Uchenna Onuzulike
Education
- Ph.D., Communication & Culture, Howard University
- M.S.P.C., Professional Communication, Clark University
- B.A., Communications (Film and Electronic Media), Worcester State University
- A.A.S., Telecommunications Technology, Quinsigamond Community College
Areas of Expertise
Critical intercultural communication, ethnic and transnational identities, communication theories, organizational communication, transnational media and globalization; interrelationships of religion, culture, folk belief, and language; second-generation Igbo and Nollywood/film analysis and criticism
Biography
Onuzulike’s 2014 dissertation, Ethnic and Transnational Identities in the Diaspora: A Phenomenological Study of Second-Generation Igbo-American Young Adults, won the Outstanding Dissertation Award of the National Communication Association’s African American Communication and Culture Division and the Black Caucus. Also, he was selected as one of Quinsigamond Community College’s 50 Distinguished Alumni “Guardian Protectors” for the College’s 50th Anniversary Celebration, 2014.
Dr. Onuzulike is serving on the editorial boards of four journals: the Howard Journal of Communications, the Journal of African Films and Diasporas Studies, the Journal of Social Media Studies, and the Journal of Eurasian Film Studies. He has served as an ad hoc manuscript reviewer for the Howard Journal of Communications, the Journal of International & Intercultural Communication, Critical Studies in Media Communications, the Popular Music and Society, the Muziki, the SAGE Open, and more.
Service Interests
Memberships & Affiliations
- National Communication Association
- Eastern Communication Association
- Maryland Communication Association
- Igbo Studies Association