Abdi Kusow


Abdi Mohamed Kusow is a Somali scholar and writer.
He studied at Michigan State University, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1990. Kusow later earned a Master of Urban Planning from the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning in 1992. He also holds a Ph. D. in sociology from Wayne State University.
Kusow is a professor of sociology at Iowa State in Ames, Iowa.
He is also a founder of the University of Southern Somalia.

Awards

In 2015, he and Mohamed Eno won the Maines Narrative Research Award for their work on "Formula Narratives and the Making of Social Stratification and Inequality".