Later this week, USC Annenberg doctoral students will be in Philadelphia for the convention of the National Communication Association . On Thursday, November 10 through Saturday, November 12, over two dozen current students (as well as faculty and alums) will present their work at the annual gathering of communication scholars:
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Kristen Guth is the Post-Quals Representative for the Annenberg Communication Graduate Student Association (ACGSA). She represents all students who have passed qualifying exams and entered the dissertation stage. She's currently at work on her dissertation, which focuses on organizational development in a Silicon Valley startup.
Name: Kristen L. Guth
Year: Fifth, ABD...
The year was 1995. In a Blockbuster Video parking lot in Virginia, Myoung-Sun (Kelly) Song sat in the family car, waiting for her mom to return some rented movies when “Gangsta’s Paradise” by Coolio came on the radio. Song, who was born in Seoul and lived in the U.S. for three years during elementary school, was transfixed by what she heard.
“I was still learning English at the time...
Doctoral student TJ Billard
Name: Thomas J. Billard, aka TJ
Year: Second
Hometown: Vienna, Austria
Undergraduate Institution: The George Washington University
Research Area: Political Communication
Journal Articles:
Billard, Thomas J. 2016. “Fonts of Potential: Areas for Typographic Research in Political Communication.”...
Second year doctoral student joan miller , with summer funding from the Annenberg School of Communication and the USC Graduate School, was able to get her feet wet this July as a fan-slash-ethnographer at the 47th annual Comic-Con International ....
Name: Ritesh Mehta
Graduation Year: 2015
Current Positions: Intern, Episodic Storytelling Lab, Sundance Institute; Executive Producer and Story Consultant at Rough Diamond Productions; Contributor, MovieMaker Magazine ; Screener, American Film Institute Fest; Screening Committee, New Filmmakers Los Angeles
First Position after Graduation: Development Intern,...
This summer, supported by the Annenberg School of Communication and the USC Graduate School, third year doctoral student Marina Litvinsky attended the Community Engaged Research Institute (CERI). Held annually by UC Santa Cruz's...
Laura Alberti (ABD) participated in the panel “Debating the conscience of the nation: Argumentation and debate in the 2016 presidential primary debates” at the meeting of the Southern States Communication Association in Austin, Texas in April. She also presented her paper, "From the Colonel's uniform to Libya's revolutionary art: An exploration in the...