Emeka T. Njoku is an Assistant Professor in International Development Department, University of Birmingham and an Associate Editor, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. My research focuses on whose research is located at the interface between conflict, counter-terrorism and non-state governance. Specifically, the global counter-terrorism norms and their impact on the spaces and agency of civil society organisations, as well as the gendered and sexual consequences of counter-terrorism laws, policies, and practices. His works have been published in International Affairs, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, to mention but a few, and a book published by Manchester University Press.
Experience
2021–present
Postdoctoral fellow, University of Birmingham
2020–2021
Postdoctoral fellow, American Council of Learned Societies/African Humanities postdoctoral fellowship
Education
2019
University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, PhD Political Science
2010
University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, MSc Political Science
2005
Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu, Nigeria, BSc Political Science
Publications
2022
Local and transnational identity, positionality and knowledge production in Nigeria and the Nigerian diaspora, Field Methods
2022
Queering Terrorism, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism
2022
Sex Trafficking and Sex-for-Money: Terrorism and Conflict-related Sexual Violence against Men in North-eastern Nigeria, Conflict, Security & Development
2021
Strategic Exclusion: The State and the Framing of a Service-Delivery Role for Civil Society 1 Organisations in the Context of Counter-Terrorism in Nigeria, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism
2021
State-oriented Service-delivery Partnership with Counter-terrorism in Nigeria Civil Society Organisations in the Context of, Development Policy Review
2021
Counter-Terrorism and Civil Society Organisations: Post-9/11 Progress and Challenges (eds)., Manchester University Press
2021
Spiritual security: an explanatory framework for conflict-related sexual violence against men, International Affairs
2021
The State and the Securitization of Civil Society Organizations in Nigeria, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
2021
The state of terrorism research in Africa, Critical Studies on Terrorism
2021
Sex for survival: Terrorism, poverty and sexual violence in north-eastern Nigeria, South African Journal of International Affairs
2020
Politics of Conviviality? State-Civil Society Relations with the Context of Counter-terrorism in Nigeria, Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organisations
2020
The Merchants of Terror: Neo-patrimonialism, Counter-Terrorism Economy and the Expansion of Terrorism in Nigeria, African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review
2019
Investigating the Intersections between Counterterrorism and NGOs in Nigeria: Development Practice in Conflict-affected Areas, Development in Practice
2019
The Ligaments of Counter-Terrorism Regime: Sexual Violence and the Vicarious Traumatisation of Female Non-Governmental Organisation workers: Evidence from Nigeria, Small Wars and Insurgencies
Grants and Contracts
2021
Postdoctoral Fellowship
Role:
Fellow
Funding Source:
Newton Fund, Newton International Fellowship, The British Academy & The Royal Society, London, UK
2020
Postdoctoral Fellowship
Role:
Fellow
Funding Source:
American Council of Learned Societies/African Humanities postdoctoral fellowship programme, New York, USA
2018
Travel Grant for Conference presentation
Role:
Conference Presenter
Funding Source:
African Politics Conference Group/Africa Research Development Group of the American Political Science Association, Washington DC, USA
2018
Travel Grant for Conference presentation
Role:
Conference Presenter
Funding Source:
Postgraduate College, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
2017
Early Career Residential Fellowship
Role:
Unused
Funding Source:
African Doctoral Academy, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
2017
Brown International Advance Research Institute (BIARI) scholarship/Fellowship
Role:
Fellow/Scholar
Funding Source:
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, Providence, Rhodes Island, USA
2016
Travel Grant for Conference presentation
Role:
Conference Presenter
Funding Source:
Makarere Institute of Social Research, Makarere University, Kampala, Uganda
2016
Carnegie Fund for Conference Attendance
Role:
Conference Presenter
Funding Source:
Institute of International Education
2015
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award
Role:
Fellow
Funding Source:
Social Science Research Council
2014
Doctoral Proposal Development Fellowship Award
Role:
Fellow
Funding Source:
Social Science Research Council
Professional Memberships
Junior Research Affiliate: Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security & Society, Vancouver, Canada
Member: International Political Science Association (IPSA), Montreal, Canada (yet to pay membership fee)
Member: International Society for Third-Sector Research, Baltimore, United States (yet to pay membership fee)
Member: American Political Science Association, Washington D.C, USA
Alumnus, Social Science Research Council (SSRC) New York, United State
Alumus: Brown International Advance Research Institute (BIARI)
Honours
Fellow/Alumnus: Social Science Research Council, Brown International Advanced Research Institute, Brown University, American Council of Learned Societies, The British Academy Newton International Fellowship