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Mohammed Ademo
Mohammed Ademo
Mohammed Ademo is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Ademo’s research examines mediated political participation in authoritarian contexts, exploring how social movements utilize music and collective memory as tools for communication and resistance.
Before joining the University of Maryland, Ademo spent two decades as a journalist, media executive, community organizer and human rights advocate in Ethiopia and abroad.
Areas of Interest
- Media, culture and society
- Political communication
- Protest music
- Social movements
- Collective memory
- Ethiopian studies
- Oromo studies
- Horn of Africa
- African studies
- Diaspora
Education
- B.A., University of Minnesota Duluth
- M.S. (Journalism), Columbia University
- M.A. (International Affairs), Columbia University