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Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication

Alumni

CARGC alumni work in academia, policy, non-profit, and industry positions around the world. Please see the charts below for a list of faculty, postdoctoral, doctoral, and undergraduate fellows that CARGC has hosted over the years and find out where our alumni are today.

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CARGC Visiting Scholars & Faculty Alumni

Alumnus Fellowship Year Current Position
Douglas-Wade Brunton Fall 2023 Lecturer, Department of Literary, Cultural, and Communication Studies, University of the West Indies
Paromita Vohra Fall 2023 Filmmaker and Founder of Parodevi Pictures
Myria Georgiou Fall 2023 Professor, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science
Wunpini F. Mohammed Spring 2023 Assistant Professor, College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia

Bilge Yesil

Spring 2023 Associate Professor of Media Culture, College of Staten Island, City University of New York
Christopher Ali Fall 2022 Pioneers Chair and Professor of Telecommunications, Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, Penn State
Annemarie Iddins 2020 Assistant Professor of Communication, Fairfield University
Hatim El-Hibri 2019 Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies, George Mason University
Ergin Bulut 2019-2020 Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Visual Arts, Koc University
Mette Mortensen 2018-2019 Professor, Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen
Christopher Ali 2017 Pioneers Chair and Professor of Telecommunications, Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, Penn State

CARGC Postdoctoral Alumni

Alumnus Fellowship Years Current Position
Eszter Zimanyi 2022-2023 Senior Research Manager, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Woori Han 2021-2023 Lecturer, Department of Communications, Drama, and Film, University of Exeter
Ayesha Omer 2021-2023 York University
Ali Karimi 2021-2022 Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Media and Film, University of Calgary
Katerina Girginova 2021-2022 Research Associate, Annenberg Virtual Reality ColLABorative, University of Pennsylvania
Jinsook Kim 2020-2022 Assistant Professor, Department of Film and Media, Emory University
Hana Masri 2020-2021 ACLS Leading Edge Fellow, ACCESS (Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services)
Padma Chirumamilla 2019-2021 Assistant Professor, Cultural Studies Department of Communications and New Media, University of Singapore
Fernanda R. Rosa 2019-2021 Assistant Professor, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, Virginia Tech
Yakein Abdelmagid 2018-2020 Senior UX Researcher, HubSpot
Clovis Bergère 2018-2020 Assistant Director for Research, Northwestern University in Qatar
Stanislav Budnitsky 2018-2020 Russian Studies Workshop (RSW) Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana University Bloomington
Giang Nyugen-Thu 2018-2020 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland
Rayya El Zein 2017-2019 Senior Program Manager, Code for Science and Society
Samira Rajabi 2017-2019 Assistant Professor, Department of Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
Maria Repnikova 2014-2016 Assistant Professor in Global Communication, Georgia State University
Donatella Della Ratta 2013-2014 Associate Professor, Department of Communications and Media Studies, John Carbot University

CARGC Doctoral Alumni

Alumnus Fellowship Years Current Position
Zane Griffin Talley Cooper 2018-2023 Doctoral Candidate, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Lauren Emily Bridges 2018-2023 Fellow, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
Florence Zivaishe Madenga 2018-2023 George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Pris Nasrat 2021-2022  
Maria Celeste Wagner 2018-2022 Assistant Professor, College of Journalism and Communications , University of Florida
Heather Jaber 2017-2022 Assistant Professor in Residence, Northwestern University in Qatar
Yasemin Celikkol 2017-2021 Global Postdoctoral Scholar, Northwestern University in Qatar
Katerina Girginova 2018-2019 Research Associate, Annenberg Virtual Reality ColLABorative, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Revati Prasad 2017-2019 Director of Research and Fellowships, Benton Institute for Broadband & Society; ACLS Leading Edge Fellow, Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Mohammed Salih 2017-2018  
John Vilanova 2017-2018 Professor of Practice, Journalism & Communication and Africana Studies, Lehigh University
Rowan Howard-Williams 2016-2017 Science Improvements Analyst, New Zeland Ministry for the Environment

CARGC Undergraduate Alumni

Alumnus Fellowship Year Current Position
Oscar Vasquez Spring 2023 Senior Undergraduate Student, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Sudeep Bhargava 2021-2022

Researcher, LSE Cities

Toni Walker 2019-2020 Integrated Marketing Coordinator, ViacomCBS Velocity Marketing
Julia Becker 2018-2019  
Zubaida Salman AlQaissi 2018-2019