Associate Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan
About
Omolade Adunbi is a political anthropologist who teaches at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He obtained his first degree from Ondo State University, Ado Ekiti. He earned an MA, MPhil and PhD from Yale University. He has authored several journal articles in different academic journals across the world; He is the author of the award winning book, Oil Wealth and Insurgency in Nigeria (Indiana University Press, 2015). He is the recipient of several awards including the prestigious Class of 1923 Teaching and Research Award at the University of Michigan, The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland's Amaury Talbot Book Award for the best book in Anthropology of Africa among others. Recently, the Graham Sustainability Institute at the University of Michigan appointed him a Distinguished Faculty Fellow on Sustainability. Adunbi is an expert on resource conflict, governance, politics, and political economy, as well as environmental sustainability.
Current Work:
Adunbi is the author of the award winning book, Oil Wealth and Insurgency in Nigeria (Indiana University Press, 2015). His current research focuses on the growing interest of China in Africa's natural resources and its interrelatedness to infrastructural projects and special economic zones. He is currently working on a book manuscript on the relationship between oil refining and special economic zones with specific emphasis on artisinal refineries.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Environment, transnational institutions, postcolonial state
