Femi Kolapo, University of Guelph

Research

Read how they describe their research on their University of Guelph profile.

Africa

Latest funding

Freedom narratives of the slave trade
SSHRC · 2019 · Co-investigator
$23,174
Freedom narratives of the slave trade
SSHRC · 2019 · Co-investigator
$358,927
Documenting Africans in Trans-Atlantic Slavery
SSHRC · 2019 · Co-investigator
$98,912

All 5 grants and awards

No publications available.

Freedom narratives of the slave trade

Co-investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Lovejoy, Paul E.

Keywords: African diaspora; biography; enforced migration; slavery; West Africa; demography; digital humanities; database; ethnicity; mapping

$23,174

Freedom narratives of the slave trade

Co-investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Lovejoy, Paul E.

Keywords: African diaspora; biography; enforced migration; slavery; West Africa; demography; digital humanities; database; ethnicity; mapping

$358,927

Documenting Africans in Trans-Atlantic Slavery

Co-investigatorSSHRC2019Trans-Atlantic Platform - Social Innovation

Principal investigators: Lovejoy, Paul E.

Keywords: ethnonyms; methods; data justice; biographies; West Africa

$98,912

SHADD biography project: testimonies of West Africans from the era of the slave trade

Co-investigatorSSHRC2014Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Lovejoy, Paul E.

Keywords: biography; ethnicity; gender; slavery; West Africa; Caribbean; Brazil; abolition

$344,152

Patterns of West Africa's integration into a new international economic order: the lower Niger river basin experience, 1807-1884

Principal investigatorSSHRC2003Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Kolapo, Femi J.

Keywords: abolition; legitimate commerce; precolonial Africa; African diaspora; atlantic slave trade; south atlantic slave trade; slavery and slave trades; slave labor; slave export; legitimate goods production; slave raids; wars; crisis of adaptation; enslavement

$62,205

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Africa Dear Professor Kolapo, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on africa connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]