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Ph.D. Alumni

The following charts, organized by graduation year, list our Ph.D. alumni, their dissertation titles and chairs, and their current positions.

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2025

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
Nicholas Dias	Yphtach Lelkes and Matthew Levendusky	The Underestimated Public: How Scholars Overlooked the Meaning in Citizens' Policy Opinions	Postdoctoral Fellow, Aarhus University
Staci L. Jones	Sarah J. Jackson	The Subaltern is Speaking: Southern Black Grandmothers and the Kitchen Scholar Framework for Disrupting Knowledge Hierarchies, also known as Knowed: Southern Black Grandmothers and the Kitchen Scholar Framework	Artificial Intelligence Analyst, Mercor
Tyler Leigh	Diana C. Mutz and Matthew Levendusky	How Social Media Reduce Political Tolerance	Research Fellow, University of Notre Dame
Azsaneé Truss	Sarah Banet-Weiser and John L. Jackson, Jr.	Communicating in the Face of Oppression: The Antecedents of Code Switching and Consequences of (Linguistic) Racism among Black Americans	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Xinyi Wang	David Lydon-Staley	Investigating Environmental and Biological Factors that Shape our Curiosity for New Information	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Arlene Carolina Fernández	John L. Jackson, Jr.	Disrupting the Corner Store: On Bodegas, the Digital City, and the (Im)Possibilities of Refusal	Associate Director, Civic Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania
Mariela Morales	Aswin Punathambekar	Cuba's Digital Archipelago: transnational production and distribution of cultural alterity	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Danielle Clark	Robert C. Hornik	Should Communication Interventions Promoting Health and Environmental Behavior Change Address Misinformation Beliefs? Implications from Two Nationally Representative Longitudinal Survey Studies and A Randomized Online Experiment	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Louisa Lincoln	Victor Pickard	All the News That’s Fit to Fund: Journalism, Philanthropy, and Nonprofit News in the U.S.	Head of Impact & Engagement, Public Media Company
Alex Tolkin	Diana C. Mutz and Yphtach Lelkes	Seeing Politics as a Sport: How Watching Sports Shapes Perceptions of Competition	Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University
Shengchun Huang	Yphtach Lelkes	Illusions of Echo Chambers: (Mis)perceptions about Personalized News Environments and Political Consequences	Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Baird Howland	Duncan Watts	On the narrative construction of reality in political discourse: a theory, a method, and two empirical studies	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania

2024

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
Mary Andrews	Emily Falk	Health Equity in Tobacco Control Through an Intersectionality Framework: Examining the Compounding Effects of Minority Stressors and Tobacco Advertising	IDEA Fellow in Health Disparities and Critical Health, Stony Brook University
Antoine Haywood	Victor Pickard	Focused in the Frame: An Autoethnographic Reflection on African American Community Participation in Philadelphia Public Access Television	Assistant Professor, University of Florida
Darin Johnson	Emily Falk	Communicating in the Face of Oppression: The Antecedents of Code Switching and Consequences of (Linguistic) Racism among Black Americans	Research Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina
Helene Langlamet	Michael X. Delli Carpini	Living Under the Rule of the Growth Machine: How the Growth Ethic Structures Consent to the Fossil Fuel Industry in Southwestern Pennsylvania	Instructor, Citrus College
Sophie Maddocks	Barbie Zelizer	Platformed Girlhood: How Online Harassment Shapes Girls’ Identity, Privacy, and Speech	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Brendan Mahoney	Julia Ticona	The Platformization of Ideology: How Left- and Right-wing Social Movements Perform Intellectual Work on Reddit	Assistant Teaching Professor, Rutgers University
Fallon Alexandria Parfaite	John B. Jemmott III	The Intersection of Identity and Algorithm: How Black Users Co-Produce Their Online Selves on TikTok	UX Researcher, The Weather Company
Melissa Skolnick-Noguera	John L. Jackson, Jr. and Sarah J. Jackson	Cultural Arts Networks in Philadelphia: The Impact of Praxis and Discourse on Politics and Policy	Research Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Jeanna Sybert	Barbie Zelizer	Risky Reporting: Journalistic Precarity Amidst Pandemic, Protests, and Insurrection	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Ryan Tsapatasaris	Guobin Yang	Academic Cancel Cultures: Social Media as Peer Reviewer?
Andrew Wirzburger	Guobin Yang	The Video Game Industries' Hidden Curriculum: People Power and the Politics of Insurgent Consumerism	Metadata and Research Interoperability Specialist, University of Michigan

2023

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
Lauren Bridges	Victor Pickard	The Digital Growth Machine: The Politics of Land, Labor, and Waste at the Digital Frontier	Fellow, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
Kelly Diaz	Jessa Lingel	Lights, Camera, [Social] Action!: The Goals, Messages, and Impact of Youth Activism on Television	Postdoctoral Fellow, Swarthmore College, Lang Center for Civic & Social Responsibility
Sean Fischer	Yphtach Lelkes	Don’t Judge an Album By Its Cover: Testing Competing Theories of Partisan Cultural Polarization	Data Scientist, Cincinnati Reds
Emma Jesch	Robert C. Hornik	Cascade of Confusion: Examining Incongruent Spillover Effects From Exposure to Conflicting Health Information Across Two Methods	Cancer Prevention Fellow, National Cancer Institute
Mia Jovanova	Emily Falk	A Person-Specific Approach to Study Health Behaviors	Scientific Director, CSS Health Lab at the School of Medicine at University of St. Gallen (HSG) and ETH Zurich
Ava Kikut	Robert C. Hornik	What You Know or Who You Trust? Examining the Interactive Effects of Behavioral Beliefs and Source Trust on Prevention Behaviors Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic With Longitudinal Survey, Experimental, and Youth Participatory Action Research	National Cancer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Isabelle Langrock	Sandra González-Bailón	The Irony of Openness: Gender Inequality in Self-Governed Knowledge Systems	Postdoctoral Researcher, Sciences Po
Florence Zivaishe Madenga	Barbie Zelizer	Taking Satire Journalism Seriously: Living and Laughing to Bring the State Down	Assistant Professor of Race and Communication, Boston College
Muira McCammon	Barbie Zelizer	Government Communication: Deletion As Stagecraft and Statecraft	Assistant Professor, Tulane University
Roopa Vasudevan	John L. Jackson, Jr.	High-Level Creativity: New Media Art and the Priorities of the Tech Industry	Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Diami Virgilio	John L. Jackson, Jr.	Contesting Lineage: #ADOS and the Online Reparations Discourse	Assistant Professor, College of Mount Saint Vincent

2022

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
David Elliot Berman	Victor Pickard	The Optimizers: Cultural Production in the Age of Platform Capitalism	Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Heather Jaber	Marwan M. Kraidy	The Digital Bahdala: Recoding National Humiliation Across Post-Revolutionary Lebanon and Egypt	Assistant Professor, Northwestern University in Qatar
Prateekshit "Kanu" Pandey	Emily Falk	Disentangling the Reciprocal Relationship Between Political Efficacy and News Sharing Behavior	Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Jacob Pearl	Yphtach Lelkes	A House's Speech Divided: Applications of Text-as-Data for the Study of Elite Polarization in the U.S. House of Representatives (1983-2016)	Senior Data Scientist, Dick's Sporting Goods
Mohammed Salih	Marwan M. Kraidy	The Islamic State: Discursive Articulations of Identity, Subjectivity, Community, and Statehood	Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Kristin Shumaker	Emily Falk	Neural Synchrony in Successful Communication	Sr. Research Insights Analyst, Comcast Advertising
Celeste Wagner	Michael X. Delli Carpini	Responding to Media Coverage of Gender-Based Violence in Argentina and the United States: A Mixed-Methods Study of the Intersecting Roles of Gender, Class, and Racialized Ethnicity Among General and Activist Publics	Assistant Professor, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications
Chioma Woko	Robert C. Hornik	The Effect of Source Credibility on Promising Message Themes: A Message Pre-Testing Study to Test COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Black Americans	UX Researcher, Meta
Tian Yang	Sandra González-Bailón	How Do Digital Intermediaries Shape News Consumption? An Observational Study based on A Large Web Panel in the US (2016 to 2019)	Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Alvin Zhou	Sandra González-Bailón	Characteristics of the U.S. Digital News Landscape: Trends and Patterns in Audience Behavior”	Assistant Professor, Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota

