Wunpini F. Mohammed, PhD.
Dr. Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed was born and raised in Tamale. She is an Assistant Professor at the College of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. She completed a bachelor’s degree at the University of Ghana and a master’s degree at Michigan Technological University. She went on to complete a Ph.D. in Mass Communications with a minor in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and an African Studies concentration at the Pennsylvania State University.
Her PhD dissertation project, which is the first ever scholarly work on the Dagbanli film industry in Northern Ghana, examined indigenous language film in Northern Ghana by parsing out the complexities of film production, distribution and reception. She is co-editor of the book, African Women in Digital Spaces: Redefining Social Movements on the Continent and in the Diaspora (2023). She serves on the editorial board of the Communication, Culture & Critique and Feminist Media Studies journals. She has led study abroad trips to South Africa.
Her research which focuses on feminisms, decolonization, broadcast media, development communication, and political economy of communication have appeared in the Howard Journal of Communications, Review of Communication and Communication Theory. She has won top paper awards at the International Communication Association (ICA), the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and other academic conferences.
She has worked as a radio journalist in Ghana for several years and has done some public scholarship on Al Jazeera, DW, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Dazed, The Financial Times, Global Voices, Okay Africa, and several Ghanaian media platforms including the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation.