David Tei-Mensah Adjartey

QUALIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. in Anthropology                           La Trobe University, Melbourne      2015 to 2019
• M. Phil. Archaeology                             University of Ghana, Legon             2008 to 2011
• B.A. Archaeology with Philosophy         University of Ghana, Legon             2003 to 2007

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Development-Forced Displacement and Resettlement (DFDR)
• Visual anthropology of Ghana

• Puberty rites (Dipo), religious identity and syncretisation processes

• Ethnographic and documentary films
• Socio-cultural change
• Ethnography of fresh water and high sea fishing
• Salvage archaeology/social and cultural impact assessment
• West African Societies

CURRENT TEACHING

• Approaches to the Study of the Past
• Ethnographic Field Methods and Techniques
• Visual Anthropology
• Advanced Methods in Visual Anthropology

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

• Wilmsen B, Adjartey D. (2020) Precarious resettlement at the Bui Dam, Ghana—Unmaking the teleological. Geographical Research.
• Wilmsen B, Adjartey D, and Van Hulten A. (2018). Challenging the Risks-based Model of Involuntary Resettlement Using Evidence from the Bui Dam, Ghana. International Journal of Water Resources Development.1-19.
• David Akwasi Mensah Abrampah, Wazi Apoh, Kodzo Gavua, Mark Henry Freeman, Samuel Amartey, David Adjartey Tei-Mensah & George Anokye (2015): Assessing the Bui Dam Salvage Archaeology Project and Cultural Heritage of Impact Communities. Ethnographisch-Archäologische Zeitschrift, vol. 56., issue 1/2.

Book Chapter

• Wilmsen, B., Van Hulten, A., Han, X & Adjartey, D. (2020): “The Environmental and Social Safeguard Policies of the Belt and Road Initiative: The Geopolitical Implications”. In: Clarke, M. Sussex, M. & Bisley, N. (eds). The Belt and Road Initiative and the Future of Regional Order in the Indo-Pacific. Lexington Books: Lanham, Maryland.

Ethnographic and Documentary Films

• 2020: Indigenous Gold and Silver Forging in Kumasi, Ghana
• 2019: From Basin to Upland: Rebuilding Lives in the Shadow of the Bui Dam (PhD  Thesis Film 70 minutes)
• 2015: Archaeological Survey in Prestea, Nsuta Mining Concession Area (27 minutes)
• 2014: Archaeological Field School at Atimpoku Ancient Iron Working Site, Ghana (19 minutes)
• 2014: Archaeology Field School in Ghana (9 minutes)
• 2013: Championing Social Justice (11 minutes)
• 2012: Salvaging Cultural Heritage (47 minutes)   
• 2011: The Lostscape (M.Phil. Thesis Film 21 minutes)      
• 2009: Religion and Identity (11 minutes)

SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

• Remaking Societies, Remarking Persons Researcher, Leventis Digital Resource Center (LDRC)
• Imagining Futures (IF) Researcher, Leventis Digital Resource Center (LDRC)

• ACLS African Humanities Program (AHP) 2020 Postdoctoral Fellowship, July 2020 – June 2021
• Nominated for La Trobe Anthropology’s entry to Australian Anthropological Society (AAS) PhD Thesis Prize 2020
• La Trobe Postgraduate Research Scholarship, May 25, 2015 to November 30, 2018
• La Trobe University Full Fee Research Scholarship, May 25, 2015 to May 25, 2019
• La Trobe University’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences Fieldwork Award, 2016
• La Trobe University, Department of Social Inquiry Seminar Leadership Prize, 2016/2017