New visiting fellows at the ASCL!

The ASCL has a vibrant Visiting Fellows Programme. Selected fellows collaborate and network with colleagues, make use of our excellent library, and give a seminar in the context of the Collaborative Research Group they work with while at the ASCL. In January, three visiting fellows started their three-month stay at the ASCL: Chidiebere Victor Adim, Elijah Doro and Jonathan Echeverri Zuluaga.

Chidiebere Victor Adim lectures in the Department of Business Administration at the University of Africa, Toru-Orua, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. He obtained a PhD in Business Policy from the Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. He is interested in interdisciplinary research that cuts across business, entrepreneurship, environmental sustainability, climate change, gender studies, eco-consciousness, strategic management, and innovation management. While at the ASCL, he will be working with the Collaborative Research Group (CRG) Governance, Entrepreneurship, and Inclusive Development, where he will explore the study “Business is Not for the Disabled: Inclusivity Initiatives for Physically Challenged Women Entrepreneurs in Nigeria." His research focuses on the critical need to interrogate the exclusion of physically challenged women entrepreneurs in Nigeria from the mainstream entrepreneurial ecosystems. 

Elijah Doro is a Humboldt Fellow from the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society at the Ludwig Maximillian University in Munich, Germany. He is an Environmental Historian and did his PhD at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. His research interests are on the entanglement of extraction, human bodies and the environment in colonial southern Africa and the implications for the post colony. Elijah is currently writing on the medical histories and toxic legacies of gold mining in Zimbabwe focusing on arsenic and the contamination of landscapes and multispecies systems. While at the ASCL, he will be working with the CRG Trans-species perspectives on African Studies. He plans to use his time here to integrate his research into broader multidisciplinary frameworks and networks.
 

Jonathan Echeverri Zuluaga is Professor at the Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia. He received a PhD in Anthropology of the University of California, Davis. His main topic of interest is human movement. His most recent project, located in the Northwest tip of Colombia, is entitled “Following the thread of errance: itineraries of South-South travelers through Uraba.” The main ethnographic site for this project is Necoclí, a port in the Gulf of Urabá where the journeys of people from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America periodically get suspended. At the ASCL, he plans to write two chapters of a book that gathers research conducted in Senegal, the Colombia-Panamá border and other locations in South America. He will be working with the CRG Africa in the World - Rethinking Africa's global connections.