2021

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
Yasemin Celikkol	Marwan M. Kraidy	Turkish TV Series in Bulgaria and Russia: The Terribly Charming Turk in the Global Media Matrix	Global Postdoctoral Scholar, Northwestern University in Qatar
Megan Genovese	Barbie Zelizer	Pop Culture Frameworks for Moral Expression in Left-wing Political Talk	Project Archivist, Presbyterian Historical Society
Jennifer R. Henrichsen	Barbie Zelizer	Securing the Future of Journalism: How Discourse, Logics, and Champions Clarify Information Security in Journalism and Journalism Education	Assistant Professor, Washington State University
Kwanho Kim	Robert C. Hornik	Moderating Roles of Smoker and Vaper Identities in Tobacco Regulation Communication	Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University
Do Eon Lee	Michael X. Delli Carpini	Where the Two Trusts Meet: How Social Trust Influences Political Trust in the New Media Environment	Engagement Manager, McKinsey and Company
Hanna E. Morris	Barbie Zelizer	Apocalyptic Authoritarianism in the United States: Power, Media, and Climate Crisis	Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Rui Pei	Emily Falk	Cultural Influences on Social Norm Development, Perception, and Conformity	Social Neuroscientist, Stanford University
John Remensperger	Michael X. Delli Carpini	Becoming Party Activists: Grassroots Progressive Activism and the Democratic Party	Fellow, U.S. Digital Corps
Leeann Siegel	Robert C. Hornik	Exploring Variation in How Media Depictions of Tobacco Use Affect Norm Perceptions: The Roles of Group Identity and Behavioral Similarity	Communication Research Scientist, RTI International

2020

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
Stefanie Gratale	Joseph N. Cappella	Dismantling the Art of Deception: Using "Inoculation" to Combat Misinformation from Misleading Cigarette Advertising	Instructor, Rutgers University
Douglas Guilbeault	Damon Centola	The Social Network Dynamics of Category Formation	Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Natalie Herbert	Joseph N. Cappella	Covering Scientific Uncertainty in Ongoing Research	Research Scientist, Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University
Soojong Kim	John B. Jemmott III	Intergroup Dynamics of Information Propagation in Social Networks	Assistant Professor, University of California Davis
Amber Hye-Yon Lee	Diana C. Mutz	How the Public Perception of Political Polarization Affects American Social Life	Researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Subhayan Mukerjee	Sandra González-Bailón	News Reading Publics and Audience Fragmentation: Evidence from Online India (2014-2018)	Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
Samantha Oliver	Barbie Zelizer	Networked Memorialization: Victims of Communism Memorials in Germany, Russia, and the U.S.	Customer Education Program Manager, Siteimprove
Pawel Popiel	Victor Pickard	Emergent Governance: The Politics of Competition in Digital Markets	Assistant Professor, Washington State University
Revati Prasad	Marwan M. Kraidy	For Growth, for Glory, for Governance: Understanding Connectivity Efforts in Andhra Pradesh	Vice President of Programs, Benton Institute for Broadband & Society
Natacha Yazbeck	Barbie Zelizer	What We Talk About When We Talk About Journalism	Assistant Professor, University of South Florida

2010-2019

2019

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
Opeyemi Akanbi	Joseph Turow	Contested Boundaries of Digital Work	Assistant Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University
Elisa Baek	Emily Falk	The Role of Mentalizing in Information Propagation	Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
Jasmine Erdener	Guobin Yang	Excavating Radical Futures – Puppets, Robots, and the Fight for Technology	Assistant Professor, Koç University
Kecheng Fang	Michael X. Delli Carpini	Mapping Media Bias in China	Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Elisabetta Ferrari	Guobin Yang	The Technological Imaginaries of Social Movements: The Discursive Dimension of Communication Technology and the Fight for Social Justice	AIAS-AUFF Fellow, Aarhus University
Katerina Girginova	Marwan M. Kraidy	Social Media Events	Co-Director, Virtual Reality ColLABorative, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Emily Dean Hund	Joseph Turow	The Influencer Industry: Constructing And Commodifying Authenticity On Social Media	Research Affiliate, Center on Digital Culture and Society, University of Pennsylvania
Da Eun (Danny) Kim	Michael X. Delli Carpini	Seeking Ourselves Onscreen: Brand Personality, Self-Congruence, and Media Preferences	Director of Data Science, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Eunji Kim	Diana C. Mutz	Entertaining Beliefs in Economic Mobility	Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Yilang Peng	Sandra González-Bailón	Identifying Media Bias with Computer Vision	Assistant Professor, University of Georgia
Jazmyne Sutton	Joseph N. Cappella	Can’t Get You Out Of My Head: The Effects Of Avoidance Eliciting Anti-Tobacco Warning Messages	Senior Project Director, SSRS
John Vilanova	John L. Jackson, Jr.	Not Simply the Best: The GRAMMY Awards, Race, and America	Assistant Professor, Lehigh University
Allyson Volinsky Levin	Robert C. Hornik	Variation on a Theme: Comparing Strategies for Choosing Health Communication Campaign Message Topics	Assistant Teaching Professor, Villanova University
Sijia Yang	Joseph N. Cappella	Morality in Tobacco Control Messaging: Effects of Moral Appeals on Persuasion and Retransmission	Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

2018

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
Rosie Bae	Joseph N. Cappella	Selective Exposure to Misleading Information in the New Media Environment by at-Risk Youth: A Study of Pro-Smoking YouTube Videos	Data and Analytics Lead, Office of Strategic Diversity Planning and Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Joshua Becker	Damon Centola	The Network Dynamics of Social Influence in the Wisdom of Crowds	Assistant Professor, University College London School of Management
Lyndsey Beutin	John L. Jackson, Jr.	Trafficking in Anti-Blackness: The Political Stakes of "Modern Day Slavery" Discourse in Global Campaigns to End Human Trafficking	Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Media Arts, McMaster University
Christopher Cimaglio	Michael X. Delli Carpini	Contested Majority: The Representation of the White Working Class in US Politics from the 1930s to the 1990s	Assistant Professor, Denison University
Rosemary Clark-Parsons	Guobin Yang	Doing it Ourselves: The Networked Practices of Feminist Media Activism	Director of Experimental Learning & Impact, Saxby's
David Conrad-Pérez	Barbie Zelizer	Misguided Benevolence: How "Moments of Need" Came to Motivate American Journalism	Research Director, Center for Media & Social Impact, American University
Nicholas Gilewicz	Barbie Zelizer	What Losing the Newspaper Means: Nostalgia and the U.S. Newspaper in Late Modernity	Assistant Professor, Manhattan College
Kevin Gotkin	John L. Jackson, Jr.	The Marathon and on: Disability, Endurance, Aspiration	Artist-Organizer, Creatives Rebuild New York
Nour Halabi	Barbie Zelizer	Radical (In)Hospitality: American Media and Regulatory Stances Toward Immigration and Travel Bans	Interdisciplinary Fellow, University of Aberdeen
Elissa Kranzler	Robert C. Hornik	From Exposure to Effects: Examining the Cognitive Processes Underlying Effects of "The Real Cost" Youth-Targeted Anti-Smoking Media Campaign	Senior Researcher, Fors Marsh Group
Emily Ladue	John L. Jackson, Jr.	Durham's Self-Help and the Financialization of the Bull City: Development without Displacement? Or Displacement without Development?	Adjunct Instructor, Duke University
Corrina Laughlin	John L. Jackson, Jr.	What God Gave to Us: Digital Habitus and the Shifting Social Imaginary of American Evangelicalism	Instructor, Loyola Marymount University
Tim Libert	Victor Pickard	Track the Planet: A Web-Scale Analysis of How Online Behavioral Advertising Violates Social Norms	CEO, webXray
Eleanor Marchant	John L. Jackson, Jr.	Anyone Anywhere: Narrating African Innovation in a Global Community of Practice	User Experience Researcher, Meta
Elena Maris	John L. Jackson, Jr.	Desperately Seeking the Producer: Audiences, Identity, and the Margins of the Internet	Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Chicago
Lee McGuigan	Joseph Turow	Selling the American People: Data, Technology, and the Calculated Transformation of Advertising	Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Yotam Ophir	Joseph N. Cappella	Spreading News: The Coverage of Epidemics by American Newspapers and Its Effects on Audiences — A Crisis Communication Approach	Assistant Professor, University of Buffalo
Jonathan Pace	Sharrona Pearl	Internet Markets: Exchange Relations on Craigslist, eBay, and Silk Road	Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Christin Scholz	Emily Falk	Neural and Psychological Bases of Health News Sharing	Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam
Aaron Shapiro	Jessa Lingel	Design, Control, Predict: Cultural Politics in the Actually Existing Smart City	Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dror Walter	Michael X. Delli Carpini	Exploring Thematic Diversity in News Coverage and Social Media Activity of Political Candidates Using Unsupervised Machine Learning	Assistant Professor, Georgia State University
Alex T. Williams	Victor Pickard	Profits Over Principles: Redlining in the Newspaper Industry	Senior Manager, Comcast Cable

