Biography

Oyeronke Olademo is a Professor of Comparative Religious Studies at the Department of Religions, University of Ilorin, Ilorin; widely published in local, national and international outlets with over seventy publications. She has attended and presented papers in many international conferences in North America, the United Kingdom and Europe. Prof. Olademo has enjoyed post-doctoral fellowships including the Salzburg Seminar, Austria, (1999), CODESRIA (1999) and Visiting Lecturer and Fellow, Harvard Divinity School (2000). She presented the 136^th Inaugural Lecture of the University on the 27^th of June 2013. She has been involved with collaborative academic works across disciplines for over twenty years.  She was the former HOD Religions (2004-05), (2012-15), chairman Computer Based Test (CBT) (2011-13), Dean of Faculty of Arts (2017-19) and Director, Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies (2020-) . She is the first female Professor of Comparative Religious Studies in Nigeria. Her hobbies include traveling, singing and cooking

Teaching and Research Area: Religious Studies,