Adelaja Oriade
Adelaja Oriade is a third-year Ph.D. student and an instructor of record at 51ĀŅĀ×, Media Arts and Studies department. He also serves as a Peer Advisor of the International Student and Faculty Services (ISFS), 51ĀŅĀ×. In addition, He has served as a Teaching Assistant in the Media Arts & Studies Department of 51ĀŅĀ× (2019-2020), and a reviewer for the 51ĀŅĀ× Graduate Student Senate (GSU) 2021 Original Work Grants and Travel Awards (OWG).
For his Ph.D. dissertation, Adelaja investigates the perspectives of Black immigrants and African Americans about the casting for historical African and African American movies in Hollywood. Also, as a passionate ally of the African LGBTQ community, he explores indigenous, innovative, and efficient channels to navigate the homophobic laws and unchecked victimization of Africans whose sexualities do not conform to predominant heterosexuality. Adelaja frames his research in mass communication, post-modern, and post-colonial theories.
Before joining the Ph.D. program at Ohio University,āÆAdelaja completed aāÆBachelor of Science degree in Mass Communication from theāÆTaiāÆSolarināÆUniversityāÆ(2010) and a Master of Arts degreeāÆin Communication and Language ArtsāÆfromāÆtheāÆUniversity of Ibadan (2017), Nigeria.āÆāÆ
You can read Adelajaās publication titled, āChallenging Hegemonic Masculinity in Nigerian Hip Hop: An Evaluation of Gender Representation in Falz the Bahd Guyās Moral Instruction Albumā through .