Prof. Dr. Jeremiah Oluwasegun Arowosegbe

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsPolitical Science,Principles of Law and Jurisprudence,African, American and Oceania Studies
KeywordsDecolonization, Knowledge Production, Academic Freedom, Africa and the Global South, University Governance
Honours and awards

2021: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Researcher at the Department of History and the Institute of Asian and African Studies. Humboldt University of Berlin. Germany.

2019: Senior Researcher. School of Social Science. Institute for Advanced Study Princeton

2015: Social Science Research Council Senior Researcher. Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies (MESAAS) – as well as Institute of African Studies (IAS) – Columbia University in the City of New York

2013: A. C. Jordan Postdoctoral Fellow. Centre for African Studies. University of Cape Town. Cape Town. South Africa.

2011: Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow. Centre for Humanities Research. University of the Western Cape. Cape Town. South Africa.

2009: American Council of Learned Societies Doctoral Fellow. Centre for Humanities Research. University of the Western Cape. South Africa

2008: Guest Researcher. Nordic Africa Institute. Uppsala. Sweden.

2008: Visiting Fellow. African Studies Centre. University of Leiden.

2007: Bill and Melinda Gates Visiting Fellow. Five College African Scholars Programme. University of Massachusetts. Amherst. United States of America.

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

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

2006: West African Research Association Grantee of a Travel Grant Award to present a paper at the 20th World Congress of the International Political Science Association 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 Contemporary Africa. Dakar. Senegal.

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

1998: Second Place Award Winner in 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. United States of America. 01 January-31 December.

Current contact address

CountryUnited Kingdom
CityLeeds
InstitutionUniversity of Leeds
InstituteSchool of History and School of Politics and International Studies

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Andreas EckertSeminar für Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/01/2022

Programme(s)

2020Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers