Education

• BA (Honors) English & Linguistics, University of Ghana, Legon, 2000
• MA Archival Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, 2002
• MA Speech Communications, Central Michigan University, 2005.

Teaching Experience

• Graduate Teaching Assistant, America's Diverse Cultures, Spring 2007 - present. SYLLABUS(PDF)
• Instructor, Introduction to Speech Communication, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, August 2002- December 2003.
• Teaching Assistant, English & Linguistics Dept, Univ. of Ghana, Legon, March 2001- August 2001
• Teaching Assistant, Toase Secondary School, Ashanti Region, Ghana, September 1996-July 1997.

Research Positions

• Research Associate, The Nollywood Project, a collaborative research venture on the Nigerian video movie industry sponsored by the Global Media Research Center, a unit of the College of Mass Communications and Media Arts at SIUC.
• Research Assistant, Professor Kwesi Yankah, Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Ghana, September 2000 – August 2002.
• Research Assistant, Centre for Democracy and Development, Ghana, September 2000- March 2001. 

Publications

• 2007 "Semiotic Silence: Its Use As a Conflict-Management Strategy in Intimate Relationships." In Semiotica 167: Pp.283-308 [Abstract]