Congratulations to Annenberg’s 2022 Ph.D. and M.A. Graduates

Eleven students earned their doctoral degrees, and 12 students received M.A. degrees.

Four graduates in PhD regalia posing catalogue-style on the marble steps of 3620 Walnut St. — (L to R) María Celeste Wagner, Megan Genovese, Prateekshit Pandey, Chloé Nurik

Earlier today, the Annenberg School for Communication held its annual graduation ceremony for doctoral students. The in-person celebration honored 11 graduate students who have earned their doctoral degrees in Communication.

Got a minute? Here's a quick video recap of graduation day 2022!

The ceremony honored the following students, listed with their dissertation titles:

Megan Genovese	“Pop Culture Frameworks for Moral Expression in Left-wing Political Talk”
Heather Jaber	“The Digital Bahdala: Recoding national humiliation across post-revolutionary Lebanon and Egypt”
Chloé Nurik	“Censored, Commodified, and Surveilled: How Facebook’s Self-Regulatory Governance Harms Marginalized Communities”
Prateekshit Pandey	“Disentangling the Reciprocal Relationship Between Political Efficacy and News Sharing Behavior”
Jacob Pearl	“A House’s Speech Divided: Novel Applications of Text-As-Data for the Study of Elite Polarization In the U.S. House of Representatives (1983-2016)”
John Remensperger	“Becoming Party Activists: Grassroots Progressive Activism and the Democratic Party”
Mohammed Salih	“The Islamic State: Discursive Articulations of Identity, Subjectivity, Community, and Statehood”
Celeste Wagner	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”
Chioma Woko	“A Mixed-Methods Investigation of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Leveraging Surveys, Social Media Data, and Experimental Evidence to Address Vaccine Uptake Among Black Americans”
Tian Yang	“How Do Digital Intermediaries Shape News Consumption? An Observational Study based on A Large Web Panel in the US (2016 to 2019)”
Alvin Zhou	"Characteristics of the U.S. Digital News Landscape: Trends and Patterns in Audience Behavior”

Congratulations are also in order to the following Annenberg students who have earned their M.A. in Communication en route to the completion of their doctoral degrees.