Dr. Mary Owusu is a historian of ancient and modern Africa. Her research interests lie in the areas of African intellectual, political, and development histories, with a focus on Ghana. She writes critical transnational histories that highlight marginalized personalities and perspectives.
Dr. Owusu earned her Ph.D. in African History from Dalhousie University in 2020 after 15 years of teaching history in universities across the Atlantic World. She has taught courses in African and African Diasporic history at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana; at Baldwin Wallace University, Ohio, USA; and at Dalhousie University and Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada. She currently teaches at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
She has been a Cadbury Fellow (University of Birmingham, UK, 2007); a Fulbright scholar (Baldwin Wallace University, Ohio, 2011-2012); an Izaak Walton Killam Predoctoral Fellow (Dalhousie University, 2014); and a recipient of the Barbara Harlow Award (University of Texas at Austin, 2019). She is the author of Prempeh II and the Making of Modern Asante (Accra: Woeli, 2009).
Sunday, June 25, 2023
4:00 PM Ghana // 5:00 PM Nigeria // 11:00 AM Austin CST
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