2017

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
Devon Brackbill	Damon Centola	The Network Structure of Collective Innovation	Data Scientist, Facebook
Christopher Cascio	Emily Falk	The Neural Mechanisms of Conformity across Socioeconomic Status and Development	Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin
Deepti Chittamuru	John B. Jemmott, III	Persuasive Technologies in HIV Prevention: A Structural Intervention for African American Young Adults	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California Merced
Andrew Daniller	Diana C. Mutz	Politics as Sport: The Effects of Partisan Media on Perceptions of Electoral Integrity	Research Associate, Pew Charitable Trusts
Rowan Howard-Williams	Marwan M. Kraidy	A World of Our Own: Climate Change Advocacy in the Anthropocene	Communications Strategy Advisor, Global Diversity Foundation
Jin Woo Kim	Michael X. Delli Carpini	Assessing Civic Competence Against the Normative Benchmark of Considered Opinions	Assistant Professor, Kookmin University
Stella Lee	Robert C. Hornik	The Message as a Seed: Predicting the Diffusion of Anti-Smoking Arguments from Message Construal	Assistant Professor, Konkuk University
Jiaying Liu	Robert C. Hornik	Effects of Media Exposure on Descriptive Social Norm Perception Formation: Experimental and Observational Studies of Why and How Repeated Exposure Matters	Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara
Doron Taussig	Michael X. Delli Carpini	The Meaning of Merit: The American Idea of What We Have Earned, What We Deserve, and Whether We Got Lucky	Visiting Assistant Professor, Ursinus College
Kate Zambon	Marwan M. Kraidy	Integration: The Cultural Politics of Migration and Nation in the New German Public	Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire, Durham

2016

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
Omar Al-Ghazzi	Marwan M. Kraidy	Communicating History: The Mnemonic Battles of the 2011 Arab Uprisings	Associate Professor, London School of Economics
Gretta Blackwell	John L. Jackson, Jr.	The Birth of a Princess: Boughetto, Popular Media, and the Shifting Boundaries of Black Middle-Class Femininity	Prairie View A&M University
Sun-ha Hong	Carolyn Marvin	Data Epistemologies/Surveillance and Uncertainty	Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University
Michelle Jeong	Robert C. Hornik	Sharing in the Context of Tobacco and E-Cigarette Communication: Determinants, Consequences, and Contingent Effects	Assistant Professor, Rutgers University
Minji Kim	Joseph N. Cappella	When Similarity Strikes Back: The Positive and Negative Role of Character-Audience Similarity in Anti-Smoking Campaigns	Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina
Deborah Lubken	Carolyn Marvin	How Church Bells Fell Silent: The Decline of Tower Bell Practices in Post-Revolutionary America
Debora Lui	Carolyn Marvin	Situating the 'Maker Movement': Tracing the Implementation of an Educational Trend Within Public Libraries	UX Researcher, UserZoom
Shane Mannis	Robert C. Hornik	Constructing the Exercising Self: Social Media Identity Work and Exercise Behavior	Senior UX Researcher, Instagram
Sara Mourad	Marwan M. Kraidy	The Boundaries of the Public: Mediating Sex in Postwar Lebanon	Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut
Danielle Naugle	Robert C. Hornik	The Evaluation of a Mass Media Campaign to Promote Exclusive Breastfeeding in Vietnam	Research & Evaluation Officer, Johns Hopkins University
Sandra Ristovska	Barbie Zelizer	Human Rights Through the Lens: A Study of the Institutionalization and Professionalization of Video Activism	Assistant Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder
Yoel Roth	Sharrona H. Pearl	Gay Data	VP, Head of Trust & Safety, Match Group
Jasmine Salters	John L. Jackson, Jr.	Touching Paranoia: A Black Feminist Autoethnography on Race, Desire, and Erotic Massage	Mellon ACLS Post-Doctoral Content Strategist, ACLS
Alexandra Sastre	Marwan M. Kraidy	Towards a Radical Body Positive: Reading the Online Body Positive Movement	Associate Director of Campus Communications, Swarthmore College
Holli Seitz	Joseph N. Cappella	Mammography Exemplars in Online News Commentary: Prevalence of Exemplars, Effects on Risk Perceptions and Mammography Intentions, and Mechanisms of Action	Associate Professor, Mississippi State University
Dina Shapiro-Luft	Joseph N. Cappella	Smoking-Related Self-Concepts and Value Expressive Messages: Effects on the Determinants of Smoking Cessation	Senior Director of Survey Research, Greater New York Hospital Association
Rui Shi	Joseph N. Cappella	Viewer-Generated Comments to Online Health Policy News: Content, Dynamics, and Influence	Assistant Professor, Rowan University
Laura Silver	Diana C. Mutz	China in the Media: Effects on American Opinion	Associate Director of Global Attitudes Research, Pew Research Center
Jingwen Zhang	John B. Jemmott, III	Networked Social Influence: Online Social Network Physical Activity Interventions for Young Adults	Associate Professor, University of California Davis

2015

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
Rosemary Avance	Carolyn Marvin	Constructing Religion in the Digital Age: The Internet and Modern Mormon Identities	Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University
Felicity Duncan	Michael X. Delli Carpini	Collective Action and Digital Information Communication Technologies: The Search for Explanatory Models of Social Movement Organizations' Propensity to Use DICTs in Developed Democracies	Financial Researcher and Writer, Intuition Publishing
Kyung Lee	Barbie Zelizer	The Rise of Brand Journalism: Understanding the Discursive Dimensions of Collectivity in the Age of Convergence	Senior Statistical Analyst, Office of Strategy Management, Fairfax County
Rocio Nunez	John L. Jackson, Jr.	Woman with a Movie Camera: The Dearth of Women Filmmakers in Contemporary Hollywood	Chief Creative Officer, Spring Forward Media
Katherine Wong	Marwan M. Kraidy	Harnessing Hollywood Hype: Film Marketing Meets the Challenges and Opportunities of the 21st Century	Research Consultant, Common Sense Media

2014

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
Derek Blackwell	Carolyn Marvin	Digital Disruption: An Exploratory Study of Trust, Infidelity, & Relational Transgressions in the Digital Age	Associate Professor, Prairie View A&M University
Nora Draper	Joseph Turow	Reputation Inc.: The Industrialization of Digital Self-Presentation and Online Privacy	Associate Professor, University of New Hampshire
Timothy Fallis	John L. Jackson, Jr.	Pro-Christian Humor and the Online Carnival	Adjunct Professor, Hawai'i Pacific University
Le Han	Barbie Zelizer	Micro-Blogging Contesting Modernities: Producing and Remembering Public Events in Contemporary Chinese Social Media Platforms	Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Hyun Kim	Joseph N. Cappella	Attractability and Virality: The Role of Message Features and Social Influence in Health News Diffusion	Associate Professor, Seoul National University
Tara Liss-Marino	Sharrona H. Pearl	Sell (It) Yourself: Marketing Pleasure in Digital DIY	Director of Advising and Student Success, Drexel University
Piotr Szpunar	Barbie Zelizer	Homegrown Terrorist, Networked Citizen, Double: Identity, Belonging and Citizenship in an Age of Limitless Conflict	Associate Professor, University of Albany (SUNY)

