Jemima Agyeman
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Bio
Jemima Akweley Agyeman is a Ph.D. student and Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department
of Sociology at Oklahoma State University. She worked as a Social Worker with the
Department of Social Welfare in Ghana for over twelve years. She has expertise in
child rights protection and promotion, community care and justice administration.
She has experience working and partnering with several development organizations,
including International Justice Mission (IJM), International Needs and Residential
Homes for Children, and United Nations Development Programme. Working with vulnerable
groups and the marginalized in Ghanaian societies, specifically in Ningo-Prampram
and Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region, she is passionate about understanding, and
helping bring development to, the socially disadvantaged in Ghana.
Her research interest is in social inequalities, criminology, and social psychology-
with an emphasis on disability, marriage, adolescents, and young adults.
Education
- BA in Sociology with Study of Religions, University of Ghana, Legon 2006
- MPhil in Sociology, University of Ghana, Legon 2019
Research Interests
- Social Inequality
- Social Psychology
- Qualitative Methods
- Global Inequalities and Development
- Criminology