Bio

Eugenia Ama Breba Anderson is a Lecturer and Gender Historian affiliated with the Department of History and Political Studies at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. She holds an MPhil and PhD in Historical Studies, specialising in the gender question in Social Movements in Africa through the lens of student activism. She is an interdisciplinary researcher who employs methods from history, historiography, gender studies, and ethnography. Her expertise centres on the use of oral sources and archival documents. Her research interest is focused on women’s leadership in higher education institutions, student activism, women and gender-based violence, religious activism, and decolonisation studies. She is currently also a postdoctoral researcher on the DANIDA-sponsored project Multiple Waterscapes in Urban Ghana (MUWUG). She was a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Fellow at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (June-September 2024). She has conducted the postdoctoral research project Decolonization and Student Activism in the Postcolonial African University: Knowledge Production, Agency, and Critical Voices (Oct 2022-Sep 2023), funded by a Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana and was also part of a Feminist Africa Research Consortium on religious digital activism in Africa (2022-2025).