The UC Davis History Department would like to congratulate PhD Candidate ibrahim Bàbátúndé Anọ́ba who won a Huntington/Birmingham Exchange Fellowship for the 2025-2026 academic year!l He will be in residence for one month at the Cadbury Research Centre, University of Birmingham, working on materials related to Òrìṣà Religion’s encounters with Western-articulated modernities. His dissertation research is an inquiry into what caused the Òrìṣà Religion to change from existing as the substructure of socio-political life among the Yoruba (broadly defined) before colonial rule to largely becoming criminalized at the start of the twentieth century. His research is concerned with how this change affected Olórìṣà priests and devotees and focuses more broadly on the intersection of African spirituality, Western-articulate modernities, and colonial law-making. Congratulations ibrahim!