Graduate alumni

Kinda Al-Fityani Ph.D. in Communication, 2010

Dissertation: “Deaf People, Modernity, and a Contentious Effort to Unify Arab Sign Languages ”
Committee: Carol Padden (Chair), Gary Fields, David Serlin, Rachel Mayberry, Michael Provence
After Graduation: Operations Associate, Glyde Corporation
Current Position: Operations Associate, Glyde Corporation.

Sara-Ellen Amster Ph.D. in Communication, 2004

Dissertation: “Seeds of Cynicism: Studying the Conflict Between Journalistic Inquiry and School Authority”
Committee: Olga Vásquez (Chair), Ellen Seiter (Co-Chair), Daniel Hallin, Rachel Klein, Barbara Tomlinson
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Communication, National University, Carlsbad and Costa Mesa campuses.

Ayhan Aytes, Ph.D. in Communication and Cognitive Science, 2012

Dissertation: "The 'Other' in the Machine: Oriental Automata and the Mechanization of the Mind"
Committee: David Serlin (Chair), Stefan Tanaka, David Kirsh, James D. Hollan, Babak Rahimi, Kelly Gates, Morana Alac
After Graduation: Instructor, Department of Communication, University of California San Diego
Current Position: Instructor, Department of Communication, University of California San Diego

Sarah Banet-Weiser, Ph.D. in Communication, 1995

Dissertation: "Crowning Identities: Performing Nationalism, Femininity and Race in U.S. Beauty Pageants"
Committee: Valerie Hartouni (Chair), George Lipsitz, Liisa Malkki, Stephanie McCurry, Vicente Rafael, Michael Schudson
After Graduation: Assistant Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California.

Diane Bartlow, Ph.D. in Communication, 2000

Dissertation: "On the Relationship Between Altruism and African-American Women in Contemporary Popular Music"
Committee: Helene Keysar (Chair), Michael Cole, Olga Vásquez, George Lipsitz, Rachael Klein
After Graduation: Instructor, Department of Communications, San Diego City College.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, California State University, Northridge

Cynthia Baur, Ph.D. in Communication, 1995

Dissertation: "Incommunicado: The Arrested Development of Telecommunication Systems in Latin America"
Committee: Robert Horwitz (Chair), Paul Drake, William Drake, Helene Keyssar, Peter Smith
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, Rutgers University; post-doctoral fellowship as Health Services Researcher in the Department of Family Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
Current Position: Director, Division of Health Communication and
Marketing, National Center for Health Marketing, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in Atlanta, GA.

Enrique C. Bonus, Ph.D. in Communication, 1997

Dissertation: "Locating Filipino Americans: Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Space in Southern California"
Committee: Vicente Rafael (Chair), Valerie Hartouni, Daniel Schiller, Yen-Le Espiritu, Lisa Lowe
After Graduation: Assistant Professor, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington.

Maryellen Boyle, Ph.D. in Communication, 1992

Dissertation: "Capturing Journalism: Press and Politics in East Germany, 1945-1991"
Committee: Michael Schudson (Chair), Daniel Hallin, Martha Lampland, Chandra Mukerji, Gershon Shafir, Tracy Strong
After Graduation: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Culture, New York University; post-doctoral fellowship at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Current Position: Left the academy to work in Silicon Valley as a communications consultant.

Lonny Brooks, Ph.D. in Communication, 2004

Dissertation: "Working in the Future Tense: Managing Stories of Emerging Technologies and Cyberculture at the Institute for The Future".
Committee: Chandra Mukerji (Chair), Robert Horwitz, Geoffrey Bowker, Martha Lampland, James Hollan
After Graduation: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, California State University, East Bay.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, California State University, East Bay.

Katherine E. Brown, Ph.D. in Communication, 1996

Dissertation: "Between Photography and Digital Imaging: The Acquisition and Transformation of Skill"
Committee: Yrjö Engeström (Chair), Michael Cole, Michael Davidson, Susan Davis, Hugh Mehan
After Graduation: Researcher, Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, UCSD; Lecturer, School of Extended Education, St. Mary's College, Moraga, CA.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Communication, California State University, San Marcos.

