Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso

Yacob-Haliso has a PhD in political science from the University of Ibadan and she was an American Council of Learned Societies postdoctoral fellow at Rhodes University.[1] She was also Global South Scholar-in-Residence at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.

Yacob-Haliso is a professor of political science at Babcock University where she was also the dean of the Veronica Adeleke School of Social Sciences.[1] Her work focuses on African women in post-conflict contexts; gender and politics; democracy; human rights; and refugee rights.[2] She also served as co-Chair of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of the International Studies Association from 2020 to 2023.

She is the editor of the Journal of International Politics and Development;[3] Editor-in-Chief of the Babcock Journal of the Social Sciences; and a co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies..[1][4] She also serves on the editorial board of African Affairs: Journal of the Royal Africa Society UK, International Feminist Journal of Politics, the Journal of International Women's Studies. She is series editor, with Toyin Falola, of the Africa: Past, Present and Prospects book series with Rowman and Littleton/ Lexington Publishers.

Yacob-Haliso has held numerous prestigious international fellowships including from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, New York; the American Council of Learned Societies; the University for Peace Africa Program & International Development Research Centre, Canada; the Graduate Institute for International Studies, Geneva; the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA); the African Studies Association Presidential Fellowship; American Political Science Association; African Association of Political Science; the African Studies Association-UK, and others.

She has been a visiting professor at Iowa State University,[5] Yale University,[6] and the University of Texas at Austin.[1]

Yacob-Haliso is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of:

 African Refugees, Indiana University Press, 2023. https://iupress.org/9780253064424/african-refugees/#generate-pdf

• Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora: Contesting History and Power, Routledge, 2019, ISBN 9780367888459
• Africa’s Big Men: Predatory State-Society Relations in Africa, Routledge, 2018, ISBN 9781138559349
• The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies, Palgrave, 2021, ISBN 978-3030280987

• Gender, Culture and Development in Africa, 2017, Pan-African University Press, ISBN 978-1943533275[7]
• Pentecostalism and Politics in Africa (African Histories and Modernities), Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, ISBN 978-3319749105

• List of publications