Scholarship | ibrahim Anoba

Scholarship & Teaching

Education

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Visiting Postgraduate Researcher, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

PhD, African History, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS

MA, African History, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS

MRes, History of Africa and the African Diaspora, UNIVERSITY OF CHICHESTER

BSc, Political Science, OLABISI ONABANJO UNIVERSITY

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Fieldwork

Archival research at the Southern Baptist Historical Archives, Nashville

Academic publications

Selected awards and grants

AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, Bernadotte E. Schmitt Research Grant
THE HUNTINGTON, Exchange Fellowship at the University of Birmingham.
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, Short-Term Fellowship Award, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
MELVILLE J. HERSKOVITS LIBRARY OF AFRICAN STUDIES at Northwestern University, Melville J. Herskovits Library Research Grant.
THE BANCROFT LIBRARY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Bancroft Library Summer Study Award, Berkeley.
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR LEGAL HISTORY, Student Research Colloquium travel support.
SOUTHERN BAPTIST HISTORICAL LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES, Lynn E. May Jr. Study Grant.
HOOVER INSTITUTION AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Silas Palmer Fellowship.
INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES at George Mason University, Michael & Andrea Leven Fellowship (summer award for early doctoral research).
SHIELDS LIBRARY, Graduate Student Library Prize.

Teaching

My teaching philosophy blends curiosity, humanism, and social reconstructionism, guiding students to question the past from the bottom up so they develop the historical understanding, confidence, and compassion to challenge injustice and shape a more just future. Students in my classroom learn to see Africa not as history's periphery but as one of its central stages.

I am most drawn to teaching courses on postcolonial African identities, transnational Black cultures, and Africana religions. I collaborate with my students to work through sources, asking hard questions about the historical consequences of human actions.

I have served as the instructor of record or assisted in teaching courses, including:

HIS15A: Africa to 1900,

HIS15B: Africa Today - 1600 to Present,

HIS120: World War II,

STS150: Historicizing Gender and Science, and

AAAS 133: Black Family in America.