Christine Oppong is a British academic. She is a retired professor of

Applied Anthropology Applied anthropology is the practical application of anthropological theories, methods, and practices to the analysis and solution of practical problems. The term was first put forward by Daniel G. Brinton in his paper "The Aims of Anthropology" ...

University of Ghana The University of Ghana is a public university located in Accra, Ghana. It is the oldest public university in the country. The university was founded in 1948 as the University College of the Gold Coast in the British colony of the Gold Coast ...

, and a senior member at

Wolfson College, Cambridge Wolfson College () is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The majority of students at the college are postgraduates. The college also admits "mature" undergraduates (aged 21 and above), with around ...

Education

Oppong obtained her bachelor's, Master's, and doctorate degrees in

Anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, society, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans. Social anthropology studies patterns of behav ...

from the

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. She also holds a Master of Arts degree in African Studies from the Institute of African Studies,

Career

Oppong has taught at the Institute of African Studies for over twenty five (25) years. She also once served as a research anthropologist, and technical and policy adviser in Gender, Population, and Development in the

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's Employment and Development Department at

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. Oppong has been a fellow of the

Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences The Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) is a learned society for the arts and sciences based in Accra, Ghana. The institution was founded in November 1959 by Kwame Nkrumah with the aim to promote the pursuit, advancement and dissemination ...

since 1998, the

Royal Anthropological Institute The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is a long-established anthropological organisation, and Learned Society, with a global membership. Its remit includes all the component fields of anthropology, such as biolo ...

from 1979 to 1996, and the

Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) in Amsterdam, Netherlands, is an independent research institute in the field of the humanities and social and behavioural sciences founded in 1970. The insti ...

from 2000 to 2001, and 2003.

Research work

Oppong's research work have been in the fields of Gender, Development, Population, and Family. Her works have included a series of volumes of publications centred on fifty years of family change, the research work was concentrated on Ghana and the United Kingdom. Some of her works include; * ''A Synopsis of Seven Roles and Status of Women: An Outline of a Conceptual and Methodological Approach'', (1980); * ''Middle Class African Marriage: A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants, (1981);'' * ''The Seven Roles Framework: Focused Biographies and Family Size: a Ghanaian Study'', (1984); * ''Relationships Between Women's Work and Demographic Behaviour: Some Research Evidence in West Africa'', (1991); * ''Smiling Infants Or Crying Babies: Taking Reproduction Labour and Material Strain Into Acoount icin Sustainable Development Frameworks, Policies, and Plans'', (2000); * ''Conjugal Resources, Power, Decision Making and Domestic Labour: Some Historical and Recent Evidence of Modernity from Ghanaian Families'', (2005); * ''Marriage Among a Matrilineal Elite: A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants'', (2009); * ''Growing Up in Dagbon'', (2013).

Awards and honours

Oppong was awarded a plaque by the

for her over twenty five years services to the university's Institute of African Studies, and her contributions to the development of research and teaching at the Institute.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Oppong, Christine Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century British non-fiction writers 21st-century British writers British women academics University of Ghana alumni Academic staff of the University of Ghana 20th-century British women writers 21st-century British women writers British educators Fellows of Wolfson College, Oxford British gender studies academics Fellows of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences