Curriculum Vitae

Education

2012 – 21    
PhD Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada
Thesis: “Fake Goods and Counterfeit Time: Nigerian Entrepreneurs in a time of China Rising.”
 
2007 – 08    
MSc Health, Community and Development, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
Thesis: “A working model of contact: The experience of ‘China goods’ in a Ghanaian marketplace.”
 
2002 – 06    
Honors BSc Anthropology and Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Canada

Employment

2023 –
Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track), Socio-Cultural Anthropology, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Canada
 
2022 –23    
Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Department of Economic Experimentation, Halle, Germany
 
2011 – 12    
Health Promotion Analyst, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, Canada
 
2009 – 11    
Research Associate, Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
 
2006 – 07    
HIV/AIDS Project Officer and Policy Researcher, Walter Sisulu University, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), East London, South Africa

Awards

2022    
Fellowship in Ethnographic Writing, Centre for Ethnography, University of Toronto (UTSC) (declined)
 
2019        
Senior Doctoral Fellowship, New College, University of Toronto
 
2018 – 19    
Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
 
2017    
Canada-China Scholars’ Exchange Recipient Scholar, International Scholarships Program of Global Affairs Canada
 
2017    
Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
 
2017    
Richard F. Salisbury Student Award for Best Research Proposal, The Canadian Anthropology Society
 
2016, 2017    
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Government of Ontario
 
2008    
Hilde Himmelweit Prize for highest overall grade in MSc program and best MSc thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science
 
2006     
International Youth Internship Funding, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)

Teaching

2020 – 21    
Course Instructor, African Studies, New College, University of Toronto; Course: AFR357H1F The Geopolitics and Debates on Africa-China Economic Relations
 
2020        
Course Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Mississauga; Course: ANT 351H1F Money, Markets, and Gifts: Topics in Economic Anthropology
 
2019        
Course Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto; Course: ANT485H1F The Anthropology of China and Africa: People, Language and Goods

Service

2022-
Reviewer, Anthropological Theory