Focus Area Leader

Professor Stephanie Wynne-Jones

Stephanie Wynne-Jones is an Africanist archaeologist who explores the links between people, landscapes, history and material culture. Her work is grounded in an understanding of daily life and human experience. In exploring this she has worked on understanding urbanism from the ground up, and has an ongoing fascination with the ways that people use and interact with objects. 

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Africa Network at York

africa-network@york.ac.uk

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

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.

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

Archaeology

 

History

School of Arts and Creative Technologies

 

History of Art

 

Politics / UGDC

History

 

Education

 

Archaeology / Environment and Geography

Centre for Women's Studies

PhD student

Education and Social Justice

Archaeology

PhD student

Education

PhD student

History

Archaeology

History

Politics

 

History

English and Related Literature

Archaeology

Politics

PhD student

Politics

PhD student

Archaeology

Archaeology

PhD student

Politics

School of Arts and Creative Technologies

Archaeology

Philosophy

Language and Linguistic Science

Archaeology

PhD student

Politics

Environment and Geography

History

History

PhD student

Philosophy

Language and Linguistic Science

PhD student

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.

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Africa Network at York

africa-network@york.ac.uk