OMSC Online Certificate Program Research Mentor & Course Facilitator

Fbenyah87@gmail.com / kwabena.benyah@gmail.com

Dr. Francis Ethelbert Kwabena Benyah is an Assistant Professor at the Centre of African Studies and Centre for Privacy Studies at the Univeristy of Copenhagen in Denmark.  A native of Ghana, he was previously a researcher at the Department for the Study of Religions, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, where he earned his doctorate. Benyah’s research interest focuses on African Pentecostal Christianity with a special interest in how it intersects and interacts with public life in areas such as media, politics, health and human rights. Benyah is also a recipient of the prestigious Lamin Sanneh Research Prize and has served as a visiting scholar at the Princeton Theological Seminary, NJ, USA.  He also currently serves as a short review editors for Religions in Africa for the Journal Religious Studies Review hosted at Rice University and published by Wiley.