Name:	Boatema Boateng, Assistant Professor bboateng@ucsd.edu
Education:	Ph.D. in Communications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2002)
Research:	•• globalization and culture •• intellectual property law •• gender studies
Recent Publications	“"Walking the Tradition-Modernity Tightrope: Gender Contradictions in Textile Production and Intellectual Property Law in Ghana"” American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law  Vol. 15:2, 2007. "Local and Global Sites of Power in the Circulation of Ghanaian Adinkra" in Paula Chakrabartty & Yuezhi Zhao (eds.)  Global Communications: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy. Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. "Square Pegs in Round Holes? Cultural Production, Intellectual Property Frameworks and Discourses of Power" in Rishab Ayer Ghosh (ed.) CODE: Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Economy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005.