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Daniel-Agbiboa

Daniel E. Agbiboa

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CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars 2024-2026

Humanity's Urban Future

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Professor Agbiboa’s research is at the intersection of urban, security, and environmental governance in contemporary Africa. He has a long-standing interest in how state and non-state forms of order and authority interrelate and shape each other.

Awards

  • Clarence Stone Scholar Award, American Political Science Association, 2023
  • Lee Ann Fuji Book Award, International Studies Association, 2023
  • PEACE Best Global South Scholar Book Award, International Studies Association, 2023
  • Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC, 2022
  • Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 2021

Relevant Publications

  • Daniel E. Agbiboa. (2022). They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Daniel E. Agbiboa. (2022). Mobility, Mobilization and Counter/Insurgency: The Routes of Terror in an African Context. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
  • Daniel E. Agbiboa. (2019). “The Manipulations of Time: On the Temporal Embeddedness of Urban Insecurity.” Urban Studies, 56(4), 836–851.

Institution

Harvard University

Department

Department of African and African American Studies

Education

  • PhD (International Development), University of Oxford
  • MPhil (Development Studies), University of Cambridge

Country

United States

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