Winifred Uche Nwaefido is a third year PhD Student of African History. Currently sponsored by the Harold G. Marcus Fellows Program, she works under the mentorship of Professors Walter Hawthorne and Laura Fair. Winifred’s research interests are women, gender, oral history and religion in Africa. Focusing on West Africa, her dissertation “Religious Principalities: Igbo Women from Shrines to Christian ‘Prayer Houses’, 1900-1970” investigates female authorities in Igbo religion, gendered contestations within “mainline churches ” and explores indigenous religious “principles” reincarnated in spiritual churches founded by  Igbo women. She is currently taking minors in Anthropology and World History under the mentorship of Professors Mara Leichtman and Gordon Stewart. Winifred graduated from the University of Nigeria Nsukka with a First Class Honors in History and International Studies in 2007 and speaks Igbo, Yoruba and West African Pidgin fluently.

Location

Lansing

Disciplines

• History

Affiliation

Michigan State University