About Me

Ph.D. History

Yale University

M.Phil. African Studies

University of Cambridge

Dissertation: The Material Culture of Chief Nana Olomu

M.A. World History and Cultures

King’s College London

Dissertation: “The Gendered Dynamics of Authority among Itsekiri Elites; pre-colonial to post-colonial”

B.A. History

Wesleyan University

Thesis: “Kingdom in the Creeks: An Early History of the Warri Kingdom”

Year Abroad

Sciences Po (Paris Institute of Political Studies)

Graduate Fellow in Environmental Humanities

Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University

One of nine students selected for the inaugural class.

Davenport Research Grant

Public Affairs Center, Wesleyan University

Granted $3,000 to carry out archival research in England, France and Portugal, and oral history research in Nigeria.

Executive Board Member & Consulting Historian

Museum of Ode-Itsekiri Initiative

Founding member of an organisation that preserves and promotes the cultural heritage of the Itsekiri people of the Warri Kingdom. Administrator of its 700-member online group, which acts as a digital archive.

Moderator, African Literature Book Club

Cambridge African Studies Library

Organizing Committee, “New Perspectives in Energy History” Conference

Yale University

Co-organiser, “Print Cultures and African Literature, 1860–1960” Workshop

Yale MacMillan Center