Placements
See where our recent graduates have found placements after earning their PhD in Communication from USC Annenberg:
Corporate/Nonprofit/GMOs placements
Cat Duffy, PhD (2018)
State Policy Director
Planned Parenthood
Nathalie Marechal, PhD (2018)
Senior Research Analyst
Ranking Digital Rights
Hyun Tae Calvin Kim, PhD (2020)
Market Intelligence
Hanwha Life
Academic placements
Laura Alberti, PhD (2018)
Assistant Professor
University of Southern Mississippi
Janeane Anderson, PhD (2017)
Assistant Professor
University of Tennessee
Leila Bighash, PhD (2018)
Assistant Professor
University of Arizona
TJ Billard, PhD (2020)
Assistant Professor
Northwestern University
Matthew Bui, PhD (2020)
Postdoctoral Fellow
NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology
Lik Sam Chan, PhD (2018)
Assistant Professor
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Samantha Close, PhD (2017)
Assistant Professor
DePaul University
Courtney Cox, PhD (2019)
Assistant Professor
University of Oregon
Katherine Elder, PhD (2017)
Assistant Professor
CSU, Channel Islands
MC Forelle, PhD (2019)
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow
Cornell University
Traci Gillig, PhD (2019)
Assistant Professor
Washington State University
Brooklyne Gipson, PhD (2020)
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Illinois
Brandon Golob, PhD (2018)
Assistant Professor
UC Irvine
Renyi Hong, PhD (2017)
Assistant Professor
National University of Singapore
Rachel Moran, PhD (2020)
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Washington Center for an Informed Public
Deborah Neffa Creech, PhD (2020)
Senior Research Associate
Sentient Research
Mina Park, PhD (2017)
Assistant Professor
Washington State University
Sonia Shaikh, PhD (2020)
George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Pennsylvania
Prawit Thainiyom, PhD (2018)
Associate Director of Data and Metrics & Clinical Assistant Professor
USC Keck School of Medicine
Rhea Vichot, PhD (2019)
Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Nathan Walter, PhD (2018)
Assistant Professor
Northwestern University
Andrea Wenzel, PhD (2017)
Assistant Professor
Temple University
Sarah Myers West, PhD (2018)
Postdoctoral Researcher
AI Now Institute
New York University
Yu Xu, PhD (2019)
Assistant Professor
Northwestern University
Bei Yan, PhD (2018)
Project Scientist
UC Santa Barbara
Lin Zhang, PhD (2017)
Assistant Professor
University of New Hampshire