About Dr. Charles Quist-Adade
Charles Quist-Adade received his PhD in Sociology from Petersburg State University in Russia. He currently is Chair and Professor of Sociology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
His research and teaching interests include social justice, globalization and development, racialization and ethnicity, media and society, and social theory. His other areas of teaching and research interests revolve around Global South issues and religion.
Prior to joining the Department of Sociology, Dr. Quist-Adade taught at the University of Windsor, Wayne State University, Central Michigan University, and Michigan State University.
He is the author of several books:
- In the Shadows of the Kremlin and the White House: Africa's Media Image from Communism to Post-Communism
- Social Justice in Local and Global Contexts
- From Colonization to Globalization: The Intellectual and Political Legacies of Kwame Nkrumah (Co-editor) Lost in Transmission: Media (Mis)Represention of Racialized Minorities
- The Local-Global Nexus of Social Justice
He has presented papers at conferences in Canada, Ghana, India, the USA and Russia. Dr. Quist-Adade has won several teaching awards, including being cited twice in the Academic Edition of Canada's premier newsmagazine Maclean's as the top three most popular and one of 10 best professor at the University of Windsor, Ontario.
He combines academic with community service. He is the editor and publisher of the Sankofa News renamed Akasanoma and Managing Editor of the Burnaby-based Afri-Can Magazine. He is the President of the Ghanaian-Canadian Association of BC. He was awarded the 2004 Black Community Leadership Award by the Windsor and District Black Coalition. In 1998, he was voted the Ghanaian Man of the Year in Windsor, Ontario.
Dr. Quist-Adade began his career in his native Ghana as a journalist before moving to Russia where he pursued graduate studies while he worked as a correspondent of the London (U. K.)-based Gemini News Service. While in Russia, he also worked for BBC Africa Service, London-based African magazines, New African, African Concord and West Africa.
Upcoming works include An Introduction toSociologicalTheory: A Transnational Approach (2019). This book examines Eurocentrism and sexism in the early development of sociological theory and how pioneering works of non-whites and were excluded. He is also co-authoring Symbolic Interactionism: From Its Origins to Contemporary Theory (2019)with Darrick Brake. The book will examine the academic contribution of Josiah Royce to symbolic interactionist theory.
