Berkley Center

Akintunde Akinade is professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar. Before coming to Georgetown University, he taught courses in comparative religions, Christian thought, and Christian-Muslim relations at High Point University in High Point, North Carolina, for 12 years. He has also taught at Wesleyan University, College of New Rochelle, and New York Theological Seminary. Akinade serves on the editorial board of The Muslim World, Religions/Adyan, Trinity Journal of Church and Theology, and The Living Pulpit. He is also the book review editor for the Journal of World Christianity. Within the American Academy of Religion, he serves on the Committee on the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession. He earned his B.A. in Religious Studies from Obafemi Awolowo University, M.Div. from Southern Methodist University, and M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary in New York City.