Professor Heather Sharkey and Vicki Nigoumi at the Crafts Study Centre

On Tuesday 1st April, we were delighted to welcome Professor Heather Sharkey from the University of Pennsylvania to the Crafts Study Centre to meet Vicki Nigoumi, widow of Siddig el Nigoumi. Heather is an Oliver Smithies Visiting Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford and met with Vicki and CSC Director Stephen Knott as part of her research into Siddig el Nigoumi. Thanks to her research, an entry on Nigoumi will appear in the fourth edition of The Historical Dictionary of the Sudan and a further academic article will follow.