Benedine Azanu (Dr.)

• Ph.D., Communication, Ohio University
• Graduate Certificate, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Ohio University
• M.A., International Affairs-African Studies, Ohio University
• M.Phil., Communication and Media Studies, University of Education, Winneba
• B.A., Graphic Design, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

• Association of Women in Communication, January, 2019 to present.
• Communication Educators Association of Ghana, October 2018 to present.
• Global Alliance on Media and Gender, January, 2017 to present

• 2016 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, School of Media Arts and Studies, Ohio University.
• 2016 African Studies Association–Royal Air Maroc Student Travel Award

• New Media Technology (Graduate level)
• Gender and Media Studies
• Introduction to Writing for Mass Media
• Magazine Management and Production
• Media Law
• Issues in Ghanaian Media History
• Newspaper Management and Magazine Production
• Foundations of Broadcasting (Radio, Television, and Online)
• Communicative Skills
• Approaches to Communication Research
• Introduction to Political Communication
• Media and the Creative Process
• Media Analysis and Criticism
• Evolution of the Media
• Globalization Developing World
• Introduction to Mass Communications
• Media Law, Ethics and Policy

1. Azanu, B., Ofori-Birikorang, A. (2014). Newspaper Framing of Women in Leadership Spaces: An Ethnographic Content Analysis of How Three Newspapers Framed Women Leaders in Ghana From 2009 to 2010. The Social Educator, 4(2), 1-25.

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• Participant, Training Workshop UNESCO Model Curriculum on Media, Migration and Refugee Matters, Elmina Beach Resort, 26^th to 28^th November, 2019.
• Participant, International Virtual Exchange Conference, Tacoma, Washington, USA, 25^th to 26^th October 2019.
• Participant, Global COIL Initiative (GCI) Ohio University Online Learning Community Workshop, Athens Ohio, USA, 21^st to 24^th October, 2019.
• Participant, Trainer of Trainers Workshop, UCC Elearning Platform, University of Cape Coast, 8^th to 10^th October 2019.
• Participant, Global COIL Initiative (GCI) Ohio University Online Learning Community Workshop, 16^th September to 8^th October 2019.
• Member, Interim Management Committee, Communication Educators Association of Ghana, October 2018 to present.
• Member, Committee for the Drafting the New Doctor of Philosophy Programme for the Department of Communication Studies, 9^th October to 9^th December, 2019.
• Member, Department of Communication Studies, UCC, Welfare Constitution Review Committee, 2019.
• Designer, Logo for the Communication Educators Association of Ghana, 2019.
• Speaker, Mentorship Seminar, Forces Secondary School, Burma Camp, 15^th March, 2019.
• Participant, Mainstreaming Migration Reporting Workshop, organized by The Erich-Bost-Institute for International Journalism at the University of Dortmund in collaboration with Africa Positive, 11^th December, 2018, TV3 Adesa We, Accra.
• Speaker, Faculty of Arts Students Association Ladies Women’s Empowerment Workshop, University of Cape Coast, 14^th February, 2018.
• Presenter, Africa @ Ohio Colloquium: Transnational Online Media Articulations of Ghanaian Women: Mapping Shifting Subjectivities, Ohio University, March 2017.
• Moderator, The 19th Annual American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences (AABSS) Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 2016.
• Team Member, Intelligent Communities Assessment: Select the Smart21 Communities for 2016, Ohio University, 2015.
• Panel Member, Gendered Communication Panel: Organizational Communication Class, Ohio University, 2014.
• Participant, ‘Crossing Boundaries:  Expanding Your Publishing Opportunities’, organized by the George Washington University in partnership with the World Bank, Accra, November 2007.
• Participant, International Conference on Gender and Development, Abantu for Development and Friedich Ebert Foundation, Accra, May 2005.

Consultancy

• Member, Vice Chancellor Committee on Moodle Platform for Teaching of the University of Cape Coast, September – December 2018.
• Coordinator, UNESCO/African University College of Communications (AUCC) Gender and Minorities Mainstreaming Project, 2011-2012.
• Team Member, Ministry of Education Evaluation of Atlases for Basic Schools, August 26 – 31, 2011.