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Professor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong appointment as the new Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies
25 May

Professor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong appointment as the new Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong as the new Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies effective July 1, 2016. Akyeampong, Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, is the senior historian of Africa at Harvard, and specializes in West African history, Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa, comparative slavery, social history of alcohol, disease and medicine, ecology, the African diaspora, political economy and trade, and social and cultural history.

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