Office: Carts 238
Fall Office hours: Wednesdays and Fridays, 11 am to noon, and (happily) by appointment.
I am usually on campus every day. If my door is open, feel free to stop by.

Phone: 262.595-2561 . Fax: 262.595-2271
E-mail address: fay.akindes@uwp.edu

Fall 2007
Comm 108 / Media & society (Gen ed)
MWF 10 am to 10:50 am - Carts 140

Comm 463 / Gender, race & class in media
MW 2 pm to 3:15 pm - Carts 125

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Fay Yokomizo Akindes is associate professor of communication and director of UW-Parkside's Center for Ethnic Studies. She joined UW-Parkside in Fall 1997.

During the 2005-'06 academic year she was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Abomey-Calavi in Benin, West Africa. The highlight of her Fulbright was attending the African Literature Association Conference in Accra, Ghana with six graduate students and meeting Kenyan scholar Ngugi wa Thiongo, author of Decolonising the Mind and many novels.

In 2004 she received UW-Parkside's Stella Gray Teaching Excellence Award and the Plan 2008 Diversity Award. She delivered the keynote address at UW-Parkside's December 2004 Commencement.

Fay's research problematizes communication, culture and identity in Hawai'i, the United States, and West Africa. Her writing has appeared in Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies, Diegesis, Discourse, and Qualitative Inquiry, and a few book anthologies. Her doctoral dissertation, Hawaiian-Music Radio as Diasporic Habitus: A Rhizomatic Study of Power, Resistance, and Identity, was awarded the 1999 Outstanding Dissertation by the National Communication Association's International and Intercultural Communication Division.

Prior to graduate school, she was marketing/promotion director at KPBS-FM (San Diego's public radio station), and promotion/public relations specialist at KGMB-TV (CBS) and KHET (PBS) in Honolulu. She earned a Ph.D. in mass communication and an M.A. in telecommunication management from Ohio University-Athens and a B.A. in journalism from the University of Hawaii-Manoa. She was born, raised and public-schooled on Molokai, an island 38 miles long by 15 miles wide. She considers herself an "accidental professor."

Fay lives in Kenosha with her husband, Professor Simon Akindes (UW-Parkside's Teacher Education Department), and two children. When not working, she enjoys reading literature. This summer she read Waiting by Ha Jin, Moo by Jane Smiley, Lucky by Alice Sebold, and No-No Boy by John Okada.

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"A'ohe pau ka 'ike i ka halau ho'okahi."

One can learn from many sources .

- Mary Kawena Pukui, 'Olelo No'eau, Hawaiian Proverbs and Poetical Sayings