Name: Paromita Sengupta

Year: First

Hometown: Kolkata, India

Undergraduate/Graduate Institutions: Jadavpur University (BA in English, MA in English); University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (MA in Media Studies)

Research Area: Humour, prank culture, participatory politics

Publications/Presentations while at USC Annenberg: Upcoming presentation at the...

Name: Tisha Dejmanee

Year: Fifth, All But Dissertation

Hometown: Sydney, Australia

Undergraduate/Graduate Institutions: University of New South Wales, University of Sydney

Research Area: Gender and Digital Media

Dissertation Topic: Performing Femininity and Feminist Resistance on Food Blogs

Peer Reviewed Journals:

Rhode, F. and...

Name: Sandra K. Evans

Graduation Year: 2014

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Communication at California State Polytechnic University Pomona (aka Cal Poly Pomona)

Research Area: Organizational Communication; Organizational Change; Communication Technology; Media Organizations

Recent Publications and Lectures:

Evans, S. K. (In press). Staying...

Name: George Villanueva

Graduation Year: 2014

Current Position: Assistant Professor of Advocacy and Social Change, School of Communication, Loyola University Chicago

Research Areas: Advocacy and Social Change; Engaged Scholarship; Community-Based Research; Urban Communication; Visual Communication; Urban Planning and Development; Democracy; Space and Place; Public...

Name: Brittany Farr

Year: 6th; ABD

Hometown: West Grove, PA

Undergraduate Institution: Harvard College

Research Areas: Media Studies; Critical Race Theory; Feminist Theory

Dissertation Topic: The legacy of the 1965 Moynihan Report in legislation, public policy, and popular culture.

Recent publications and presentations:

Netflix’s “...

Name: Diana Lee

Year: Fourth; ABD

Undergraduate/Graduate Institutions: University of California, Berkeley; Harvard Graduate School of Education; New York University

Research Areas: Cultural Studies; Racial Microaggressions; Participatory Politics; Media Literacies; Critical Pedagogy

Dissertation Topic: The creation and circulation of counter-narratives to...

Name: Yu Xu

Year: Second

Hometown: Shanghai, China

Undergraduate/Graduate Institutions: Fudan University; Tsinghua University

Research Area: Social networks; organizational communication; political communication and social movements; computational methods

Publications and/or conference presentations while at USC Annenberg: My work has been...

Professor Hernán Galperin

Professor Hernán Galperin 's paper, " Localizing Internet infrastructure: Cooperative peering in Latin America ," has been published in the current issue of the journal Telematics and Informatics ....