Fall 2015 seminar: Ph.D. candidate, Africana studies
Kányinsọ́lá Ọbáyàn holds dual bachelor's degrees in international relations and global studies, as well as African and African diaspora studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Currently, she is a Ph.D. Student at Cornell University, where she is investigating gender, femininity, and sexual politics in southwestern Nigeria. She hopes to use these dynamic conceptualizations as a way to read meaning into the sociopolitical environment of post-independence Nigeria, and imagine alternative possibilities for its future.