Michigan State University

Ph.D. Michigan State University

Ndubueze Leonard Mbah obtained a B.A (First-Class Hons.) in History and International Studies from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude, in 2007. He was awarded a Harold G. Marcus Recruitment Fellowship for doctoral training in African History at Michigan State University, U.S.A, under the supervision of Prof. Nwando Achebe. His Graduate Committee comprise Prof. Nwando Achebe (West African History – Primary Field), Dr. Peter Alegi (African History – General Field), Prof. James Pritchett (Anthropology), and Prof. Gordon Stewart (World History – Teaching Field). Mbah completed his comprehensive written and oral examinations in May 2011, with “Distinction” in all fields. He won the prestigious Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant and has successfully concluded his dissertation research on “Emergent Masculinities:’ The Gendered Struggle for Power in Southeastern Nigeria, 1850-1920.” This study locates masculinity as a concept within the cultural logic, norms, practices, idioms, and institutions of Ohafia-Igbo society, and examines the impact of the historical constructions of masculinities on gendered unequal power distribution in the society, between 1850 and 1920. Mbah argues that constructing new individual and collective identities for political purposes was a real and immediate necessity in both pre-colonial and colonial Africa. Mbah’s research utilizes oral history, life history, emic interpretations of material culture, and gendered rituals and memorialization ceremonies to study masculinities, gender, slavery, religion and colonialism, in Southeastern Nigeria. Mbah defended his dissertation with distinction in July 2013.
Webpage:

http://history.msu.edu/people/graduate-students/mbah-ndubueze-leonard/

http://www.wennergren.org/grantees/mbah-leonard-ndubueze

http://blog.wennergren.org/2012/11/interview-leonard-ndubueze-mbah-and-emergent-masculinities/

Access Bank Nigeria Plc, (IBPLC)

Loan Services Management Officer

Leonard worked at Access Bank Nigeria Plc, (IBPLC) as a Loan Services Management Officer

University at Buffalo

Assistant Professor

Leonard worked at University at Buffalo as a Assistant Professor

Davidson College, NC

Visiting Assistant Professor

http://cmsr4.davidson.edu/academics/history/faculty/leonard-mbah

COURSES TAUGHT
HST 168: African Civilizations through the Era of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
HST 169: Modern Africa: 1825-Present
HST 268: Christian and Muslim Communities in Africa: Dialectics of Conversion
HST 367: Comparative Slavery: Africa, America, and the Caribbean
HST 468: Gendering History in African Lives: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Africa

University of Nigeria, Nsukka

Faculty

Leonard worked at University of Nigeria, Nsukka as a Faculty

Emergent Masculinities: Gendered Power and Social Change in the Biafran Atlantic Age

Ohio University Press

Emergent Masculinities: Gendered Power and Social Change in the Biafran Atlantic Age

Ohio University Press

“Matriliny, Masculinity and Contested Gendered Definitions of Ethnic Identity and Power in Nineteenth Century Southeastern Nigeria,” in Gendering Ethnicity in African Women’s Lives, ed. J.B. Shetler

(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press)

Emergent Masculinities: Gendered Power and Social Change in the Biafran Atlantic Age

Ohio University Press

“Matriliny, Masculinity and Contested Gendered Definitions of Ethnic Identity and Power in Nineteenth Century Southeastern Nigeria,” in Gendering Ethnicity in African Women’s Lives, ed. J.B. Shetler

(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press)

“African Masculinities”

Oxford Encyclopedia of African History