Melissa Brough is a Doctoral Candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California, and a 2010-2011 Fulbright grantee to ...
Jamaica Brown is a graduate of Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Her undergraduate Sociology thesis, entitled "Remember to Eat and Sleep - Online Games, Offline Lives," explored community and identity...
Omri Ceren is a PhD Candidate at Annenberg. His dissertation focuses on the persuasive role that identification plays in conspiracy theorizing, examined in rhetorical, psychoanalytic, and argum...
Dayna graduated cum laude in 2005 with a B.A. in Communication from Saint Mary's College of California. She attended the University of Illinois at Chicago for a M.A. in Communication, with a co...
Joyee S. Chatterjee is a PhD candidate at University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. Her research interest is in media, popular culture and social ...
Nancy Chen has an honours degree in Media and Communications from the University of Melbourne and a master degree in Communication from the University of Southern California. Prior to joining the doct...
Joshua Clark graduated with honors from Queen's University at Kingston with a B.A in Political Studies. He earned an M.A. at the University of British Columbia in the same field. His master's thesis e...
Tisha Dejmanee has a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New South Wales, where she graduated with First Class Honors and the Univ...
Fan Dong is a Ph.D. candiate and Wallis Anneberg Chair Fellow. Her research interest includes new media technology and social consequences, digital creativity and innovation industry, social ne...
Kevin Driscoll is a PhD student in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at University of Southern California. His recent research addresses the historicization of internet tech...
Sandra K. Evans graduated from Northwestern University with a double-major in Radio, Television and Film, and International Studies. She received an MSc in Global Media and Communications at th...
Brittany Farr received her A.B. from Harvard College in May 2010. As a Folklore and Mythology concentrator at Harvard, Brittany's special field focused on horror in folklore and literature, par...
Laurel J. Felt is a doctoral student of communication at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, where she has worked with the Annenberg Sce...
Ryan Gillespie is a PhD Candidate and Assistant Lecturer in the Annenberg School. His broad area of study is morality, public culture/public sphere studies and informal logic/argument, with underlying...
Carmen Gonzalez is an ABD doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. Carmen graduated from USC with a B. A. in Print Journalism, Chicano Studies and a minor in...
In May 2005, Amy received a B.A. in Communication and Psychology from USC and immediately began work as a project manager at Annenberg overseeing content studies designed to assess gender portr...
Nikita received her B.A. with honors in Communication and Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. She then worked as the first Ase Futures Fellow for the non-profit, Afro-centered, Satu...
Jennifer has studied communication throughout her scholarly career earning a B.A. from the University of San Diego as well as a M.A. from the Annenberg Communication Management Program. Upon gr...
Martin pursues a multidisciplinary approach to the role of information, communication and knowledge in society. He is particularly interested in understanding the implications of and requisites for th...
Renyi Hong received his B.A and M.A. in Communication Studies from the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. For his Master’s thesis titled “Game Modding and Labour: The Influence of W...
Jinghui "Jove" Hou received her B.S. in Statistics from Fudan University and her M.A. degree in Media Studies from Syracuse University. Jove's research focuses on so...
Selene Hu received her B.A. with a major in Library and Information Science and a minor in Economics at National Taiwan University. She then earned her M.A. in Journalism at National Taiwan Uni...
Jin Huang graduated from Huazhong University of Science & Technology with a double degree in Journalism and Marketing. As a junior, she studied abroad at National University of Singapore, d...
David Jeong is a doctoral candidate at the Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism. His research interests are in studying the relationship between perceptual/attentional systems and media...
Rebecca Johnson graduated cum laude from the USC Annenberg School in May 2011 with a B.A. in Communication (Entertainment and Society) and a double minor in Music Recording and Advertising. Her...
Adam S. Kahn is a doctoral student in communication at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. He holds a B.S. in computer science, a B.A. in a history, and an M.A. in media st...
A second-year doctoral student at the Annenberg School, Erin Kamler’s research agenda is two-fold: A former A.F.S. exchange student and conversational Thai language speaker, Erin studies communication...
Shawna’s research interests are in new technologies, communication, and culture, with a focus on digital games. Some of her previous projects include: entry into virtual worlds and games, the m...
