Professor of African Cultural Anthropology
Department of African Studies and Anthropology
I am an anthropologist with a particular interest in popular culture, religion, and the verbal arts, both oral and written. Most of my research has been in the Yoruba-speaking area of Nigeria, and I am currently working on early Yoruba print culture.
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 5125
Email k.j.barber@bham.ac.uk
Lecturer in Anthropology and Africa
Department of African Studies and Anthropology
I am an anthropologist specialising in labour, migration, borders, development and the social dynamics of money. My research has been based in both university and museum settings. In addition to my current courses, I have taught on anthropology and development, globalisation, and surveys in ethnographic research.
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 8444
Email m.bolt@bham.ac.uk
Reader in Caribbean Literature
Department of African Studies and Anthropology
For me the best part of living and working in Birmingham through the last two decades has been the sense of being in a genuinely multi-cultural city which, at all sorts of levels, celebrates and cherishes that cultural diversity. Few other cities in Europe have embraced the fact of such an ethnic, linguistic, religious and more broadly cultural encounter with such enthusiasm and ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 5127
Email s.brown@bham.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer
Department of African Studies and Anthropology
I am a (human) geographer by training and multi-disciplinary researcher by choice; and have, to date, had the good fortune of practising these ‘trades’ within the three related disciplines of Geography, Environmental Studies and, currently, Area Studies.
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 5132
Email r.e.a.cline-cole@bham.ac.uk
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Department of African Studies and Anthropology
I am a historian. I have worked on epigraphic sources for the medieval history of West Africa. I have also developed new approaches to the 17th-century Timbuktu Chronicles, and to some historical oral narratives current among the Mande, Songhay, Baatombu, and Yoruba.
Telephone +44 (0)121 680 1399
Email p.f.de_moraes_farias@bham.ac.uk
Research Fellow
Department of African Studies and Anthropology
I am a Research Fellow working with Dr Insa Nolte and Professor Koya Ogen on the ERC-funded project, ‘Knowing Each Other: everyday religious encounters, social identities and tolerance in southwest Nigeria.' The project centres on the everyday lives of Yoruba Muslims, Christians and traditionalists, and it explores the way in which religious differences and ...
Telephone (+44) 0121 4158413
Email r.k.jones@bham.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in African Studies
Department of African Studies and Anthropology
My work is based on two decades of engagement with Nigeria, and I am particularly interested in Yoruba history, culture and politics.
I am currently the Principal Investigator (PI) of a European Research Council Starting Researcher Grant with the title 'Knowing Each Other: everyday religious encounters, social identities and tolerance in southwest ...
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 5129
Email m.i.nolte@bham.ac.uk
Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Professor of History, Osun State University, Osogbo, Nigeria
Department of African Studies and Anthropology
Telephone +44(0)121 41 45124
Email o.ogen@bham.ac.uk
Lecturer in African Studies
Department of African Studies and Anthropology
I work on the history and anthropology of twentieth-century West Africa, with a focus on Hausa and Tuareg societies in the Republic of Niger. My recent publications focus on slavery; emancipation; labour; migrations; governance; and the history and impacts of planned development.
Telephone +44 (0)121 41 47343
Email b.rossi@bham.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in African Studies
Head of Department of African Studies and Anthropology
Department of African Studies and Anthropology
I am interested in many aspects of African (but particularly Southern African) history and politics, and am currently researching how the South African state coped with domestic political dissent during the 1940s.
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 2288
Email k.s.shear@bham.ac.uk
Lecturer in the History of Africa and its Diasporas
Department of African Studies and Anthropology
Telephone +44 (0)121 416 218
Email k.a.skinner.1@bham.ac.uk
Newton Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of African Studies and Anthropology
Telephone +44 (0)121 414 3276
Email p.ugor@bham.ac.uk