Associate Professor and Director of International and Global Studies
B.A., MPhil., University of Ghana; A.M., PhD., History, Harvard University
Emmanuel Asiedu-Acquah is a historian of West Africa with an interest in student and youth politics, internationalism, media and development in Ghana. His teaching interests include globalization, early and contemporary Africa, the Atlantic world, popular culture and politics, youth cultures, and 19th - and 20th century international politics. He is a recipient of the Kennedy Fellowship for early-career faculty development (2017-2019). His work has appeared in the Journal of West African History, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Safundi, Journal of African Foreign Affairs, Dictionary of African Biography, Journal of African History and the edited volume, Struggle for A Free South Africa: Campus Anti-Apartheid Movements in Africa and the United States, 1960-1994. He is working on a book project which examines the local and transnational politics of students in Ghana from the 1950s to recent times. He was previously a lecturer at Brandeis University and Lasell University.
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