Biography

Mark Alleyne (D.Phil., Oxford University, 1992) is Associate Professor. His research is in the area of critical theory and International Relations, the political economy of international communication, press freedom, and postmodern critical theory relating to the ideological constructions of “race.” Alleyne comes to GSU from U.C.L.A., where he was Associate Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. Alleyne is the author of Global Lies? Propaganda, the U.N. & World Order (Palgrave 2003), News Revolution: Political and Economic Decisions About Global Information (St. Martin’s 1997), and International Power and International Communication (St. Antony’s/Macmillan 1995). His scholarly essays have appeared in Media Development, the Journal of Communication, the Journal of Peace Research, Journalism Quarterly, SAIS Review, and others. A Rhodes Scholar, Alleyne worked for Caribbean media and was a freelance broadcaster for the BBC World Service in London prior to entering the professorate. He is at work on a book tentatively entitled Propaganda Against Hate. At the Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne, Australia, he taught the 2005 graduate seminar on the United Nations. Dr. Alleyne is leader of the Anti-Racist Discourses Project, a transnational research initiative that includes scholars from a number of universities across the world, including the University of Stirling, Scotland, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico, the University of Salzburg, Austria, and the University of Amsterdam, Holland.