Sheriff Folarin a 2018 Research Fellows Mentor/Facilitator of the Ife Institute of Advanced Studies, a 2007 United States SUSI Fellow at the University of South Carolina (USA),a 2014 Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Host-Scholar, and a 2011-2013 Classroom Beyond Borders International Partners' Institute Visiting Scholar at Ithaca College, New York, is a Professor of International Relations and current Head of the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Covenant University.