JACQUELINE-BETHEL MOUGOUÉ is Associate Professor of African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Previously, she was Assistant Professor of African History at Baylor University in the US (2013-2019). Mougoué is a trained historian, specializing in women’s and gender history in mid-20th century West Africa. Her 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. Mougoué co-edits a book series on women and gender in Africa for the University of Wisconsin Press (more information here and here).

Mougoué has been a fellow (visiting researcher) at Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies at Bayreuth University in Germany, the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa at the University of Ghana-Legon, the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies at the National University of Ireland-Galway, and the Buffett Institute for Global Studies at Northwestern University in the United States. She currently sits on the editorial boards for Feminist Africa, Journal of Women’s History, and Gender & History. Additionally, Mougoué sits on the West African Research Association (WARA) board and the Board of Directors of the African Studies Association of the United States (ASA-USA). Mougoué is an active member of the Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society (based in the UK).

Mougoué currently works with doctoral students in the Department of African Cultural Studies and the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne in Germany. 

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