2013

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
Christopher Ali	Marwan M. Kraidy	Where is Here? An Analysis of Localism in Media Policy in Three Western Democracies	Pioneers Chair, Professor of Telecommunications, Penn State
Angel Bourgoin	Robert C. Hornik	The Use of the Internet for Alternative Views on Health	Senior Researcher, John Snow, Inc. (JSI)
Andrew Crocco	Carolyn Marvin	The Mobocratic City: Race, Space and Citizenship in Nineteenth Century Philadelphia	Director, Insight and Analytics, Wealthfront, Inc.
Susan Haas	Carolyn Marvin	Communities of Journalists and Journalism Practice at Radio Free Europe during the Cold War (1950-1995)
Matthew Lapierre	Joseph N. Cappella	Development and Persuasion Processing: An Investigation of Children's Advertising Susceptibility and Understanding	Associate Professor, University of Arizona
Kara Liebeskind	Joseph N. Cappella	Parental Mediation from Looney Tunes to Angry Birds: Examining How Parents are Dealing with the Content-Specific Issues of Old Media and the Unique Challenges of New Media	Senior Director, Smarty Pants
Susan Mello	Robert C. Hornik	Toxic? The Nature and Effects of Mothers' Exposure to Pediatric Environmental Health Information in the Media	Associate Professor, Northeastern University
Ryan Paquin	Joseph N. Cappella	Customizing Message Content to Facilitate Decisions About Participating in Genomics Research: A Reasoned Action Approach	Research Public Health Analyst, RTI International
Sarah Parvanta	Robert C. Hornik	Understanding Socioeconomic Disparities in Responsiveness to Belief Strategies for Smoking Cessation Messages	Director, ALS Focus Program, The ALS Association
Alison Perelman	Katherine E. Sender	Political Appetites: Food as Rhetoric in American Politics	Executive Director, Philadelphia 3.0
Elizabeth Roodhouse	Michael X. Delli Carpini	Buying In: Socially Conscious Consumption and the Architecture of Choice	Streaming Data Science & Engineering, Netflix
Andy Tan	Robert C. Hornik	Cancer-Related Direct-to-Consumer Advertising - A Study of Its Antecedents, Influence on Patient Information Seeking Behaviors, and Contingent Effects	Associate Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Emily Thorson	Diana C. Mutz	Belief Echoes: The Persistent Effects of Corrected Misinformation	Assistant Professor Political Science, Syracuse University
Khadijah White	John L. Jackson, Jr.	Raising the Volume: Media and the Rise of the 21st Century Tea Party	Associate Professor, Rutgers University

2012

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
Anne Arnold	Michael X. Delli Carpini	Political Sophistication, Deliberation, and the Structure of Opinions about Public Issues	Senior Operations Officer, World Bank
Aymar Jean Christian	Katherine E. Sender	Off the Line: Independent Television and the Pitch to Reinvent Hollywood	Professor, Northwestern University
Susanna Dilliplane	Diana C. Mutz	The Impact of Partisan News Exposure on American Public Opinion and Behavior: Evidence from the 2008 Presidential Election	Deputy Director, Aspen Institute
Jeffrey Gottfried	Michael X. Delli Carpini	Get a Cue Already! How Election Campaigns Matter in Different Informational Environments	Associate Director of Internet & Technology Research, Pew Research Center
Brittany Griebling	Carolyn Marvin	The Casualization of Intimacy: Consensual Non-Monogamy and the New Sexual Ethics	Instructor, Temple University
Heidi Khaled	John L. Jackson, Jr.	The Politics of Fashion in American Consumer Culture	Senior Qualitative Analyst, Magid
Lauren Kogen	Marwan M. Kraidy	Suffering Through the News: How the American News Media Cover Hunger in Africa and at Home	Associate Professor, Temple University
Lauren Sessions-Goulet	Keith N. Hampton	Friends in All the Right Places: Social Resources and Geography in the Age of Social Network Sites	Research Advisor & Consultant, Sessions Research
Sarah Vaala	Robert C. Hornik	Mothers' Cognitions and Structural Life Circumstances as Predictors of Infants' and Toddlers' Television and Video Exposure	Associate Professor, High Point University

2011

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
Young Baek	Joseph N. Cappella	The Impact of Deliberation on Social and Semantic Networks: Citizens' Mental Models of Bioethical Issues in Genetics Using Automated Textual Analysis	Associate Professor, Yonsei University
Cabral Bigman-Galimore	Joseph N. Cappella	Social Comparison Framing: Examining the Effects of Racial Health Disparities Risk Information	Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Peter Busse	Joseph N. Cappella	Normative Appeals: Understanding the Effect of Normative Messages on the Formation of Intentions to get Tested for HIV Among Latinos in the United States	Associate Professor, Universidad de Lima
Brooke Erin Duffy	Joseph Turow	Magazines...Without the Magazine: Remaking Boundaries in an Era of Media Convergence	Associate Professor, Cornell University
Christopher Finlay	Carolyn Marvin	Between Leverage and Legacy: Producing the 2012 London Olympics in a Global New Media Environment	Associate Professor, Loyola Marymount University
Sonho Kim	Klaus Krippendorff	The Voice on Paper: A Dialogic Critique of Public Opinion Polling	Senior Researcher, Korea Press Foundation
Alyssa Klein (Hersh)	Joseph N. Cappella	Social Support Online: Testing the Effects of Highly Person-Centered Messages in Breast Cancer Support Groups	Vice President, iMarketResearch
Oren Livio	Carolyn Marvin	The Right to Represent: Negotiating the Meaning of Military Service in Israel	Assistant Professor/Lecturer, Haifa University
Lourdes Martinez	Robert C. Hornik	Anticipated Regret and the Formation of Behavioral Intention: Implications for the Design of Persuasive Health Messages	Associate Professor, San Diego State University
Joel Penney	Barbie Zelizer	Body Screen/Body Politic: The Uses of Political T-Shirts in the Digital Age	Associate Professor, Montclair State University
Mario Rodriguez	Paul Messaris	Paranoid Androids: Facebook Privacy, Online Reputation, and Employment Concerns of College Seniors	Assistant Professor, American University in the Emirates
Ashley Sanders-Jackson	Joseph N. Cappella	Narrative as Structure	Associate Professor, Michigan State University
Keren Tenenboim Weinblatt	Barbie Zelizer	Journalism's Missing Links: Kidnapping and Captivity Coverage Around the World	Senior Lecturer (Assoc. Prof), Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2010

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
Daniel Berger	Barbie Zelizer	"We Are the Revolutionaries": Visibility, Protest and Racial Formation in 1970s Prison Radicalism	Professor, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Scholarship, University of Washington, Bothell
Jean Brechman	Joseph N. Cappella	Narrative "Flow": A Model of Narrative Processing and its Impact on Information Processing, Knowledge Acquisition and Persuasion	Associate Professor, The College of New Jersey
Xiaoxia Cao	Diana C. Mutz	Pathways to Eliciting Aid: The Effects of Visual Representations of Human Suffering on Empathy and Help for People in Need	Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Brenda Curtis	Paul Messaris	Examining the Mechanisms of Tailoring: Extending the Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction	Chief, Technology and Translational Research Unit, National Institute of Health
Seth Goldman	Diana C. Mutz	Effects of the 2008 Obama Presidential Campaign on White Racial Prejudice	Honors Associate Professor of Communication, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Bruce Hardy	Michael X. Delli Carpini	A Communication Model of the Impact of Presidential Candidate Character Traits on Vote Preference	Associate Professor, Temple University
Shawnika Hull	Joseph N. Cappella	Risky Business: An Examination of the Relationship between Message Frame, Risk Perceptions and Intentions to Seek HIV-Antibody Testing	Associate Professor, Rutgers University
Nehama Lewis-Persky	Robert C. Hornik	Keeping Children Healthy: How the Effects of Normative Messages on Parent Intentions Vary With Social Normative Beliefs and Personality	Senior Lecturer (Assoc. Prof), University of Haifa
Rebekah Nagler	Robert C. Hornik	Steady Diet of Confusion: Contradictory Nutrition Messages in the Public Information Environment	Associate Professor, University of Minnesota
Moira O'Keeffe	Paul Messaris	Media and the Making of Scientists	Senior Learning Designer, Humana
Jessica Piotrowski	Deborah L. Linebarger	Evaluating Preschoolers' Comprehension of Educational Television: The Role of Viewer Characteristics, Stimuli Features, and Contextual Expectations	Professor, University of Amsterdam
A. Susana Ramirez	Robert C. Hornik	Communicating Cancer Prevention Information to U.S. Latinos: The Moderating Role of Acculturation	Associate Professor, University of California Merced
Michael Serazio	Barbie Zelizer	Your Ad Here: The Cool Sell of Guerrilla Marketing	Associate Professor, Boston College
Adrienne Shaw	Katherine E. Sender	Identity, Identification and Media Representation in Video Game Play: An Audience Reception Study	Associate Professor, Temple University
Riley Snorton	John L. Jackson, Jr.	Tapped in the [Epistemological] Closet: Black Sexuality and the Popular Imagination	Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago
Russell Tisinger	Diana C. Mutz	The Influence of Television Fiction on Political Attitudes	Senior Researcher, L&M Policy Research
Lokman Tsui	Barbie Zelizer	A Journalism of Hospitality	Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication
Deborah Wainwright	Deborah L. Linebarger	Television as Parenting Tool: The Role of Parental Efficacy, Attitude, and Television Use in Parenting in Children's Television Exposure	Producer/Director, Young Minds Entertainment

