Placements

See where our recent graduates have found placements after earning their PhD in Communication from USC Annenberg:

Academic placements

Jeeyun Baik, PhD (2021)
Assistant Professor
University of San Diego

TJ Billard, PhD (2020)
Assistant Professor
Northwestern University

Sierra Bray, PhD (2022)
Assistant Professor
CSU Los Angeles

Matthew Bui, PhD (2020)
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan

Frances Corry, PhD (2022)
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Pennsylvania, Center for Digital Culture

Courtney Cox, PhD (2019)
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Ignacio Cruz, PhD (2021)
Assistant Professor
Northwestern University

Ming Curran, PhD (2020)
Assistant Professor
Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Stefanie Demetriades, PhD (2020)
Assistant Professor
DePaul University

MC Forelle, PhD (2019)
Assistant Professor
University of Virginia

Brooklyne Gipson, PhD (2020)
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

Olivia González (2022)
George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Pennsylvania

Joo-Wha Hong, PhD (2022)
Postdoctoral Scholar
USC Marshall School of Business

Perry Johnson, PhD (2021)
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Pennsylvania

Do Own Kim, PhD (2022)
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois - Chicago

Hye Min Kim, PhD (2022)
Assistant Professor
University of Massachusetts - Boston

Lauren Levitt, PhD (2021)
Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow
UC Riverside

Yiqi Li, PhD (2021)
Assistant Professor
Syracuse University

Azeb Madebo, PhD (2022)
Assistant Professor
University of Portland

Rachel Moran, PhD (2020)
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Washington Center for an Informed Public

Ruqin Ren, PhD (2020)
Assistant Professor
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Emily Sidnam-Mauch, PhD (2020)
Project Manager/Research Scientist
Clemson University, Humans and Technology Laboratory

Lauren Sowa, PhD (2022)
Visiting Assisting Professor
Pepperdine University

Jingyi Sun, PhD (2021)
Assistant Professor
Stevens Institute of Technology

Yusi Xu, PhD (2021)
An Wang Fellow
Harvard University

Zhiming Xu, PhD (2020)
Assistant Professor
Marquette University

Sulafa Zidani, PhD (2021)
Assistant Professor
MIT

Sarah Clayton, PhD (2022)
Head of Marketing
Graviton

Hyun Tae Calvin Kim, PhD (2020)
Market Intelligence
Hanwha Life

Deborah Neffa Creech, PhD (2020)
Senior Research Associate
Sentient Research

Cat Duffy, PhD (2018)
Policy Analyst
National Health Law Program

Nathalie Marechal, PhD (2018)
Policy Director
Ranking Digital Rights

Prawit Thainiyom, PhD (2018)
HR Data Analyst
Microsoft

Liyuan Wang, PhD (2021)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles