Biography
Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Brandeis University, MA and previously taught Political Science and International Relations at Babcock University. Her research and teaching are broadly in the fields of International Relations, gender studies, refugees and migration, women in conflict and peace, African politics, and African knowledges. Olajumoke has published fourteen books, most recently: African Refugees (Indiana University Press, 2023) and the three-volume Palgrave Handbook of African Women’s Studies (Palgrave, 2021). She is editorial board member for African Affairs, International Studies Perspectives, International Feminist Journal of Politics, and others, and co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies, the R&L/Bloomsbury book series, “Africa: Past, Present and Prospects.” Olajumoke was Global South Scholar-in-Residence at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) postdoctoral fellow at Rhodes University, South Africa, Visiting Professor at the Rapoport Centre for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, African Studies Association Presidential Fellow, and held several other fellowships. Her research has been supported by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the ACLS, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the University for Peace Africa Program, the African Association of Political Science (AAPS), and more. Olajumoke is immediate past Vice-President of the International Studies Association (ISA), Steering Committee member of the Women in Refugee Law Network, former co-Chair of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of the ISA, co-founder and coordinator of the Babcock Gender and African Studies Group, and former head of the Department of Political Science and dean of the School of Social Sciences at Babcock University.
