Daniel Agbiboa

Daniel Agbiboa

Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies
Portrait of Daniel Agbiboa

Daniel E. Agbiboa is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He was previously Assistant Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House, under the research theme: “Global Shifts: Urbanization, Migration, and Demography.” He earned a PhD in International Development from the University of Oxford and an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge. Professor Agbiboa’s research and teaching straddles non-state governance, mobility and mobilization, and the spatialization and materialization of corruption, power and inequality in African cities. He is the author of Transport, Transgression and Politics in African Cities: The Rhythm of Chaos, and of several articles in leading journals, including the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, City and Society, Journal of Modern African Studies, and African Affairs. Professor Agbiboa is a member of the Advisory Board for the Zed Books Series: “Politics and Society in Urban Africa.”