Ogechukwu Williams

Check out my new website: drogewilliams.com; YouTube channel @ youtube.com/@profy-ow?si.... Shout out to @parisnoire.bsky.social for pushing me to stop talking about the website and just get it done. Designed by @gumbomedia.bsky.social #birthpolitics #Africa #maternalhealth #reproduction #histmed

Who else receives these eerily identical AI-generated emails from prospective PhD students? If you use AI to draft generic email/material for a potentially competitive application, please realize that it is generating same thing or similar for all of the other prospective applicants like you. #AI

PhD in Governing African agrifood system transformations Are you looking for a PhD position (4 years) in public administration and policy? Are you interested in how West African cocoa value chains can transform to be more sustainable and just?

Resharing this fully funded PhD opportunity in Public Admin that was just shared with me. Location is Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Please share with cocoa/agri researchers. Masters degree in related fields required. Deadline is December 14, 2025.
www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

Attended this year's NEXTGen Tri-State conference @sunybroome.bsky.social. A few quotes from the professional development session that we can all reflect on: "Motivation got me started; discipline got me through"; "What you repeat; you become." We definitely become whatever we repeat...good and bad!

And here comes the first snow of the season in Buffalo. I thought we had a few more weeks before "touchdown" 😔🤷

Gorgeous 😍

The African&African Diaspora Studies Department @fiu.bsky.social held raffle draws for 20 copies of Birth Politics (@hopkinspress.bsky.social) courtesy of Black Mothers Care Plan.Thank you BMCP for making the book available to students and birth workers. #UBuffalo #birthpolitics #histmed #childbirth

It is an honor and a pleasure to give the 18th Annual Chris Gray Memorial Lecture at Florida International University on Thursday, Nov 6th. Please join me in person or online. fiu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#birthpolitics #histmed #maternalhealth #Africa #Nigeria #UBuffalo #FIU

Wish you were still at UB! I'd have paid you a visit with a small suitcase of your books 😊. Anyway, congrats to your students 🎉

Never read anything she wrote that I didn't like. Time to check out this edited collection.

I was scheduled to present my work at my foremost disciplinary organization in the US.My co-panelists are based in Europe&just informed me that they will no longer attend the conference because folks in their network have experienced hostility at the US border. Well now, my panel is off the program😔

2026/2027 Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at the University of Edinburgh. global.ed.ac.uk/mastercard-f... #Africa #healthcare #sustainability #africascholarships

Thanks Claire

Short clip from #Birthpolitics book celebration

Assembling the backstory of #birthpolitics and listening to the commentary forced me to pause&take in the extent of labour that made this book possible. Thank you to all who showed up online/in person.
#UBuffalo #africanhistory #UTAustin #africanculture #histmed #childbirth #maternalhealth #Africa

Happening October 10 in-person/online @ubuffalo.bsky.social @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social. Commenting is @fiu.bsky.social's very own. Zoom QR code on flyer. Buffalo neighbors, see you at Park 532. @hopkinspress.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social
#birthpolitics

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100 Hardy, a lieutenant colonel, became the youngest Tuskegee fighter pilot at 19, and was among the first Black military pilots in the United States.

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

See you in Buffalo!

Thanks @parisnoire.bsky.social. You're the best!

Assistant Professor, Disability Studies The College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, invites applications for two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in the humanities and qualitati...

College of Arts and Sciences,University at Buffalo invites applications for two tenure-track Assistant Prof. positions with a research focus in and demonstrated ability to teach courses in disability studies, particularly in relation to gender and/or sexuality. www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/58847

I had fun at IBBG Repro Justice Summit and the pleasure of showcasing my new book there. My breakout session had non-profit leaders, doulas, midwives, professors, etc and the engagement was so fulfilling. We can always learn from each other&inform changes in public health, together.

Academic colleagues based in African institutions with PhDs on or before December 2020, check out this fellowship opportunity at the Center for African Studies at UC Berkeley. Application deadline,September 5. africa.berkeley.edu/news/center-...
Submit CV,2-page research proposal to asc@berkeley.edu

It is official! My book, Birth Politics, has been released @JHUPress. Hopeful that it makes an impactful contribution to conversations around improving maternal health care in Nigeria. Happy to honor invited talks to discuss the book and my research. #maternalhealth #reproductivehealth #Nigeria

Although the picture is grim for Africa in terms of maternal deaths, the continent, home to 55 countries, is also the site of effective community-focused and centered advocacy models. Let's chat about all that at this year's reproductive justice summit. #IBBGTheSummit #maternalhealth

Well said. "Forced marriage" has long been an interesting/harmful description of the extended sexual enslavement and rape experienced by BH victims.

In the past 27yrs, Nigeria’s healthcare budget has mostly been under 6%, and yet we hope that its healthcare problems will somehow be fixed. No amount of hope and prayers will save a country of 200+million people from the hands of 4-5% national budget for its health sector.

My research this year for my second monograph, Dying to Bring Life: A Social History of Maternal Deaths in Nigeria, took me to the Federal Ministry of Health Nigeria where I learned more about the dangers and complications of maternal health care in Nigeria.

A huge accomplishment. Well done 💯✅

Countdown to August 19, the official release date for my book, Birth Politics, with @hopkinspress.bsky.social. Happy to schedule zoom and in-person talks. If you adopt the book as a required text in your classroom, I definitely owe you a classroom visit. Please let me know.

Countdown to August 19, the official release date for my book, Birth Politics, with Johns Hopkins University Press. Happy to schedule zoom and in-person talks. If you adopt the book as a required text in your classroom, I definitely owe you a classroom visit. Please let me know.