2000-2009

2009

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
Mary Bock	Klaus Krippendorff	One Man Band: The Process and Product of Video Journalism	Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Jasmine Cobb	John L. Jackson, Jr.	Racing the Trans-Atlantic Parlor: Picturing Freedom in the Early Nineteenth Century	Professor of African & African American Studies and of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, Duke University, Duke University
Kenneth Farrall	Michael X. Delli Carpini	Suspect Until Proven Guilty: A Problematization of State Dossier Systems via Two Case Studies: The United States and China	Project Manager and Business Developer, MTM Linguasoft
Nadine Gabbadon	Joseph Turow	Reconstructing Age by Redefining Boundaries: Women's Service Magazines and the 50+ Market	Senior Associate, Client Services, Grovider
Billy Herman	Michael X. Delli Carpini	The Battle Over Digital Rights Management: A Multi-Method Study of the Politics of Copyright Management Technologies	Associate Dean, Metro State University
Jocelyn Landau	Joseph N. Cappella	Effects of Messages About Genetics, Race, and Health on Public Opinion About Personalized Medicine and Health Policy	Head of Global Product Experience Research, Netflix
Chul-Joo Lee	Robert C. Hornik	Media, Social Capital, and Health Information Diffusion: A Multilevel Approach	Professor, Seoul National University
Robin Stevens	Robert C. Hornik	Aids in Black & White: The Influence of News Coverage of HIV/AIDS on HIV/AIDS Testing among African Americans and White Americans, 19932007	Associate Professor, University of Southern California Annenberg School
Jason Tocci	Paul Messaris	Geek Cultures: Media and Identity in the Digital Age	Senior User Experience Manager, PTC
Kenneth Winneg	Michael X. Delli Carpini	Online Political Participation in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election: Mobilizing or Reinforcing?	Managing Director of Survey Research, Annenberg Public Policy Center
Magdalena Wojcieszak	Vincent Price	When Deliberation Divides: How People With Strong Views Respond to Political Disagreement	Professor, University of California Davis
Kimberly Woolf	Robert C. Hornik	Children, Parents and Prosocial Television for Children: Accounting for Viewing and Looking for Effects	Academic Advisor and Research Supervisor for Undergraduate Studies, Annenberg School for Communication

2008

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
Carlin Barmada	Robert C. Hornik	The Influence of Individual and Message Characteristics on Anti-Drug AD Evaluations	Provider Engagement Specialist, Children's National Medical Center
Eran Ben-Porath	Michael X. Delli Carpini	Codes of Professionalism; Norms of Conversation: How Political Interviews Shape Public Attitudes toward Journalists	EVP, Public Opinion Research, Social Science Research Solutions
John Campbell	Larry P. Gross	Virtually Home: The Commodification of Community in Cyberspace	Self-employed, Independent scholar
Paul Falzone	Paul Messaris	Documentary for Change	Director, Peripheral Vision International
Lauren Feldman	Vincent Price	To Opine or Not to Opine: The Consequences of Opinionated News for Political Information Processing, Attitudes, and Knowledge	Professor, Rutgers University
Sehoon Jeong	Joseph N. Cappella	Attributions and Racial Cues in News About Obesity: Effects on the Public's Attributions About Weight and Opinions About Health Policies	Professor, Korea University
Josh Lauer	Carolyn Marvin	The Good Consumer: Credit Reporting and the Invention of Financial Identity in the United States, 1840-1940	Associate Professor, University of New Hampshire, Durham
Mihaela Popescu	Oscar Gandy	Keeping it Dirty: Defining and Redefining Obscenity in American Judicial Discourse, 1873-2007	Professor, Cal State San Bernadino University
Lee Shaker	Michael X. Delli Carpini	Media, Choice, & Citizens' Local Political Knowledge, Attitudes, & Behavior	Associate Professor, Portland State University
Min Shim	Joseph N. Cappella	Self-Disclosure in Online Support Groups: The Patterns of Disclosure and Their Potential Health Benefits for Women with Breast Cancer	Associate Professor, Inha University, South Korea
Weiyu Zhang	Vincent Price	Deliberation and the Disempowered: Attendance, Experience and Influence	Associate Professor, National University of Singapore

2007

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
Jatin Atre	Elihu Katz	Choice Under Conditions of Abundance: The Behavior of Television Audiences	Chief Marketing Officer, Insurity
Lemi Baruh	Oscar Gandy	The Guilty Pleasure of Watching Like Big Brother: Privacy Attitudes, Voyeurism and Reality Programs	Senior Lecturer, University of Queensland
Matthew Carlson	Barbie Zelizer	On the Condition of Anonymity: Unnamed Sources and Journalistic Authority	Professor, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Rohitashy Chattopadhyay	Paul Messaris	Cultural Influences on Indian Television Commercials: A Qualitative Analysis	Culture Cushion
Ariel Chernin	Robert C. Hornik	The Relationship Between Children's Knowledge of Persuasive Intent and Persuasion: The Case of Televised Food Marketing	Director of Market Research, Etsy
Lee Humphreys	Carolyn Marvin	Mobile Sociality and Spatial Practice: A Qualitative Fieldstudy of New Social Networking Technologies	Professor and Chair, Cornell University
Lela Jacobsohn	Robert C. Hornik	Explaining the Boomerang Effects of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign	Public Health Communication and Behavior Change Consultant, Self Employed
Yahui Kang	Joseph N. Cappella	The Effects of Smoking Cues in Anti-Smoking Public Service Announcements on Smoking Urge, Message Processing and Intention to Quit Smoking	Director, Intel Corporation
Bridget Kelly	Robert C. Hornik	Effects of Benefit-Target Framing on Intentions to Engage in Avian Flu Vaccination and Other Health Behaviors	Public Health Research Scientist, RTI International
Zhan Li	Oscar Gandy	Media Performance and Global Policy Making: A Comparative Study of Press Coverage on Global Warming	Associate Professor, Xiamen University
Jody Madeira	Barbie Zelizer	Ties Out of Bloodshed: Collective Memory, Cultural Trauma, and the Prosecution and Execution of Timothy McVeigh	Professor of Law and Louis F. Neizer Faculty Fellow, Indiana University Bloomington
Kelli Maxwell (Lammie)	Vincent Price	The (Not-So) "Powerless Elite". Celebrity Endorsements of Political Candidates	Associate Dean for Student Success, Carnegie Mellon University
Kimberly Meltzer	Barbie Zelizer	Irreconcilable Differences: An Analysis of Television's Difficult Marriage with Journalism as seen Through the Roles of Its Anchors, 1950-2006	Professor and Chair, George Mason University
Dannagal Young	Joseph N. Cappella	Two Presidential Candidates Walk into a Bar. Late-Night Political Humor: Cognitive Processes, Political Consequences and Normative Implications	Professor, University of Delaware

2006

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
Clarissa David	Vincent Price	Learning Political Information From the News: A Closer Look at the Role of Motivation	Professor, University of the Philippines
Vani Henderson	Robert C. Hornik	Investigating TV Viewing and Overweight in Pre-Adolescent and Adolescent Girls	Head of UX Research, Google
Jennifer Horner	Carolyn Marvin	Blood and Ballots: Military Voting and Political Communication in the Union Army During the United States Civil War, 1861-1865	Manager & Partner Liason, MTM Linguasoft
Kate Kenski	Kathleen Hall Jamieson	The Gender Gap in Political Knowledge: Do Women Know Less Than Men About Politics?	Professor, University of Arizona
Bethany Klein	Barbie Zelizer	As Heard on TV: A Critical Cultural Analysis of Popular Music in Advertising	Professor of Media and Communication, University of Leeds
Rosa Martey	Oscar Gandy	Managing Gender in Online Spaces: Gender Role Flexibility and Women's Internet Job Searches	Professor, Colorado State University
Eun-Kyung Na	Vincent Price	The Effect of Internet Use on Social Network Heterogeneity and Civic Culture: Trust, Tolerance, and Participation	Associate Professor, Kookmin University
Jeffery Niederdeppe	Robert C. Hornik	Contingent Effects of Cancer News Coverage on Sought and Scanned Information Exposure	Professor, Cornell University
Ji Hoon Park	Barbie Zelizer	Race on Reality TV: How the Genre Mediates Textual Construction and Audience Reading of Race	Professor, Korea University
Natalie Stroud	Vincent Price	Selective Exposure to Partisan Information	Professor, University of Texas at Austin

