Education
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PhD History Yale University 2021 - to date
Whitney Center of Humanities Fellow for Environmental Humanities 2021 - 2022
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MPhil African Studies University of Cambridge 2021
Dissertation: The Material Culture of Chief Nana Olomu
M.A. World History and Cultures King’s College, London 2019
Dissertation: “ The Gendered Dynamics of Authority among Itsekiri Elites; pre colonial to postcolonial”
B.A. History Wesleyan University 2018
Thesis: "Kingdom in the Creeks: An Early History of the Warri Kingdom."
Year Abroad at Sciences Po (Paris Institute of Political Studies), 2017
Awards & Grants
Davenport Research Grant, Public Affairs Center, Wesleyan University, Summer 2017
Granted $3,000 to carry out archival research in England, France, and Portugal and oral history research in Nigeria.
Graduate Fellow in Environmental Humanities “one of 9 students selected for the inaugural class”
Museum Of Ode-Itsekiri Initiative Executive Board member/ Consulting Historian 2016 to date
Founding member of an organisation that focuses on preserving and promoting the cultural heritage of the Itsekiri people of the Warri Kingdom. Administrator for the online Facebook group of 700 members that acts as a digital archive. https://www.facebook.com/groups/364897703932309/
Moderator; African Literature Book Club at Cambridge African Studies Library. 2020-2021
Yale University Work
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Organizing committee ‘New Perspectives in Energy History Conference’ 2nd March 2024 https://environmentalhistory.yale.edu/programs/conferences/new-perspectives-energy-history-2024#:~:text=Yale%20University's%20working%20group%20on,new%20projects%20in%20the%20field.
Co-organiser ‘Print Cultures and African Literature, 1860–1960 Workshop’ 4-5 November 2022 https://african.macmillan.yale.edu/events/print-cultures-and-african-literature-1860-196
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