Akpan Ubong-Abasi is a PhD candidate in African/African American Religions in the Department of Religion, Rice University, where he studies African migrant religions in North America. He recently completed his M.A., in Religious Studies from Rice University. He received an M.A., in the Comparative Study of Religions from Nigeria’s premier university, the University of Ibadan, a PGD-Education from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria, and a B.A., degree in Religious and Cultural Studies from the University of Calabar, Nigeria.

Akpan’s research interest is in the comparative study of religions, with a keen attention to the interaction of religions/inter-faith relations.
Using ethnographic data, his current research examines how 1.5- and second-generation African migrants construct new religious identities that diverge from those of the first generation.