CONTRIBUTOR:

Beverly Mack

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor Emerita of African Studies

DEPARTMENT:

Department of African and African American Studies

INSTITUTION:

University of Kansas

BIOGRAPHY:

Beverly Mack is a Professor Emerita of African Studies in the Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Kansas. Her books include: Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century (University of Wisconsin Press, 1990), The Collected Works of Nana Asma’u, daughter of Shehu Usman dan Fodiyo, 1793-1864 (Michigan State University Press, 1997), One Woman’s Jihad: Nana Asma’u, Scholar and Scribe (Indiana University Press, 2001), Muslim Women Sing: Hausa Popular Song (Indiana University Press, 2004), and Educating Muslim Women: The West African Legacy of Nana Asma’u 1793-1864 (Interface Publications, 2013). She has received research grants from the following agencies: Fulbright-Hays, Woodrow Wilson, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In addition, in 2000 Professor Mack was selected as one of twelve inaugural national Carnegie Corporation Scholars for Innovative Scholarship in Education, International Development, Democracy, and International Peace and Security.