Dennis Okeke

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Dennis E. Okeke is a Journalism Studies Ph.D. student at the University of Colorado–Boulder, Boulder, U.S.A., and a critical interdisciplinary communication and media scholar. Using digital ethnography, corpus linguistics, and critical discourse analysis, he interrogates how racial, gendered, sexual, and religious politics occur in digital news spaces across postcolonial African nations and the United States. Mr. Okeke’s solo/collaborative scholarship has been published in African Identities, Communication, Culture, and Critique, Feminist Media Studies, and Health Communication, and presented at major communication/media/journalism studies conferences including AEJMC, ICA, and NCA. He is an award-winning teacher and mentor.

Education

University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, U.S.A.

Ph.D., Media Research and Practice (August 2024-present)

Focus: Technology, Culture, and Health Communication

Minor: Women and Gender Studies

Advisor: Dr. Patrick Ferrucci

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, U.S.A.

M.A., Communication (2024)

Focus: Communication Research Methods

CGPA: 4.0/4.0 (Summa Cum Laude)

Thesis: A quantitative analysis of UWM students’ awareness, satisfaction, communication preferences, and trust in campus safety communications

Advisor: Dr. Mike Allen

Committee Members: Dr. Sarah Riforgiate (Internal Examiner) and Dr. Chinwe Uzochukwu (External Examiner, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria)

Pan African University, PAUGHSS, Yaoundé, Cameroon.

M.A., Governance and African Regional Integration (2022)

Focus: Democratic Governance

Thesis: The role of the mass media in combating insecurity in Africa: A case study of the insurgencies in Nigeria and Cameroon

Advisor: Dr. Gerard-Marie Messina

Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria. 

B.Sc., Mass Communication (2019)

Focus: Mass Media and Politics

First-Class Honours/Summa Cum Laude

Project: President Muhammadu Buhari’s ‘Change Begins with me’ campaign: Nigerian undergraduates’ perspective

Advisor: Dr. Allen Adum

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