Akinwumi Ogundiran
Akin Ogundiran is Professor of History and Cardiss Collins Professor of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University, where he directs the Material History Lab.
Ogundiran is broadly interested in the archaeology and history of Africa over the past 2,500 years, with emphasis on the Yoruba world (West Africa). His current research intersects cultural, political economy, and environmental approaches to study the history of complex social systems at different scales鈥攅.g., household, urbanism, and empire. He has authored several books, including Materialities of Ritual in the Black Atlantic and The Yoruba: A New History, which won both the Vinson Sutlive Book Prize and the Isaac Oluwole Delano Prize.
Dr. Ogundiran earned an MSc. from the University of Ibadan, and his Ph.D. in Archaeology from Boston University. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a member of the Nigerian Academy of Letters.