Position Title
PhD Candidate
Oluwasola Daniels is a Ph.D. candidate in History with a D.E. (Directed Emphasis) in African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is a historian of modern Africa whose research examines how law, medicine, and social institutions have shaped reproduction and gender. Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, including African Identities, with an article currently in press at African Studies Review. Her dissertation explores men’s reproductive health in twentieth-century Nigeria. She is currently on a Medicine and Humanities dissertation completion fellowship from the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).
Publications:
Journal Articles:
“From Sexual Mobility to Sexual Shame: Àlè and Conjugal Transformation in Yorùbá, Nigeria, 1877-1958,” African Studies Review (Cambridge University Press), in press.
“Gender Relations and Social Grading System in Pre-colonial Akoko: Isua Akoko Example,” African Identities 20:4 (2022), https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2020.1816897.
“Shifting Fatherhood and Gender: Negotiating Power and Sexuality in Yorùbá,” Yoruba Studies Review 6:2 (2021) https://journals.flvc.org/ysr/article/view/130282.
“Gendering Agency in Spirit Possession of Yoruba Eegun and Imole,” Humanus Discourse 1:2 (2021), http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3888204.
“Nudity and Power in North-Eastern Yoruba: A Study of Pre-colonial and Modern Traditional Practices,” Kenneth Dike Journal of African Studies 1:1 (2020), https://www.nigerianjournalsonline.org/index.php/KDJAS/issue/view/184.
“From Feminine Based Abuse to Masculine Abuse: Rethinking Domestic Abuse in Quotidian Yoruba,” Kaduna Journal of Historical Studies 11:1 (2020).
“Music and Gender Relations in Yoruba: Reflections on Ebenezer Obey Lyrics,” Al-Hikmah Journal of History and International Relations (AJHIR) 4:1 (2017).
“A Historical Survey of the Place of Africa in the Columbian Exchange,” Akungba Journal of Historical Studies 12 (2013).
“The Dynamics of British Colonial Culture on Nigerian Women, 1900- 1960: North-Eastern Yoruba Example”, Humanities and Social Sciences Review 4:1 (2015). https://www.universitypublications.net/hssr/0401/html/R4ME174.xml.
Work Under Review
“Thinking Reproductive Health, Thinking Men: Indigenous Medicine, Pharmaceutical Practice, and Men’s Bodies in Southwestern Nigeria (1890 – 1938),” Bulletin of the History of Medicine (Johns Hopkins University Press)
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
External (outside University of California, Davis)
- Andrew Vincent White and Florence Wales White Scholarship, University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), Medicine and Humanities Fellowship, 2026-2027
- Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association Presidents’ Graduate Travel Award, 2026
- Rocky Mountain Workshop Award, University of Portland, Oregon, 2026
- African Studies Association (ASA) Graduate Student Paper Prize, 2024
- West African Research Association (WARA) Scholar Mobility Fellowship, 2024
- African Studies Association (ASA) Mahmoud Mohamed Taha Student Travel, 2024
- African Studies Association Women Caucus Penny Schwartz Student Travel Award, 2023
Internal (University of California Davis)
- Graduate Student Association Travel Award, 2026
- Department of History Summer Research Award, 2026
- Department of History, Graduate Program Fellowship, 2025
- Department of History, Summer Research Award, 2025
- Department of History, Winter Travel Award, 2025
- Department of History, Women and Gender History Graduate Summer Support Award, 2024
- Department of History, Graduate Program Fellowship, 2023
- Dean’s Summer Graduate Fellowship, 2022
- Department of History Graduate Program Fellowship, 2021