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History and Culture

Focus Area Leader

Dr Stella Basinyi

Stella is a Lecturer in Heritage and Digital Creativity in the Department of Archaeology. Her work focuses on public engagement with cultural heritage sites in Africa and beyond, the heritage making process, illustrating the relevance of Archaeological cultural heritage and indigenous communities in the present. Her post-doctoral research project focused on the historical influences on heritage and science narratives.

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Religious urbanisation and infrastructural lives in African mega-cities

Dr Gareth Millington, Sociology, is leading on this project exploring links between religion, development and urbanisation in sub-Saharan African context.

Co-Production Networks for Community Heritage in Tanzania

This GCRF-funded project seeks to engage local communities with their cultural heritage, for educational and economic benefit.

Another World? East Africa and the Global 1960s

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.

Mapping Africa's Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments

The MAEASaM project is working with partners in African countries to build a sustainable record of the continent's archaeological and heritage resources.  Researchers at the University of York are working on the Tanzanian aspect of the project, which is a collaboration across many universities and heritage institutions, funded by Arcadia.

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