Dr. Modupe G. Labode possesses significant experience in the field of history.  This experience has afforded her the opportunity for study abroad. In addition, she has earned several awards and honors as well as contributed to several publications.

Dr. Labode has earned several degrees, most notably a Bachelor of Science from Iowa State University where she graduated with distinction and the Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford University in Great Britain. She has also studied in Scotland at Glasgow University and has been awarded the Rhodes Scholarship and was Phi Beta Kappa in 1986. She has served as a fellow for the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University and as a Berkshire Summer Fellow at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College. She is currently acting as a scholar in the Womanist Scholars Program of the Office of Black Women in Church and Society at the Interdenominational Theological Center.

In addition to these honors, Dr. Labode has presented at numerous conferences including conferences for the American Historical Association and the African Studies Association. Her paper, "Miss Makanya in Boston: Southern African Women, Mission, and the Black Atlantic in the Early Twentieth Century" was presented at the Exploring the Black Atlantic Conference held at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. The paper, "Redeeming Africa: African American Women and Foreign Mission 1880-1920" was presented at the Southern Conference on Women’s History held in Charleston in 1997. Her paper, "From Heathen Kraal to Christian Home" presented at Women and the Commonwealth Seminar at the University of London, has been published in the book Women and Mission edited by Fiona Bowie, Deborah Kirkwood, and Shirley Ardener.

In addition to the article listed above, Dr. Labode has also served as a contributor to other publications including Encarta Africana edited by K. Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates. She has also contributed book reviews to the journal Agricultural History and her articles, "South Africa: Missionary Factor in the Nineteenth Century," and "South Africa: Charlotte M. Makeke," will be published in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of African History edited by Kevin Shillington.

Dr. Labode is presently serving as Assistant Professor of History at Iowa State University. She is also a member of the Coordinating Council for Women in History—Catherine Prelinger Award Committee and has served as a member of the Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee. She has served as the chair of the panel entitled "African Minority Groups in Host Countries" sponsored by the African Studies Association and as a moderator of the panel entitled "Race, Gender, and Colonization in Literature" sponsored by the National Women’s Studies Association.

Dr. Labode is a member of the American Historical Association, African Studies Association, and the Coordinating Council for Women in History.

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