• CV

    Education

    2017–2020                 
    Doctor of Theology (New Testament Option), University of Göttingen, (“The Lord’s Prayer and Its Reception in the Ghanaian Context”, advisor: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Feldmeier)

    2014–2016           
    M.A. Intercultural Theology, University of Göttingen, Germany

    2009–2013            
    B.A. (Hon.) Political Science with Sociology, University of Ghana, Legon-Accra, Ghana

    Academic Career

    Since May 2023
    Postdoctoral Research Associate, (Global Bible Project (GloBil)) Center for Religion and Modernity

    2021–2023                 
    Lecturer in New Testament Studies and Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics, Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana

    April–September 2021
    Adjunct Lecturer, Chair of Religious Studies & Intercultural Theology (Prof. Dr. Ulrike Schröder), Theological Faculty, University of Rostock, Germany

    October 2021–March 2022        
    Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, University of Applied Sciences for Intercultural Theology Hermannsburg, Germany

    October 2019–March 2020        
    Adjunct Lecturer, Chair of New Testament Studies (Prof. Dr. Reinhard Feldmeier) Theological Faculty, University of Göttingen, Germany

    October 2018–March 2019        
    Adjunct Lecturer, Chair of New Testament Studies (Prof. Dr. Reinhard Feldmeier), Theological Faculty, University of Göttingen, Germany

    October 2018–March 2019        
    Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, University of Applied Sciences for Intercultural Theology Hermannsburg, Germany

    Academic Memberships

    • Society of Biblical Literature
    • Institute of Biblical Scholarship in Africa-West Africa
    • European Association of Biblical Studies
    • Göttinger NT-Kolloquium

  • Research / Interest Focus

    • Mission Bible translation in colonial West Africa (1800 – 1914)
    • Mother-Tongue Bibles and African Christianity
    • Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics in Africa
    • Bible and Politics in Africa
    • New Testament and African Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity
    • New Testament reception history
    • New Testament Exegesis (Synoptic Gospels and Corpus Paulinum)

  • Publications

    Publications

    Selection

    • Wandusim, Michael F. . ‘Unsung Heroes of Mission Bible Translation in Colonial West Africa: Ludwig Adzaklo of the Bremen Mission in German Togoland.’ Religions 15, No. 3: 314. doi: 10.3390/rel15030314.

    Complete List

    Books (Monographs)

    • Wandusim, Michael F. . The Lord’s Prayer in the Ghanaian Context: A Reception-Historical Study. 1st Ed. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110730579.

    Articles in Scientific Journals, Newspapers or Magazines

    Research Articles (Journals)
    • Wandusim, Michael F. . ‘Unsung Heroes of Mission Bible Translation in Colonial West Africa: Ludwig Adzaklo of the Bremen Mission in German Togoland.’ Religions 15, No. 3: 314. doi: 10.3390/rel15030314.
    • Wandusim, Michael F. . ‘Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics: A Critical Assessment of the History of an Emerging Approach in African Biblical Studies.’ Journal of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics and Theology 5, No. 2: 17–35. doi: 10.38159/motbit.2023521.
    • Wandusim, Michael F. . ‘Reception of the Lord’s Prayer in Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity in Ghana.’ Journal of the Bible and its Reception 9, No. 1: 75–97. doi: 10.1515/jbr-2020-0011.
    Review (Journals)
    • Wandusim, Michael F. . ‘Review of Frederick Mawusi Amevenku and Isaac Boaheng, “Biblical Exegesis in African Context”.’ E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies 9, No. 7: 300–303. doi: 10.38159/erats.2023975.