Country of Birth: Ghana
Education: PHD (Dalhousie University) Canada
          Lecturer at the Department of History, Dalhousie University.
Mary Owusu is a Senior lecturer in History at the University of Cape Coast. She has over 12 years’ experience teaching at the tertiary level in Ghana, USA and Canada. She is a 2007 Cadbury Fellow of the University of Birmingham and a 2011/2012 Fulbright scholar in residence. Her research covers the intellectual history of Ghana, agricultural and environmental history of southern Ghana as well as the colonial and post-colonial history of Africa. She has made some publications including:
 ‘Constructios of Masculinity Among the Akan People of Ghana†in Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol 1, No. 2,Â
 ‘Atlantic Slavery: Lost in Trans- lation’, with Stabler S, in African Journal of Teacher Education, Vol3, No 2: AJOTE: International Connections and Teacher Preparation.
 ‘Human activity, Climatic change and Elephant Depredation: A Historical Overview up to the Twentieth Century’ with Kwarteng K, in Oloyede I. (ed) Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Edited Proceedings, Second University of Cape Coast and University of Ilorin Joint International Conference. Ilorin, Ilorin: Unilorin Press.
 ‘Populorum Progressio versus Environmental Degradation: A Re-examination of the Agrarian Revolution in the Ghanaian forest belt’ with Kwarteng K, in Kwadwo Opoku Agyemang (ed) Culture, Science and Sustainable Development in Africa, compilation of refereed papers from the first University of Cape Coast and University of Ilorin joint International Conference, Cape Coast: Cape Coast University Press.
She has also made some paper presentations including: ‘Atlantic Slavery: Lost in Global Trans-lation’ with Scott Stabler, Stanford Forum for African Studies, Conference.
