Allegra Ayida

Allegra Ayida is a doctoral student in the department of History. Her current research focuses on the longue durée maritime history of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, with a focus on port cities, piracy and palm-oil politics. She is a graduate fellow in the environmental humanities at the Whitney Humanities center at Yale. And she also worked at the Yale University Art Gallery as a Graduate Curatorial Intern in African Art. She received a BA in History from Wesleyan University, an MA in World History from Kings’ College London and an Mphil in African Studies from Cambridge University.

Research Interests

Environmental Humanities; Maritime & Oceanic history; Blue Humanities; Material culture; African Art; Natural Resources and the environment; Empire; Longue Durée History; Nigerian History.