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Racheal Oyundoyin

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Racheal Oyundoyin

Institution: Northwestern University

Racheal is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University. She got her B.Sc. in Archaeology from the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and her M.A. in Anthropology from Mississippi State University. Her Master’s thesis is a pilot study of organic residues on ceramics from the Early Iron Age (ca. 400 B.C.-A.D. 40) of Bara in southwest Nigeria. For her doctoral research, Racheal plans to shed light on the complex interplay between food, culture, and society in Old Oyo over the past 3000 years, using paleoethnobotanical analysis and organic residue analysis of ceramics. She is a member of the “History of Food and Foodways in Western Lower Niger since 400 BC” and “The Chemistry of History: Technology, Mobility, and Trade in West Africa, 400 BC-AD 1830” research groups in the Material History Lab.