{"id":15884,"date":"2017-03-15T17:18:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T16:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=15884"},"modified":"2017-06-06T18:03:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T17:03:43","slug":"nnaemeka-obioma","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/nnaemeka-obioma\/","title":{"rendered":"NNAEMEKA, Obioma"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact Address: Women&#8217;s &#038; African American Studies Indiana University, Indianapolis Obioma Nnaemeka is Associate Professor of French, Women&#8217;s Studies and African American Studies at Indiana University Indianapolis. Education \u2022 University of Nigeria Nsukka \u2022 Universite de Grenoble France \u2022 University of Minnesota, USA \u2022 College of Worcester Ohio Job Experience \u2022 Rockefeller Humanisl-in Residence. University of Minnesota \u2022 Edith Kreeger-Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor. North Western University \u2022 Co\\ww\\ewicv\\or for French Service of the International Service of Radio Netherlands in Helversum. The Netherlands. Awards, Prizes and Grants Professor Nnaemeka has received numerous grants for her researches including the following: \u2022 Recipient of Grants from Mac Arthur Foundations \u2022 Lilly, the Swedish International Development Agency ( S1DA) \u2022 The Swedish Agency for Research Co-operation with Developing Countries ( SAREC) International Research Centre (1DRC) Ottawa, Canada. Listed in Marquis WHO&#8221;S WHO in American Women \u2022 Recipient of Nigerian Achiever of the Year Award for Leadership \u2022 Teaching Excellence Recognition Award \u2022 Outstanding Faculty Award \u2022 Faculty Achievement Award Other Contributions to Teaching and Research in Aeademia \u2022 Designed and taught courses ranging on Black Women Writers, \u2022 Feminist Theory \u2022 Global Feminism \u2022 French\/Francophone Literature, Oral and Written Literatures of Africa \u2022 African Diaspora and Posteolonial Discourse. \u2022 Consultants to foreign Governments, international agencies, academic institutions and is involved in speaking engagements and active participation in national and international conferences and seminars. \u2022 Convenor of the Women in Africa and the African Diaspora (WAAD) Conference. ublications \u2022 Her publications have appeared in many edited volumes and scholarly journals including Signs. Feminist Issues, Research in African Literature, Law and Policy. Dialectical Anthropology. Women&#8217;s Studies Quarterly. Western Journal of Black Studies and the International Journal of Third World Studies. Two Edited Volumes viz The Polities of(M) Othering: Womanhood, Identity andResistance inAfrican Literature( Routledge 1997) \u2022 Sisterhood, FeminismsandPower: From Africanto the Diaspora African World Press, 1998. She is a multi-lingual and widely travelled scholar. She is a Trustee of some African Based Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO&#8217;s). She combines research and consultancy with a lot of speaking engagements the world over. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,1505],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-15884","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-educationist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15884"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=15884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}