Aissata Sidikou-Morton (Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey)

           
Submitted: Mon, 25 August 2003


Dr. Aissata Sidikou-Morton
Assistant Professor
Department of French and Italian
Princeton University
303 East Pyne
Princeton, New Jersey  08544   USA

phone: 609-258-7335
fax:   609-258-4535
E-mail: asidikou@princeton.edu


Dr. Sidikou's research focuses on the verbal art of women, mainly from West
Africa.  She teaches African literature, civilizations and cinema.  Aissata
Sidikou-Morton was the recipient for the National Endowment for the
Humanities for a collaborative research grant (2001-2003). She serves on the
African Studies Program Committee and also teaches in the Comparative
Literature Department as well as the African Studies Program. She serves on
the Board of Directors of United with Africa. Dr. Sidikou is currently
working on her next book, The Epic of Fatimata bi Daani, which is soon to
appear as part of the Epic Series by Indiana University Press.

Author of:
Recreating words, reshaping worlds: the verbal art of women from Niger, 
Mali, and Senegal.  Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2001.

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University.