UNIBEN appointed a New Dean of Student

The University of Benin has recently appointed a new dean of student, and many students still don’t know their presently appointed Dean.  Professor Osarhieme Benson Osadolor, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of History and International Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria..

He teaches African History with specialization in historiography and historical research methods, military and security studies at the University of Benin. He began his career as a University Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Ibadan, Ibadan (1988-1996). He has published in scholarly books, monographs and journals in Africa, the United States and Europe in the area of his research benefit with related interest in the study of the Benin Empire.

Professor Osadolor has won several laurels, prizes and grants and has distinguished himself as a scholar of international repute with academic distinctions and honors. He was Fulbright Scholar at Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA for the 2008/2009 academic session with engagement in the African Seminar at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

He won two awards from the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Washington DC, USA as an Occasional Lecturer to Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan and San Diego State University, San Diego, California for the Spring Semester 2009.

He was the African Academic Consultant to the Art History Museum, Vienna, Austria, on Benin Exhibition (Benin Kings and Rituals: Court Arts from Nigeria), held at the Museum for Voekerkunde, Vienna, Austria and subsequently in Paris, France 2007; Berlin, Germany 2008, and at the Arts Institute of Chicago, USA 2008.

 He was the German Academic Exchange Scholar at the University of Hamburg, Germany (1995) and a Laureate of the Governance Institute (1994) of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) based in Dakar, Senegal.

He won the UNESCO Africa grant for participation in the Pan African Colloquium on Educational Innovation in Post-colonial Africa at the University of Cape Town, South Africa (1994) and several other grants for projects and conferences in Europe and Africa.