Founders Professor | ekong@umsl.edu | 314-516-6782
Dr. Clarke-Ekong has done fieldwork in West Africa (Nigeria and Ghana); in Capetown, South Africa; and in the African diaspora in St. Louis. She is interested in change and continuity in contemporary West African cultures; African organizational structures; women's participation in the informal economies of the urban United States and South Africa; and African geography and cultural education. At UMSL, she teaches Introduction to Cultural Anthropology; Cultures of Africa; Women in Sub-Saharan Africa; Cultural Continuity and Change in Sub-Saharan Africa; and Senior Seminar.
Dr. Clarke-Ekong received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1992. She joined the department in fall of 1992.
Dr. Clarke-Ekong is a native of Philadelphia. After she received her B.A. from Florida International University, she moved to Nigeria and received her M.Phil. there in 1979. Her three daughters, Jennifer, Mfon, and Ime, were born while she lived in Nigeria. In 1979, she assumed a faculty position in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Ife in Ife, Nigeria, where she taught until 1984. From 1989-92, Dr. Clarke-Ekong was an assistant director at UCLA’s James S. Coleman African Studies Center.
Dr. Clarke-Ekong is currently working with Dr. Tamar Wilson on a co-edited volume called The Native in Us: Anthropologists Speak from Experience. She is a fellow in the Center for International Studies and has been a chief liaison in establishing the center's study abroad program with the University of Ghana, Legon. Her links with the Gender Equity Unit at the University of Western Cape, South Africa, have further strengthened relations between the two institutions. She also participates in the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Dr. Clarke-Ekong was one of the first co-directors of the Center for Human Origin and Cultural Diversity. She acts as a content consultant for the McGraw-Hill/ MacMillan Education Division, K-12. She is also active in the Mentor Dropout Prevention Project and Role Model Experiences Program within the St. Louis City School District. She is an advisory board member for Community Women Against Hardship Organization and the Westend Academy.
Dr. Clarke-Ekong's publications include "Out of Sight: Working Women Who Stay Invisible" in The Informal Sector: Case Studies and Theoretical Approaches, Judith Marti and T. Wilson (ed.) from SUNY Press, and "Power, Place, and Queenmothers in Ghana's Ritual Community" in Redefining Women's Roles: Developing New Social Communities in Societies in Transition, P. Delaney and C. Senturia (ed.) from the University of Iowa Press.
Dr. Clarke-Ekong is the advising coordinator for the department.
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About Sheilah Clarke-Ekong
Dr. Clarke-Ekong has done fieldwork in West Africa (Nigeria and Ghana); in Capetown, South Africa; and in the African diaspora in St. Louis. She is interested in change and continuity in contemporary West African cultures; African organizational structures; women's participation in the informal economies of the urban United States and South Africa; and African geography and cultural education. At UMSL, she teaches Introduction to Cultural Anthropology; Cultures of Africa; Women in Sub-Saharan Africa; Cultural Continuity and Change in Sub-Saharan Africa; and Senior Seminar.
Dr. Clarke-Ekong received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1992. She joined the department in fall of 1992.
Dr. Clarke-Ekong is a native of Philadelphia. After she received her B.A. from Florida International University, she moved to Nigeria and received her M.Phil. there in 1979. Her three daughters, Jennifer, Mfon, and Ime, were born while she lived in Nigeria. In 1979, she assumed a faculty position in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Ife in Ife, Nigeria, where she taught until 1984. From 1989-92, Dr. Clarke-Ekong was an assistant director at UCLA’s James S. Coleman African Studies Center.
Dr. Clarke-Ekong is currently working with Dr. Tamar Wilson on a co-edited volume called The Native in Us: Anthropologists Speak from Experience. She is a fellow in the Center for International Studies and has been a chief liaison in establishing the center's study abroad program with the University of Ghana, Legon. Her links with the Gender Equity Unit at the University of Western Cape, South Africa, have further strengthened relations between the two institutions. She also participates in the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Dr. Clarke-Ekong was one of the first co-directors of the Center for Human Origin and Cultural Diversity. She acts as a content consultant for the McGraw-Hill/ MacMillan Education Division, K-12. She is also active in the Mentor Dropout Prevention Project and Role Model Experiences Program within the St. Louis City School District. She is an advisory board member for Community Women Against Hardship Organization and the Westend Academy.
Dr. Clarke-Ekong's publications include "Out of Sight: Working Women Who Stay Invisible" in The Informal Sector: Case Studies and Theoretical Approaches, Judith Marti and T. Wilson (ed.) from SUNY Press, and "Power, Place, and Queenmothers in Ghana's Ritual Community" in Redefining Women's Roles: Developing New Social Communities in Societies in Transition, P. Delaney and C. Senturia (ed.) from the University of Iowa Press.
Dr. Clarke-Ekong is the advising coordinator for the department.
| Present | Associate Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis ‐ Department of Anthropology and Archaeology | |
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