The Anthropology Department would like to invite all graduate students to the 2024 Robert Lecture Graduate Students Professionalization Workshop.

Each year, the Department of Anthropology features a carefully selected invited scholar whose work intersects with scholarships across disciplinary lines, including but not limited to Archaeology, Africana and African studies, and History. This year, our speaker is Professor Akin Ogundiran.

Dr. Ogundiran is a West African archaeologist, historian, and the Cardiss Collins Professor of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. He is also affiliated with the Departments of Anthropology and Black Studies and is the director of the Material History Lab in the Department of History. Dr. Ogundiran is the current President of the Society of Africanist Archaeology and former Editor-in-Chief of African Archaeological Review, the flagship journal of African Archaeology.