Education
Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Eric Karikari, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director
Areas of Expertise
Organizational Communication
Critical/Cultural Studies
Leadership Communication
Political Economy
Qualitative Research Methods
Biography
Dr. Karikari received his Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque in 2018. Prior to that he obtained an MA in Communication Studies from Minnesota State University, Mankato in 2013. His research draws from scholarship in organizational communication, leadership communication and critical/cultural studies where he studies advocacy, resilience, neoliberalism, and alternative organizing. He also takes a critical approach to the study of race/ethnicity and globalization in organizations and aims to bring the experiences of traditionally marginalized minority groups to the center of conversations about organizational leadership and decision-making processes. Dr. Karikari was chosen as the 2017 Guest Scholar for the Aspen Institute’s Conference on Communications Policy. He is currently the Director of the Communication and Advocacy graduate program and has authored/co-authored several journal articles and book chapters in the field of communication studies and beyond. In his spare time, he likes to watch or play soccer. He also spends a considerable amount of his downtime watching TV dramas.
Courses Taught
COMM 419: Organizational Communication
COMM 300: Research Methods
COMM 380: Leadership Communication
COMM 315: Business and Professional Communication
Selected Publications
Karikari, E. (2023). Conceptualizing organization: Hybridity and the naturalizing of dis/order. Published in Journal of Multicultural Discourses.
Karikari, E. (2022). Capital, the state and the digital divide: A critical reflection on social media censorship in Ghana. In F. Kperogi (Ed.), Digital Dissidence and Social Media Censorship in Africa. Taylor & Francis.
Karikari, E. (2022). Drawing the contours of organizational culture through neoliberal and colonial discourses. Published in Management Communication Quarterly.
Karikari, E., Sotomayor, J., & Asante, G. (2020). Illegal mining, identity, and the politics of ecocultural voice in Ghana. The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity.
Karikari, E. & Brown, C.B. (2018). Sensemaking in turbulent contexts: African student leadership in a postcolonial context. Published in Communication Studies.
Briziarelli, M. & Karikari, E. (2016). Antonio Gramsci and communication. The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication.
Briziarelli, M. & Karikari, E. (2016). Mediating social media’s ambivalences in the context of informational capitalism. International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change, (3)1, 1-22.
Guest Blog
Karikari, E. (2017, September 28). Equity versus equality: Why communications policy is crucial to social justice. Retrieved from