Eugenia Ama Breba Anderson
Lecturer, Gender Historian Department of History and Political Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
| Email: | amaeugenia24@gmail.com; eanderson@knust.edu.gh |
Biosketch
I am an adjunct lecturer and gender historian affiliated to the Department of History and Political Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi Ghana. I hold MPhil and PhD in Historical Studies specializing in the gender question in Social Movements in Africa through the lens of student activism. My expertise cuts across variant research themes and methods with a key interest in the use of oral sources and archival documents. I have conducted the postdoctoral research project Decolonization and Student Activism in the Post-Colonial African University: Knowledge Production, Agency, and Critical Voices (Oct 2022-Sep 2023), funded by a Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. I am part of a Feminist Africa Research Consortium on religious digital activism in Africa. I participated in the British Academy project on Old Parks and New Futures: Documenting the Uses of open space in an African city (Mar 2021-Feb 2023).
I enjoy listening to music, dancing, sampling food, and interacting with others.
Research Interests
My research interest is in the area of
- Women’s leadership in higher education institutions
- Social movements and student activism
- Women and gender-based-violence
- Religious activism
- Decolonization and the university students.
I am largely engaged in activities geared to the empowerment of women and girls in higher education institutions, churches, and my community.
Expectations as a QES Scholar during the Mobility Period
As an emerging scholar, I look forward to enhancing my writing and analytic skills. The conducive environment, practical sessions, field trips and hands-on training provide at Carleton University will facilitate my training as a gender historian. The NewLife Project Inc which will enhance my ability to uplift women and youth to a place of divine accomplishment of fulfilling their purpose, rebuilding their broken lives and towards attaining total restoration.
As a first-class university, I also expect to have effective interaction and mentorship with advanced scholars whose expertise will provide me with the prerequisite knowledge and skills on data analysis in African studies and history. I look forward to use the available resources in Carleton University.
I hope that by the end of the project, I would have established sustainable networks for future research collaboration. I am optimistic that after this project, I will be equipped to contribute to and transform my career through research.
The QES Project and Advancement of your Career
My QES Project project examines the approaches used by feminists to interrogate the oppressive, stigmatizing, and marginalizing misogynistic scriptural texts which breeds violence against women using the reverse social narrative in Africa. This project interrogates the intersectionality of contemporary feminism, gender, violence, and power using the feminist approaches in engaging in conversations around Christian-related GBV. I am optimistic that this project will contribute to policy-making on GBV by offering practical lessons of the intersectionality of power, violence, religion, feminism.
The opportunity provided as a QES will provide me with the prerequisite training to advance my career. It will enrich my academic and professional experience and pursuits.
The QES Project would expose me to new ideas and opportunities that would advance my career.
Last but not least, QES Project would also equip me to publish and share my research findings, experiences and knowledge with other emerging scholars. To build a lasting relationship