j. Siguru Wahutu

j. Siguru Wahutu is an Assistant Professor of Sociology & African Studies and a Fellow at The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center of International and Area Studies. He is also a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and a Fellow at the Center for the Study of African Societies and Economies both at Harvard University. His primary scholarship examines media constructions of knowledge in Africa, focusing on genocide and mass atrocities. His research interests include the effects of ethnicity and culture on the media representations of human rights violations, global and transnational news flows, postcolonial land claims, and the political economy of international media, with a regional emphasis on postcolonial Africa. His award-winning book, In the Shadow of the Global North: Journalism in Postcolonial Africa, offers an extensive account of media coverage of Darfur by various African states. When not studying media and genocide, he works on data privacy issues and media manipulation in African countries. This secondary research stream is the subject of his second book project. Wahutu's research has appeared in several Sociology, Media/Journalism Studies, and African Studies journals.