Ousseina Alidou

Ousseina D. Alidou (born March 29, 1963) is an Africanist scholar focusing on Muslim women, and a professor 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
  • 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]

Publications

Alidou published many scholarly articles and books including:[6]

  • 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.[7]
  • Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya: Leadership, Representation, and Social Change, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013.[8]

References
  1. "Alidou, Ousseina D." womens-studies.rutgers.edu. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. 2023. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
  2. "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.
  3. Straehley, Steve (3 May 2015). "Niger's Ambassador to the United States: Who Is Hassana Alidou?". AllGov.com. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
  4. "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.
  5. "Engaging Modernity: Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger". BiblioVault.
  6. "Ousseina Alidou". Google Scholar. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
  7. "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". scinapse.io. 2006. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  8. 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.
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