VP Bio

Phokeng Motsoasele Dailey

Vice President for Marketing and Communications

Education

• B.Sc., Education, Ohio Dominican University
• M.A., Communication, The Ohio State University
• Ph.D., Communication, The Ohio State University (Specializations: Health Communication; Interdisciplinary Global Health)

About

Dr. Dailey is the Vice President of Marketing & Communicatons, and former Warren C. Fairbanks Endowed Chair of the Department of Journalism & Communication, at Ohio Wesleyan University. Prior to making the decision to enter academia, Dr. Dailey worked in visual merchandising and has technical experience with copywriting, and the use of emerging technologies in creative messaging and/or corporate branding.

She previously taught courses for the Communication and Public Health majors and serves as a lead instructor in OWU's Summer Bridge Program. She serves on the University's DEI Council and and co-chairs the bi-annual Melvin Van Peebles Symposium. 

Dr. Dailey's research focuses on health disparities among immigrant, refugee, and other historically minoritized populations in the areas of sexually transmitted infection (STI) and cancer prevention--with an emphasis on assessing the role of mass media, interpersonal communication, and social identity in health decision-making. She served on OWU's Institutional Review Board (IRB) for seven years.

Selected Publications / Presentations

• DAILEY, P.M. & Chisebe, D. (2024). Interdisciplinary Co-Teaching: Bridging the gap between internationlaization, DEIB and the classroom. Reimagining the Academy Conference, Miami University, Oxford, OH.
• DAILEY, P.M. & Chisebe, D. (2024). Intersectional Insights: A five-year exploration of interdisciplinary co-teaching in Communication and black Studies. Teaching and Learning Division of the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Access in Leadership (I.D.E.A.L.) Conference, Indianapolis, IN.
• DAILEY, P.M. (2022). Decolonizing Health Messaging - A challenge for public health communication. Durban University of Technology (DUT). Office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor: Research, Innovation, and Engagement, Durban, South Africa.
• DAILEY, P. M. (2021). TV's Black women medical professionals: Sapphires & mammies with a stethoscope. In L.T. Brackett (Ed) Working While Black: Essays on Television Portrayals of African American Professionals. McFarland Press.
• DAILEY, P.M. (2021). Higher Education: A Response to a Pandemic. TSG
  Conversations: Educators. https://www.tsgadvice.com/tsg-conversations-episodes/phokengdailey
• DAILEY, P.M. (2019). He Calls Them Vermin and Rodents: Metaphoric Language in Political Communication. i³ Lecture Series, Ohio Wesleyan University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Ly-xSSydg
• DAILEY, P. M., & Krieger, J. L. (2015). Communication and US-Somali immigrant human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine decision-making. Journal of Cancer Education, 32(3), 516-521. doi: 10.1007/s13187-015-0959-0

For more information about Phokeng Dailey, view her Curriculum Vitae.

Winner of the 2023 Sherwood Dodge Shankland Award for Encouragement of Teachers