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Professor, President and Vice-Chancellor<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Wisdom Tettey currently serves as Carleton University\u2019s 17th President and Vice-Chancellor, having joined Carleton in 2025 from the University of Toronto, where he was Vice-President and Principal of the Scarborough campus between 2018 and 2024. He previously held the roles of Dean of the Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences and of the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, both at the University of British Columbia\u2019s Okanagan campus, and was Interim Dean of the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tettey has served as a consultant and advisor to various global organizations, including the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, the Africa Capacity Building Foundation and the International Association of Universities. He is an elected Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves on the advisory and editorial boards of various academic publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

2025. \u201cThe \u201cNew Guardians\u201d and Nuances of Media Capture in Ghana: Persistence or Rupture of Elite Power?\u201d (with K. Anoff-Ntow). In Hayes M. Mabweazara and Bethia Pearson (eds.), Contesting News Media Capture in Africa and Latin America<\/em><\/strong>. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 107-138 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-031-68962-8_5<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024. \u201cMedia Pluralism, Regulators, and Transactional Instrumentalism in Ghana\u201d (with K. Anoff-Ntow). In J.R.A. Ayee, L.G.A Amoah, and S.M. Alidu (eds), Political Institutions, Party Politics and Communication in Ghana: Three Decades of the Fourth Republic<\/em><\/strong>. London: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 239-259<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022. \u201cBlackness in the Canadian Academy: Challenges, Contestations and Contradictions.\u201d In Tamari Kitosa, Malinda Smith, Awad Ibrahim, Handel Wright (eds.), Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy: Teaching, Learning, and Researching while Black<\/em><\/strong>. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 111-122<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022. \u201cCOVID-19 Narratives and Counter-Narratives in Ghana: The Dialectics of State Messaging and Alternative Re\/De-Constructions.\u201d (with K. Anoff-Ntow). Journal of African Media Studies<\/em><\/strong>, vol. 14 (1), pp. 125-142<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020. \u201cCOVID-19, Anti-Black Racism in China, and Political Economy of. Asymmetrical Power,\u201d Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography<\/em><\/strong>. https:\/\/antipodeonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/7.-Tettey.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013. Media and Information Literacy, Informed Citizenship and Democratic Development In Africa: A Handbook for Information\/Media Producers and Users<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. Harare: African Capacity Building Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2010. The Public Sphere and the Politics of Survival: Voice, Sustainability and Public Policy in Ghana<\/em>. Accra: Woeli Publishing Services [Co-edited with Korbla P. Puplampu]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2010. Challenges of Developing and Retaining the Next Generation of Academics: Deficits in Academic Staff Capacity at African Universities<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. New York: Partnership for Higher Education in Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2009. African Media and the Digital Public Sphere<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. New York: Palgrave Macmillan [co-edited withO. Mudhai and F. Banda]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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