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Josephine Akosua Adomako Ampofo is a Ghanaian academic who is a professor of Gender Studies and African Studies at the University of Ghana. [1] [2] She is feminist activist-scholar, and a strong advocate for social justice. [3]
Ampofo's mother is German and her father is Ghanaian and Asante. [4] [5] Her father's family come from the Convention Peoples Party (CPP) tradition. [5] Ampofo attended Aburi Girls' Secondary School. [6] Ampofo earned her bachelor's degree at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, where she studied architectural design. [2] She earned her master's degree at the same university in development planning and management. [2] Ampofo earned her PhD in sociology from Vanderbilt University. [2] Additionally, she holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Spatial Planning from the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany. [7]
Ampofo started teaching at the University of Ghana (UG) in 1989. [4] During 1994 and 1995, Ampofo was a Junior Fulbright Scholar. [4] In 2005, became the first Head of the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy (CEGENSA) at UG, which she held until 2009. [3] Around 2008, she became an editor for Ghana Studies, working on that journal until 2013. [8] She has also been the editor of the Contemporary Journal of African Studies . [9]
She was a Mellon Fellow in 2014 at the University of Cape Town, where she worked in the Centre for African Studies. [4] In 2015, she worked as a Senior Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Concordia University Irvine. [4]
She has in the past consulted for organisations such as UNIFEM, UNICEF, World Health Organization (WHO), Save the Children, UNAIDS, Ministry for Gender & Social Protection, Ghana; Participatory Development Associates; Gender Studies and Human Rights Documentation Centre and Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre. [7]
In 2019, as president of the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA), she presided over the first conference held in East Africa. [10] Ampofo was a founding member of the ASAA which formed in 2013. [11] [5] She is also a member of the Association and Sociologists for Women and Society, (SWS), African Studies Association, [1] United States, Ghana Domestic Violence Coalition, the Network for Women's Rights in Ghana, the Council for Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and International Sociological Association, (ISA). She is also a fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences. [3] [7]
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