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]

Yacob-Haliso is an associate professor of political science at Babcock University where she is also the acting dean of the Veronica Adeleke School of Social Sciences.[1] Her work work focusses on African women in post-conflict contexts; gender and politics; democracy; human rights; and refugee rights.[2]

She is the editor of Indiana University's Journal of International Politics and Development[3] and a co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.[1][4]

She has visited and taught at Iowa State University,[5] Yale University,[6] and the University of Texas at Austin.[1]

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

• 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