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Jacob Olupona is the Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies and Professor of African Religious Traditions at Harvard University. He serves as Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies. His academic work bridges religious studies, cultural anthropology, and African diaspora scholarship.
- University of Nigeria, Nsukka (undergraduate)
- Boston University (PhD in Comparative Religion, 1983)
Olupona’s research spans African religious traditions, Yoruba festivals, Ifa divination, and the sociocultural dynamics of Nigerian Christianity and urbanism. His studies explore intersections of ritual, royalty, gender, and class in African societies.
He has earned prestigious accolades including the Nigerian National Order of Merit, the Reimar Lust Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh and Nigerian institutions. Grants from the Guggenheim, Ford, and Rockefeller Foundations have supported his work.
Olupona has held leadership roles such as President of the African Association for the Study of Religion and served on editorial boards of key journals. His current research investigates the expansion of evangelicalism within broader Nigerian Christian traditions.
