Emmanuel K. Akyeampong

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Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong (born February 21, 1962 in Kumasi , Ghana ) is a Ghanaian historian and Africanist. Akyeampong teaches history and African studies at Harvard University , and directs the Harvard University Center for African Studies .

Life

Akyeampong grew up in Ghana as the fifth of seven children. His mother Salome worked as a nurse and midwife, his father, John Wilberforce, is considered to be the first pharmacist in independent Ghana. Akyeampong began his studies in history and religions at the University of Ghana in Accra, from which he graduated in 1984 with a BA. Akyeampong completed an MA in European history with a focus on English work history from 1988 to 1989 at Wake Forest University . From 1989 to 1993 Akyeampong received his PhD in African History from the University of Virginia . His dissertation was entitled "Alcohol, Social Conflict and the Struggle for Power in Ghana, 1919 to Recent Times".

Akyeampong has been teaching and researching at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts since 1993 . First he taught as Assistant Professor of History (August 1993 – June 1997), then as Associate Professor of History (July 1997 – June 2000). Akyeampong has been a full professor of history since July 2000. Since July 2003, he has also been Professor of African and Afro-American Studies at the university. Akyeampong heads the Harvard University Center for African Studies from 2016 to 2019 .

During his time as chairman of the Committee on African Studies at Harvard University (now the Center of African Studies), Akyeampong, along with Henry Louis Gates and other colleagues, is considered to be important for the expansion of the University's Department of African and African American Studies. Akyeampong's research focuses on West African history, Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa, diseases and medicine, ecology, the African diaspora as well as trade and political economy.

Akyeampong is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (FGA) and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK).

Works

Akyeampong has published numerous scientific works including:

  • Drink, Power, and Cultural Change: A Social History of Alcohol in Ghana, c.1800 to Recent Times , 1996
  • Between the Sea and the Lagoon: An Eco-Social History of the Anlo of Southeastern Ghana, c.1850 to Recent Times , 2001
  • Editor of Themes in West Africa's History , 2006, with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  • Editor of The Dictionary of African Biography , 6 volumes, 2012, with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  • The Culture of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Practice in Africa , 2015, together with Alan G. Hill and Arthur Kleinman

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Emmanuel Akyeampong is new affiliate minster at Acton Congregational Church. In: Wicked Local Acton. December 3, 2015, accessed December 18, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Emmanuel K. Akyeampong. In: Department of History. Harvard University, accessed December 18, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b Emmanuel K. Akyeampong: Emmanuel K. Akyeampong - CV. (PDF) International Institute for the Advance Study of Cultures, Institutions and Economic Enterprises, 2016, accessed on December 18, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Emmanuel K. Akyeampong. In: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Harvard University, accessed December 18, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Akyeampong, Emmanuel K.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Akyeampong, Emmanuel; Akyeampong Emmanuel Kwau
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ghanaian historian and Africanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Kumasi , Ghana