Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed (pronouns: she/her) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. She is the author of Media, Culture, and Decolonization: Re-righting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana (Rutgers University Press, 2025). She is also co-editor of the book, African Women in Digital Spaces: Redefining Social Movements on the Continent and in the Diaspora (2023). Prior to joining the Department of Communication in July 2024, she served on the faculty at the University of Georgia. She is an activist-scholar whose research focuses on feminisms, decolonization, and social movements. Her research is published in peer reviewed journals such as Communication Theory, the Howard Journal of Communications, The International Journal of Communication, Feminist Media Studies among others. She has won top paper awards at the International Communication Association, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the International Association for Media and Communication Research and other academic conferences. She has worked as a radio journalist in Ghana for several years and her writing has appeared on Al Jazeera, The Washington Post, Global Voices, Okay Africa, and several Ghanaian media platforms.
Her research focuses on interrogating power in media and communications while working together with disenfranchised communities to use media to bring about transformative change in communities. At the core of her research agenda is examining the importance of indigenous epistemologies in dismantling oppressive systems.
Through her research, she works with community organizations, civil society organizations, universities and non-profit organizations to translate theory into praxis to support decolonial efforts through programming such as workshops and research summits, among others. She also applies her scholarship to social issues by appearing on local and national media organizations to discuss issues in the language of the community such as Dagbanli.