Young Ji received her BA from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea in mass communication. She did her MA studies in Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. Prior to h...
Charlotte Lapsansky is a PhD Candidate and American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. Charlotte ha...
Alex Leavitt received a B.A. in English Literature and a minor in Japanese from Boston University in 2009. After graduating, he joined the Comparative Media Studies department at MIT to researc...
Joel received his BA in political science from Georgia State University in 2008. He went on to receive an MA in communications with an emphasis in rhetorical studies, also from Georgia State Un...
Zhan Li holds a B.A. in Social & Political Sciences and a M.Phil. in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University (Trinity) as well as a S.M. in Comparative Media Studies from MIT. For his Ph.D. ...
A proud Romanian from the city of Timisoara, Ioana graduated summa cum laudae from Middlbury College, with Highest Honors in Film and Media Culture. She was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa academic s...
Jingfang Liu is a Ph.D candidate at Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. Her broad research interest centers around Information and Communication Technology (I...
Wenlin Liu received her B.A. in Journalism from Peking University, China and M.A. in Communication at the University of Washington, Seattle. Prior to her graduate study, Wenlin interned at the ...
Lori received her B.A. in Media Studies and Asian Studies at Pomona College. During her time at Pomona she wrote two theses -- one on representations of Asian Americ...
Melissa Loudon began her professional career as a software developer for Cell-Life, a South African non-profit, developing systems for HIV management. She has an undergraduate degree in Geomati...
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Li Lu received her B.A. from Peking University with double majors in Publishing Science and World History. She received her M.S. from Communication Department, Cornell University in 2009. Prior...
Jules Mailland graduated from the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) with an LL.B and a M.C.J. There, he focused on international law and comparative constitutional law. He also received...
Drew is a PhD Candidate at Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. Drew’s research focuses on the understanding the relationship between social networks, epistemo...
Theo Mazumdar holds a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and master’s degrees from Columbia University and Goldsmiths College, University of London. His research interests lie chiefly ...
William McClain graduated summa cum laude from the University of Kansas with a major in Film Studies and a minor in English Literature. For his honors thesis, he examined the relationship betwe...
Emerging from and running across Ritesh’s academic travails in cognitive science at UC-San Diego and philosophy (in which he obtained his Masters) at the University of Missouri-St Louis, has be...
Aalok Mehta received his B.A. with honors in biochemistry, biology, and philosophy from Rice University. He then worked as a science writer and editor in Washington, D.C, for the American Chemi...
Jingbo Meng got her Bachelor degree from Peking University, Master degree from The Ohio State University, and is currently a doctoral student at Annenberg School. Her research revolves around s...
Yujung Nam is a PhD candidate and an Annenberg Fellow at Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, USC. She studies the area of health communication with a focus on social-psychological issue...
Previous to his arrival at USC, Russell Newman served as the research director for the national nonprofit advocacy group Free Press. There, he focused on media and telecommunications policy, tracking ...
Allison studies strategic organizational communication. She's interested in how organizations navigate the new media and information environment given the central role that communication plays ...
Nina O’Brien graduated from Syracuse University with a Bachelors in Communications and Textual Studies, and received her Masters Degree in Media Ecology from New York University’s Department of...
Katherine Ognyanova does research with a broad focus on transformations of the media system and social aspects of technology. Her doctoral thesis explores applicatio...
Poong Oh received his B.A. and M.A. in mass communication from Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea; minor in philosophy) and his M.S. in journalism & mass communication from Iowa State Universi...
Katrina Pariera received her Master of Arts in Communication, Culture and Technology from Georgetown University in 2009, and her B.A. from Portland State University in Applied Linguistics, wher...
Mina Park graduated Summa Cum Laude from Yonsei University with a B.A. in Mass Communication and a minor in Psychology. She then received an M.A. in Communication from Yonsei University, where ...
Michael Park graduated from the USC’s Annenberg School of Communication and the School of Cinematic Arts, double-majoring in Communication and Cinema-Television. During his time at USC, Michael...
Steven’s research interests focus on the theory and practice of public argumentation and deliberation in contemporary communicative ecologies, particularly as they intersect with questions of i...
