The Future of Africa’s Past: Establishing the first Professorship of the Deep History and Archaeology of Africa  

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Spring 2018
University of Cambridge - Division of Archaeology

 

The Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge University is immensely grateful to the Jonathan and Jennifer Oppenheimer Foundation for a generous benefaction which will endow a new high-level research post: the Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professorship of the Deep History and Archaeology of Africa.

 

The core focus of the Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professorship will be to lead ambitious research projects and teaching initiatives that will advance and expand our understanding of humanity’s deep-time to more recent history across the continent of Africa, with particular focus on sub-Saharan regions; areas which as of yet have been significantly understudied. He or she will also work to extend Cambridge’s already broad network of archaeological collaborators in Africa, partnering with institutions to build in-country research capacity.

 

The successful applicant will be able to take up the post in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology as early as Spring 2018.

 

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