EA (Emmanuel) Adu-Ampong, PhD

I am an Associate Professor in the Cultural Geography group and a post-disciplinary researcher with roots in sociology, social work, geography, development studies, international relations and, urban studies and planning. I serve as a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the international Tourism Planning and Development journal. I am also a Senior Research Associate at the School of Tourism and Hospitality, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

My main research programme is centred on the tourism geographies of slavery and heritage in relation to the politics of cultural memory. The ambition of this research programme is to develop an interdisciplinary theory of cultural memories linked to slavery and colonial heritage tourism – i.e. to theorise the tourism-led activation of cultural memories of slavery and colonial heritage by showing how the elements and dimensions within slavery and colonial heritage tourism encounters intersect and scale up into (changing) societal narratives and the (re)activation of cultural memories.

Currently, my research is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant award for the project: Frictions of Space: the generative tensions of slavery and colonial heritage tourism(2025 – 2030). Previously, I was the Principal Investigator of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) funded Veni Research Grant project: The Embodied Absence of the Past: Slavery, Heritage and Tourism in the Ghana-Suriname-Netherlands Triangle(2021- 2024). You can watch a short edumentary video of this project here.

Prior to my current role, I was Assistant Professor (2020-2024) & Lecturer in Cultural Geography (2019- 2020) at Wageningen University; a Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management at Sheffield Hallam University, UK (2017-2019); a Lecturer in Tourism Management at the University of Lincoln, UK (2016-2017); and an Associate Lecturer in Tourism Management at Sheffield Hallam University, UK (2015-2016).

For further info see: https://emmanueladuampong.com/

• Stichting Adamfo Ghana (11-1-2013/31-12-2099)
  Adamfo Ghana is a Dutch foundation dedicated to the well-being and a better future for street children and vulnerable young people in Ghana. We work on various projects including a creche, vocational training centre and scholarships for junior and senior high school, with and for street children in Kumasi, a large city in the middle of Ghana.||https://www.adamfoghana.com/index.php/over-ons/wie-we-zijn/
• Tourism Planning and Development Journal (18-12-2018/31-12-2099)