Temitope Oriola awarded Carnegie Fellowship for the second time in two years
Edmonton, November 2, 2016 - Temitope Oriola from the Department of Sociology, University of Alberta has been awarded a fellowship by the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program for the second time in two years. Dr. Oriola will travel to Nigeria at the end of the winter 2017 term to work with the University of Ibadan, Nigeria's premier university. Oriola will work closely with the chair of the Department of Sociology at Ibadan. A research group on the crime-protest nexus will be established. The group comprises lecturers and graduate students and is aimed at conducting research on the ascendance of non-state, transnational violent actors, such as Boko Haram. The project will also develop graduate and undergraduate courses in the areas of Sociology of Terrorism, Social Movements, Policing and the Political Economy of Crime in the Developing World. Dr. Oriola will also serve on a number of graduate supervisory committees to offer his expertise and experience. Dr. Oriola will deliver a university-wide lecture hosted by The Postgraduate School, University of Ibadan. Past speakers at this public lecture series include Vice Chancellors of the University of Ghana, Legon and the University of Ibadan.
Now in its fourth year, the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program has funded 239 African-born scholars who have been living and working in North America to connect with their peers at universities throughout Africa. The program is designed to build capacity at the host institutions in Africa, and to develop long-term, mutually-beneficial partnerships between the universities. The Fellowships are funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and managed by the Institute of International Education (IIE). The United States International University-Africa (USIU-Africa) in Kenya provides strategic direction through Dr. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and an Advisory Council he chairs. The program selects projects that were proposed by the host universities and matches them with scholars, covering the visiting scholars' expenses, including transportation, a daily stipend, and the cost of obtaining visas and health insurance. Fellows are selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants. The Carnegie fellowship program is proud to recognize scholarly excellence and mentoring capacity.