{"id":107,"date":"2025-02-12T14:38:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T14:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allegraayida.com\/?page_id=107"},"modified":"2025-02-17T13:15:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T13:15:19","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.allegraayida.com\/?page_id=107","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u200b<\/span><\/span>PhD History \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Yale University \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02021 – to date<\/span><\/p>

Whitney Center of Humanities Fellow for Environmental \u00a0Humanities \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02021 –\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>2022<\/span><\/p>

MPhil \u00a0African Studies\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0University of Cambridge\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2021<\/span><\/p>

Dissertation:\u00a0The Material Culture of Chief Nana Olomu\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

M.A.\u00a0\u00a0World History and Cultures\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0King\u2019s College, London \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 2019<\/span><\/p>

Dissertation:\u00a0\u201c The Gendered Dynamics of Authority among Itsekiri Elites; pre colonial to postcolonial\u201d<\/span><\/p>

B.A. History \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Wesleyan University\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2018
Thesis: “Kingdom in the Creeks: An Early History of the Warri Kingdom.”<\/span><\/p>

Year Abroad at\u00a0Sciences Po\u00a0(Paris Institute of Political Studies), \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 2017<\/span><\/p>

Awards<\/span>\u00a0& Grants<\/span><\/h3>

Davenport Research Grant, Public Affairs Center, Wesleyan University, Summer\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2017<\/span><\/p>

Granted $3,000 to carry out archival research in England, France, and Portugal and oral history research in Nigeria. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Graduate Fellow in Environmental Humanities \u201cone of 9 students selected for the inaugural class\u201d<\/span><\/p>

Museum Of Ode-Itsekiri Initiative\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Executive Board member\/ Consulting Historian \u00a02016 to date\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>

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. \u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/364897703932309\/<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Moderator;\u00a0African Literature Book Club at Cambridge African Studies Library.\u00a02020-2021<\/span><\/p>

Yale \u00a0Uni<\/span>ve<\/span>rs<\/span>ity Work<\/span><\/h3>

Organizing committee \u2018New Perspectives in Energy History Conference\u2019\u00a0 2nd March 2024\u00a0https:\/\/environmentalhistory.yale.edu\/programs\/conferences\/new-perspectives-energy-history-2024#:~:text=Yale%20University’s%20working%20group%20on,new%20projects%20in%20the%20field<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>

Co-organiser \u2018Print Cultures and African Literature, 1860\u20131960 Workshop\u2019\u00a0 4-5 November 2022\u00a0https:\/\/african.macmillan.yale.edu\/events\/<\/a><\/span>print-cultures-and-african-literature-1860-196<\/a><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Education \u200bPhD History \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Yale University \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-107","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allegraayida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allegraayida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allegraayida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allegraayida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allegraayida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.allegraayida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/www.allegraayida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allegraayida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}