Ousseina Alidou

Professor Ousseina Alidou is an Africanist scholar specialising in studying Muslim women in Africa.

She came to the USA from Niger in 1988 to pursue her studies. She received her doctorate in Theoretical Linguistics from Indiana University Bloomington.^{[1] [2]}

Awards

• 2006 Rutgers University Board of Trustees Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence ^[3]
• 2007 Runner-up, Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize, Women’s Caucus of the African Studies Association for Engaging Modernity ^[4]
• 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award of the Africa-America Institute, ^[3]

Publications

• Engaging Modernity: Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005)
• Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya: Leadership, Representation, and Social Change (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013)

References