2005

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
Amy Branner	Larry P. Gross	Is Being There Necessary? Deriving Community Identity in Haines, Alaska	Director, Fund Development, The SF Market
Masaki Hidaka	Vincent Price	Issue Publics and the Internet: How Interested Individuals Use the Net	Lecturer, Centers for Academic Programs
Tina Huey	Larry P. Gross	The Legitimization of Knowledge in Discourse About Genetically Modified Food	Associate Director for Faculty Development, University of Connecticut
Andrea Wagner Duff	Carolyn Marvin	Life-Writing of Alzheimer's Disease and Quadriplegia: On the Cusp of the Illness Chaos Story	Writer, Education Advisory Board
Xiaoquan Zhao	Joseph N. Cappella	Ambivalence in Adolescents' Attitudes Toward Marijuana Use: Its Influence on the Intention, Behavior, and the Processing of Anti-Drug Messages	Professor, George Mason University

2004

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
Mariaelena Bartesaghi	Klaus Krippendorff	Explanatory Paths, Therapeutic Directions, Conversational Destinations: Accountability and Authority in Therapeutic Interaction	Associate Professor, University of South Florida
Nancy Duda	Oscar Gandy	The Intersection of Privacy Concern and Trust: Beliefs of Privacy Orientation Groups	Senior Survey Researcher, Mathematica Policy Research Inc.
David Gudelunas	Larry P. Gross	Confidential to America: Newspaper Advice Columns and Sexual Education	Dean and Professor of Communication, University of Tampa
Oren Meyers	Barbie Zelizer	Israeli Journalists as an Interpretive Memory Community: The Case Study of Haolam Hazeh	Associate Professor, University of Haifa
Lilach Nir	Vincent Price	What We Think Others Think: A Motivated Reasoning Model of Public Opinion Perception and Expression	Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Anca Romantan	Robert C. Hornik	A Longitudinal Model of Social Amplification of Commercial Aviation Risks: Exploring U.S. News Media Attention to Fatal Accidents and Media Effects on Air Travel Behavior, 1978-2001
Melinda Schwenk-Borrell	Paul Messaris	Selling Democracy: The U.S. Information Agency's Portrayal of American Race Relations, 1953-1976	Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland University College
Claire Wardle	Barbie Zelizer	Monsters and Angels: A Comparison of Broadsheet and Tabloid Press Coverage of Child Murders from the US and UK, 19302000	Professor of the Practice & Co-Director, Information Futures Lab, Brown University School of Public Health
Emily West	Carolyn Marvin	Greeting Cards: Individuality and Authenticity in Mass Culture	Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

2003

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
Kelli D'apice	Joseph Turow	Media Dependent Regulators: Media's Reported Impact in the Regulatory Environment and Related Implications for Agency Practices and Policymaking
John Huxford	Barbie Zelizer	It's the End of the World as We Know It: Journalism and the Prediction of Catastrophe	Associate Professor, Illinois State University

2002

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
Mark Brewin	Elihu Katz	The History of Election Day in Philadelphia: A Study In American Political Ritual	Associate Professor, University of Tulsa
David Dutwin	Vincent Price	Can People Talk Politics? A Study of Deliberative Democracy	Senior Vice President, Business Ventures & Innovation, University of Chicago
Brian Southwell	Robert C. Hornik	Mass Media and Memory Traces: Multilevel Explanation of Encoded Exposure to Television Content	Senior Research Scientist, RTI International
Jennifer Stromer-Galley	Vincent Price	New Voices in the Public Sphere: Political Conversation in the Internet Age	Professor, Syracuse University
Yariv Tsfati	Joseph N. Cappella	The Consequences of Mistrust in the News Media: Media Skepticism as a Moderator in Media Effects and as a Factor Influencing News Media Exposure	Professor and Department Chair, University of Haifa
M. Louise Woodstock	Barbie Zelizer	Cure without Communication: Self-Help Books and Popular Notions of Self Communication, 1860-2000	Associate Professor, Ursinus College

2001

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
Courtney Bennett	Joseph N. Cappella	Evaluations and Emotion: Influencing Public Health Policy References Via Facial Effect	Director, Stewardship, Saint Mary's College of California
James Devitt	Kathleen Hall Jamieson	Whose News? How Television News Fails Political Discourse	Managing Director of Public Affairs/Adjunct Faculty, New York University
Erika Falk	Kathleen Hall Jamieson	Women, Press, and The Presidency	Program Director, Israel Institute
Jessica Fishman	Carolyn Marvin	Documenting Death: Photojournalism and Spectacles of the Morbid in the Tabloid and Elite Newspaper	Director, Message Effects Lab, University of Pennsylvania
Alice Hall	Joseph N. Cappella	Factors Shaping the Effects of Visual Media Texts on Viewer Understandings	Professor and Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Marc Ostfield	Carolyn Marvin	Attack, Pain, and Danger in Group Life: Thrown to the Wolves	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Paraguay
David Park	Larry P. Gross	Putting the World on the Couch: Cultural Authority as a Dimension of Mid-20th Century Popular Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis	Professor, Lake Forest College
Susan Sherr	Paul Messaris	Visual Representation and the Prediction of Emotion	Vice President of Demographic and Policy Research, Social Science Research Solutions
Michele Strano	Carolyn Marvin	As Time Goes By: Ritualized Remembering Through Wedding Photography	Associate Professor, Bridgewater State College
Jo Stryker	Robert C. Hornik	A Longitudinal Analysis Of The Effects Of News Media Messages On Health Behaviors	Chief of Research and Evaluation, Center for Disease Control, National Center for Health Statistics
Eric Zimmer	Vincent Price	For To All Those Who Have, More Will Be Given: The Matthew Effect, Nonprofit Organizations, And The Adoption Of Internet Technologies	President, University of Saint Francis

2000

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
A. Joseph Borrell	Oscar Gandy	Alcohol Advertising Over the Public Airwaves: A Study Of Radio Station Managers' clearance of Alcohol Related Advertisements	Dean of Academic Affairs, Hillsborough Community College
Stacy Davis Graebner	Joseph N. Cappella	The Role of Discrete in Advertising Context Effects	Market Research Consultant, Self-Employed
Isabel Molina Guzman	Larry P. Gross	Culture Wars In The Classroom: A Discursive Analysis of Conflict in Two Public School Districts	Professor Latina/Latino Studies, Media & Cinema Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Nicole Keating	Klaus Krippendorff	May the Best History Win: Documentary Production and The Politics of Historical Representation Amidst the Downsizing of the National Endowment for the Humanities	Professor, Woodbury University
Gangheong Lee	Joseph N. Cappella	Information Environment, Cognitive Appraisal, and Discrete Emotions in Citizens' Political Evaluation and Behavior: The 1996 U.S. Presidential Campaigns	Professor, Daegu University
Kimberly Maxwell	Robert C. Hornik	Do Friends Matter?: The Role of Peer Influence on Adolescent Risk Behavior	Self-employed
Marsha Siefert	Larry P. Gross	Mediating Opera for America: Magazine Biographies, Opera Singers and National Identity	Associate Professor, Central European University
John Sullivan	Oscar Gandy	Constructing the Cable Television Market in Latin America: A Structurational Approach to Organizational Knowledge in U.S. Cable Networks	Professor, Muhlenberg College
Paul Waldman	Kathleen Hall Jamieson	Deliberation in Practice: Deliberative Theory, News Media, and Political Conversation	Contributing Editor and Columnist, The Prospect
Richard Wray	Robert C. Hornik	Alternative Explanations: Examining Exposure Recall, Selective Perception, and Response Bias In the Evaluation Of A Domestic Violence Prevention Radio Campaign	Professor and Dept. Chair Behavioral Science, Saint Louis University
Itzhak Yanovitzky	Robert C. Hornik	Mass Media, Social Control, and Health Behavior Change: A Longitudinal Analysis Of Media Effects On Drunk-Driving Behavior, 1978-1995	Professor, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus

1990-1999

1999

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
Sean Aday	Kathleen Hall Jamieson	Public Journalism and the Power of The Press: Exploring The Framesetting Effects Of The News	Associate Professor, George Washington University
David Gleason	Larry P. Gross	Becoming Dominant: Shifting Control and the Creation of Culture in Provincetown, MA	SVP, Research E! And Esquire Networks, NBC Universal

