Congratulations to the WARA 2020 fellows!
This Spring we received a pool of very strong candidates for each of the WARA Fellowships. We are continually inspired by the work of all of our applicants and look forward to seeing even more impressive candidates next year! In the meantime, please join us in congratulating the recipients of this year’s fellowship competition.
WARA Post-Doctoral Fellows:
Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoue
Asst. Professor – African Cultural Studies
(Univ. of Wisconsin – Madison)
project title: Transnational Histories, Nodes of Encounter, and Belonging in Africa
Michael Birenbaum Quintero
Chair/Associate Professor – Musicology & Ethnomusicology (Boston Univ.)
project title: Sound, Music, and the Ear in Yoruba Ifa Ritual, Cosmology, and Ethics
WARA Pre-Doctoral Fellows:
Caroline Angle
Phd Student – History
(Univ. of Maryland)
project title: Decolonizing Knowledge: Reclaiming Colonial Museums in North and West Africa
Angelina Arrington
Phd Student – Education Policy, Organization & Leadership
(Univ. of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign)
project title: Classroom Ethnographies in Rural Ghana: Harnessing Teachers’ Interpretations and Adaptations of Standards-Based Curriculum Reform to Improve Teacher Training
Sophie Lewis
Phd Student – Music
(Princeton Univ.)
project title: Towards a Global Understanding of the Musical Avant-Garde: Experiments in Technology and Sound at West African Radio Stations, 1950-1979
Dana Liljegren
Phd Student – Art History
(Graduate Center – CUNY)
project title: L’art de la poubelle: Récupération and Politics of Trash in Senegalese Art, 1970-2010
Wallace Teska
Phd Student – History
(Stanford Univ.)
project title: Social Conflict and Paths to Justice in Colonial Mali
WARA Residency Fellow:
Joseph Oduro-Frimpong
Director – Center for African Popular Culture
(Ashesi Univ. – Ghana)
Residency at Unversity of Kansas African Studies Center
WARC Library Fellow:
Dajou Cottrell
Student – Anthropology
(McGill Univ.)
Library residency at the West African Research Center in Dakar, Senegal
