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Education
M.A. International Affairs, Ohio University, 1988;
Ph.D., Mass Communication, Ohio University, 1989
Biography
Dr. Vibert C. Cambridge is a Professor in the School of
Telecommunications and Chair of the Department of African American Studies at
Ohio University. Prior to that appointment he served as Director of the
Communication and Development Studies, also at Ohio University. His research
interests include immigration and broadcasting in the United States,
entertainment-education in global Africa, the social history of broadcasting in
the Commonwealth Caribbean, music in Guyana’s 20th century social
history, and cultural expressions, strategic communication, and social change in
the African Diaspora in the Americas.
Dr. Cambridge has more than ten publications on his research interests. His book Immigration, Diversity, and Broadcasting in the United States, 1990 -2001 was published by Ohio University Press in 2005. His chapter “Milestones in Communication and Developments” was published in 2002 by Wadsworth in Transnational Media and Global Communication in the Information Age Revolution edited by Yaha Kamilipour. A second edition of the book was published in 2006. Some of his work on broadcasting in the Commonwealth Caribbean was published by Greenwood Press in 1996 in the book International Afro Mass Media. In 1993, he was awarded the Eighth Annual Carlos and Guillermo Vigil Prize for “Radio soap operas: The Jamaican experience 1962–1989"--the best article to appear in Volume 11, 1992 of Studies in Latin American Popular Culture. In September 2000, he received an award from the Netherlands Entertainment-Education Foundation (NEEF) for his service to the field of entertainment-education research and practice. He continues to be involved in the field of entertainment-education. He coordinated the conference on Entertainment-Education and the Global African Experience ( April 15 -17, 2004 at Ohio University); was a member of the international team that organized the Fourth International Conference on Entertainment-Education and Social Change (September 2004, Cape Town, South Africa), and in July 2005 was the co-organizer of Caribbean Soundscapes: Reflections on Caribbean Oral and Aural Traditions conference held at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. He is also a member of the
Advisory Board of Global Media Journal.
Dr. Cambridge is currently coordinating a research project on the African American presence in the Ohio River Valley and writing a book on music in Guyana’s 20th century social history. He also writes a regular column for Guyana’s Sunday Stabroek on Guyanese musicians and other creative artists.
Contact
302 Lindley Hall
Athens, OH 45701
Tel:740-593-9178
cambridg@ohio.edu
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