j Siguru Wahutu

I am an assistant professor at Yale University's Sociology department and Council on African Studies, a Fellow at the a Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center of Internet and Society, and a Fellow at the Center for the Study of African Societies and Economies, both at Harvard University. I am a media sociologist, with an emphasis on genocide, mass violence, and ethnicity in sub-Saharan Africa. I have written about global media patterns in covering genocide in Africa, ethnicity, land, and politics in Kenya, and on the Kenyan media's experimentation with social media platforms. My research has appeared in African Journalism Studies, African Affairs, the International Journal of Press/Politics, Global Media and Communication, Media and Communication, Media, Culture, and Society, and Sociological Forum. My award winning book is on journalism in postcolonial Africa.