Centre for Creative Industries, Media and Screen Studies
Dr John Parker
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Key information
- Qualifications
- BA PhD (London)
- Email address
- jp23@soas.ac.uk
Biography
John is Senior Lecturer in the History of Africa at SOAS. He is the author of ‘Making the Town: Ga State and Society in Early Colonial Accra’, ‘Tongnaab: The History of a West African God’ and ‘African History: A Very Short Introduction’. He is currently researching a book on the history of death and burial in Ghana and is editing ‘The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History’ with his colleague Richard Reid.
Previous PhD Students
Thomas Edward Cadogan, 'Students And Schools In The Southern Highlands: Education In Tanzania, 1890s To The Present', 2007
Ama Barbara Biney, 'The Intellectual Thought Of Kwame Nkrumah', 2007
Enrique Sang Okenve-Martinez, 'Equatorial Guinea 1927-1979: A New African Tradition', 2007
Jonathan Mamu Ayuba, 'Social And Economic Change In Colonial North-Central Nigeria: The History Of Akwanga Division, 1911-11960', 2007
Wilson Kwame Yayoh, 'Local Government In Ewedome, British Trust Territory Of Togoland (Ghana), 1920s To 1970s', 2010
Maria Da Conceicao M Neto, 'In Town and Out of Town: A Social History of Huambo (Angola) 1902-1961', 2013
Research interests
Urban History; Coastal History; North-South cultural flows
PhD Supervision
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Miss Senem Gökel | Leprosy, Empire and Exclusion: the case of Cyprus under Ottoman and British rules, late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries |
| Ms Brandi Simpson Miller | A Social History of Food and Cooking in Ghana in the 19th Century |
