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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Other Areas of History,Islamic Studies, Arabian Studies, Semitic Studies |
| Keywords | advance, interregional contacts, islam, political integration, women |
| Honours and awards | 2020: African Studies & Research Forum (ASRF) Book Award for Islam in the Niger Delta, 1890-2017: A Synthesis of the Accounts of Indigenes and Migrants 2018: Fellow of the Royal Doyen Academy 2017: “The Wangari Maathai Award for Innovative Scholarship and Leadership” of The University of Texas at Austin 2016: University of Nigeria Staff Award for Most Punctual Lecturer 2010: ‘International Service Award’ for inspiring the younger generation by the Rotaract Club, University of Nigeria 2006: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow, June 2006-September 2008 2005: Advanced Research Fellowship Award of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), 2005–2006 2004: Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Centre of African Studies, School of Asian and African Studies (SOAS), University of London 2003: Vice Chancellors’ prize (second) for Best graduating Ph.D. candidate of the University of Nigeria, for 2001–2002 academic year 2001: Fulbright Visiting Researcher, Women Studies Program, The University of Kansas, Lawrence (U.S.A.) 1999: University of Nigeria post-graduate studies (PhD) research awards, 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 1992: Federal Government of Nigeria M.A. Degree Scholarship |
Current contact address
| Country | Nigeria |
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| City | Nsukka |
| Institution | University of Nigeria |
| Institute | Department of History and International Studies |
| Homepage | www.egodiuchendu.com |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Achim Oppen | Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin e.V. (GWZ), Berlin |
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| Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag | Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin e.V., Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin e.V. (GWZ), Berlin |
| Prof. Dr. Boike Rehbein | Fakultätsinstitut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Zentralasisatisches Institut - Tibetologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/10/2006 |
Programme(s)
| 2005 | Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2018 | Egodi Uchendu: Islam in the Niger Delta 1890-2017 - A Synthesis of the Accounts of Indigenes and Migrants in: Studien zum Modernen Orient 32. Klaus Schwarz Verlag GmbH, 2018 |
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| 2012 | Egodi Uchendu: New Face of Islam in Eastern Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin: Essays in Honour of Simon Ottenberg. . Aboki, 2012 |
| 2011 | Egodi Uchendu: Dawn for Islam in Eastern Nigeria: A History of the arrival of Islam in Igboland. Klaus-Schwarz, 2011 |
| 2011 | Egodi Uchendu: Negotiating Relationships in a Mixed Religious Society: Islam in Southeast Nigeria. In: Journal of Third Word Studies, 2011, |
| 2010 | Egodi Uchendu: Being Igbo and Muslim: The Igbo of South-eastern Nigeria and Conversions to Islam, 1930s to Recent Times . In: Journal of African History, 2010, 63-87 |
| 2010 | Egodi Uchendu: Evidence for Islam in Southeast Nigeria. In: The Social Science Journal (Elsevier), 2010, 159-176 |