Joseph inikori biography

JOSEPH E. INIKORI is Professor of History at the University of Rochester.
I started with the British economy, and subsequently extended my studies to Africa and the Americas.
Inikori was born in Nigeria's Delta state in 1941.

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Inikori, Joseph

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Historian Joseph E. Inikori was born in Nigeria’s Delta state in 1941. He obtained his undergraduate degree in 1967 from the University of Ibadan, where he embarked on a PhD program in 1968. A special arrangement allowed Inikori to study at the London School of Economics from 1969 to 1971 under the direction of A. H. John (1915–1978), a preeminent scholar of the early modern English economy. Inikori obtained his PhD in history there in 1973.

After a brief stint as an assistant lecturer at the University of Ibadan (1972–1973), Inikori was appointed lecturer at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria, in 1973. In October 1981 he was promoted to the post of professor of history and subsequently became chair of the History Department. During this period, Inikori received two prestigious fellowships to English universities: he was named a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics (1974–1975) and he won the John Cadbury Fellowship at the University of Birmingham (1980). In 1989 Inikori became a professor of history a

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Faculty

Research Overview

Interests: Atlantic World Economic History

My research and teaching interest centers on the evolution of the current global economic order from the 16th century. This interest has developed over time from my study of the global impact of the Atlantic slave economy. I started with the British economy, and subsequently extended my studies to Africa and the Americas. To satisfactorily analyze the impact of the evolving world economy on the units or sub-regions making up the system, I have had to concern myself with the internal socio-political processes within the said sub-regions: the development of market institutions; the evolution of economic, social and political structures; the development of science and technology, etc. My analytical task has been to show how the internal and external factors operated and interacted to shape the structures within the units, at one point, and at another point, the character of the international economy.

These research interests are clearly reflected in the undergraduate and graduate courses I have taught sin

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Inikori, Joseph E.

(J.E. Inikori)

PERSONAL:

Education: Graduated from University of Ibadan.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of History, 364 Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, former faculty member; Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, former faculty member, became chair of history department; University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, professor of history, 1988—.

MEMBER:

Urhobo Historical Society.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Received fellowships to the London School of Economics and the University of Birmingham; Leo Gershoy Award from the American Historical Association and the Herskovits Prize from the African Studies Association, both 2003, both for Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development.

WRITINGS:

(Editor) Forced Migration: The Impact of the Export Slave Trade on African Societies, Africana Publishing (New York, NY), 1982.

(Editor, with Stanley L. Engerman) The Atlantic Slave Trade: Effects