Prof. Dr. Jeremiah Oluwasegun Arowosegbe

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsModern and Contemporary History,African Studies
KeywordsDecolonization, Knowledge Production, Academic Freedom, Africa and the Global South, University Governance
Honours and awards

2021: Professor of History and Politics at the Department of History and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin

2019: Senior Researcher at the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study Princeton

2015: Senior Researcher at the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies (MESAAS) and the Institute of African Studies (IAS), Columbia University in New York

2013: A. C. Jordan Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town

2011: Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape

2009: American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape

2008: Guest Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden

2008: Visiting Fellow at the African Studies Centre, University of Leiden

2007: Bill and Melinda Gates Visiting Fellow at the Five College African Scholars Programme, University of Massachusetts

2007: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Fellow and Grantee at the Small Grants Programme for PhD Dissertations and Theses

2006: SEPHIS Fellow of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta (CSSSC) and Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) New Delhi

2006: West African Research Association (WARA) Grantee of a Travel Grant Award to present a paper at the 20th World Congress of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) on "Is Democracy Working?" Fukuoka, 9-13 July

2005: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Laureate in the Child and Youth Studies Institute on the Making of Child and Youth Identities in Africa

2004: Claude Ake Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Social Science (CASS) and the Department of Political Science, University of Port Harcourt, 01 April-31 December

1998: Second Place Award Winner at the all-Nigerian Universities Essay Competition on "Colonialism, Population and Reproductive Freedom", funded by the Reporters' Collective, African Scholarship Awards Foundation, New York. With a fellowship residence at the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 01 January-31 December

Current contact address

CountryUnited Kingdom
CityLeeds
InstitutionUniversity of Leeds
InstituteSchool of History

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Andreas EckertSeminar für Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Andreas MehlerACT - Africa Centre for Transregional Research, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/01/2022

Programme(s)

2020Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers