Broadly, kwabena’s research lies in the intersection between science, technology and society studies and (West) African history. His work uses multispecies analytics to foreground entanglements (conditions) among cosmologies, materialisms, the histories of empire, colonialism, environment, capitalism, and contemporary art and curatorial practices and their bearance on social categories including race (Blackness/body), ethnicity, kinship, gender and class.
Advisors:
Professor Utathya Chattopadhyaya
- kwabena agyare yeboah, ‘Cosmologies, Opacity and Inventions: Notes on Sela Adjei and the Ewe Vodu Art‘ in Zadokeli (2023). Ed. G. Edzordzi Agbozo and Niklas Wolf. Grin Publications (Accra, Ghana), pp. 38-43.
- kwabena agyare yeboah, ‘In Praise of the Presence of Absence’ in Ibrahim Mahama. Exchange-Exchanger (1957-2057) (2017). Ed. Bernard Akoi-Jackson and Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König (Berlin, Germany).
African History, South Asian History, History of Science/medicine, Public Health/Environment, Science, Technology and Society Studies, The Black Radical Intellectual and Prophetic Traditions
Spring 2024 – HIST 4C: Modern Europe
Winter 2024 – HIST 49B: Survey of African History (1800-1945)
Fall 2023 – HIST 88: Survey of South Asian History
Grants/ Fellowships/ Prizes
- Exploring Diversity in Technology’s History (EDITH) Conference Support Award, SHOT/ICOHTEC 2024
- UCSB History Associates Fellowship 2024
- The Society for the History of Technology/ National Science Foundation Travel Grant 2024
- Mellon Sawyer Seminar Summer Grant 2023
- The History Project Grant 2023
- Public Humanities Graduate Fellowship
- UCSB Chancellor’s Fellowship 2022 – 2027
Professional Activities/Memberships
- Student co-convener, Ghana Studies RFG (2023 -2025)
- West African Research Association
- African Studies Association – US