Claire Buchwald, Ph.D. in Communication, 1995

Dissertation: "New Work in Old Institutions: Collaborative Curriculum Work of a Teacher Team"
Committee: Carol Padden (Chair), Yrjö Engeström, Helene Keyssar, Judith Warren Little, Hugh Mehan
After Graduation: initial job as Principal of Secondary Education, Temple Israel, Minneapolis, MN.
Current Position: President of FOCUS Interactive Research and The Writing Source, Minneapolis, MN.

Jericho Burg, Ph.D. in Communication, 2008

Dissertation: "Fixing Famine: The Politics of Information in Famine Early Warning"
Committee: Robert Horwitz, (Chair), Geoffrey Bowker, Gary Fields, Ivan Evans, Martha Lampland
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego.
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh.

Marc Camras, Ph.D. in Communication, 2002

Dissertation: "Developing Teen Educators and Advocates for Community Health: Fostering Civic Involvement in Immigrant Youth"
Committee: Carol Padden (Chair), Michael Schudson, Chandra Mukerji, Olga Vásquez, and Bud Mehan
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego.
Current Position: Consultant/Owner, MVision Consulting

Kathleen Casey, Ph.D. in Communication, 2005

Dissertation: “Noise Making Subjects”
Committee: Valerie Hartouni (Co-Chair), Geoffrey Bowker (Co-Chair), Lisa Cartwright, Richard Biernacki, Martha Lampland, Andrew Lakoff
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego.
Current: Unknown

Mari Castañeda, Ph.D. in Communication, 2000

Dissertation: "The Development of the US Advanced Digital Television System, 1987-1997: The Property Creation Of New Media"
Committee: Daniel Schiller (Chair), Michael Bernstein, George Lipsitz, Michael Schudson, Ellen Seiter
After Graduation: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Cynthia Chris, Ph.D. in Communication, March, 2002

Dissertation: “Watching Wildlife: On the Nature Genre in Film and Television, Its History and Meanings”
Committee: Ellen Seiter (Chair), Paula Chakravartty, Zeinabu Davis, Page duBois, Jane Rhodes
After Graduation: Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, Programs in Film and Media Studies and American Studies, Washington University in St. Louis.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Media Culture, College of Staten Island/City University of New York.

Kristen Clark, Ph.D. in Communication, 2007

Dissertation: “Charting Transformative Practice: Critical Multiliteracies Via Informal Learning Design”
Committee: Michael Cole (Chair), Carol Padden, Olga Vásquez, Hugh Mehan, James Levin
After Graduation: Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, College of Applied Sciences and Arts, San Jose State University.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, College of Applied Sciences and Arts, San Jose State University.

Patricia Davis, Ph.D. in Communication, 2009

Dissertation: “Ripping the Veil: Collective Memory and Black Southern Identity”
Committee: Michael Schudson (Chair), Robert Horwitz, Valerie Hartouni, Michael Hanson, Stefan Tanaka, Esra Ozyurek
After Graduation: Post-doctoral Scholar, Department of Communication, University of North Carolina.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Georgia State University.

Kimberly J. Dilley, Ph.D. in Communication, 1995

Dissertation: "Not Just Sam Spade in a Skirt: Women Redefine the Heroic and Ordinary: Women's Detective Novels in Late 20th century America"
Committee: Helene Keyssar (Chair), Robert Horwitz, Carol Padden, Don Wayne, Page DuBois
After Graduation: Freelance Writer.
Current Position: Freelance Writer.

Deborah Downing Wilson, Ph.D. in Communication, 2011

Dissertation: " The Microgenesis of Idiocultures"
Committee: Michael Cole (Chair), Carol Padden, Tom Humphries, Hugh Mehan, James Levin, Jay Lemke
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego
Current Position: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego

Ryan Ellis, Ph.D. in Communication, 2011

Dissertation: "Networks, Deregulation, and Risk: The Politics of Critical Infrastructure Protection"
Committee: Robert Horwitz (Chair), Michael Schudson, Gary Fields, Akos Rona-Tas, Lewis Branscomb
After Graduation: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Communication, Stanford University
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Communication, Stanford University

Joyce Evans-Karastamatis, Ph.D. in Communication, 1993

Dissertation: "Celluloid Mushroom Clouds: Hollywood and the Atomic Bomb"
Committee: Daniel Hallin (Chair), Herbert Schiller, Robert Horwitz, Hugh Mehan, Michael Bernstein
After Graduation: Assistant Professor, University of Northern Indiana
Current Position: Vice-President, Corporate Communications, EGEA Biosciences, Inc., San Diego.

