Divine Narkotey Aboagye

I am a  Ph.D. candidate in rhetoric and political culture  at the University of Maryland (currently on the Job Market). I completed my M.S. in Communication from Illinois State University and my B.A. in Communication (minor in Philosophy) from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. I study global and U.S. political discourse, especially regarding science and technology, the U.S. presidency, political economy, international institutions, activism, and media & contemporary controversies. My research falls under three conceptual umbrellas. First, I explore the broader articulation of technology in U.S. political discourse. Here, I trace the configuration and constitution of what he conceptualizes as “the technological imaginary” in U.S. geopolitical rhetoric across three periods—World War II, the Cold War, and the U.S. Middle Eastern Wars (War on Terror). Additionally, I examine presidential discourses on emerging technologies and challenges, discourses on quantum technology, and the future of U.S. science and technology discourses. My second area concerns issues in political economy, rhetoric of political institutions, and international law. I explore how these institutions respond to challenges of inequality, their governance mechanisms, and their exercise of power. Additionally, he investigates and explores how institutional practices further shape conversations about national sovereignty, necropolitics, and empire. My third area concerns the rhetoric of advocacy, race and politics, and the rhetorics of memory across global contexts. A spirit of interdisciplinarity broadly guides my research. Hence, my work integrates rhetorical theory with science and technology studies, international politics, critical theory, and decolonial and postcolonial thought. I take this approach to my research because of my commitment to a vision of global justice and peace. Divine received Top Paper Awards from the National Communication Association and Central States Communication Association.