Ameh Dennis Akoh
EMAIL: amehakoh@yahoo.cco.uk
PHONE: 08035992490
ADDRESS: Department of Theatre Arts, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES: Listening to music
MEMBERSHIP STATUS: Member
YEAR OF INDUCTION/ADMISSION: 2019
POST HELD: See CV
MEMBERSHIP OF COMMITTEE: Communique Drafting Committee (2019), See CV
INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION: Alex Ekwueme Fedral University, Ndufu-Alike (AE-FUNAI), Ebonyi State
SPECIALTIES: Dramatic literature, critical theory, gender
APPOINTMENTS: See CV
PARTICIPATION IN GRANTS AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS/PROJECTS
• Travel Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) Project “Developing Theatre” to the international conference on Theatre for Development (TfD): Historical and Institutional Perspectives, slated for 16-20 March 2020 in Pretoria, South Africa
• TETFund Institution-Based Research (IBR) grant, 2019
• AHP Postdoc Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), 2014
• Resident Fellow, Rhodes University, South Africa, February-April, 2015
• Nominated Visiting Scholar, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2010.
• Travel grant by the Indian Intercontinental and Cultural Association to the 7th International Writers Festival in Wardha, India, 26-28 November, 2012.
• ActionAid Nigeria grant for a research entitled: “Enhancing Democracy through Youth Involvement (Principal Investigator: Dr [now Professor]Tor Iorapuu), 2003
• University of Jos Senate Research Grant for the project “Masquerades and Social Functions in the Middle-belt of Nigeria” (as Research Assistant to the Principal Researcher: Dr D. E. Musa), 2000/2001)
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Pastor, Deeper Life Bible Church
Biography
Ameh Dennis Akoh is a professor of drama and critical theory at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike (AE-FUNAI), Ebonyi State, Nigeria, where he is currently Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academics). He attended the Universities of Jos and Ibadan, Nigeria, and has taught at the University of Jos, Kogi State University, Anyigba and Osun State University. Apart from holding several administrative positions in the past, Akoh is a 2014 AHP post-Doctoral Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Fellow of the Corporate Administration Institute of Nigeria (FCAI), and a 2013 Society of Nigeria Theatre Artists (SONTA) Lifetime Achievement Award winner. He was Resident Fellow at Rhodes University, South Africa (February – April, 2015) as well as recipient of several travel grants including from the Indian Intercontinental and Cultural Association (IICA) and the European Research Council (ERC). He is listed in the Year’s Work in English Studies (YWES) Index of Critics.
