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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Modern and Contemporary History,African Studies |
| Keywords | Decolonization, 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
| Country | United Kingdom |
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| City | Leeds |
| Institution | University of Leeds |
| Institute | School of History |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Andreas Eckert | Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin |
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| Prof. Dr. Andreas Mehler | ACT - Africa Centre for Transregional Research, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/01/2022 |
Programme(s)
| 2020 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers |
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