Faculty & Staff
Temitope Oriola, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
- Telephone: 617.287.6251
- Fax: 617.287.6288
- Email: Temitope.Oriola@umb.edu
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100 Morrissey Blvd. Office Location: Wheatley Hall, Floor 04, Room 00024A
Areas of Expertise
Resource conflicts (oil-related insurgencies); political kidnapping; use of force by police; ethics and research in conflict zones; qualitative research methods; migration from sub-Saharan Africa; response of Western liberal democratic states to the threat of terrorism
Degrees
PhD, University of Alberta Canada
Professional Publications & Contributions
Oriola, Temitope 2012. ‘The Delta creeks, women’s engagement, and Nigeria’s oil insurgency,’ British Journal of Criminology, 52, 3: 534-555.
Oriola, Temitope & Kevin Haggerty 2012. “The ambivalent insider/outsider status of academic ‘homecomers’: Observations on identity and field research in the Nigerian Delta”, Sociology, 46, 3: 540-548.
Oriola, Temitope, Nicole Neverson & Charles Adeyanju. 2012. “’They should have just taken a gun and shot my son’: Taser deployment and the downtrodden in Canada”, Social Identities, 18, 1: 65-83.
Adeyanju, Charles & Temitope Oriola. 2011 “Colonialism and Contemporary African Migration: A Phenomenological Approach”, Journal of Black Studies, 42, 6: 943 - 967.
Oriola, Temitope, Nicole Neverson & Charles Adeyanju. 2010 “’Don’t tase me, bro’: Taser adoption and its consequences in Canada”, Journal of Social Criminology, 3, 1: 111-140.
Oriola, Temitope. 2009. ‘Counter-Terrorism and Alien Justice: The Case of Security Certificates in Canada’, Critical Studies on Terrorism, 2, 2: 257-274.
Oriola, Temitope. & Charles Adeyanju. 2009. ‘Haunted: The Symbolism of the Noose’, African Identities, 7, 1: 89-103.
Additional Information
Current Research
Professor Oriola’s ongoing projects include an investigation of the roles of women in Nigeria’s oil insurgency and the use of ‘less-lethal’ force options, particularly electro-muscular disruption technologies, by the police.