Flemming Schneider Rhode received a B.A. cum laude from the University of Richmond with majors in Rhetoric & Communication Studies, Economics, Political Science, and International Studies. ...
Before coming to USC, Steve received an MA from CSU-Fullerton, studying rhetorical criticism of popular culture. His current research focuses on rhetoric of scientific controversies, particular...
Scott Sanders studies the development of trust, the evaluation and management of information, and the effect of inauthentic communication within online brand communities. Specifically, he is in...
Angeline (Lee Ann) Sangalang examines cognitive and affective processes underlying media effects. She is interested in the role that emotion plays when interpreting health information from medi...
Andrew Schrock is a Ph.D. student at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. His research focuses on social identity, role negotiation, and dy...
A Provost's Fellow and Doctoral Candidate at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication, Janel Schuh earned a master’s degree on a Park Fellowship at the School ...
Jaclyn Selby conducts research at the intersection of content industry economics, media and technology policy, and public diplomacy. How can understanding the industrial organization of media i...
Marcus Shepard received his B.A. in Communication Studies from Northwestern University with a specialization in Rhetoric, Media, and Public Culture. In addition to his B.A. in Communication, Sh...
Jieun Shin graduated from Korea University in Seoul, South Korea, with a BA in Mass Communication and Journalism. In 2010, she received her Master of Communication Management from the Universit...
Francesca Smith received an honors BA degree in linguistics from Stanford University, studying critical discourse analysis and sociolinguistics in the context of women's magazines and messages ...
Susana Smith Bautista is a Ph.D. candidate and Provost Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California, where she ...
Minhee Son graduated magna cum laude from the University of Southern California with a BA in communication. In 2009, she received a MA in visual communication from Yonsei University (Seoul, Kor...
Myoung-Sun (Kelly) Song graduated magna cum laude from Ewha Womans University in South Korea with a BA in English Language and Literature. For her senior thesis, she explored the literary techn...
Benjamin Stokes investigates how digital media foster civic engagement, informal learning, and activism. He is currently studying how mobile media and videogames can advance social justice by b...
Paul's interests include applied (informal) epistemology, the Austrian School of economics, the Frankfurt School (especially the work of Jürgen Habermas), human rights, and psychiatry. He is c...
Most of Lana's work is on money (and other regimes of value) as techno-social practice. At Annenberg, she has worked on the CivicPaths research collaborative and the new Media, Economics, and E...
Adam is the Director of Forensics at Arizona State University. His research interests include contemporary and classical rhetoric, political communication, new media communication studies, and ...
After graduating from the University of Southern California with B.A. in Biological Sciences, Chris began working for his alma mater's Office of Undergraduate Admission as an Assistant Director...
Rhea Vichot graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Comparative Media Studies in 2004. She attended New York University and attained a Masters in Cinema Studies as well as a...
Neta graduated Summa Cum Laude from Tel Aviv University, studying communication and political science, and received her MA in communication from the University of Haifa in 2009. In her Master’s...
George Villanueva pursues questions about the changing global context of community, civil society, democracy, and the city. His dissertation will study issues of sustainable urban development a...
Rong Wang received her B.A. with honors from School of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing University (P.R. China), and her M.A. in Communications and New Media at the Faculty of Arts and Soc...
Cynthia received her B.S. from Northwestern University, majoring in Radio/TV/Film and Biological Sciences, and minoring in Asian American Studies. Upon graduating, and discovering that trying t...
Elisheva Weiss graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in political science in May 2007. At Columbia, she did research on Howell Raines’ short tenure as executive editor of The New York ...
Diana is a doctoral student of rhetoric and political communication at USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Her research interests include global controversies in internatio...
Li (Leo) Xiong holds a B.A. in English from Beijing Foreign Studies University, China and an MS in Cultural Studies from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2007, he transferred from the ...
Lin Zhang received her B.A. in English Literature from Beijing Foreign Studies University. She spent her undergraduate life reading novels (completed a thesis on female Asian American writers) ...
Nan studies health communication at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. Being a firm believer of human agency and sustainable social chang...
Mei Zhou graduated from Peking University with a B.A. in English Language and Literature, and got her M.A. in Communication from the USC Annenberg School for Communication. Her research interes...