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Omolade Adunbi is a political environmental anthropologist whose research explores issues related to governance, infrastructures, extraction, environmental climate politics, human rights, power, violence, culture, transnational institutions, and multinational corporations within the context of the postcolonial state. He has received several accolades for his teaching, including the Class of 1923 Memorial Teaching Award in 2016 and the John Dewey Award for excellence in teaching from the University of Michigan in 2022. Adunbi is the author of "Oil Wealth and Insurgency in Nigeria" (Indiana University Press, 2015), which won the 2015 Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology from the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. His recent publication, "Enclaves of Exception: Special Economic Zones and Extractive Practices in Nigeria" (Indiana University Press, 2022), investigates the interconnectedness of free trade zones and oil refining practices in Nigeria. His new project focuses on the intersection of climate change and environmental politics. Adunbi is also involved in the University’s LSA Honors Program and serves as the director of the African Studies Center, and he is a faculty associate at the University’s Donia Human Rights Center and Energy Institute.
University of Michigan Law School • Ann Arbor, MI
Professor with courtesy appointment, specializing in areas intersecting law and environmental anthropology.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science