Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué, born in Cameroon with roots in Bafang and Kékem, is an Associate Professor of African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. She is a trained historian specializing in women’s and gender history in mid-20th-century West Africa. Her works have appeared in academic journals like Journal of African History, Journal of Women’s History, and Journal of West African History.
Mougoué’s 2019 book, Gender, Separatist Politics and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon, received the 2020 Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize, the 2021 Aidoo-Snyder Prize, and the 2023 Honorable Mention (1st runner-up) of the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award for Excellence in African Writing. The French translation of her 2019 book, Genre, Séparatisme et Corporéité du Nationalisme au Cameroun, will be published by Spears Books soon.
Biography
Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué, born in Cameroon with roots in Bafang and Kékem, is an Associate Professor of African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.