Name: Emmanuel Ankomahene
Year in Program: 3
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Michelle Moyd
Major Field: African History
Minor Fields: Urban Africa and Technology, Atlantic World, and African American History
Email: ankomahe@msu.edu
Link to personal page or profile: https://michiganstate.academia.edu/EmmanuelAnkomahene
I am a doctoral student in African History at Michigan State University. I have research interests in the interconnection between colonial and post-colonial transportation infrastructure, urbanization, labor mobility, race, ethnicity, gender, and Pan-Africanism in West Africa. My proposed research investigates how Ghana’s colonial and post-colonial railway construction and development shaped African wage labor migration, settlements, the construction of race and gender, and the formation of industrial and ethnic identities during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Before pursuing my doctoral degree, I received my Bachelor of Arts in Social Science Education with a focus on History and Economics from the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana, and my Master of Philosophy in History from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. I also served as a teaching and research assistant at the Department of History Education at the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana.