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Teaching

  • Media in Ghana
  • Communication in Developing Countries
  • International Communication
  • Media Theory
  • Feminist Media Studies
  • Gender, Diversity, Media

Graduate Advising

Over 70 doctoral student advisees or committees and over 100 master’s and undergraduate honor’s student advisees/committees.

Other Mentoring

  • AEJMC, Commission on the Status of Women, junior faculty mentoring, approximately 2008-2015.
  • ICA 2017. Pre-conference at Stanford University. Knowledge exchange and mutual mentoring, African media studies research.
  • ICA Regional Conferences in Africa:
  • Nairobi, Kenya 2016, Oct. 19-21. Served on organizing committee. Participated in mentoring sessions.
  • Entebbe, Uganda  2017, Oct. 24-26. Research and Publication Workshop. Presented and participated. The entire conference was devoted to mentoring research and publication.
  • Accra, Ghana 2018, Nov. 6-9. Participated in mentoring sessions.
  • Cape Town, South Africa 2023, Nov. 16-18. Participated in pre-conference knowledge exchange workshop, Nov. 15. 

Past/Current Editorial Boards/Selected External Review      

  • Media & Communications Review, Accra, Ghana-based
  • Annals of the International Communication Association
  • Journal of Creative Communication
  • African Journalism Studies
  • Feminist Media Studies series, University of Illinois Press
  • InterNationality: A Journal of Critical Global Studies
  • Communication, Culture & Critique (including consulting editor)
  • Journal of Communication
  • Communication Theory
  • Journal of Public Relations Research
  • Ablex Communication and Information Science Series, including Progress in Communication Sciences
  • Public Relations Research Annual
  • External examiner for proposed University of Virginia doctoral program, November 2022.
  • External examiner for the University of Miami doctoral program, March, 2020. 
  • External examiner for the School of Communication Studies University of Ghana, 5-12 theses per year (2010-). 
  • Accreditation team, Zayed University, Ministry of Higher Education, UAE, 2016.
  • External promotion and tenure reviews –2-4 annually over the past 20 years.