Prof. Alao Akinkunmi Adegbola

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Alao Akinkunmi Adegbola

Professor

Name: ALAO Akinkunmi Adegbola
Nationality: Nigerian
State: Oyo
Permanent Home Address: Plot 12B Bolorunpelu Egbeda, Ibadan
Marital Status: Married
Date of Assumption of Duty: 3rd March, 1997
Status at First Appointment: Lecturer I
Present Position: Professor
Faculty/Directorate: Arts
Department/Unit: History

Qualifications

Awards

Qualifications

Academic and Professional Qualifications

B.A. (Hons.) History -August 1982
M.A. (History) -January 1987
Ph.D. (Legal History) – April 2001

Awards

Other Distinctions and Awards with dates

Federal Government of Nigeria, National Merit Award Scholarship, 1979-1982
University of Ife Postgraduate Scholarship Award – 1983-1985
University of Texas at Austin Research Grant 2003-2004
African Humanities Program of the American Council for Learned Societies, 2015

Previous Work Experience in other Universities; all Experiences Indicating Position/Status, Name and Address:

Assistant Lecturer, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo – 1987-1990
Lecturer II, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo – 1990 – 1992
Lecturer 1, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo – 1993 – 1995
Senior Lecturer, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo 1995-1997.
Senior Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin, Austin Texas USA -2002-2004
Visiting Professor, University of Ibadan, Nigeria 2013-2014

Work Experience in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.
Part-time Lecturer, Department of History – 1994 – 1995
Lecturer 1, Department of History – 1997 – 2000
Senior Lecturer, Department of History – 2000 – 2005
Reader, Department of History – 2005 – 2009
Professor, Department of History 2009 to Date

PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Convener & Chairman Local Organizing Committee for the National Conference on Culture and Society in Nigeria, Ile-Ife, March 2007
Convener & Chairman Local Organizing Committee for the National Conference on the Chieftaincy Institution in Nigeria, Ile-Ife, April 2008
Executive Vice Chairman Local Organizing Committee and Rapporteur for the International Conference on Global African Spirituality, Social Capital and Self Reliance in Africa Ouidah, Republic of Benin, November 2007
Executive Vice Chairman Local Organizing Committee and Rapporteur for the International Conference on Teaching and Propagating African History and Culture to the Diaspora and Teaching Diaspora History to Africa, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, November 2008
Advisor, African Humanities Programme of the American Council for Learned Societies
Editor: ODU: Journal of West African Studies
Editor-in-Chief: Ife Journal of History

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES
Member, Historical Society of Nigeria
Member, American Studies Association of Nigeria
Member, Nigerian Society for Legal History
President, Nigerian Cultural Studies Network
Member, Nigerian Academy of Letters

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