Staff profile

Olabisi Obamakin currently works as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Theological Education in the Theology Department, and is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA). Her PhD thesis, supervised by Prof. Louise Lawrence and Prof. David Horrell, was entitled “Constructing a Feminist Afropean Hermeneutical Biblical Framework”. As a Nigerian/British woman, she has a special interest in decolonial research methodologies, and has spoken about her work to multiple academic and public audiences including at the Society for the Study of Theology, the European Association of Biblical Studies, the Phoenix Art Centre, Exeter Cathedral and on BBC Radio Devon. She has recently published an article entitled “Don’t touch my hair: a feminist Nigerian/British reading of the woman who washed Jesus’ feet with her hair in Luke 7.36-50” in the Journal of Practical Theology.

Book review

• African Biblical Studies: Unmasking Embedded Racism and Colonialism in Biblical Studies, by Andrew M. Mbuvi
  
  Obamakin, O. (2025). African Biblical Studies: Unmasking Embedded Racism and Colonialism in Biblical Studies, by Andrew M. Mbuvi. Evangelical Quarterly: An International Review of Bible and Theology, 96(1), 90-92. https://doi.org/10.1163/27725472-09601009

Chapter in book

• Don’t touch my hair: a feminist Nigerian/British reading of the woman who washed Jesus’ feet with her hair in Luke 7.36-50
  
  Obamakin, O. (2025). Don’t touch my hair: a feminist Nigerian/British reading of the woman who washed Jesus’ feet with her hair in Luke 7.36-50. In Practical Theology and Majority World Epistemologies. Routledge.

Journal Article

• Yoruba Girl Dancing: A Nigerian/British Women's Reading of Herodias’s Daughter in Mark 6:17-28 and Matthew 14:3-12
  
  Obamakin, O. (2025). Yoruba Girl Dancing: A Nigerian/British Women’s Reading of Herodias’s Daughter in Mark 6:17-28 and Matthew 14:3-12. Horizons in Biblical Theology, 47(1), 45-71. https://doi.org/10.1163/18712207-12341497
• Don’t touch my hair: a feminist Nigerian/British reading of the woman who washed Jesus’ feet with her hair in Luke 7.36-50
  
  Obamakin, O. (2023). Don’t touch my hair: a feminist Nigerian/British reading of the woman who washed Jesus’ feet with her hair in Luke 7.36-50. Practical Theology, 16(2), 180-191. https://doi.org/10.1080/1756073x.2023.2179272