Dissertation (In-progress till 2027):

“Revelation” as decolonial praxis: The politics of knowledge and the Book of Daniel” (Tentative title)

Exam Fields & Specialization:

  • History & Archeology of Israel: 8-5th Century
  • Biblical Literature: Exodus, 8th Century Prophets, Ezra-Nehemiah, Qohelet, and Daniel.
  • Africana Biblical interpretive approaches & Post-Colonial Theory
  • Translation, Materiality, and Technological Future of the Bible

     

Thematic Areas of Specialization:

  • Exile, Migration, Diaspora, Empire, Decolonialization, Knowledge Production and Politics, and Africana Life and History

 

Developing Interests:

  •  NT: Pauline Epistles, Biblical Theology

 

Peer-reviewed published articles:

  •  “Hiding in Exile: Rereading Esther’s Identity and Assessing its Missional Implications for Africans in the Diaspora in Light of Homi Bhabha’s Hybridity Theory.” –Journal of African Christian Thought, JACT Vol. 25. No. December 2022. A publication by Akrofi Christaller Institute of Theology of Mission

 

Under Review:

  • Epistemic Tricksterism: Daniel’s role and the politics of Knowledge in Daniel 2, Journal of Biblical Literature.
     
  • Where Are We Now: A Review of the Theoretical and Methodological Developments of Africana Biblical Interpretations, Journal of Biblical Literature, 2025

 

Work in Progress:

  • Remembering to Forget: The Paradox of Memory and Erasure in Exodus 17:14 and The Amalek Narratives

  • Ezra 9-10 inlight of newer definitions of home, space, and the Other.

  • Whose meaning?: The convergence of interpretation, translation, and divination in Daniel 5

 

Fellowships

  • Arthur S. Estey Fellowship, Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2026

  • Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, Yale MacMillan Center, 2023 ($5000)

  • Yale RITM Fellowship Summer Research Fellowship, 2023

  • “Yale RITM fellowship” awarded to selected Yale Ph.D. students whose work focuses on questions of race, Indigeneity, and migration, 2022-2023

  • The James L. Waits International Scholarship, awarded to the most promising student from a developing region of the world by Yale Divinity School, 2020-2022

  • “Roger and Elizabeth Manners Endowed Scholarship” by Yale Divinity School as Tuition Award, 2021

  • The Columbia Graduate Fellowship by Columbia Theological Seminary for my studies at Yale ($5,000), 2020-2021

 

Awards

  • “The William Rivers Waddey Award” by Columbia Theological Seminary for a student with extraordinary gifts for Youth Ministry, 2020

  • Best Seminarian Award by The Presbytery of Greater Atlanta, 2019 and 2020 ($2000 each year)