Phone: 213 740 3951
E-mail: baroffio@usc.edu
Office: ASC 221
Office Hours: TBA

Daniela Baroffio-Bota received her Ph.D from the USC Annenberg School for Communication in 2006. Her work examines gender, race and national identity as they appear in popular media. She recently completed a dissertation that considers the figure of the U.S. female soldier and the implications that this figure has for a military – and national – structure predicated on hetero-normative masculinity. Dr. Baroffio-Bota has published an essay on sports and gender in the Handbook of Sports and Media and her current research and teaching interests examine the potential for social change and advocacy in entertainment and the media, with a focus on national citizenship and gender. As faculty in the Master of Communication Management and the undergraduate program at USC Annenberg, Dr. Baroffio-Bota teaches courses that examine the politics of gender in the media, interpretations of popular culture, and the politics of social change and advocacy in the political economy of the entertainment industry. She enjoys teaching and hopes to help her students to recognize their situation within a variety of social systems and to see how they can become agents of positive change in the world.