Cursory:Professor Olutayo Adesina from the University of Ibadan (UI) has been awarded the British Academy Global Professorship for 2023–24, one of eight recipients globally. His research focuses on developing food system models to tackle climate challenges and exploring the history of West African communities through museum collections. The prestigious grant provides £900,000 over four years to conduct cutting-edge research. Professor Adesina’s project examines the interplay of nationalist historiography, academic social science, and vernacular knowledge in Ibadan, Southwest Nigeria.
Professor Olutayo Adesina, a distinguished scholar from the department of history at the University of Ibadan (UI), has been awarded the prestigious British Academy Global Professorships for 2023–24.
Among eight global recipients, Professor Adesina was chosen for his outstanding research proposal focusing on various issues, including developing food system models to address climate challenges and exploring the history of West African communities through museum collections.
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The British Academy Global Professorships, a significant investigator-led grant, aims to attract renowned scholars to the United Kingdom for cutting-edge research projects spanning diverse disciplines. Each four-year award provides £900,000 in funding to the selected professors.
Professor Adesina, who also serves as President of the Society of Nigerian Archivists, will concentrate his research on “the interplay of nationalist historiography, academic social science, and vernacular knowledge as mutually constitutive social epistemologies.”
His research aims to understand how the work of academic historians and social scientists at UI was influenced 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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