Dr. (Mrs.) Cyrelene Amoah-Boampong

Dr. Cyrelene Amoah-Boampong is a Ghanaian social historian with emphasis on women’s engagement in the historical process.

EDUCATION 
 

Ph.D., Historical Studies, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2011.

M.A., History, Central Michigan University, 2005.

M.A., International Affairs, University of Ghana Legon, 2002.

B.A., History and English, University of Ghana Legon, 2000.

AREA(S) OF SPECIALIZATION 
African Women’s History

Women’s Activism in Africa

Women’s Cooperative History

Africa and the African Diaspora

COURSES TAUGHT

Undergraduate Courses

HIST 112 – Selected Topics in World History

HIST 211 – Historiography

HIST 212 – Historical Methodology

HIST 213 – Africa in the Wider World in the Nineteenth Century

HIST 214 – Africa in the International Setting in the Twentieth Century

HIST 315 – The Black Diaspora

HIST 317 – Economic History of West Africa

HIST 334 – Women in History

HIST 435 – Aspects of Modern World History

HIST 442 – The Atlantic World

Graduate Courses

HIST 715 - Gender History

HIST 713- Diaspora History

CURRENT RESEARCH/FUNDED PROJECT
 

Co-Investigator, “Decolonization, the Discipline and the University.” The project is a four-year supranational project funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation with Professor Mahmood Mamdani as the Principal Investigator under the auspices of the Makerere Institute of Social Research, University of Makerere, Kampala, Uganda.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 

Books

Aziato, L., Amoah-Boampong, C., Sapong, NYB., Amfo, N. (Eds.). (2020). A history of nursing and midwifery in Ghana. Accra: CSIR. ISBN 9789988306946.

Journal Articles

Amoah-Boampong, C. (2021) Decolonizing Knowledge Production in Africa: Albert Adu Boahen and the UNESCO General History of Africa, Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, 20, 71-92.

Amoah-Boampong, C. (2018). Historicising the Women’s Manifesto for Ghana: A culmination of women’s activism in Ghana. Legon Journal of Humanities 29 (2), 26-53.

Book Chapters

Amoah-Boampong, C. (2020). Women and the cooperative model in Ghana. In S. Ntewusu, & N. Paarmann (Eds.), Beyond Dichotomies: Aspects of History, Gender and Culture in Africa and Europe, Festschrift Bea Lundt (pp. 47-63). Munster: LIT Verlag. ISBN 978-3-643-14499-7.

Amoah-Boampong, C., & Agyeiwaa, C. (2019). Women in Pre-Colonial Africa: West Africa. In O. Yacob-Haliso, & T. Falola (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of African women’s studies (pp.1-1-13). London: Palgrave Macmillan. Online ISBN: 978-3-319-77030-7.

Book Reviews

Amoah-Boampong, C. (2020). “The State and the University Experience in East Africa: Colonial Foundations and Postcolonial Transformations in Kenya,” Africa Studies Quarterly 19 (1),136-137.

Amoah-Boampong, C. (2019). [Review of the book Building the Nation: Seven Notable Ghanaians, by Mercy Akrofi-Ansah and Esi Sutherland-Addy (Eds)]. Contemporary Journal of African Studies 6 (1), 163-167.