C. Phil (UCLA 2007): African History
M.A. African History, Ancient History, Anthropology, 1998: University of Bayreuth (Germany) |
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| E-mail: coweise@gmail.com |
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| Subfield |
West Africa, Precolonial and Colonial Africa, Pre-Modern Near East, World History/ Black Atlantic
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| Research |
Pre-19th century West Africa, Nigeria; Nupe-Yoruba relationship; Oral Tradition, Oral History, Memory, Rituals, Historical Linguistics
Fieldwork: March 2000-October 2000 in
Nigeria among the Nupe, Yoruba and Hausa
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| Publications |
Kingship and the Mediators of the Past: Oral Tradition and Ritual Performance in Nupeland, in: Toyin Falola and Christian Jennings (eds.), Spoken, Written, Unearthed. Sources and Methods in African Historical Research, New York 2003 (University of Rochester Press), 268-294.[CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2003]
Celebrating the Hybridity of Cultures: History, Power, and Identity in Kutigi since 1770, in: Toyin Falola and Steve Salm (eds.), Urbanization and African Cultures,Durham 2005 (Carolina Academic Press), 357-383.
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| Grants and Awards |
Graduate Fellowship, UCLA Department of History 2004 - 2005
TAship UCLA Department of History, 2005-2006
DAAD Research Exchange Fellowship for library and archival research visit to the
USA, April – June 2002; Visiting Researcher to the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago
Peter Dornier Foundation Travel Grant for field work and archival research in Nigeria,
March – October 2000
DFG (German Research Foundation) Fellowship, October 1999 - August 2001
DAAD Fellowship for intensive Hausa language studies at the College of Education in
Azare (intermediate level), Nigeria, August – October 1998
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| Advisors |
Professor Christopher Ehret
Professor Andrew Apter
Professor Edward Alpers
Professor Ghislaine Lydon
Professor Michael Morony
Professor Russell Schuh
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| Conference Presentations |
“Celebrating the Hybridity of Cultures in a Nupe Town (Nigeria): History, Power,
and Identity in Kutigi since 1770”, Conference “African Urban Spaces:
History and Culture” University of Texas at Austin, March 28 –30, 2003
“Kingship and the Mediators of the Past: Oral Tradition and Ritual Performance in Nupeland, Nigeria”, Conference “Pathways to Africa’s Past. A Conference on Sources and Methods in African Scholarship,” University of Texas at Austin March 30 – April 1, 2001
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