Professor Olutayo Adesina of the department of history has been selected to receive the highly coveted British Academy Global Professorships for 2023–24.
The UI Don is one of eight professors selected globally to
undertake research on a range of issues, including food system models to
resolve climate issues and exploration of West African communities’ history
through museum collections.
The Global Professorships is a large investigator-led grant
aimed at attracting internationally recognized scholars to the United Kingdom
to undertake cutting-edge research projects across a diverse range of relevant
disciplines. Each four-year award provides funding of £900,000 to the selected
professors.
Professor Adesina, who also serves as President of the
Society of Nigerian Archivists, will focus his research on “the interplay of
nationalist historiography, academic social science, and vernacular knowledge
as mutually constitutive social epistemologies.”
He will investigate to what extent the work of academic
historians and social scientists at the University of Ibadan was shaped by
indigenous, vernacular epistemologies.
“The city of Ibadan had its own, rich and distinctive,
cultural and intellectual identity. This project studies for the first time the
interplay of nationalist historiography, academic social science, and
vernacular knowledge as mutually constitutive social epistemologies.
“The project combines a close study of key works in history
and related disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, ethnomusicology,
language and literature with extensive interviews and fieldwork in the city of
Ibadan, Southwest Nigeria,” the announcement by the Academy on the UI Don’s
proposed research read.
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