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Dr. Chidi Ugwu Joins Havard as a Research Fellow

University Don Chidi Ugwu has joined the prestigious Harvard University as a Research Fellow for the 2021/2022 session. Sharing the news on his Facebook page, he described joining the prestigious university as a dream come true. Going down memory lane, he narrates how he dreamt of going to Havard for his postgraduate degree and got admission into two ivy league universities but couldn’t secure funding for this program.

According to the statement from the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study of Harvard University, he will be working on an ethnographic study that explored how practitioners of complementary and alternative forms of medicines navigate the challenges of patronage thrust upon them in the post-colonial context.


Chidi Ugwu graduated from the University of Nigeria Nsukka with a degree in Sociology and Anthropology in 2006. He joined the services of the University of Nigeria as a teaching and research assistant in 2009, rising through the ranks to a Senior Lecturer. He won a scholarship for excellent undergraduates in Nigeria in 2006, a predoctoral grant from IFRA-Nigeria, and the British Academy in 2012. 

He also obtained two grants for this Doctorate focused on Medical Anthropology from the African Population and Health Research Centre, Nairobi, Kenya, between 2013 and 2015 and the American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS) between 2015 to 2016. He was awarded another postdoctoral research grant from the ACLS between 2017 to 2018.

In addition to teaching Anthropology and Qualitative methods at UNN, Chidi is a seasoned researcher with interests in areas of public health, religion, and politics.

He has been a guest lecturer in the School of Population and Global Health of the University of Melbourne, Australia, since 2017.

Chidi Ugwu hails from Aku in Igbo Etiti local government.

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  1. ChukwuemekaSeptember 25, 2021 at 2:40 AM

    Congratulations Chidi, a very brilliant guy!

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  2. Peter EdehDecember 24, 2021 at 12:51 PM

    Chidi hails from Ihe, Nsukka (Ideke), not Aku, please

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  3. Peter EdehDecember 28, 2021 at 1:51 PM

    The retraction I read on saharareporters website notes that he is 44 and not 46 years.

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