Profile

H. Leslie Steeves oversees academic programs and personnel at the School of Journalism and Communication. Much of Steeves’ current research centers on two areas and their intersection: communication and information technologies in developing countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, and gender and communication. She has published three books and many articles in these areas. Her present work also examines entertainment and tourism representations of Africa. She has had two Fulbright grants for teaching and research in Kenya and Ghana, and for the past 25 years she has directed an annual study-abroad program, Media in Ghana, for which she won the University of Oregon Thomas S. Herman Award in 2016.