scholars' Writing Fellowship Award (2002).
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5 PM Nigeria
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