Tamara Leah Falicov, Ph.D. in Communication, 1999

Dissertation: "The Contemporary Argentine Film Industry, 1983-1998: State Cultural Policy Within a Global Market"
Committee: Daniel Hallin (Chair), DeeDee Halleck, Randall Johnson, Michael Monteón, Ellen Seiter
After Graduation: Fulbright scholarship to Argentina.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Theatre and Film/ Latin American Studies, University of Kansas.

Beth Ferholt, Ph.D. in Communication, 2009

Dissertation: The Development of Cognition, Emotion, Imagination and Creativity As Made Visible through Adult-Child Joint Play: Perezhivanie through Playworlds
Committee: Michael Cole (Chair), Carol Padden, Patrick Anderson, Paula Levin, Benetta Jules-Rosette
After Graduation: Assistant Professor, School of Education, Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, School of Education, Brooklyn College, City University of New York.

Kirsten A. Foot, Ph.D. in Communication, 1999

Dissertation: "Writing Conflicts: An Activity Theory Analysis of the Development of the Network for Ethnological Monitoring and Early Warning"
Committee: Olga Vásquez (Co-Chair), Yrjö Engeström (Co-Chair), Michael Cole, Philip Roeder, Kathryn Woolard
After Graduation: Post-doctoral, Information and Society Program, Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania; Fulbright Faculty grant to study technology appropriation patterns in European-based conflict monitoring networks, Helsinki, 2001.
Current Position: Asociate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Washington

Paul Mason Fotsch, Ph.D. in Communication, 1998

Dissertation: "Stabilizing Mobility: Transportation and Isolation Iin Urban America"
Committee: Vicente Rafael (Chair), Susan Davis, James Holston, Robert Horwitz, George Lipsitz.
After Graduation: Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Studies Program, Arizona State University.
Current Position; Lecturer, Department of Communication, California State University, Northridge.

Anthony Freitas , Ph.D. in Communication, March, 2002

Dissertation: “Belongings: Homosexuality and U.S. Citizenship in the 1990s”
Committee: Valerie Hartouni (Chair), Robert Horwitz (Chair), Michael Schudson, Lisa Lowe, Steven Epstein
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego.
Current Position: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, Davis.

Tarleton Gillespie , Ph.D. in Communication, January, 2002

Dissertation: "Sleight of Hand: Law, Technology, and the Moral Deployment of Authorship in the Napster and DeCSS Copyright Cases"
Committee: Chandra Mukerji (chair), Robert Horwitz, Carol Padden, John Caldwell, Lev Manovich
After Graduation: Visiting Assistant Professor, Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Cornell University.

Mary L. Gray Ph.D. in Communication, 2004

Dissertation: "Coming of Age in a Digital Era: Youth Queering Technologies in Small Town, USA"
Committee: Susan Leigh Star and Olga Vásquez (Co-Chairs), Geoffrey Bowker, Steve Epstein, Leah Lievrouw
After Graduation: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Judith Gregory, Ph.D. in Communication, 2000

Dissertation: "Sorcerer's Apprentice: Inventing the Electronic Health Record, Reinventing Medical Records and Patient Care"
Committee: Philip Agre (Chair), Yrjö Engeström (Co-Chair), Michael Bernstein, Geoffrey Bowker, Harley Shaiken, Susan Leigh Star, Lucy Suchman.
After Graduation: Research Associate on Electronic Health Record Prototype Project, Clinical Systems Development at Kaiser Permanente, Pasadena, California; Visiting Fellow, Department of Informatics, Systemarbeid, University of Oslo, Norway;
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Institute of Design, Renssellaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.

