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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 – 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....

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. 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

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...

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....

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, 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 candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focus on discourses of global environmental risk, in particular campaigns and activism related to climate change,...

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...

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...

Tara Liss-Mariño received her doctoral degree from 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....

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...

Steph Mannis is a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, with a focus on health communication. She is specifically interested in the development and deployment of messages promoting healthy exercise...

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 focuses on...

Ph.D. student – Communication, Annenberg School for Communication; B.A. – International Relations, American University of Beirut Sara Mourad is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication. Prior to joining Annenberg, Sara received...

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...

Ph.D. student – Communication, Annenberg School for Communication; B.A., 2011 – Political Science, Film and Media Studies; Swarthmore College Yoel Roth is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania....

Alexandra Sastre is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication. Her research interests include the representation of race and gender in popular culture, reality television and contemporary celebrity, and the changing landscape of the...

Holli Seitz is a doctoral student studying health communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include message effects and social support, primarily in the context of health communication...

Dina Shapiro is a Doctoral Candidate 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 doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication. She received her BA in journalism from Beijing Foreign Studies University in China and her MA in communication from Wake Forest University in North Carolina....

Laura is a third 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...

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...