Jacquelin-Bethel Mougoué an Associate Professor of African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the USA, with affiliations in the Department of History and the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies. She holds a doctorate in African History from Purdue University, a Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Purdue University, and a Certificate in Oral History from the University of California, Berkeley, California. As a trained historian of Africa, Mougoué draws from history, gender studies, and political science to examine 20th-century West African history, including in her prizewinning book, Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon (University of Michigan Press, 2019). Committed to expanding the intellectual reach of the field, Mougoué presentlyserves on several book and journal article award committees for various dedicated history organizations and on the editorial boards of Feminist Africa, Journal of Women’s History, and Gender & History. In addition, AMAKA magazine selected Mougoué as one of 15 African women historians shaping understanding of Africa’s historical past in 2022. Currently, Mougoué is a West African Research Association fellow and a Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa fellow at the University of Ghana, Legon (2022-2023), where she is completing a draft of her second book.