I am an assistant professor in the Department of Radio, Television & Film at Rowan University. My current book project, On Medium Specificity in Africa, is a postcolonial media archaeology that analyzes the history of media technologies in Africa from the early twentieth century to the present. My research can be found in Screen, Feminist Media Histories, boundary 2, Social Dynamics, Journal of African Cinemas, and is forthcoming in Black Camera (2025) and Discourse (2025). Please contact me if you do not have institutional access and would like to read any of my articles. I will promptly, and with joy, send you copies.
I hold a PhD in Film & Media Studies from University of California, Berkeley, an MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from New York University, and a BA in Anthropology from University of California, Berkeley.
As a 2010–11 Fulbright Research Fellowship recipient I studied the history of early colonial film production in Ghana and conducted ethnographic research on government sponsored cinema distribution via mobile cinema vans. I also participated in audiovisual preservation advocacy in Ghana (May–August 2009 and May 2010) with New York University’s Audiovisual Preservation Exchange (APEX) program and spent five months in 2004 at the University of Ghana, Legon as an undergraduate foreign exchange student.
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