Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso

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Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso
NationalityNigerian
Alma mater University of Ibadan
Employer Babcock University
Organization Journal of Contemporary African Studies
Known forResearch, teaching and publishing books about issues affecting women in post-conflict Africa, refugees and international relations, and African politics

Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso is a Nigerian university professor whose work focuses on African women in post-conflict contexts; African refugees, gender and politics; democracy; and African politics. She has published multiple books on women's issues in Africa, an editor of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies and the Journal of International Politics and Development.

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She is faculty at Babcock University, Nigeria, and also has taught at multiple US universities.

Education

Yacob-Haliso has a PhD in political science from the University of Ibadan and she was an American Council of Learned Societies postdoctoral fellow at Rhodes University. [1] She was also Global South Scholar-in-Residence at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.

Career

Yacob-Haliso is a professor of political science at Babcock University where she was also the dean of the Veronica Adeleke School of Social Sciences. [1] Her work focuses on African women in post-conflict contexts; gender and politics; democracy; human rights; and refugee rights. [2] She also served as co-Chair of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of the International Studies Association from 2020 to 2023.

She is the editor of the Journal of International Politics and Development; [3] Editor-in-Chief of the Babcock Journal of the Social Sciences; and a co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.. [1] [4] She also serves on the editorial board of African Affairs: Journal of the Royal Africa Society UK, International Feminist Journal of Politics, the Journal of International Women's Studies. She is series editor, with Toyin Falola, of the Africa: Past, Present and Prospects book series with Rowman and Littleton/ Lexington Publishers.

Yacob-Haliso has held numerous prestigious international fellowships including from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, New York; the American Council of Learned Societies; the University for Peace Africa Program & International Development Research Centre, Canada; the Graduate Institute for International Studies, Geneva; the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA); the African Studies Association Presidential Fellowship; American Political Science Association; African Association of Political Science; the African Studies Association-UK, and others.

She has been a visiting professor at Iowa State University, [5] Yale University, [6] and the University of Texas at Austin. [1]

Selected publications

Yacob-Haliso is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of:

 African Refugees, Indiana University Press, 2023. https://iupress.org/9780253064424/african-refugees/#generate-pdf 

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