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Olanrewaju Lasisi Awarded 2022 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Awards Support Early-Career Scholars in the Final Year of PhD Dissertation Writing

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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Author Meets Critics: Discussing Akin Ogundiran’s The Yoruba: A New History

African Studies Association XXI-K-30 Author Meets Critic: Discussing Akin Ogundiran's The Yoruba: A New History Saturday, November 20, 2:00-3:45pm Eastern Chair: Abidemi Babalola, University of Cambridge Book Title: The Yoruba: A New HistoryAuthor: Akin Ogundiran, University of North Carolina, CharlotteAderonke Adesanya, James Madison UniversityBiodun Ogundayo, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford Constanze Weise, East Tenesse State …

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Archaeology and Indigenous Hermeneutics: The Use of Toponyms and Performance Genre in Contextualizing Material Culture

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Landscape in the Making-GLS Symposium

I will be speaking at the Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium, in partnership with the Mellon Initiative in Urban Landscape Studies. Dumbarton Oaks, May 6  –  7, 2022 Symposiarchs: Stephen Daniels (University of Nottingham), Dell Upton (University of California, Los Angeles), and Thaïsa Way (Dumbarton Oaks) How might historians narrate landscape design within broader human …

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