An Archaeologist with a difference and a Voice for the Past in this age
You recruited me as a lead candidate, a Professor of Anthropology, only to bury me under 150 students with absolutely zero assistance. Even as a teaching assistant at William & Mary, we had three more TAs for a fraction of that load. You didn't want a scholar; you wanted a mule to carry your departmental …
Dr. Olanrewaju Lasisi of the University of Virginia has won the 2023 SAF Field Discovery Award, presented by the Shanghai Archaeology Forum. His project, "Landscapes of Power: Architecture, Ritual, and Astronomy in the Making of the Yoruba World," investigates the link between social structure, rituals, and astronomy in the ancient Yoruba civilization. With a unique approach combining archaeology with ethnography, and archaeoastronomy, Dr. Lasisi has offered invaluable insights about Ijebu-Yoruba Kingdom's power dynamics, urbanism, and cosmology.
Picture this! You stand in the midst of an age-old Yoruba cityscape as twilight creeps over the horizon. The simmering West African sun paints the sky in hues of purple and gold, giving way to a resplendent celestial panorama. You sense an ancient connection, a dialogue between earth and sky, culture and cosmos, echoed in …
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Thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a 2022 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. The fellowship supports doctoral students in the humanities and interpretive social sciences with a year of funding to facilitate the completion of projects that will form the foundations of their scholarly careers. This program is made possible by a grant from …
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