Cosmas Nwokeafor
Cosmas U. Nwokeafor, Ph.D., is a full professor of Mass Communication at Bowie State University where he currently serves as the Dean of Graduate School. He has served as a Provost Fellow and Assistant Provost for Graduate Studies at Bowie State University. Prior to his current position, he has served as the Assistant Dean and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences respectively as well as the Chair of the Department of Communication.
His professional experiences include leadership training at Harvard University. He has participated at the Oxford Roundtable workshop in Oxford, London, where his paper was among the top ten papers that was published on the journal Forum on Public Policy on-line, spring 2009.
Publications
Dr. Nwokeafor also presented a paper at the 2013 Oxford Education Research Symposium in London. He has conducted research in the areas of development communication, new communication technologies and Media role in development in Africa, conundrum of autism, and retention studies.
Activities & Memberships
Currently, he serves as the Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools/UMI ProQuest award committee chair for dissertation submissions from (CHBGS) member institutions. He also serves as the secretary of the Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools. Dr. Nwokeafor was the past Associate Editor of the Journal of African Communication (JAC).
He has been involved as a co-PI in some funded and unfunded grants among which are the multimillion dollar project learning community (Project LINC), National Science Foundation (NSF) proposal titled “Prince George’s Partnership for Innovation and a 4.5 million dollar National Science Foundation (NSF) grant titled “Training Institute for Practicing Mathematics and Sciences Teachers.
Awards & Honors
Dr. Nwokeafor has received numerous awards such as 6th time awardees of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers’; Who’s Who in the Media and Mass Communications; Who’s Who in American Education; Who’s Who in America; Who’s Who in the East; Who’s Who in the World; He received an award as a Member of the International Authors and Writers; and Citizen Ambassador Program. Dr. Nwokeafor is a Pointer Institute for Media, American Press Institute and Capital/ABC Fellow. He has published eight books, six book chapters and is the author of numerous scholarly peer reviewed journal articles. Dr. Nwokeafor reviewed John Merrill’s book, Global Communication.
Education
Dr. Nwokeafor received a National Certificate in Education (Pedagogy) at the prestigious Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, Nigeria, a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Howard University in 1986, masters in Mass Communication in 1990 and a doctorate in Mass Communication from Howard University in 1992.