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Boatema Boateng is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Her work critically examines intersections of law, race, gender, and cultural production, with a focus on intellectual property regimes in Ghana and the African diaspora. She is affiliated with interdisciplinary research groups at UCSD and contributes to science studies and cultural theory.
- Ph.D., Communications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2002)
Her research traverses critical legal studies, transnational gender studies, and indigenous epistemologies. She explores how colonial histories and racialized gender dynamics shape legal frameworks and cultural knowledge production. Recent projects analyze Black indigeneity, contested sovereignty, and cultural appropriation in fashion.
Boateng’s publications address transcultural communication, African diasporic subjectivities, and legal critiques of intellectual property. Her 2011 book, The Copyright Thing Doesn’t Work Here, remains foundational in debates about traditional knowledge protection.
- Graduate Courses: Ethnographic Methods, Feminisms in Critical Dialogue, Creating to Think, History of Communication Research
- Undergraduate Courses: Introduction to Communication, Black Women in Feminism and the Media, Communication for Indigenous Justice, Cosmetic Surgeries and Social Meanings
