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Ivoirian Fulbright Scholar Wins this Year’s Elizabeth Warnock Fernea Award

Ivoirian Fulbright scholar Naminata Diabaté has won this year’s Elizabeth Warnock Fernea Award. The award was created in honor of an emeritus faculty member of the University and is given each year to a student in recognition of their exceptional work in ethnic third world women, and/or gender studies. Ms Diabaté is the third student at this university to win this award. 

The award also supports graduate students in comparative literature in their research, scholarship and teaching, with a preference for those working in the area of Middle Eastern, ethnic or third world literatures, or third world cultural theory and cultural studies.

Ms. Diabaté, who holds a Master’s Degree of Arts in comparative literature, is, since August of this year, working toward a doctorate in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas in the United States. Member of the Ethnic and Third World Interest Group (e3w), Ms Diabaté is using her thesis to explore: “Stiwanist, Womanist, Feminist: A Comparative Study of the Sub-Saharan West African Francophone, Anglophone, and African Feminist Theories.”