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Gerardo Serra

Gerardo Serra

Dr

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0412-7979

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Office hours

Autumn term, 2025

FRIDAY  16.00-17.00 

and by appointment 

Samuel Alexander Building (room S 2.28)

 

RESEARCH DAY: Monday

Overview

I’m a historian of 20th century West Africa. Focusing on Ghana and Nigeria, my work attempts to expand and refine our understanding of the political lives of economic and statistical knowledge. In order to do this, I try to combine approaches and methods from intellectual history, political anthropology, and the sociology of science.  

Before joining Manchester as a Presidential Fellow in Economic Cultures, I was research fellow at the Nantes Institute for Advanced Studies (2017-2018), and temporary lecturer in economic history at the University of Sussex (2014-2017).

Education/Academic qualification

Doctor of Philosophy, From Scattered Data to Ideological Education: Economics, Statistics and the State in Ghana, 1948-1966, London School of Economics & Political Science (University of London)

Master of Science, London School of Economics & Political Science (University of London)

Bachelor of Arts and Economics, Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Areas of expertise

  • HC Economic History and Conditions
  • Economic Development
  • economic sociology
  • State building
  • DT Africa
  • Ghana
  • Nigeria
  • HX Socialism. Communism. Anarchism
  • African socialism
  • Utopianism

Research Highlights, Institutes and Platforms

  • John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 1 - No Poverty
    SDG 1 No Poverty
  2. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  3. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
  4. SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
    SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

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