1998

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title	Current Position
Linus Abraham	Paul Messaris	Subtle Manifestations of Prejudice: Implicit Visual Constructions of Black Pathology	Rector, National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI)
Robin Nabi	Joseph N. Cappella	Reasoning Through Emotion: An Explication and Test of a Cognitive-Functional Model for the Effects of Discrete Negative Emotions on Information Processing, Attitude Change, and Recall	Professor, University of California Santa Barbara
David Phillips	Oscar Gandy	Digital Cash and the Surveillance Society: Negotiating Identification in New Consumer Payment systems	Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Sarah Sayeed	Robert C. Hornik	Characteristics of Parent-Child Communication and its Relationship to Adolescents' Exposure to and Understanding of Televised Sexuality	Chair and Executive Director, NYC Civic Engagement Commission
Emory Woodard IV	Robert C. Hornik	By All Means!: A Multi-Method Investigation of the Relationship between Television, Consumerism, and Criminal Behavior	Dean, Graduate Studies in Liberal Arts & Sciences, Villanova University

1997

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title
Bernadette Barker-Plummer	Oscar Gandy	News as a Political Resource: A Case Study of the Media Strategies and Media Representation of the National Organization for Women, 1966-1980
Linda Browning (Delana)	Carolyn Marvin	More Than Just Appearances: Cosmetic Practices and the Cultural Construction of Gender
Rona Buchalter	Carolyn Marvin	Good Neighbors: The Social Negotiation of Place
Joohan Kim	Elihu Katz	On the Interactions of News Media, Interpersonal Communication, Opinion Formation, and Participation: Deliberative Democracy and the Public Sphere
Katharina Kopp	Oscar Gandy	The Role of Private Philanthropic Foundations in Communications Policy Making Defining the 'Public Interest' - The Ford and Markle Foundations' Influence on Policy Making at the Federal Communications Commission
Ramona Lyons	Carolyn Marvin	Speakers For The Dead and the Social Construction of Medicolegal Deathwork
Andrew Maxfield	Robert C. Hornik	Behavioral Planning and the Cognitive Antecedents to Behavior: An Experiment Over the Internet Concerning Physical Activity
June Rhee	Joseph N. Cappella	Framing the Health Care Reform Campaign of 1993-94: News Frame, Interpretation, and Public Opinion Change.
Cindy Wong	Larry P. Gross	Communities Through the Lens: Grassroots Video in Philadelphia as Alternative Communicative Practice

1996

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title
Darin Klein	Joseph N. Cappella	Accuracy and Distortion in Judgment and Recall of Political Discourse
Chien Lei	Charles R. Wright	Political Orientations and the Influences of Cohort Membership and Time: Patterns of Change in Tolerance, Confidence, and the Strength of Party Affiliation
William Mikulak	Paul Messaris	How Cartoons Become Art: Exhibitions and Sales of Animation Art as Communication of Aesthetic Value
Shinichi Saito	Joseph N. Cappella	The Image of the Partner: Television's Contribution to Japanese Perceptions of America

1995

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title
Elvira Arcenas	Carolyn Marvin	Communication In the Making of Academic Communication
Lynne Edwards	Oscar Gandy	The Relationship Between Values, Commitment, and Television Program Preferences Among Young Black Women
Fatos Goksen	Robert C. Hornik	The Role of Social Support and Social Influence in Maternal Infant Feeding Behavior: Examination of Social Support as a Multifaceted Concept
Christopher Koepke	Robert C. Hornik	The Role of Communication in Childhood Vaccinations
Wendy Mansfield	Oscar Gandy	Strategic Communication in the Public Policy Process: The Case of Electronic Monitoring of Employees
Charles Mcclure	Klaus Krippendorff	How Brand Names Brand Societies: A Comparative Study of Brand Names Registered in Selected English-Speaking Countries, 1870-1980
Yoshimi Nishino	Robert C. Hornik	Conversation About Aids and the Media Environment In Thailand: Mass Media Roles In Context Building and Content Providing for Interpersonal Discourse
Catherine Preston	Larry P. Gross	In Retrospect: The Construction and Communication of a Nationalvisual Memory
Clement So	Klaus Krippendorff	Mapping the Intellectual Landscape of Communication Studies: An Evaluation of its Disciplinary Status
Jisuk Woo	Oscar Gandy	Structural Continuity and Transformations of the U.S. Copyright Law with Regard to Computer Programs: Actors' Communicative Interactions Through the Use of Structural Rules and Resources

1994

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title
R. Brian Attig	Joseph N. Cappella	Using Visuals to Teach Text Material: The Influence of Emotional Intensity and Encoding Instructions on the Ability of Television Public Service Messages to Produce a Learning Effect for Informationally Nonredundant Text
Robert Drew	Carolyn Marvin	Where the People are the Real Stars: An Ethnography of Karaoke Bars in Philadelphia
Mary (Bessie) Lee Lawton	Oscar Gandy	More than Protest: Communication and the Political 'Capacitation' of Philippine Health Non-Governmental Organizations
Moira Marie McLoughlin	Larry P. Gross	Culture Under Glass: First Nation in Canadian Museums
Eugene Michaud	Larry P. Gross	Left Out: American Leftists and American Media
Eleanor Novek	Oscar Gandy	Newmaking, Knowledge Construction, and Self-determination: A Community Newspaper as an Empowerment Strategy for African American High School Students
Amy Sarch	Carolyn Marvin	Dirty Discourse: Birth Control Advertising in the 1920s and 1930s
Zhong Zheng	Robert C. Hornik	Social Influence as a Component of Contextual Effects: A Study of Diarrheal Treatment in Zaire

1993

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title
Jelena Grcic Polic	Oscar Gandy	HDVT Policy Formation in the United States: The Federal Communications Commissions's Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service, 1987-1991

1992

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title
Herminia Alfonso	Klaus Krippendorff	On the Logic of Socially Shared Inquiry: An Examination of Participatory Research And Related Development Efforts from a Communication Process Perspective
Barry Dornfeld	Larry P. Gross	Interpretation, Authorship, and Cross-Cultural Representation: A Study of Childhood, a Public Television Documentary Series
Pablo Halpern	Oscar Gandy	Media Dependency and Political Perceptions in an Authoritarian Political System: The Case of Chile's Left
Gwenyth Jackaway	Carolyn Marvin	The Press Radio War, 1924-1937: A Battle to Defend the Professional, Institutional, and Political Power of the Press
Bette Kauffman	Larry P. Gross	Woman Artist: Communicating Social Identity
Steven Leuthold	Larry P. Gross	Telling Our Own Story: The Aesthetic Expression of Collective Identity in Native American Documentary
Bernadette McNulty	Charles R. Wright	Homeless and Hopeless: Resignation in News Media Constructions of Homelessness as a Social Problem
Nancy Morris	Larry P. Gross	National Identity Under Challenge: Puerto Rico in the Twentieth Century
Pamela Sankar	Carolyn Marvin	State Power and Record-Keeping: The History of Individualized Surveillance in the United States, 1790-1935
Daniel Tate	Kathleen Hall Jamieson	Ideology And Ambiguity: Models Of Narrative Relationship Among Narrators, Narrative Situation and Addressed Audiences Of Woman's Magazine Fiction and Non-Fiction Published from 1910 to 1930
Krystyna Warchol	Larry P. Gross	The Market System of the Art World and New Art: Prices, Roles, and Careers in the 1980s
James Woods	Larry P. Gross	The Corporate Closet Managing Gay Identity On The Job

1991

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title
Derek Bouse	Paul Messaris	The Wilderness Documentary: Film, Video, and the Visual Rhetoric of American Environmentalism
Eva Illouz	Larry P. Gross	Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Introduction to a Political Economy of Love
Jeffrey McDowell	Robert C. Hornik	The Relationship Between Quality of Access to Telecommunication and Communication Activity in Semi- Rural Areas of Thailand
Nikhil Sinha	Oscar Gandy	Choices and Consequences: A Cross-National Evaluation of TeleCommunication Policies in Developing Countries
Diane Umble	Carolyn Marvin	The Coming of the Telephone to Plain Country: A Study of Amish and Mennonite Resistance in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania at the Turn of the Century
Karin Gwinn Wilkins	Oscar Gandy	Development Communication Interpretations in Organizational Contexts