Ricardo Guthrie, Ph.D. in Communication, 2006

Dissertation: “Examining Political Narratives of the Black Press in the West: Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett and the San Francisco Sun-Reporter (1950s - 60s)”
Committee: Zeinabu Davis (Chair), Jane Rhodes (Co-Chair), Dan Hallin, Chandra Mukerji, George Mariscal
After Graduation: Researcher, Center for Black Studies, University of California, Santa.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.

Alexandra Halkias, Ph.D. in Communication, 1997

Dissertation: "Democracy Revisited: Abortion and Agon in Modern Greece"
Committee: Chandra Mukerji (Chair), Page DuBois, Daniel Hallin, Michael Herzfeld, Lisa Lowe, Michael Schudson
After Graduation: Lecturer, Social Science Program, University of La Verne in Athens, Greece; Visiting Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Athens University.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Panteio University of Athens

Chad Harris, Ph.D. in Communication, 2003

Dissertation: “Satelite Imagery and the Discourses of Transparency”
Committee: Valerie Hartouni (Chair), Geoffrey Bowker (Co-Chair), Robert Horwitz, Herbert York, Martha Lampland
After Graduation: Post-doctoral Scholar, Department of Communication, University of North Carolina.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Georgia State University.

Joy Elizabeth Hayes, Ph.D. in Communication, 1994

Dissertation: "Radio Broadcasting and Nation-Building In Mexico and The United States, 1925-1945"
Committee: Robert Horwitz (Chair), Susan Davis, Michael Schudson, Daniel Hallin, Ramón Eduardo Ruíz
After Graduation: Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa.

Katrina Hoch, Ph.D. in Communication, 2009

Dissertation: "Judicial Transparency: Communication, Democracy and the United States Federal Judiciary"
Committee: Robert Horwitz (Chair), Michael Schudson, Daniel Hallin, Valerie Hartouni, Alan Houston, Michael Belknap
After Graduation: On job market.
Current Position: On job market.

Steve Jackson, Ph.D. in Communication, 2005

Dissertation:"Building the Virtual River: Numbers, Models, and the Politics of Water in California"
Committee: Robert Horwitz (Chair), Geoffrey Bowker (Co-Chair), Chandra Mukerji, Gary Fields, Steven Epstein, Andrew Lakoff
After Graduation: Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan.

Toi James Ph.D. in Communication, 2004

Dissertation: “Adolescent Females, Interethnic Friendship and the Power of Discourse”
Committee: Carol Padden (Chair), Chandra Mukerji, Yrjö Engeström, George Lipsitz, Hugh Mehan, Ana Zantella
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY.

Richard Jonasse, Ph.D. in Communication, 2001

Dissertation: "Making Sense: Geographic Information Technologies, Planning, and Strategic Action"
Committee: Chandra Mukerji (Chair), Robert Horwitz, Geoffrey Bowker, Martha Lamplant, Sharon Traweek, Yrjö Engeström.
After Graduation: Unknown.
Current Position: Unknown.

Cheri Ketchum, Ph.D. in Communication, 2004

Dissertation: "Lost in the Public Imagination: How News and Entertainment Media Frame Food in Contemporary Consumer Culture"
Committee: Dan Hallin (Chair), Ellen Seiter, Brian Goldfarb, Jeff Haydu, Melanie DuPuis
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California
Current Position: Research Analyst, Culinary Union 226

Su-Jeong Kim, Ph.D. in Communication, 2003

Dissertation: "Identity, Difference and Power: The Construction of Identity among Second-Generation Korean Americans"
Committee: Daniel Hallin (Chair), Michael Schudson, Paula Chakravartty, Richard Madsen, Yen-Le Espiritu
After Graduation: Korea Press Foundation
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Chungnam National University, Korea.

Nadine Kozak, Ph.D. in Communication, 2010

Dissertation: "On the Last Mile: The Effects of Telecommunications Regulation and Derugulation in the Rural Western United States and Canada"
Committee: Robert Horwitz (Chair), Michael Schudson, Kelly Gates, Robert Westman, Hugh ‘Bud’ Mehan,
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego
Current Position: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar and research Associate, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Olga Kuchinskaya, Ph.D. in Communication, 2008

Dissertation: "We will Die and Become Science': The Production of Invisibility and Public Knowledge about Chernobyl Radiation Effects in Belarus."
Committee: Daniel Hallin (Chair),Valerie Hartouni, Geoffrey Bowker, Susan Leigh Star, Steven Epstein , Andrew lakoff
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh.

