Bill to fund his college education, and studied literature at the University of Michigan.
Philip Curtin invited Scheub to study for a PhD in the department of African languages and literature at the University of Wisconsin.
He worked with Archibald Campbell Jordan, who encouraged him to study Xhosa and do fieldwork research in South Africa.
[3] He gained his PhD in 1969 with a thesis on the Ntsomi, a performing art practiced by Xhosa women.
[4] Political scientist Crawford Young offered Scheub a permanent position at Wisconsin, and he taught there for 43 years until his retirement in December 2013.