Dick Kawooya, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
kawooya@mailbox.sc.edu
Davis College, Room 106
803.777.4949

Dr. Dick Kawooya

Dr. Dick Kawooya comes to the University of South Carolina from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he has held teaching academic staff positions since 2006.

Dr. Kawooya's PhD in Communication and Information was completed in 2010 at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. His doctoral research (dissertation) explored Ugandan traditional musicians' construction of ownership. Dr. Kawooya's broad research interest focus on the impact and manifestation of intellectual property in Africa's informal sectors. His current research focuses on the role of intellectual property in the interactions and exchange of innovations between actors in the formal and informal economies in Africa (Uganda as case study). Related to this research, Dr. Kawooya is part of an expert group advising the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on the study of intellectual property in the informal economy in Africa. He is also part of the Global Research Network on Copyright Flexibilities in National Legal Reform project of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University Washington College of Law.

Dr. Kawooya was the recipient of 2006-07 International Policy Fellowship of the Open Society Institute (OSI) and the Center for Policy Studies at the Central European University (CEU). The Fellowship research focused on the impact of copyright on access to e-resources in Uganda's teaching and research environments. He was a member Commonwealth of Learning (COL) Copyright Expert Group. In 2005-2006, he has served as the National Copyright Expert to eIFL.IP representing the Consortium of Ugandan University Libraries (CUUL). Dick’s most recent work involved serving as the Lead Research of the African Copyright and Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) project (www.aca2k.org).

Dr. Kawooya teaches foundation course at graduate and undergraduate levels, research methodology, policy and law, economics of information, and information literacy. He has also taught courses in global studies and global media specifically focusing on access to information and intercultural issues.