Olufunke Adeboye | |
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Born | Olufunke Ojo |
Nationality | Nigerian |
Occupation | University professor |
Title | Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos |
Awards | 2012 Gerti Hesseling Prize |
Academic background | |
Education | University of Ibadan |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | Social history |
Institutions | University of Lagos |
Main interests | elitism,pentecostalism,religiosity and gender |
Olufunke Adeboye is a Nigerian professor of Social History at the Department of History and Strategic Studies of the University of Lagos,Nigeria,where she was a former Dean of the Faculty of Arts. [1] [2] Adeboye's research interests include gender in Africa,pre-colonial and colonial Nigerian history,nineteenth and twentieth century Yoruba society,African historiography,and Pentecostalism in West Africa. [3] In 2013,she won the Gerti Hesseling Prize awarded by AEGIS (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies) for the best journal article published in a European African Studies journal by an African scholar. [4] [5]
Olufunke Adeboye (née Òjó) was born in Ibadan,Nigeria. She completed her secondary schooling at Our Lady's Girls' High School,Ile-Ife,Osun State,Nigeria in 1983. She proceeded to the University of Ibadan,Nigeria where she earned Bachelor of Arts (B.A.),Masters of Arts (M.A.),and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.) degrees in History in 1988,1990,and 1997 respectively. [3] She started her teaching career as an Assistant Lecturer at Ogun State University (now Olabisi Onabanjo University),Ago Iwoye,Nigeria in 1991. In 1999,she crossed over to the then Department of History of the University of Lagos as a Lecturer I,rising through the ranks until she was appointed a full Professor in March 2011. [6]
In 2006,Adeboye was a Visiting Research Associate at the Harriet Tubman Institute,York University,Toronto,Canada. [7] She has held Visiting Research Fellowships at the Centre of West African Studies,University of Birmingham,UK (2004);the University of Massachusetts,Amherst and Amherst College,USA (2006);and at the Centre of African Studies,University of Cambridge,UK (2009/2010). In 2013,the journal article,"A Church in a Cinema Hall?’:Pentecostal Appropriation of Public Space in Nigeria," published in the Journal of Religion in Africa won her the Gerti Hesseling Prize awarded by AEGIS (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies) for the best journal article published in a European African Studies journal by an African scholar. [4] [8]
Adeboye is the current vice president of the International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography. [9] In 2018,she was appointed the Director of the Adeboye Centre for Peace and Good Governance at Redeemer's University. [10] She served as the Head of the Department of History and Strategic Studies,University of Lagos,from August 2013 to July 2016.
Beyond academe,Adeboye has served her country in a number of capacities. She was a member of the expert team set up by the Federal Government of Nigeria in 2013 to prepare the Country Report on “100 Years of the Nigerian Woman”to mark the centenary anniversary of the country. [11] She was also a member of the country's Presidential Advisory Committee on National Dialogue set up in 2013 to provide the template for the 2014 National Conference. [12]
Adeboye has authored articles in journals domiciled in various academic institutions. [3] Her latest book (co-edited with Afe Adogame and Corey Williams),Fighting in God’s Name:Religion,Conflict and Tolerance in Local and Global Perspectives, is being published by Lexington Books. [10] Her current research on religion and development,among other things,seeks to deconstruct existing knowledge about anti-development orientations of religion. She currently sits on the board of African Historical Review, Journal of Religion in Africa and Religion and Society:Advances in Research. [13] [14] She was a past editor of the Lagos Historical Review,a journal of history domiciled in the Department of History and Strategic Studies,University of Lagos,which she edited from 2008-2016. [15]
Adeboye is a member of the Association of African Historians,Historical Society of Nigeria,Society for Pentecostal Studies,Cleveland TN,USA;African Studies Association,North America;Canadian Association of African Studies;Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA);Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL);and Society for Peace Studies and Practice (SPSP). [16] [17]
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