Bunmi Adegbola

Olubunmi “Bunmi” Adegbola is a PhD candidate at Vanderbilt University and a visiting assistant professor of New Testament and Early Christian Studies at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. She is from the Yoruba of Nigeria. Her research engages with marginalized voices within structural systems of religious and political power. She also remains in conversation with a multidimensional body of scholarship which continue to challenge traditional reading of scripture that allows for the maintenance of oppressive policies. Her research focus is on the letters of Paul where she interrogates existing relationships within agency, wealth and poverty, resource distribution, and community development. Her research interests lie in the intersection of socioeconomic class, gender, empire studies, racial-ethnic identity, and historical representations of difference. At present, Bunmi is finding ways to center faith, hope, love, and joy, as she transitions between times and spaces.