Akinwumi Ogundiran was born on 1966 and is the Cardiss Collins Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of History at Northwestern University.
15 Facts About Akinwumi Ogundiran
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Akinwumi Ogundiran is an archaeologist, anthropologist, and cultural historian, whose research focuses on the Yoruba world of western Africa, Atlantic Africa, and the African Diaspora.
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Akinwumi Ogundiran was born in Ibadan, Nigeria, and migrated to the United States in 1993.
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Akinwumi Ogundiran worked as a newsroom editor at the Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State in 1991.
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Akinwumi Ogundiran began his pre-doctoral teaching career in Nigeria at Delta State University and the University of Benin.
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Akinwumi Ogundiran's post-doctoral teaching took off in the Department of History at Florida International University, Miami.
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Akinwumi Ogundiran was appointed the Cardiss Collins Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of History at Northwestern University.
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Akinwumi Ogundiran has facilitated collaborative research projects on the archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora.
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From 1997 to 2000, Akinwumi Ogundiran directed the Eka Osun Project which studied regional interactions, historic landscape and social memory in Ilare District, Nigeria.
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Akinwumi Ogundiran's research has been funded by the National Humanities Center, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, National Geographic, among others.
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Akinwumi Ogundiran was awarded a Certificate of Special United States Congressional Recognition for Excellence in Service in 2007.
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Akinwumi Ogundiran is the recipient of the 2021 First Citizens Bank Scholars Medal Award, UNC Charlotte's highest recognition for research excellence.
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Professor Akinwumi Ogundiran is a Member of the Nigerian Academy of Letters and Phi Kappa Phi.
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Akinwumi Ogundiran is an elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquarians of London.
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Akinwumi Ogundiran is the current President of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists.