<p>A professor, translator, and activist who speaks 6 languages, Tobe Levin completed a B.A. summa cum laude in English, went on to earn an M.A. in French (NYU in Paris); a maitr&icirc;se (l&lsquo;Universit&eacute; de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III); and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Cornell University. Employed by the University of Maryland University College in Europe and the University of Frankfurt, Germany, she has held visiting scholar positions: in 2004 at the Five Colleges Women's Studies Research Center at Mt. Holyoke College, in 2006 at Brandeis University and 2010 at Cornell University. From 2006-2008 she was a non-resident Fellow with the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research, Harvard University, and is presently an Associate of The Hutchins Center at Harvard under the directorship of Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Professional recognition includes the Drazek Teaching Award (1999), the UMUC Presidential Award (2002), the University System of Maryland Regents Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship (2009), and a University of Maryland University College Certificate of Recognition for &ldquo;Notable Scholarly Activity / Professional Publications&rdquo; (2013).</p>
<p>On the editorial boards of various academic journals, including the <em>Journal on Female Genital Mutilation and Other Harmful Traditional Practices</em> (Inter-African Committee, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), she has published more than 100 academic and popular articles as well as the edited volumes <em>Violence. &sbquo;Mercurial Gestalt&lsquo;</em> (Rodopi, 2008); <em>Empathy and Rage. Female Genital Mutilation in African Literature.</em> (co-edited with University of Ghana professor Augustine H. Asaah. Oxfordshire, Ayebia, 2009); and, forthcoming, <em>Waging Empathy. Alice Walker</em>, Possessing the Secret of Joy, <em>and the Global Movement to Ban FGM</em>. An activist against female genital mutilation since 1977, she founded UnCUT/VOICES Press in 2009; co-founded FORWARD &ndash; Germany in 1998; and is active in the EuroNet-FGM. She blogs at <a href="http://www.uncutvoices.wordpress.com" target="_blank">www.uncutvoices.wordpress.com</a>.</p>