2025 Global Fellowship.

The School of Art History is delighted to welcome Prof. Eyitayo Ijisakin from the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, who will be University of St Andrews Global Fellow with us for the month of April. An artist and an art historian, Prof. Ijisakin holds a PhD (2016) in African Art Studies from Obafemi Awolowo University. His areas of specialization include graphic design, printmaking, and contemporary African art history. He has contributed to knowledge on African art historical discourse through publications that have explored the form, content and meaning of African art.

Prof. Ijisakin has been the recipient of a dissertation fellowship from the American Council of Learned Society (ACLS), New York, in the African Humanities Program (2015); a visiting research fellowship at the International Institute for the Advanced Study, University of Ghana (2015); a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the National Research Foundation, South Africa (2017-2018), and the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship of the ACLS, New York (2018-2019). He received the Fellowship of the Carnegie Corporation, New York, for the 63rd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association (2020) and a grant of the Getty Foundation to participate in the CAA-Getty International Program at the College Art Association’s 112th Annual Conference held in Chicago, USA.

During his month at St Andrews, Prof. Ijisakin will be continuing his research on contemporary printmaking in Nigeria, and will undertake research visit to the Hunterian, Edinburgh Printmakers and Dundee Contemporary Arts.