Oludamini Ogunnaike

Oludamini Ogunnaike (born 1985) is an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia. He immigrated to the United States from Nigeria with his family when he was four.

Education He holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil. in African studies and the study of religion from Harvard University, along with an A.B. in cognitive neuroscience and African studies from Harvard College. He also won a Gordon W. Allport Prize for his senior thesis, "The language of prejudice: The influence of language on implicit attitudes" in 2006-2007. He continued to study language and how it can affect perception and prejudice.

Select publications Books Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection: West African Madīḥ Poetry and its Precedents (2020) Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions (2020)