Ousseina D. Alidou is Distinguished Professor of Humane Letters, School of Arts and Sciences-Rutgers University. She teaches in the Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literature at Rutgers University.[1] She received a Master of Arts degree in linguistics at the Université Abdou Moumouni in Niamey, Niger, and a MA degree in applied linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington where she also obtained a theoretical linguistics PhD. She was a member of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and the 2022 president of the African Studies Association.[2]
Her twin sister Hassana Alidou was Niger's ambassador to the United States from 2015 to 2019.[3]
Awards
edit- 2006 Rutgers University Board of Trustees Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence[4]
- 2007 Runner-up, Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize, Women's Caucus of the African Studies Association for Engaging Modernity[5]
- 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award of the Africa-America Institute[4]
- 2015 Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Award[6]
Publications
editAlidou published many scholarly articles and books including:[7]
- 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
- Engaging Modernity: Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.[8]
- Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya: Leadership, Representation, and Social Change, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013.[9]
- Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change: Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders, University of Michigan Press, 2024.[10]
References
edit- ^ "Alidou, Ousseina D." womens-studies.rutgers.edu. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. 2023. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
- ^ "ASA Board of Directors, Ousseina D. Alidou, President serving through 2022". African Studies Association. Archived from the original on 24 Dec 2022. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
- ^ Straehley, Steve (3 May 2015). "Niger's Ambassador to the United States: Who Is Hassana Alidou?". AllGov.com. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
- ^ a b "Ousseina Alidou, Recipient, 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award of the Africa-America Institute". Rutgers University. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ^ "Engaging Modernity: Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger". BiblioVault.
- ^ Nolan, Robert (11 September 2015). "Giving Back: The African Diaspora and Higher Education". carnegie.org. Carnegie Corporation of New York. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
- ^ "Ousseina Alidou". Google Scholar. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
- ^ Alidou, Ousseina D. (2006). "Engaging modernity: Muslim women and the politics of agency in postcolonial NigerChoice Reviews Online Volume: 44, Issue: 01, Pages: 44 - 0481 Published: 1 Sep, 2006". Choice Reviews Online. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
- ^ Mueller, Lisa (2016). "Reviewed Works: Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya: Leadership, Representation and Social Change by Alidou Ousseina D., African Studies Review, Vol. 59, No. 2 (SEPTEMBER 2016), pp. 290-292 (3 pages) Published by: Cambridge University Press". JSTOR. JSTOR 26409069. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
- ^ Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change.