Gregorio Landau, Ph.D. in Communication, 1999

Dissertation: "The Role of Music in The Nicaraguan Revolution"
Committee: Daniel Hallin (Chair), Vicente Rafael, Robert Horwitz, George Lipsitz, Steve Fagin.
After Graduation: Instructor, Department of Music and Latin American Studies, San Francisco City College.
Current Position: Music producer/audio engineer and video/radio producer

Nancy Lee, Ph.D. in Communication, 2007

Dissertation: "Curing Consumers: How the Patient Became a Consumer in Modern American Medicine"
Committee: Michael Schudson, (Chair), Daniel Hallin Robert Horwitz Richard Madsen Richard Kronick
After Graduation: Evaluator, Center for teaching Development, University of California, San Diego.
Current Position: Blogger for Change.org

Meighan Maguire, Ph.D. in Communication, 2000

Dissertation: "The Local Dynamics of Telephone System Development: The San Francisco Exchange,1893-1919
Committee: Daniel Schiller (Chair), Susan Davis, Robert Horwitz, Michael Bernstein, William Deverell.
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego.
Current Position: Education Director, Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site, Long Beach, CA.

Regina Marchi, Ph.D. in Communication, 2006 rmarchi@rutgers.edu

Dissertation: "Altar Images: US Day of the Dead as Political Communication"
Committee: Michael Schudson (Chair), Chandra Mukerji (Co-Chair), Dan Hallin, S uzanne Brenner, David Gutierrez, David Avalos
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers University.
Publication: DAY OF THE DEAD IN THE USA: The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural
Phenomenon (Rutgers University Press), and is available at Amazon.com and other booksellers.

Bill Marsh Ph.D. in Communication, 2004

Dissertation: “Knowledge Incorporated: Plagiarism and Anti-Plagiarism Therapies in Higher Education”
Committee: Valerie Hartouni (Chair), Brian Goldfarb, Robert Horwitz, Hugh Mehan, Linda Brodkey
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of English, Queensborough Community College; Poet.

Katynka Z. Martínez Ph.D. in Communication, 2003

Dissertation: “The ‘Latin Explosion,’ Media, Audiences, and the marketing of Latino Panethnicity: latina Magazine and the Latin Grammys in a Post-Selena America”
Committee: Ellen Seiter (Chair), Daniel Hallin, Olga Vásquez, Jane Rhodes, Yen-Le Espiritu
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Raza Studies, College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University.

Vicki Mayer, Ph.D. in Communication, 2000

Dissertation: "Mexican Americans, Mass Media, and Cultural Citizenship: Cultural Affirmation and Consumer Alienation in San Antonio, Texas"
Committee: Ellen Seiter (Chair), Helene Keysar, Daniel Schiller, Chon Noriega, John Caldwell, George Lipsitz.
After Graduation: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Texas, San Antonio.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Tulane University.

Dennis William Mazzocco, Ph.D. in Communication, 1996

Dissertation: "Democracy, Power, and Equal Rights: The AFL Vs. CIO Battle to Unionize U.S. Broadcast Technicians, 1926-1940"
Committee: Daniel Schiller (Chair), Michael Bernstein, Susan Davis, DeeDee Halleck, George Lipsitz, Harley Shaiken
After Graduation: Assistant Professor, Department of Mass Communication, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Audio-Video-Film, School of Communication, Hofstra University

Corynne McSherry, Ph.D. in Communication, 1999

Dissertation: "Subjects and Objects of Knowledge: The Production of Academic Intellectual Property"
Committee: Valerie Hartouni (Co-Chair), Robert Horwitz (Co-Chair), Harry Hirsch, Chandra Mukerji, Mark Rose, Daniel Schiller
After Graduation: Candidate for Juris Doctor, Stanford Law School.
Current Position: Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Zara Mirmalek, Ph.D. in Communication, 2008

