Profile
Abstract
Ngozi Edeagu is currently working on a spatialization project that redirects attention from African intellectual activities conducted in universities or other research spaces overseas to the African continent. At the same time, she is seeking to understand how alternative ideas of space were shaped, developed or modified overseas. Her research, thus, centres on how African spatial entrepreneurs trained overseas from the golden age of independence (1960s) imagined or reimagined territorial spaces from institutional settings.
Among her most recent publications is N. Edeagu, “Educating a Transnational Elite: United States University Scholarships for Nigerian Students (1960-1975),” in Diasporas no. 37 (2021): 79-94.
Professional career
- since 01/2024
Academic Researcher, ReCent Globe, University of Leipzig, Germany - 04/2019 - 07/2019
Independent (Research) Contractor, Operations Lights Out (Ontario, Canada) - 07/2015 - 09/2019
Lecturer, Department of History and Strategic Studies, Alex Ekwueme Federal University (AE-FUNAI), Nigeria (on study leave since October 2019) - 07/2015 - 06/2016
Research Fellow, African Centre for Innovation, Leadership and Development, Abuja, Nigeria - 05/2012 - 01/2014
Head of Administration, FAMAKS International School, Abuja, Nigeria
Education
- 10/2019 - 03/2024
Successfully defended PhD in History (focus on Africa) (summa cum laude) at University of Bayreuth; conferral of degree upon publication of thesis (in progress) - 09/2020 - 12/2020
Visiting Post-Graduate Researcher, School of History, Queen Mary University of London, England - 09/2007 - 07/2009
Master of Science in African Studies, University of Oxford - 01/1997 - 03/2001
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in History (First Class Honors), University of Nigeria