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Alphonse Opoku
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BIO
Alphonse Opoku is currently a second-year sociology Ph.D. student at the University of South Florida. His research areas include political sociology, space and place, globalization and development, global migrations, and the environment. His current work, which utilizes both qualitative and quantitative tools, examines how the construction and practice of citizenship structures and challenges systems of inequality in postcolonial Africa. Alphonse received his master’s degree from the University of South Florida. Using interviews and content analysis, his thesis explored how African international students integrate and create a sense of belonging in the U.S. through their homemaking practices. Before arriving in the U.S., he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology with a minor in linguistics from the University of Ghana. Currently, Alphonse is a teaching instructor in the department.
research interests
Political Sociology, Space and Place, Global and Transnational sociology