Baderoon Awarded Honorary Doctorate from South Africa’s Nelson Mandela University
Gabeba Baderoon, associate professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, African studies and comparative literature at Penn State, was recently awarded an honorary doctorate from South Africa’s Nelson Mandela University.
Baderoon, a South African native and co-director of Penn State’s African Feminist Initiative, was recognized for her work as a poet, scholar and public intellectual, with the university referring to her as “one of the foremost literary voices to emerge from democratic South Africa.”