1990

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title
Victor Caldarola	Larry P. Gross	Reception as Cultural Experience: Visual Mass Media and Reception Practices in Outer Indonesia
Lisa Henderson	Larry P. Gross	Cinematic Competence and Directorial Persona In Film School: A Study of Socialization and Cultural Production.
Amy Jordan	Christine Bachen	The Role of Mass Media in the Family System: An Ethnographic Approach
Lois Silverman	Larry P. Gross	Of Us and Other Things: The Content and Functions of Talk by Adult Visitor Pairs in an Art and a History Museum
Barbie Zelizer	Larry P. Gross	Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination and the Establishment of Journalistic Authority

1980-1989

1989

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title
Nina Ferencic	Robert C. Hornik	Communication and Development: Factors Affecting Knowledge and Behavior Change at the Individual and the Community Levels in Response to a Health Communication Project in Ecuador
Milton Mueller	Carolyn Marvin	The Telephone War: Interconnection, Competition, and Monopoly in the Making of Universal Telephone Service, 1884-1920
Ann-Marie Nazzaro	Robert C. Hornik	The Knowledge Gap Hypothesis and Salience in the Context of Health Maintenance Organizations and the Elderly

1988

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title
Thomas Wickenden	Klaus Krippendorff	The Collective Communication of Social Choice Messages
Michael Willmorth	Larry P. Gross	The Representation of American English Dialects in Prime Time Network Television Dramatic Programs

1987

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title
Julie Dobrow	George Gerbner	Ths Social and Cultural Implications of the VCR: How VCR Use Concentrates and Diversifies Viewing
Michael Griffin	Larry P. Gross	Amateur Photography and Pictorial Aesthetics: Influences of Organization and Industry on Cultural Production
Robert Hanke	Larry P. Gross	"Suddenly a Restaurant Town": An Inquiry into Public Culinary Culture and Communication
Stephen Prince	Paul Messaris	Power, Pain, and Pleasure in Pornography: A Content Analysis of Pornographic Feature Films, 1972-1985
Nancy Rothschild	Larry P. Gross	Television and the Family Context: Cohesion, Control, and Cultivation

1986

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title
Jane Jorgenson	Paul Messaris	The Family's Construction of the Concept of "Family"
Christopher Musello	Larry P. Gross	Family Houses and Social Identity: Communicational Perspectives on the Homes of Ridge County

1985

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title
Cathy Hall	Ray L. Birdwhistell	The Communication of Expertise During Rapid Organizational Change: An Ethnographic Case Study of a Bank Holding Company During Deregulation
Stewart Hoover	Larry P. Gross	The 700 Club as Religion and as Television: A Study of Reasons and Effects
Hannah Kliger (Peltz)	Charles R. Wright	Communication and Ethnic Community: The Case of Landsmanshaften
Judith McDivitt	Robert C. Hornik	Constraints to Knowledge Gain and Behavior Change in Response to a Multi-Media Health Education Project in the Gambia, West-Africa
Janet Seykora	George Gerbner	Television's Contribution to Public Understanding of Science: A Comparative View

1984

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title
Robert Aibel	Larry P. Gross	Art as Social Communication: The Ridge County Amateur Art World
David Graper	Paul Messaris	The Presentation of Computers and Computer Technology in Newspapers Directed Toward Different Social Groups
Duncan Holaday	Ray L. Birdwhistell	Making Media Fit: Short-Term Adjustment to a New Communications Technology in a West Javanese Village
Catherine Kirkland	Larry P. Gross	For the Love of it: Women Writers and the Popular Romance
Barbara Lynch	Ray L. Birdwhistell	Sacred Space: Spacial Communication Patterns in an Irish American and Slavic American Roman Catholic Parish

1983

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title
Dona Schwartz	Larry P. Gross	Camera Clubs and Fine Arts Photography: Distinguishing between Art and Amateur Activity

1982

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title
Stuart Sigman	Ray L. Birdwhistell	Some Communicational Aspects of Patient Placement and Careers in Two Nursing Homes
Jane Gould Torous	Robert C. Hornik	A Theoretical Development and Empirical Test of Susceptibility to Media Effects

1981

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title
Josephine Holz	Charles R. Wright	Communication about the Skokie March: A Case Study in the Social Construction of Reality
James Miller	George Gerbner	Office of Telecommunications Policy and Broadcast Issues: A Case Study of Media-Interaction
Carla Sarett	Larry P. Gross	Socialization Patters and Children's Television and Film-Related Play

1980

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title
George Custen	Larry P. Gross	Film Talk: Viewers Responses to a Film aa a Socially Situated Event
Michael Morgan	Larry P. Gross	Longitudinal Patterns of Television Viewing and Adolescent Role Socialization
Thomas Wick	Barbara H. Smith	Theories of Reading: A Review and Analysis of American Research on Proficient Reading in its Social Context

1970-1979

1979

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title
Douglas Goldschmidt	George Gerbner	Joint Goods, Public Goods and Telecommunications: A Case Study of the Alaska Telephone System
Marilyn Jackson	Charles R. Wright	Mass Media Exposure and Individual Political Activity
Leslie Rado	Larry P. Gross	Communication, Social Organization, and the Redefinition of Death: A Case Study of the Institutionalization of an Idea

1978

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title
Suzanne Jeffries-Fox	Larry P. Gross	Televisions's Contribution to Young People's Conceptions about Occupations
Daniel Schiller	George Gerbner	An Exploration of the Origins of Objectivity in American News Reporting
Kusum Singh	George Gerbner	Gandhi and Mao as Communicators: A Comparative Study of Practice and Theory
James Taylor	Klaus Krippendorff	A Method for the Recording of Data Analysis of Structure in Task Groups

1977

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title
Charles Goodwin	Klaus Krippendorff	Some Aspects of the Interaction of Speaker and Hearer in the Construction of the Turn at Talk in Natural Conversation
Linda Lannus	Charles R. Wright	The News Organization and News Operations at the Urban Press: A Sociological Analysis Based on Two Case Studies
Paul Licker	Sol Worth	The Role of the Recognition of Structure in Interaction and Communication
Susan Lou McDonald	Larry P. Gross	Learning about Crime: Conceptions of Crime as They Relate to Use of Television and Other Information Sources
Sari Thomas	Larry P. Gross	The Relationship Between Daytime Serials and Their Viewers

1976

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title
John Carey	Ray L. Birdwhistell	A Micro-Frame Analysis of the On-Camera/On-Mike Paralinguistic Behavior of Three Presidential Candidates
Joseph Turow	George Gerbner	Client Relationship and Mass Media Policy: A Comparative Case Study of Mass Market Production and Distribution in Children's Book Publishing

1975

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title
Eusebio Inocencio	William Melody	Differences in Perspective on Public Policy Issues: A Comparison of Federal, State, and Local Views on Broadband Cable Communications
Paul Messaris	Larry P. Gross	Interpersonal Styles and Film Training
Nancy Signorielli	George Gerbner	Men and Women in Television Drama: The Use of Two Multivariate Techniques for Isolating Dimensions of Characterization

1974

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title
Richard Chalfen	Sol Worth	Film as Visual Communication: A Sociovidistic Study in Filmmaking
John Clippinger, Jr.	Klaus Krippendorff	A Discourse Speaking Program as a Preliminary Theory of Discourse and a Limited Theory of a Psychoanalytic Discourse
Mildred Harlow Downing	George Gerbner	The World of Day Time Television Serial Drama
John Rossiter	Larry P. Gross	Children's Susceptibility to Television Advertising: A Behavioral Test of Cognition and Attitude
Linda Shipley	Charles R. Wright	Communications Behavior of Persons Living in a Megalopolis: A Study of Mass Media Use and Interpersonal Communications of Commuters and Local Workers

1973

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title
James Murphy	Larry P. Gross	Attributional and Inferential Strategies in the Interpretation of Visual Communications: A Developmental Study

1972

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title
Judith Miller	Charles R. Wright	Conversations in Semi-Public Places: Study of Reported Communication Between Occupational Specialists and Their Clientele in a Metropolis
Heli Perrett	Charles R. Wright	Social Implications of Adult Literacy: A Study Among Migrant Women in Peru
Lynn Waterhouse	Dell Hymes	Generic and Sociocultural Influence on Language Development

1960-1969

1969

Alumnus	Dissertation Chair	Dissertation Title
Dolf Zillmann	Percy Tannenbaum	Emotion Arousal as a Factor in Communication-Mediated Aggressive Behavior