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'''Christine Oppong''' is a British academic. She is a retired professor of Applied Anthropology at University of Ghana,<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Agyei-Mensah|first1=Samuel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XBTmAAAAIAAJ&q=Christine+Oppong+African|title=Reproductive Change in Ghana: Recent Patterns and Future Prospects|last2=Casterline|first2=John B.|last3=Agyeman|first3=Dominic Kofi|date=2005|publisher=Department of Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana, Legon|language=en}}</ref> and a senior member at Wolfson College, Cambridge.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Marriage Among a Matrilineal Elite {{!}} Social and cultural anthropology|url=https://www.cambridge.org/gh/academic/subjects/anthropology/social-and-cultural-anthropology/marriage-among-matrilineal-elite-family-study-ghanaian-senior-civil-servants,%20https://www.cambridge.org/gh/academic/subjects/anthropology/social-and-cultural-anthropology|access-date=2021-03-08|website=Cambridge University Press|language=en}}</ref>
== Education == Oppong obtained her bachelor's, Master's, and doctorate degrees in Anthropology from the University of Cambridge.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2013-11-22|title=Christine Oppong|url=https://www.ascleiden.nl/content/ASC-community/members/christine-oppong|access-date=2021-03-08|website=African Studies Centre Leiden|language=en}}</ref> She also holds a Master of Arts degree in African Studies from the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana.<ref name=":1" />
== Career == Oppong has taught at the Institute of African Studies for over twenty five (25) years.<ref name=":1" /> She also once served as a research anthropologist, and technical and policy adviser in Gender, Population, and Development in the International Labour Organization's Employment and Development Department at Geneva.<ref name=":1" />
Oppong has been a fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1998,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sciences|first=Ghana Academy of Arts and|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NmpyAAAAMAAJ&q=Christine+Oppong+Ghana+Academy+of+Arts+and+Sciences|title=National Integration|date=2006|publisher=Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences|isbn=978-9964-950-27-9|language=en}}</ref> the Royal Anthropological Institute from 1979 to 1996, and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study from 2000 to 2001, and 2003.<ref name=":1" />
== Research work == Oppong's research work have been in the fields of Gender, Development, Population, and Family. Her works have included a series of volumes of publications centred on fifty years of family change, the research work was concentrated on Ghana and the United Kingdom. Some of her works include;
* ''A Synopsis of Seven Roles and Status of Women: An Outline of a Conceptual and Methodological Approach'', (1980);<ref>{{Cite book|last=Oppong|first=Christine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x1A2GrXw7pMC|title=A Synopsis of Seven Roles and Status of Women: An Outline of a Conceptual and Methodological Approach|date=1980|publisher=International Labour Office|isbn=978-92-2-102523-8|language=en}}</ref> * ''Middle Class African Marriage: A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants, (1981);''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Oppong|first=Christine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UyRyAAAAMAAJ|title=Middle Class African Marriage: A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants|date=1981|publisher=G. Allen & Unwin|isbn=978-0-04-301138-6|language=en}}</ref> * ''The Seven Roles Framework: Focused Biographies and Family Size: a Ghanaian Study'', (1984);<ref>{{Cite book|last=Oppong|first=Christine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ktuJQAACAAJ|title=The Seven Roles Framework: Focused Biographies and Family Size : a Ghanaian Study|date=1984|publisher=International Union for the Scientific Study of Population|language=en}}</ref> * ''Relationships Between Women's Work and Demographic Behaviour: Some Research Evidence in West Africa'', (1991);<ref>{{Cite book|last=Oppong|first=Christine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lmwoAAAACAAJ|title=Relationships Between Women's Work and Demographic Behaviour: Some Research Evidence in West Africa|date=1991|publisher=International Labour Office|isbn=978-92-2-107989-7|language=en}}</ref> * ''Smiling Infants Or Crying Babies: Taking Reproduction Labour and Material Strain Into Acoount [sic] in Sustainable Development Frameworks, Policies, and Plans'', (2000);<ref>{{Cite book|last=Oppong|first=Christine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FhSSAAAAIAAJ|title=Smiling Infants Or Crying Babies: Taking Reproduction Labour and Material Strain Into Acoount [sic] in Sustainable Development Frameworks, Policies, and Plans|date=2000|publisher=Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana|language=en}}</ref> * ''Conjugal Resources, Power, Decision Making and Domestic Labour: Some Historical and Recent Evidence of Modernity from Ghanaian Families'', (2005);<ref>{{Cite book|last=Oppong|first=Christine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oMwDAQAAIAAJ|title=Conjugal Resources, Power, Decision Making and Domestic Labour: Some Historical and Recent Evidence of Modernity from Ghanaian Families|date=2005|publisher=Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana|language=en}}</ref> * ''Marriage Among a Matrilineal Elite: A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants'', (2009);<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=Oppong|first=Christine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T44UOwAACAAJ|title=Marriage Among a Matrilineal Elite: A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants|date=2009-01-08|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-09318-7|language=en}}</ref> * ''Growing Up in Dagbon'', (2013).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Oppong|first=Christine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0EjJnQEACAAJ|title=Growing Up in Dagbon|date=2013-06-14|publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform|isbn=978-1-4826-2726-8|language=en}}</ref>
== Awards and honours == Oppong was awarded a plaque by the University of Ghana for her over twenty five years services to the university's Institute of African Studies, and her contributions to the development of research and teaching at the Institute.<ref name=":1" />
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