Benjamin Kofi Nutor

Benjamin Kofi Nutor is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Archaeological-Ecology Laboratory at Texas A&M University's Department of Anthropology. His research focuses on historical anthropology and archaeology of the Atlantic slave trade in West Africa, particularly examining how colonialism impacted Indigenous communities in Eastern Ghana. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from The University of Texas at Austin (2021).

Educational Background:

• Ph.D. in Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin, 2021

Research Interests:

• Material culture analysis of Atlantic slavery contexts
• Archaeology of African Indigenous Religion
• Public archaeology and heritage advocacy
• Social identity formation in post-slave trade communities

Recent work explores Peki, an Ewe community in Ghana central to the Atlantic slave trade, analyzing how global mercantile networks and colonial encounters shaped local power dynamics and memory practices.

Lab leadership:

• Archaeological-Ecology Laboratory (director)