Biography

A double-major PhD in Anthropology and Africana Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, and former inaugural postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Experimental Ethnography at Penn, Dr. Osei Alleyne also holds an MA in Communications from Temple University. A former internationally touring professional Canadian Hip hop artist and spoken work poet of Trinidadian extract, Osei Alleyne's field research employs a multi-modal ethnography of Reggae, Rastafari, Afrobeat and Hip hop performance communities across the African diaspora, with an emphasis on the black Atlantic nexus between Jamaica and Ghana. As Assistant professor of Media Studies and production at Klein, Dr. Osei Alleyne also writes about African diasporic art and philosophy movements such as afrofuturism and afropolitanism and has published critical commentaries on notable pop culture tomes in the Black Mirror and Black Panther series. Dr. Alleyne's classroom practice engages an abolitionist-inspired critical pedagogy. 

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