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Omar Al-Ghazzi is a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. His research focuses on the ways collective memory and popular imaginations of history, as presented and contested in popular culture and...

Christopher Ali is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He comes to Annenberg with a B.A. in Film and Media Studies from the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada and a Master’s Degree...

Ph.D. Candidate - Annenberg School for Communication; Master of Arts - Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, 2007; Ph.D. Candidate - Institute for Journalism and Communication Research, Hanover, Germany, 2003 – 2006; Master of Science in...

Ph.D. candidate – Communication, Annenberg School for Communication M.A., 2010 – Communication, Annenberg School for Communication; B.A., 2006 – Communication, English Minor, The University of Tulsa Rosemary Avance is a fourth year doctoral...

Lyndsey Beutin is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication. Her research interests include race and representation, violence, memory and the media, visual culture, digital humanities, and the public debate around reparations for slavery....

Research Interests: Health Communication, Communication and Persuasion, Research Methods

Derek Blackwell is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication. He is interested in the ways in which technology shapes social life. His current research focuses on the impact of digital media on the development and maintenance of intimate...

Ph.D. Candidate - Annenberg School for Communication Angel Bourgoin is a doctoral candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication. At Annenberg, she has trained as a research assistant with the Centers of Excellence in Cancer Communication Research....

Ph.D. Student, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania; M.A., English, Pennsylvania State University; Devon Brackbill is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication. His research interests lie in media effects...

Ph. D. Student, Annenberg School for Communication; B.A., Journalism & Mass Communication, News Editorial Sequence, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Brett A. Bumgarner is a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg...

Ph.D. Student - Annenberg School for Communication; Master’s Degree, University of California - Berkeley Deepti Chittamuru is a graduate student in the

Ph.D. Student - Annenberg School for Communication; M.A., Communication - Annenberg School for Communication, 2009; B.A., American Culture - University of Michigan, 2006 I focus on issues of new media and cultural production. I currently research how...

David Conrad is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication and is interested in the use of citizens’ and community-based forms of media as vehicles for participation, health education, political engagement, development...

Susanna Dilliplane is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on political communication, elections, public opinion, and political behavior, with a particular interest in the implications...

Nora Draper is a Doctoral Student at the Annenberg School for Communication. Her primary research interest is digital media with a particular focus on public policy, reputation management, privacy and surveillance. Prior to attending Annenberg, Nora...

Felicity Duncan is a second-year PhD student at the Annenberg School for Communication. Her research interests include the changing nature and scope of journalism and various aspects of international communication. Prior to commencing her studies, Felicity...

Tim Fallis is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School of Communication at Penn. His research interests all concern issues of religion: the use of religious allegory in film, the deploying of religious themes in politics both by church organizations...

Katherine Felsburg Wong is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication. Her current research interests include the production of culture, international marketing of Hollywood films, globalization and cross-border media transformations....

Kara Garrity is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She is primarily interested in exploring the aspects of children’s television that maximize learning in an effort to enhance the educational...

Ph.D. Student, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania; B.S., Media, Culture, & Communication, New York University, 2011; Kevin Gotkin is interested in the geniuses behind our gadgetry. His research investigates the culture...

Ph.D. candidate – Annenberg School for Communication; M.A., Communication – Annenberg School for Communication, 2009; B.A., Communication – University of Pennsylvania, 2006 Jeffrey A. Gottfried is a Ph.D. candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication...

Ph.D. candidate , Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania M.Phil., 2008 – Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong M.A., 2006 – Global Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong B.A.,...

Sun ha is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication. His work is primarily aimed at exploring the ways in which Michel Foucault’s works on normalization, discourse and power can be applied to contemporary fields of consumption. He...

Rowan Howard-Williams is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. His main research interests are in environmental communication, particularly media portrayals of global environmental risk and their...

Michelle Jeong is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication. She is primarily interested in the question of how to maximize the effectiveness of health messages for different age groups. Her general research interests extend to the...

PhD Candidate, Annenberg School for Communication. Her dissertation explores how American fashion companies, media, and consumers navigate the anxieties and controversies of a global retail environment. Her research interests also include social...

Minji Kim is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Her Research interest lies in the impact of new media technology on human communication. Specifically, this interest extends to a broad area...

Lauren Kogen is a Doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Her current work focuses on the use of media in conflict and post-conflict zones, portrayals of international humanitarian crises in Western...

Matt Lapierre is a doctoral candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication. He earned his B.S. from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst with a dual major in Mathematics and Philosophy and an M.A. from the University of Connecticut in Communication...

Tara Liss-Mariño is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. Her research interests include contemporary DIY culture, design and visual culture, consumer culture, and the creative industries. Tara graduated...

Deborah Lubken's dissertation title is "Signal, Music, Noise: Interpreting the Sounds and Silences of American Tower Bells, 1820 - 1960." Her doctoral dissertation supervisor is Annenberg Professor Carolyn Marvin. Deborah’s research interests include...

Debora Lui is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communcation at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include education, media studies, museums, public space, and architecture. Debora received a Masters of Science from...

Stephanie Mannis is a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. She is interested in questions of identity -- particularly the social construction and performance of gender identity and sexuality -- as well...

Susan Mello is a doctoral candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests lie at the intersection of risk perception, health communication and the environment. Her recent work...

Danielle Naugle is a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. Her research interests include development communication, international health communication campaigns, monitoring and evaluation, the importance...

Alison Perelman is a doctoral candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include consumer culture, food, and taste. She is currently investigating the interplay between...

Elizabeth Roodhouse is a doctoral candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication at Penn. Her dissertation will focus on "buycotting," or the purchasing of products in support of ethical, social, or political causes. Her prior research pertains...

Holli Hitt Seitz, MPH , is a doctoral student studying health communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include health communication, message effects, and research methods. Prior...

Lauren ("Loi") Sessions Goulet is a doctoral candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on communication technologies and social networks. In her dissertation work Lauren...

Dina Shapiro is a Doctoral Student at the Annenberg School for Communication. Her current research interests include stigma, identity, persuasive health communication, and social psychology. Prior to coming to Annenberg she was a Health Communications...

Rui (pronounced as "Ray") is a PhD student at the Annenberg School for Communication. She is interested in health communication campaigns and message testing.

Laura is a second year doctoral student in Political Science (School of Arts and Sciences) and Communications (Annenberg School for Communication). Her research focuses on comparative political communication, and she is particularly interested in topics...

Ph.D. Candidate – Annenberg School for Communication, Expected 2013; Ph.D. Candidate – Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, Expected 2013; M.A., Communication – Annenberg School for Communication, 2009; B.A., Political Science – University...

Ph.D. Student – Annenberg School for Communication; M.A., Communications – Annenberg School for Communication, 2010; MPH – Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2006; MBA – Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School, 2006;...

Emily Thorson is a pursuing a dual degree at the Annenberg School and at the Department of Political Science. Emily received her B.A. from Williams College, and has also worked on several political campaigns as well as with the Service Employees International...

Ph.D. Student – Annenberg School for Communication; M.A., Communication – Annenberg School for Communication, 2008; B.A., Self-designed major: Social Justice – Swarthmore College, 2004 Khadijah White is a producer, scholar and videographer, currently...

Kate Zambon is a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. Her research interests include global and intercultural communication and the construction of national identity, particularly as it pertains to...

Ph.D. Student, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania; M.S., Professional Communication, Clemson University; B.A., Journalism, Zhejiang University; Jingwen Zhang is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication...