Dr. Charles Quist-Adade is a Sociology
professor at Kwantlen University College. Prior to joining the
Department of Sociology in 2005, Dr. Quist-Adade Quist-Adade taught at
the University of Windsor. He also taught at Wayne State University and
Central Michigan University, and Michigan Stat...
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Dr. Charles Quist-Adade is a Sociology
professor at Kwantlen University College. Prior to joining the
Department of Sociology in 2005, Dr. Quist-Adade Quist-Adade taught at
the University of Windsor. He also taught at Wayne State University and
Central Michigan University, and Michigan State University, all in the
USA. Dr. Quist-Adade specializes in racialization and ethnicity. His
other areas of teaching and research interest are Media and Society,
Social Theory, Families, Globalization, and Social Psychology.
Dr.
Quist-Adade is the author of In the Shadows of the Kremiln and the
White House: Africa’s Media Image from Communism to Post-Communism,
several chapters in books and scores of scholarly and popular press
articles. He has presented several papers at conferences in Canada, the
USA and Russia. He is the editor and publisher of Sankofa News a
publication with a commitment to promoting multiculturalism in Canada
and beyond.
Dr. Quist-Adade has
won several teaching awards, including being cited twice in the
Academic Edition of Canada’s premier newsmagazine Maclean’s as the top
three most popular and one of 10 best professor at the University of
Windsor, Ontario. He was awarded the 2004 Black Community Leadership
Award by the Windsor and District Black Coalition.
Dr.
Quist-Adade began his career in his native Ghana as a journalist before
moving to Russia where he pursued graduate studies while he worked as a
correspondent of the London (U. K.)-based Gemini News Service. While in
Russia, he also stringed for BBC Africa Service, the London-based
African magazines, New African, African Concord and West Africa.
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