Olufunke Adeboye
EMAIL: oadeboye@unilag.edu.ng
PHONE: +2348023039229
ADDRESS: Dept Of History & Strategic Studies
Faculty Of Arts, University Of Lagos EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES: Travelling and sightseeing, mentoring young people, reading (and watching) historical documentaries.
POST HELD: None [Within NAL] MEMBERSHIP STATUS: Member
YEAR OF INDUCTION/ADMISSION: 2016
MEMBERSHIP OF COMMITTEE: None
INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION: Department of History & Strategic Studies, University of Lagos
SPECIALTIES: African History with specialization in : Social and Urban History, Pentecostal History in West Africa, African Historiography, 19th & 20th Century Yoruba Society, Nigerian History, and Gender Studies. APPOINTMENTS: 1. Member, Scientific Committee set up by the Federal Government in 2013 to prepare the “Country Report” on 100 Years of the Nigerian Woman to mark the Centenary Anniversary of the country.
2. Member, Presidential Advisory Committee on National Dialogue set up by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, 2013/2014, Nigeria.
3. Member, Board of Governors, Christ the Redeemer’s College, Christhill, Sagamu, Ogun State, 2012- 2019; Member, Board of Governors, Yeshua High School, Ojodu, Lagos, 2015 till date.
4. Head, Department of History & Strategic Studies, University of Lagos, 2013-2016.
5. Director, Adeboye Centre for Peace and Good Governance, Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun State, February – September 2018.
6. Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, 2019 till date.
PARTICIPATION IN GRANTS AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS/PROJECTS: 1. Research Programme on Religious Communities and Sustainable Development –Faculty of Theology, Humboldt University, Berlin (International Partner, 2017-date). Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development
2. International Research Network on “Modernization, Mega Churches and the Urban Face of Christianity in the South (International Project Consultant for Africa). Funded by the John Templeton Foundation [$1.9 million from January 2020]
3. African Multiple Cluster of Excellence Research Programme at the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, University of Lagos. (Principal Investigator on the thematic field of Knowledges). Funded by Institut fur Afrikastudien of the University of Bayreuth, Germany.[Euros 840,000 from September 2020]
COMMUNITY SERVICE: 1. Member, Presidential Advisory Committee on National Dialogue set up by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, 2013/2014, Nigeria.
2. Member, Board of Governors, Christ the Redeemer’s College, Christhill, Sagamu, Ogun State, 2012- 2019; Member, Board of Governors, Yeshua High School, Ojodu, Lagos, 2015 till date.
3. Member, Editorial Board, African Historical Review (Published by Routledge and the University of South Africa), Journal of Religion in Africa (Published by Brill Publishers, Leiden).
4. Member, Advisory Board, Religion and Society: Advances in Research (Published by Berghahn Books, London and New York), Journal of Religion and Development (Humboldt University, Germany)
5. Assessor for African Studies Review (USA), Africa Today (USA), Africa: Journal of the International African Institute (UK), Journal of Religion in Africa (Netherlands), Journal of History and Diplomatic Studies (Nigeria), and Lagos Historical Review (Nigeria), African Historical Review (South Africa), Unilag Journal of Humanities (Nigeria).
Biography
Olufunke Adeboye is Professor of Social History (since 2011) and Dean of Arts (since 2019) at the University of Lagos. She was a Visiting Research Associate at the Harriet Tubman Institute, York University, Toronto, Canada in 2006 and 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). Her research interests include: Pentecostalism in West Africa, gender in Africa, pre-colonial and colonial Nigerian history, nineteenth and twentieth century Yoruba society and African historiography. She is well published and has made scholarly presentations at various academic conferences. 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.
