Sociology Department Faculty: Charles Quist-Adade
Co-Chair, Sociology Department
E-mail: charles.quist-adade@kwantlen.ca
Office: C3850B (Surrey Main), Surrey
Telephone: 604.599.2254
Voice mail: 9329
Educational Background: Dip. Journalism (Ghana Inst. of Journ), M.A. Journalism (Leningrad State U.), Ph.D. Sociology (St. Petersburg U.)
Courses Taught:
SOCI 1125 Introduction to Society: Processes and Structures
SOCI 2230 Racialization and Ethnicity in Canada
SOCI 2235 The Development of Sociological Thought
SOCI 2250 Families in Canada
SOCI 2255 Micro-Sociology: Social Interaction
SOCI 2260 Research Methods in Sociology
SOCI 2275 Mass Media and Society
SOCI 2285 Gods in the Global Village: A Sociological Perspective of World Religions
SOCI 3320 Sociology of Global Inequalities
SOCI 4275 Lost in Transmission: Diversity and the Media
SOCI 4310 Terrorism, Globalization and Social Justice
SOCI 4330 Global Community Service
Areas of Interest/Investigation:
Mass media; race and ethnicity; sociology of the family; globalization; social psychology; cults, myths and religion; and African cultures. Recent research invovles studies on media, ethnicity/race, identity formation, and intercultural communication; Africa’s media image in the United States and the former Soviet Union; Africans and mixed-race families in the former Soviet Union; and sexuality and pregnancy among Ghanaian secondary school students.
Publications:
Books
Quist-Adade, Charles and Frances Chiang. (eds.) 2011. From Colonization to Globalization: The Intellectual and Political Legacies of kwame Nkurumah and Africa's Future, BC, Canada: Daysprings Publishing.
Quist-Adade, Charles. 2001. In the Shadows of the Kremlin and the White House: Africa's Media Image From Communism to Post-Communism, University Press of America.
Chapters in Books
Quist-Adade, Charles. 2008. “Challenges Confronted and Lessons (Un)Leanred: Linking Students from the University of Ghana and Kwantlen University College." In Education for a Digital World. Commonwealth of Learning.
Quist-Adade, Charles. 2008. "Teaching anti-racism through [un]learning and praxis." In Teaching Race in Social Science and Humanities Higher Education. Emily Horowitz (ed.), University of Birminghan Monographs.
Quist-Adade, Charles. 2006. "The Ones They Left Behind: the Life and Plight of African Russians." In The African Russian Diaspora, Volume One. Maxim Matusev (ed.), Africa World Press.
Quist-Adade, Charles. 1999. "The Russian Version of Africa's Tarzan Image." In Global Dynamics, Ablex Publishing Co.
Quist-Adade, Charles. 1995. "Africa, The Kremlin and the Press: The Russian Soul Comprehending the African Spirit." In Communication In Eastern Europe: History, Culture and Media in Conflicts, Fred Casmir (ed.), pp. 247-276. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Quist-Adade, Charles. 1993. "Glasnost Glosses over Africa." In Whose Story. Jill Spelliscy and Gerald B. Sperling (eds), pp. 75-79. Calgary AB: Detselig Enterprises Ltd.
Articles
Quist-Adade, Charles. 2008. "Linking students from the University of Ghana and Kwantlen University College: Challenges Confronted and Lessons (UN)Learned," in African Higher Education Research Online July.
Quist-Adade, Charles. 2007. "Ghana and Canada - 50 Years of Friendship," Journal of Pan-African Studies, vol.1, no.9.
Quist-Adade, Charles and Anita Van Wyk. 2007. "The Role of Canadian and US NGOs and the Socio-Cultural Structures of Africa." African Development, vol XXXII, no.2.
Quist-Adade, Charles. 2007. "Teaching and [Un]Learning 'Race' to 'Non-Black' Students by a 'Black' Professor." Teaching Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education: Perspectives from North America. Birmingham, U.K. (Accepted for publication)
Quist-Adade, Charles. 2007. "What does the scholarship of teaching and learning mean to me?" Transformative Dialogues-Teaching and Learning Journal, Kwantlen University College, Surrey, BC. http://www.kwantlen.ca/academicgrowth/TD/
Quist-Adade, Charles. (revise and re-submit). "The Making of the African Diaspora in Russia." Journal of International Migration.
Quist-Adade, Charles and Joseph Inungu. 2005. "Shift in the Reasons Why Adults Seek HIV Testing in the United States: Policy Implications." The Aids Reader.
Quist-Adade, Charles. "Glasnost and Africa: Africa’s Media Image in Russia During the Gorbachev Years." Class and Race, London, U. K.
Quist-Adade, Charles. 1994. "Africa’s Image in the Russian Press." Communication, (South African Journal for Communication Theory), 20 (2): 32-45.
Quist-Adade, Charles. 1993. "The ex-Soviet Press and Africa After the Cold War," Class and Race, London, October-December.
Quist-Adade, Charles 1988. "The Africans Who Train Behind the Iron Curtain," Commonwealth Press Union Quarterly, London, April.
Book Review
Quist-Adade, Charles. 2000. “Gender in African Pre-history.” Humanity and Society. 24 (3): 314-317.
For more information, visit Dr. Quist-Adade's personal webpage at http://www.quist-adade.com/articles.php
