Dr. Akin Ogundiran is the Cardiss Collins Professor of Arts and Sciences, Professor of History, and Courtesy Professor of Anthropology and Black Studies at Northwestern University. His research interest focuses on household economy, urbanism, empire, and cultural history in Atlantic Africa from 400 BC to 1840 AD, with emphasis on the Yoruba World. Ogundiran’s publications include The Yoruba: A New History (Indiana University Press, 2020), recipient of the Vinson Sutlive Book Prize, and Isaac Oluwole Delano Prize for Yoruba Studies. Paleontology Hall.