Obafemi Awolowo University, BA
University of Ibadan, MA
Vanderbilt University, MTS, MA, PhD
Dr. Olubunmi (Bunmi) Adegbola
Visiting Assistant Professor of New Testament and Louisville Postdoctoral Fellow
Faculty Biography
Olubunmi (Bunmi) Adegbola is a Visiting Assistant Professor of New Testament and Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Fellow. She obtained a PhD, an MA and a Master of Theological Studies from Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt Divinity School. She earned an MA from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan Nigeria, and a BA from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ilé-Ifè, Nigeria.
Her research interests include the Pauline epistles, Paul in Acts, and the examination of power in postcolonial contexts. Her reading strategies are intersectional and interdisciplinary, encompassing class, gender, racial-ethnic identity, and the re-production of nationalist ideology for exclusivity within nation-states and in Pentecostal traditions. Her research focus is on the letters of Paul where she interrogates the placement and mechanisms of agency, rhetoric, and the management of collective resources.
Bunmi enjoys hiking near water bodies, traveling to new places, and cooking meals from home.
BI 103 New Testament Greek
BI 192 Engaging the NT Letters
“The Slave Girls of Emecheta and Acts 16:16-40: Cases of Biopolitical Displacement of Marginalized Subjects,” Paul in Africa Project: Salvation in Paul – and in Africa: Readings from Diverse African Contexts, Grant LeMarquand and Sr. Gesila Uzukwu, eds., the Cascade Library of Pauline Studies [forthcoming].
“Laboring for the Grace of God within the Household: The Children, Slaves, and Women in II Corinthians 6:1-12,” Families in the New Testament from International Perspectives, Amy Allen-Lindemann and Sung Uk Lim, eds., T&T Clark [forthcoming].
Contributing Voice on James, Holly Hearon and Débora Junker. Wisdom Commentary. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press [forthcoming].
“African Biblical Studies: Unmasking Embedded Racism and Colonialism in Biblical Studies, written by Mbuvi, Andrew M.,” Journal of Religion in Africa (published online ahead of print 2023), doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340289 (Book Review)
Women Leadership and Adornment in Power Pentecostal Church Nigeria, a publication of the MA Thesis from the University of Ibadan.
Contemporary Ideology on the Theological Implication of the Role of Women in Democratic Sustainability in Nigeria, Journal of the Nigerian Association for the Study of Religions 25, No 2, July 2015, Pp. 219-232.