Fwangmun Oscar Danladi is a PhD student in the department of Classics and Religious Studies  at the University of Iowa, where he studies the intersections of land, identity, and religious cosmology in Nigeria’s Middle Belt. His research brings together African Indigenous religious thought, Christian theology, postcolonial and transnational theory, and environmental humanities to examine how bodies, land, and spiritual meaning remain entangled in contexts shaped by colonialism, extraction, and displacement. He is particularly interested in how Indigenous cosmologies continue to shape ethical relationships to land and community in contemporary Africa. His work also engages questions of migration, kinship, and religious identity

Oscar’s scholarship has been presented at several refereed international and national conferences, including the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) in Washington, DC, Yale Divinity School’s Graduate Conference in Religion and Ecology, and the Stott-Bediako Forum on Mission and Gospel Imagination

In addition to peer-reviewed articles, his publications include a book review in the International Bulletin of Mission Research on When the Medium Was the Mission (2025), as well as earlier theological and interdisciplinary work on African Christianity, hermeneutics, and mission studies. Alongside his research, Oscar is a Graduate Teaching Assistant in Rhetoric at the University of Iowa, where he designs and teaches experiential, student-centered courses in writing, argumentation, and public speaking. His teaching has been recognized with the Doug Trank Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring. He is also a Research Consultant with the Jos Green Centre, a non-profit in Nigeria driving environmental sustainabilty and green-job creation among young people, where he develops community-based programs in leadership, environmental responsibility, and social entrepreneurship. 

Across all his work—academic, pedagogical, and community-based—Oscar is committed to scholarship that is ethically grounded, historically aware, and socially engaged, seeking to bridge African religious worlds with global conversations about ecology, identity, and justice.