DR. DAVID OLALI: PROJECT PORFOLIO

Food and Security Initiatives

This critical transdisciplinary project weighs in on global issues relating to the symbiotic relationships between the functions of religion in personal life and their consequences for national and global security.
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Comparative Heritage Research

This transdisciplinary research focuses on the phenomenology of scripture as culture politics in society, with a bent towards the psychosocial aspects of conscriptions of ‘scripture’ tropes in the formations of human heritage.
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The VALOR Group

The VALOR Group is a leadership discovery and development platform, with a forte for capacity development, youth mentorship, and building connective leadership across the aisles.

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Blogger/Editor

The twenty-first-century fascinations for technology enable the creative use of viral spaces in disseminating pieces of news and information items, which are vital for life and living.

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Collaboration

My work forges collaborations across disciplinary, cultural, national, and continental divides: The Comparative Heritage project connects academics, scholars, researchers, and practitioners with different training and disciplinary backgrounds and, of course, from at least four different continents–Africa, Asia, Europe, North America–to engage the knotty subject of “heritage” using transdisciplinary methodologies (visit the Comparative Heritage website); The VALOR Group brings humanitarian workers and social-cultural change agents from different walks of life to solve common problems in society (visit The VALOR Group website).

Research and Scholarship

• African and African American Political Spiritualities
• History of Religion
• From Radicalism to Fundamentalism: The Choice Between Nationalism and Violence
• Ethnicity and Postcolonialisms
• Gender and Witchcraft Politics
• Food, Security and Spirituality
• Mediating Spirituality: Technology, Futurisms, and Religion
• Methodologies and Theories in Religion
• Comparative Exceptionalism and Heritage Studies
• Philosophy of Religion
• Pentecostal Economies See my research here.

Community

I provide services to my local community whenever the need arises. I have chaired committees, joined social actions for social and economic justice, and/or provided needed leverage in negotiations.

Partnerships

As a technology aficionado, I believe the 21st century provides immeasurable opportunities for development and progress in society, which is why I welcome new partners and thinkers who are both daring and passionate about not just social changes across communities but importantly, those who genuinely A.C.T. in the behalf of real and lasting transformations.

A little bit about me
and my previous work

Education

  • Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University

Previous Employers

  • Research Fellow in Global Leadership at RHAW, Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta GA
  • Research Assistant at Institute for Signifying Scriptures (ISS),  Claremont Graduate University, CA
  • University of Ibadan, Nigeria

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