KASU opens applications for three research assistant roles

Kaduna State University has opened applications for three temporary Research Assistant positions under a grant project.

The project is titled Digitizing and Mapping Northern Nigerian Hausa Poetry: Memory and Resistance to Colonialism. It is based at the university in the Department of History and Strategic Studies and receives funding through the African Poetry Digital Humanities Grant at Brown University. The work explores Northern Nigeria's Hausa poetic traditions as a record of collective memory and resistance to colonialism through literary analysis, historical research, digitisation, and geographical mapping.

Application Details

Among the open roles are a Historical Analysis and Archival Research Assistant and a Cartography and Graphics Research Assistant. Interested applicants should submit their curriculum vitae and cover letter.

All correspondence and applications should be directed to the project contact, Bashir Maiwada. His email address is bashir.maiwada@kasu.edu.ng.