Ololade Faniyi
Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Emory University
550 Asbury Circle, Candler Library, Suite 128C, Atlanta, GA 30322
Education
Emory University (US)
Ph.D. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesExp. 2028
Certificate in Digital Scholarship and Media Studies
Bowling Green State University (US)
M.A. in American Culture Studies2023
Thesis: A Herstory of #EndSARS: Nuances of Intersectionality in Nigeria’s Movement Against Police Brutality (Distinguished Thesis Award)
University of Ibadan (Nigeria)
M.A. in African Studies2022
B.A. in English2018
Academic Research Roles
Emory University:
Graduate FellowCurrent
Atlanta Interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Network (PI: Dr Lauren Klein)
Bowling Green State University:
Research Assistant2022-2023
FemBot Collective & Research Lab for Situated Data Analytics and Data Feminism (PI: Dr Radhika Gajjala)
Grants and Fellowships
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship (Award: $42,000)2026-27
Project: Technologies Beyond Man: African Feminist Reimaginings of the Human/Techno-Modernity
CoHost, Academic Convening on African Feminist Technologies (Award: $18,000)Fall 2026
Wellcome/EthicsLab Research Development Programme, University of Cape Town
Halle Institute Pre-Candidacy Graduate Global Research Fellowship (Award: $5000)Summer 2025
Emory Office of Faculty Pedagogy Mini-Grant (Award: $350)2025
Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellow (Award: $1,500 PDS funds)2024
Imagining America
Data Fellow, Freedom on the Move Project, Cornell UniversitySummer 2023
Co-PI (with Sharon Omotoso) (Award: $6,000)2021-2025
Feminist Africa Publishing Project on 21st Century African Feminist Movements and Social Histories
Teaching Experience
Emory University: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department
Instructor- WGS 200- Introduction to WGSSFall 2025/Spring 2026
(Whose Feminisms, What Formations? Transnational Feminist Strands)
Teaching Assistant- WGS 205- Introduction to SexualitiesSpring 2025
Teaching Assistant- WGS 100 - Gender TroubleFall 2024
Emory University: Institute of Liberal Arts
Co-Instructor with Betty Bekele - IDS 290 Interdisciplinary SidecarSpring 2026
(The Body is Political)
Publications
Refereed Articles
- Faniyi, O. (2025). The networks of feminist and queer organizing in Nigeria’s #EndSARS. Feminist Media Studies, 25(6), 1433-1453. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2025.2514067
- Gajjala, R., Faniyi, O., Rahut, D., Edwards, E., & Ford, S. (2024). Get the hammer out! Breaking computational tools for feminist, intersectional “small data” research. Journal of Digital Social Research, 6(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.33621/jdsr.v6i2.193.
- Faniyi, O., & Omotoso, S. (2022). Young Feminists Redefining Principles of Care in Nigeria. Women’s Studies Quarterly 50(1), 49-67. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2022.0004.
Forum Articles
- Faniyi, O. (2026). A Killjoy Witness: African Content Moderators and AI’s Relationalities of Extraction. Women’s Studies in Communication, 49(1), 189–192. https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2025.2605934
Book Chapters
- Faniyi O, Nduka-Nwosu A., Gajjala, R. (2023). “#SayHerNameNigeria: Nigerian Feminists Resist Police Sexual Violence on Women’s Bodies.” In B. Wiens, M. MacArthur, S. MacDonald, and M. Radzikowska (Eds.). Stories of Feminist Protest and Resistance: Digital Performative Assemblies (pp. 51-66). Lexington Press.
Book Reviews
- Faniyi, O. (2024). [Review of Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa, by N. Diabate]. Feminist Africa, 5(3), 157–163. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48831226
Publicly-Engaged Roles
The Republic (A Nigerian digital publishing platform):
Gender and Feminism Sub-EditorCurrent
Liberation Alliance Africa Collective:
Community of Practice Member, Dreaming New Liberatory WorldsCurrent
Strategic Co-Advisor for the Sawaba Institute of Critical Consciousness Raising2025-2026
Imagining America:
Co-Director - Publicly Active Graduate Education Fellowship2025-2026
TechHer Nigeria:
Consultant for the West African Young Feminist Fund (WAYFF) Framework2025
West, South, East & Central Africa (WSECA) Advisor:2020-2024
Frida, The Young Feminist Fund
Academic Service
Editorial
Book and Media Reviews Editor
Women’s Studies in CommunicationCurrent
Guest Co-Editor with Gajjala, Radhika, and Basu, Maitrayee2024-2026
Special Issue on “Digital activisms and intersectionality in context”
Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics 10(1)
Ad Hoc Reviewer
Women’s Studies in Communication2025
Feminist Media Studies2024
Editor-in-Chief, KUJUA (Graduate Journal of African Studies),2021-2022
Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Skills
Feminist Collaborative Ethnography; WordPress & Web Content Management; Digital Collections & Metadata Management; Email Communications & List Management
Languages: English; Yoruba
Affiliations
- Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
- National Communication Association (NCA) - Feminist and Gender Studies Division
- National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)
- African Studies Association (ASA) - Women’s Caucus
- Lagos Studies Association (LSA)
- Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
- The Black Feminist Working Group, Emory University