Ebenezer Obadare

Ebenezer Obadare is a Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relation (CFR). Before joining the CFR, he was a Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas. He is also a senior fellow at the New York University School of Professional Studies Center for Global Affairs, and a fellow at University of South Africa’s Institute of Theology. He is a civil society scholar, with a particular interest in informal strategies of resistance under changing dynamics of rule. His research interests include Transnational Migration, Comparative Societies, Civil Society, Social Change and Development in Africa. He has also researched and published extensively on religion and politics, civic engagement, and civic service and citizenship in Africa. Professor Obadare currently sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Civil Society, Contemporary Sociology, Journal of Modern African Studies, and Review of African Political Economy. He holds a BA in History, an MSc in International Relations, and a Ph.D. in Social Policy from the London School of Economics.