Omotayo Adekunle Adenugba is a current third-year PhD student at the Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University. Omotayo had his undergraduate education in Anthropology at the University of Ibadan with a focus on environmental anthropology. Omotayo is also an alumnus of the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University, served formerly in the position of the Professional Development chair for the Graduate Representative Organization (GRO) at Johns Hopkins University, and currently serves as a Graduate Assistant for the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA).

My research investigates investigates the everyday life of people living in Ogoni, an oil-community in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, which is the economic lifeline of the Nigerian state. This project interrogates how people interact, resist and reconfigure life under the enduring presence of corporate extractive institution like Shell and heightened presence of the Nigerian state. This project has also been experimenting with multi-modal forms of ethnography for this work.