Episodes 8: Conversations with Dr Tunde Babalola - Part 1
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Dr Tunde is the Andrew Mellon Postdoc at the British Museum, United Kingdom, and a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellow at the Cyprus Institute’s STARC. He was the Smuts fellow at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cambridge, the McMillan Stewart fellow at the Hutchins Centre of Africa and African American Research, Harvard University, and a Postdoc at the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. His research focuses on high-temperature technologies in pre-colonial West African societies, the role technology played in the emergence of complex society, and the ontology, sociality, and cultural processes of technology. He is the Director of the “Archaeology of Glass” projectin Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
