Oluwasola Daniels

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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. Her dissertation explores men's reproductive health in twentieth-century Nigeria and has been supported by the Medicine and Humanities fellowship from the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), the African Studies Association, and the West African Research Association (WARA). 

Publications:  

  1. Oluwasola Ibitayo Daniels, (2022) “Shifting Fatherhood and Gender: Negotiating Power and  Sexuality in Yorùbá”, Yoruba Studies Review Fall Edition vol 6. No 2 Fall 2022 (Library Press, University of Florida). Link 
  1. Oluwasola Ibitayo Daniels, “Nudity and Power in North-Eastern Yoruba: A Study of Pre-colonial and Modern Traditional Practices”, Kenneth Dike Journal of African Studies vol. 1 no. 1’,  Department of History and International Studies, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria, 1- 28, 2020. Link  

ACADEMIC AWARDS   

  1. 2026: Andrew Vincent White and Florence Wales White Scholarship, University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), Medicine and Humanities Dissertation Fellowship. 
  1. 2026: American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch Presidents' Graduate Travel Award. 
  1. 2026: University of California, Davis, Department of History Summer Fellowship 
  1. 2025: University of California, Davis Graduate Program Fellowship   
  1. 2025: University of California, Davis, Department of History, Winter Travel Award. 
  1. 2024: West African Research Association Scholar Mobility Fellowship  
  1. 2024: African Studies Association Graduate Student Paper Prize  
  1. 2024: African Studies Association Mahmoud Mohamed Taha Student Travel 
  1. 2024: University of California, Davis Women’s and Gender History Award 
  1. 2023: African Studies Association Women Caucus Nancy Penny Schwartz Award 
  1. 2022: Dean’s Summer Graduate Fellowship, University of California, Davis 
  1. 2021: University of California, Davis Graduate Program Fellowship