Isaac joined IGDS, Mona Unit, in 2024 as a Senior Lecturer. Before joining the Institute, he previously worked with the Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, Wa, Ghana. Isaac holds PhD in Gender Studies from the prestigious University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Isaac’s scholarship focuses on community-engaged research in the field of Gender and African Studies with a specific interest in men and masculinities; gender-based violence; global Southern feminisms; masculinities and suicide, to name a few. Methodologically and theoretically, Isaac’s research is interdisciplinary in nature by borrowing methods, concepts, and theories from disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. Isaac’s work provides a critical understanding of everyday gendered subjectivities as deeply discursive, social, cultural, and political constructs which are intersected, sustained, and reproduced by, sometimes mundane realities. This is where a decolonial feminist praxis is central to his research and teaching; he approaches local communities and stakeholders as important agents of social change.

Isaac has published widely on the intersections of African Studies, Gender/feminist Studies, men and masculinity studies, violence, and the Global South. He has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles and a book chapter. He has published in journals such as International Affairs; African Studies Review; Social Science and Medicine; Journal of Interpersonal Violence; Gender, Place, and Culture; PLOS One and NORMA. Isaac has been the recipient of numerous funding from the American Council of Learned Societies, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.

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