Name: Emmanuel Ankomahene
Year in Program: 2
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Michelle Moyd
Major Field: African History
Minor Fields: African American History and Atlantic World
Personal Page or Profile: Emmanuel Ankomahene – Knowledge Commons (hcommons.org); Emmanuel ANKOMAHENE | Master of Philosophy | University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast | UCC | Department of History | Research profile (researchgate.net); Emmanuel Ankomahene | Michigan State University – Academia.edu
Emmanuel Ankomahene is a Ph.D. student in African History at Michigan State University. He has research interests in colonial transport infrastructure, labor mobility, power, and gender in West Africa. He is primarily interested in the British colonial period in Ghana, that is, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His Ph.D. dissertation would examine how colonial railway, road and harbor construction and development in the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana) occasioned migration of wage labor, permanent settlements, labor politics, Pan-Africanism, and the construction of gender and domestic life from the latter part of the nineteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century.
Before pursuing his Ph.D., Emmanuel received his Bachelor of Arts in Social Science Education in History and Economics from the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana, and his Master of Philosophy in History from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He also served as a teaching and research assistant at the Department of History Education at the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana. He was a history teacher and head of Boys Pastoral Care at Right to Dream, Ghana.