Sanjay Jolly
- Doctoral Candidate
Sanjay Jolly studies the relationship between communication technologies and international political economy, with a focus on global financial infrastructures.
Sanjay Jolly is a joint degree candidate (Ph.D. / J.D.) at the Annenberg School and Penn Law. His research areas include political economy, historical sociology, critical infrastructure studies, and international economic law. Sanjay's doctoral dissertation, Empire and Sovereignty in the Global Information Order, 1970-present, addresses how cross-border electronic financial networks transformed communications governance and economic statecraft.
Sanjay previously worked as a journalist, political organizer, and policy analyst. Immediately prior to the University of Pennsylvania, he spent a year studying the implementation of media reform laws in several South American countries as a Fulbright Scholar based in Ecuador. At Penn Law, he was a Toll Public Interest Fellow and editor-in-chief of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change. After receiving his law degree, Sanjay entered practice as the C. Edwin Baker Fellow at the media justice organization Free Press. He then spent three years at Harvard Law School, where he was a lecturer and the executive director of the Program on Law and Political Economy (LPE@HLS).
Education
- B.A., University of Michigan
- M.A., University of Pennsylvania
- J.D., University of Pennsylvania
Selected Publications
Democratizing the Internet: Platforms, Pipes, Possibilities
A symposium held by the Media, Inequality & Change Center brought together a diverse array of thinkers to envision a more democratic internet.
