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Education:

• Ph.D., Boston University, 2000
• M.Sc., University of Ibadan, 1991
• B.A. (First Class Honors), Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 1988

Dr. Akin Ogundiran is Chancellor’s Professor, and Professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology & History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte where he also served as chair of the Africana Studies Department from 2008 to 2018.

Dr. Ogundiran is a transdisciplinary scholar whose research interests focus broadly on the emergent communities, social complexity, and cultural history in the Yoruba world over the past one thousand years, using archaeological, historical, ethnographic, and material science methods. 

Dr. Ogundiran has authored, edited, and co-edited several publications, including Archaeology and History in Ilare District, 1200-1900 (Cambridge Monograph in African Archaeology 55, 2002); Precolonial Nigeria (Africa World Press, 2005); Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora (Indiana University Press, 2007);

Dr. Ogundiran has been recognized for his research, service, and teaching. He is the recipient of the 2006 University of Texas Africanist Award for Research Excellence.

• City of Newton (NC) 2009 Unity Day Guest Speaker
• Ubuntu: An African Philosophical Reflection on “One Community, One Humanity”

• Great Archaeological Discoveries in Africa
• African Civilizations
• African Diaspora and Transnational Theory