Eugenia Ama Breba Anderson

Faculty Biography

I am a lecturer and gender historian affiliated with the Department of History and Political Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. I hold an MPhil and PhD in Historical Studies, specialising 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. My research interest is focused on women’s leadership in higher education institutions, student activism, women and gender-based violence, religious activism, and decolonisation studies. I am currently also a postdoctoral researcher on the DANIDA-sponsored project Multiple Waterscapes in Urban Ghana. I was a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Fellow at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. 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.