Olukunle P. Owolabi is Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Interdisciplinary Studies at Villanova University, where he teaches courses on Comparative Politics, African Politics, comparative democratization, and the developmental legacies of colonialism in the Global South. His most recent book, Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects (Oxford University Press, 2023), examines the divergent developmental legacies of forced settlement and colonial occupation on both sides of the Black Atlantic world. Dr. Owolabi holds degrees from the University of Toronto, Oxford University, and the University of Notre Dame, and he was a visiting fellow at Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies in 2016.