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Professor Logan’s overarching goal is to connect the past to the present through reframing the kinds of questions we ask and empirically bridging the modern/premodern divide. Her current focus is building an archaeology of food security that traces how, where, and when chronic hunger emerged across the African continent. Drawing insight from political ecology and critical development studies, she utilizes archaeology to highlight the political and economic shifts that paved the way for food insecurity, rather than attributing it to environmental change alone. By using empirical data to construct alternative narratives of underdevelopment and agricultural achievement, she questions the common misconception that African food insecurity is a “natural” outcome of environmental catastrophes and “antiquated” agricultural strategies.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Antrhopology, PhD, University of Michigan
… → 2012
Anthropology, MA, University of Missouri
… → 2006
Archaeology, BA, Simon Fraser University
… → 2003
Research interests keywords
- Archaeology
- Environment
- Ethnoarchaeology
- Food insecurity
- Political economy
- Inequality
- Foodways
- Gender
- Structural Violence
- Paleoethnobotany
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Environmental and human health at the medieval urban center of Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Logan, A. (PD/PI)
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
9/1/24 → 9/1/26
Project: Research project
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Doctoral Dissertation Research: Food Security Under Colonial Rule at Transconquest Purun Llaqta del Maino, Peru
Logan, A. (PD/PI) & Logan, A. (PD/PI)
8/1/22 → 7/31/25
Project: Research project
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Environmental Histories of Food Security in Africa
Logan, A. (PD/PI)
Carnegie Corporation of New York
9/1/22 → 8/31/24
Project: Research project
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Doctoral Dissertation Research: Community Building with Local Mortuary Ceramics in Long-Distance Economies: A Compositional Study on Ancient Aksum (50-400 AD)
Logan, A. (PD/PI)
9/1/22 → 8/31/24
Project: Research project
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Early archaeological evidence of wheat and cotton from medieval Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Logan, A. L., Chouin, G. L., Ogunfolakan, A. B., Lally, S., Kuma, D., Kuto, E., Bell, K., Rosenzweig, M. S. & Beldados, A., Sep 10 2024, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 121, 37, e2403256121.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Strontium isoscape of sub-Saharan Africa allows tracing origins of victims of the transatlantic slave trade
Wang, X., Bocksberger, G., Arandjelovic, M., Agbor, A., Angedakin, S., Aubert, F., Ayimisin, E. A., Bailey, E., Barubiyo, D., Bessone, M., Bobe, R., Bonnet, M., Boucher, R., Brazzola, G., Brewer, S., Lee, K. C., Carvalho, S., Chancellor, R., Cipoletta, C. & Cohen, H. & 93 others, , Dec 2024, In: Nature communications. 15, 1, 10891.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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How African Pasts Can Inspire Alternative Responses to Climate Change: a Creative Writing Experiment
Logan, A. L. & Grillo, K. M., Sep 2023, In: African Archaeological Review. 40, 3, p. 507-517 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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We Need Social Archaeology to Understand Resilience and Build Usable Pasts
Logan, A. L., Dec 2023, In: African Archaeological Review. 40, 4, p. 819-822 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Correction to: Usable Pasts Forum: Critically Engaging Food Security (African Archaeological Review, (2019), 36, 3, (419-438), 10.1007/s10437-019-09347-9)
Logan, A. L., Stump, D., Goldstein, S. T., Orijemie, E. A. & Schoeman, M. H., Sep 1 2019, In: African Archaeological Review. 36, 3, p. 453 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
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