Emmanuel K. Akyeampong

Emmanuel Akyeampong is a professor of history and African and African American Studies at Harvard University.^[1] He is a faculty associate for the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, a previous board member of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, and has also previously held a prestigious Harvard College Professorship.^[2][3] As a former (2002-06) Chair of the Committee on African Studies (now the Center of African Studies, under the leadership of founding director, Caroline Elkins), Akyeampong was instrumental, along with Henry Louis Gates and multiple other faculty members at Harvard University, in shaping the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard. His research focuses on West African history, Islam in sub-Saharan Africa, disease and medicine, ecology, the African diaspora, political economy and trade.^[4][5] He is originally from Ghana.

References

1. "History Department Faculty: Emmanuel Akyeampong". harvard.edu. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
2. "Weatherhead Center Faculty Associates: Emmanuel Akyeampong". harvard.edu. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
3. Harvard Gazette. "Four Named Harvard College Professors". Retrieved 28 October 2014.
4. "Department of African and African America Studies Faculty: Emmanuel Akyeampong". harvard.edu. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
5. Harvard Gazette. "Harvard Portrait: Emmanuel Akyeampong". Retrieved 28 October 2014.