Michael Glerup

Michael Glerup, Ph.D. is the program director of the Project on Religion & Society in Africa, a program in the Council of African Studies at Yale University’s Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. A Fellow of Morse College,

Dr. Glerup serves as the general co-editor of the seventeen-volume Ancient Christian Text Series and of Ancient Christianity: The Development of its Institutions and Practices by Angelo di Berardino. He is the co-editor of Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: Ezekiel and Daniel and volume editor of Early Christian Commentaries on Pauline Literature and Early Christian Commentaries on Genesis: Severian of Gabala and Bede. He has contributed chapters to multi-author books in theology, spirituality, and biblical interpretation.

He is the board chair of Sophos Africa, an NGO dedicated to fostering a resilient and flourishing society in Ethiopia, and a board member of The Sanneh Institute in Ghana.

He has extensive teaching experience in Africa and has also organized and directed regional and pan-African conferences across Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Egypt.