Toyin Falola, Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities (University of Texas at Austin). He is an Honorary Professor (University of Cape Town), and Extraordinary Professor of Human Rights (University of the Free State). He served as the General Secretary of the Historical Society of Nigeria, President of the African Studies Association, Vice-President of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (Unesco’s) Slave Route Project, and the Kluge Chair of the Countries of the South (Library of Congress). He is a member of the Scholars' Council, Kluge Center (Library of Congress). The recipient of more than 30 lifetime career awards and 15 honorary doctorates, he has written extensively on the humanities, including The humanities in Africa: Knowledge production, universities, and the production of knowledge, and a recent book published by the University of Rochester Press, Decolonizing African studies: Knowledge production, agency, and voices. As the author and editor of over 150 books on Africa and the African Diaspora, he has been invited to speak on every continent, and in over 60 countries. He manages eight distinguished scholarly monograph series, and serves on the boards of over 20 journals.
