Scholars Council, 2012 - present
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TOYIN FALOLA is a Distinguished Teaching Professor and the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters and Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria. Dr. Falola is the author of numerous books, including Violence in Nigeria: The Crisis of Religious Politics and Secular Ideologies, The Power and African Cultures, and Nationalism and African Intellectuals, all from the University of Rochester Press. He is the Series Editor of Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, Series Editor of the Culture and Customs of Africa by Greenwood Press, Series Editor of Classic Authors and Texts on Africa by Africa World Press, and Series Editor of Carolina Studies on Africa and the Black World. Dr. Falola has received various awards and honors at the University of Texas at Austin, including the Jean Holloway Award for Teaching Excellence, the Texas Exes Teaching Award, the Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching Award, Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, and the Career Research Excellence Award. He is the 2011 recipient of the Distinguished Africanist Award by the African Studies Association. He received the Cecil B Currey Award for his book Economic Reforms and Modernization in Nigeria; the Herskovits' finalist award for his memoir, A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt; the Nigerian Studies Association's Best Book Award for Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria; and the Conover-Porter's Finalist Certificate for Key Events in African History: A Reference Guide. For his distinguished contribution to the study of Africa, his students and colleagues have presented him with a set of three Festschriften, two edited by Adebayo Oyebade, The Transformation of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola and The Foundations of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola, and one by Akin Ogundiran, Precolonial Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola. A recent book, Toyin Falola: The Man, Mask and Muse presents bio-critical studies in a thousand pages. Dr. Falola has an honorary doctorate from Monmouth University, USA. He serves as Chair of the Herskovits Prize for the ASA, a member of the M. Klein Book prize for the AHA, and the Joel Gregory Prize for the Canadian Association of African Studies. He is the current Vice President of the International Scientific Committee, UNESCO Slave Route Project.