Akin Ogundiran
| Region of Interest | Africa |
| Primary Country of Residence | United States of America |
| Title | Professor |
| Affiliation | University of North Carolina, Charlotte |
| Mailing Address | Department of Africana Studies
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| Phone/Fax Number(s) | phone: 704-687-2355 |
| Countries of Specialization | Nigeria |
| Education | Ph.D. in Archaeology, Boston University, 2000. |
| Research Interests | Current research: Archaeology of Oyo Empire: Political Economy, Frontier Colonies, and Urban Mosaic in the Metropolis--Phase 2: The Oyo Empire Project in Old Oyo National Park and Environs -and- Phase 1: Ede-Ile: Archaeology of an Imperial Colony ; Archaeology of Yoruba Sacred Groves ; Landscape and Cultural History of Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove ; Archaeology of Oduduwa Grove, Ile-Ife ; Cultural Translations of the Yoruba Atlantic Experience ; Conceptual History and Objectgraphy See also: https://clas-pages.uncc.edu/akinwumi-ogundiran/ |
| Teaching Interests | Teaching interests range broadly from survey classes in World Civilizations and African history to specialized courses in African Atlantic history, material culture, oral historiography, and comparative social history. |
| Publications | Archaeology and History in Ilare District, 1200-1900 (Cambridge Monograph in African Archaeology 55, 2002) ; Precolonial Nigeria (Africa World Press, 2005); Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora (Indiana University Press, 2007), with Toyin Falola ; Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2012), with Cameron Monroe ; and, with Paula Saunders, Materialities of Ritual in the Black Atlantic (Indiana University Press, 2014) |
| Keywords | archeology ; material culture ; historiography ; social history ; Yoruba ; Nigeria ; ... |