Biography
Dr. Assatu Wisseh, PhD, is a digital humanist, media and technology historian, and educator. Examining the historical interactions between coloniality, critical infrastructures and geographies is her main focus of interest. Her scholarly research articles and presentations center on the ways misinformation about Black bodies, Black spaces, and Black cultures have historically been articulated with displacement and other forms of marginalization. Her work is published by Duke University Press, Heliotrope, Black Camera, Howard Journal of Communication, and New Media and Society.