About

Dr Cyrelene Amoah-Boampong is the current Head of the Department of History. She specialises in women’s and gender history. She serves as a fellow of the Global Humanities Network and is a member of the African Economic History network. She is a Fulbright Scholar in Residence and an adjunct faculty member at Mount Saint Mary’s University, Maryland, USA. She also served as a Fellow of the Queen Elizabeth Scholar (QES) programme and an affiliate fellow of the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy at the University of Ghana. Currently, she works on a Supranational Andrew Mellon Foundation Grant project, “Decolonisation, the Disciplines and the University” under the auspices of Professor Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia University. She was also a co-investigator on the “Gender equality and the decolonisation of knowledge project” with the QES-AS West Africa. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and is the co-editor of two monographs on the history of nursing and midwifery in Ghana and the history of the Ghana Registered Nurses Association.

Research Interest

Women and Gender History

Publications

Ongoing Projects:
Project Title: Decolonisation, the Disciplines, and the University. 
PI: Professor Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia University
Funder: Andrew Mellon Foundation

Project Title: Gender Equality and the Decolonisation of Knowledge: Transnational Collaboration between West Africa and Canada.
PI: Prof Oceane Jasor, Concordia University, Prof Charlotte Wrigley Asante, University of Ghana, Prof Deborah Atobrah, University of Ghana and Dr Cyrelene Amoah-Boampong, University of Ghana.
Funder: Queen Elizabeth Scholars-Advanced Scholars West Africa (QES-AS-WA) Programme.

Recent Publications:
Amoah-Boampong, C. (2025). Institutionalising African Gender Studies and the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy at the University of Ghana. History Compass 23 (Issue 4-6),1-8. 
Amoah-Boampong, C. (2025). Decolonisation and the Discipline of History at the University of Ghana. The MISR Review 7, 161-193.
Amoah-Boampong, C. (2024). Gender and the Silences in the Tabon Narrative: Illumination from “Brazil Houses.” Ghana Studies 26 (1), 78-98.
Manu-Osafo, M., & Amoah-Boampong. C. (2023). Anti-witchcraft Movements in Colonial Asante: Implications for Anticolonial Resistance, c.1906-1950s and the Metamorphosis of Religiosity in Postcolonial Ghana. Journal of West African History, 9(2), 41-64.
Amoah-Boampong, C. (2021). Decolonising Knowledge Production in African History: Albert Adu Boahen and the UNESCO General History of Africa. Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana 20, 71-92.