NCID-1159
Omolade Adunbi
Professor, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Director, African Studies Center and Professor of Law (courtesy), Law School
University of Michigan
Education/Degree:
1 Anthropology (Yale University)
About
Omolade Adunbi is a political and environmental anthropologist who teaches at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He obtained his first degree from Ondo State University, Ado Ekiti. He earned an MA, MPhil and PhD from Yale University. He has authored several journal articles in different academic journals across the world. In 2016, he received The Class of 1923 Teaching Award at the University of Michigan. His book, Oil Wealth and Insurgency in Nigeria (Indiana University Press, 2015) won the 2017 The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland’s Amaury Talbot Book Award for the best book in Anthropology of Africa. His latest book, Enclaves of Exception: Special Economic Zones and Extractive Practices in Nigeria, (Indiana University Press, 2022) interrogates the idea of Free Trade Zones and its interrelatedness to oil refining practices, infrastructure and China's engagement with Africa.
Current Work
Adunbi is the author of the award winning book, Oil Wealth and Insurgency in Nigeria (Indiana University Press, 2015).His latest book, Enclaves of Exception: Special Economic Zones and Extractive Practices in Nigeria, (Indiana University Press, 2022) interrogates the idea of Free Trade Zones and its interrelatedness to oil refining practices, infrastructure and China's engagement with Africa. His new project is at the intersection of social media, climate change and the politics of the environment.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Environment, postcolonial state, transnational institutions, Climate Politics, energy