History and Culture
Dr Gareth Millington, Sociology, is leading on this project exploring links between religion, development and urbanisation in sub-Saharan African context.
This GCRF-funded project seeks to engage local communities with their cultural heritage, for educational and economic benefit.
Wenner-Gren Workshop: Theorising a More Socially Responsive Practice in African Palaeoanthropology.
With support from the African Research Network (ARN), Stella Basinyi participated in the Wenner-Gren Workshop: Theorising a More Socially Responsive Practice in African Palaeoanthropology, held at Khwa ttu, South Africa. The workshop brought together researchers from African institutions, members of the African diaspora conducting research on the continent, and a select group of international collaborators.
In danger to endangered: analyses of Sukur Cultural Landscape, northeast Nigeria (DEALS)
By analysing landscape change over the last twenty-five years, the DEALS project is assessing recent threats to the integrity and sustainability of Sukur World Heritage Site in northern Nigeria. With funding from The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship, Akinbowale Akintayo is assessing, monitoring the preservation of cultural heritage landscapes in post-vandalism situations.
Dr Gerard McCann leads on a project exploring East Africa's global connections in the post-independence world
Manifesting the Past in the Present: Decolonising Heritage Conservation in Algeria
PhD student Samir Belgacem has been exploring the origins of current inefficient conservation mechanisms and legislation in Algerian heritage. He is working to formulate alternative processes through a review of traditional cultures of care and the involvement of Algerians.
ZAMBEZI: Zambezian Entanglements in the South-Central African Iron Age
ZAMBEZI was recently funded through an ERC Advanced Grant awarded to Stephanie Wynne-Jones in the Department of Archaeology. It is an archaeological investigation of the site of Ingombe Ilede in Zambia, which was discovered in the 1960s and is known to be a rich settlement of the later Iron Age. It yielded a series of burials with rich burial goods of gold, copper and imported objects.
The MAEASaM project is generously funded by Arcadia, and is working to identify and compile an archive of archaeological sites across eight African countries. At the University of York, we are leading on research in Tanzania, working with the National Museum of Tanzania and the Zanzibar Department of Museums and Antiquities to create a database of sites that is useful for researchers and for heritage professionals in the country.
The Role of Traditional Food Systems in Rapid Urbanization
Henrice Altink is collaborating on this project to identify the drivers of food choice in urban migrant populations around traditional African vegetables and fruits and the barriers to their consumption
Focus Area members
Dr Akinbowale Akintayo
Archaeology
Dr Alex Medcalf
History
Dr Amandine Pras
School of Arts and Creative Technologies
Dr Ana Bilbao Yarto
History of Art
Dr Barnaby Dye
Politics / UGDC
Dr Becca Grose
History
Bob Campbell
Education
Dr Daryl Stump
Archaeology / Environment and Geography
Diana Nana Somuah Adu-Gyimah
Centre for Women's Studies
PhD student
Dr Daniel Owusu Kyereko
Education and Social Justice
Elizabeth Hicks
Archaeology
PhD student
Emma Jackson
Education
PhD student
Dr Gerard McCann
History
Professor Joann Fletcher
Archaeology
Dr Joanna de Groot
History
Dr José Ciro Martínez
Politics
Dr Joseph Mujere
History
Dr Juliana Mensah
English and Related Literature
Dr Kwaku Afrifa
Archaeology
Lilian Chigona
Politics
PhD student
Luqman Muraina
Politics
PhD student
Professor Michelle Alexander
Archaeology
Nura Hassan
Archaeology
PhD student
Dr Peg Murray-Evans
Politics
Dr Philip Burnett
School of Arts and Creative Technologies
Dr Richard Lee
Archaeology
Dr Robert Davies
Philosophy
Professor Sam Hellmuth
Language and Linguistic Science
Samir Belgacem
Archaeology
PhD student
Dr Sayra Van Den Berg
Politics
Dr Stella Basinyi
Archaeology/Heritage
Dr Tabitha K. Kabora
Environment and Geography
Dr Tara Alberts
History
Thomas Wright
History
PhD student
Professor Tom Stoneham
Philosophy
Umar Gombe Muhammad
Language and Linguistic Science
PhD student