Adelaja Oriade
Adelaja Oriade is a third-year Ph.D. student and an instructor of record at ĢƵ University, Media Arts and Studies department. He also serves as a Peer Advisor of the International Student and Faculty Services (ISFS), ĢƵ University. In addition, He has served as a Teaching Assistant in the Media Arts & Studies Department of ĢƵ University (2019-2020), and a reviewer for the ĢƵ University 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 ĢƵ University, Adelaja completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Mass Communication from the ղ SDZ UԾٲ (2010) and a Master of Arts degree in Communication and Language Arts from the University of Ibadan (2017), Nigeria.
You can read Adelaja’s publication titled, “Challenging Hegemonic Masculinity in Nigerian Hip Hop: An Evaluation of Gender Representation in Falz the Bahd Guy’s Moral Instruction Album” through .