Olufunke Adeboye

Olufunke Adeboye
Born
Olufunke Ojo

Ibadan
NationalityNigerian
OccupationUniversity professor
TitleDean, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos
Awards2012 Gerti Hesseling Prize
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Ibadan
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineSocial history
InstitutionsUniversity of Lagos
Main interestselitism, 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]

  1. ^ Adogame, Afe; Shankar, Shobana, eds. (2013-01-01). "Contributors". Religion on the Move!: New Dynamics of Religious Expansion in a Globalizing World. 15: 461–466. doi:10.1163/9789004243378_025. ISBN 9789004243378.
  2. ^ "VICE CHANCELLOR APPROVES THE RE-APPOINTMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS OF DEANS AND SUB–DEANS". University of Lagos. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Olufunke Adeboye - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
  4. ^ "Prof. Olufunke Adeboye, University of Lagos, wins Gerti Hesseling Prize". African Studies Centre Leiden. 2013-07-11. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
  5. ^ "Gerti Hesseling Prize | AEGIS - African studies in Europe". www.aegis-eu.org. Retrieved 2020-01-13.