Dissertation: “Solar Discrepancies: Mars Exploration and the Curious Problem of Inter-Planetary Time”
Committee: Valerie Hartouni (Chair), Robert Horwitz, Yrjö Engeström, Ed Hutchins, Sharon Traweek, Andrew Lakoff, Susan Leigh Star
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego.
Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Magali Muria, Ph.D. in Communication, 2010

Dissertation: “Enforcing Boundaries: Globalization, State Power and Geography of Cross-Border Consumption in Tijuana, Mexico”
Committee: Daniel Hallin (Chair), Elana Zilberg, Gary Fields, Christina Turner, Roberto Alvarez
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego.
Current Position: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego.

Honorine Nocon, Ph.D. in Communication, 2000

Dissertation: "Developing Hybridized Social Capital: Communication, Coalition and Volunteering in Non-traditional Communities”
Committee: Michael Cole (Chair), Michael Schudson, Carol Padden, Olga Vásquez, Richard Madsen, Kathryn Woolard.
After Graduation: post-doctoral fellow with the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, University of California, San Diego.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, School of Education, University of Colorado, Denver.

Barbara Osborn, Ph.D. in Communication, 2006

Dissertation: “A Big Wet Kiss?, A Barrel of Laughs?: The 2000 Presidential Election TV Talk Show Interviews with the Candidates”
Committee: Michael Schudson (Chair), Daniel Hallin, Robert Horwitz, Rebecca Klatch, Jon Wiener
After Graduation: Freelance Reporter; Radio/TV Producer
Current Position: Director, Strategic Communications, Liberty Hill; Instructor, Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California.

Wayne H. Osborn (J.R. Osborn), Ph.D. in Communication, 2008

Dissertation: "The Type of Calligraphy: Writing, Print, and Technologies of the Arabic Alphabet"
Committee: Carol Padden (Chair), Benetta Jules-Rosette (Co-Chair), Chandra Mukerji;, Brian Goldfarb;, Gary Fields, Irene Bierman
After Graduation: Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Communication, American University in Dubai.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Communication, American University in Dubai.

Reece Peck, Ph.D. in Communication, 2012

Dissertation: "Fox Populism in the Great Recession"
Committee: Chandra Mukerji (Chair), Dan Hallin, Michael Schudson, George Lipsitz, Robert Horwitz, David Serlin, and Shelley Streeby
After Graduation: Instructor, the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego.
Current Position: Instructor, the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego.

Etienne Pelaprat Ph.D. in Communication, 2010 - WEB

Dissertation: "The Biopolitics of the Vegetative Subject"
Committee: Valerie Hartouni (Chair), David Serlin (Co-Chair), Michael Cole, Marcel Henaf, Tracy Strong
After Graduation: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Laboratory for Comparative Human Cognition, University of California, San Diego
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Laboratory for Comparative Human Cognition, University of California, San Diego

Ben A. Petrazzini, Ph.D. in Communication, 1993

Dissertation: "The Political Economy of Telecommunication Reform in Developing Countries: Privatization and Liberalization in Comparative Perspective"
Committee: Robert Horwitz (Chair), Peter Cowhey, William Drake, Daniel Hallin, Peter Smith
After Graduation: Assistant Professor, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Current Position: Policy and Regulatory Affairs Advisor in the Strategies and Policy Unit, Office of the Secretary General, International Telecommunications Union, Geneva.

Mauro Porto, Ph.D. in Communication, 2001

Dissertation: "Media Framing and Citizen Competence: Television and Audiences' Interpretations of Politics in Brazil"
Committee: Daniel Hallin (Chair), Michael Schudson, Ellen Seiter, Samuel Popkin, Akos Rona-Tas.
After Graduation: Professor of Communication, University of Brasilia Brazil, and Director of the Research Center on Media and Politics.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Tulane University.

Matt Ratto, Ph.D. in Communication, 2003

Dissertation: “The Pressure of Openness: the hybrid work of Linux Free/Open Source kernal developers”
Committee: Chandra Mukerji (Co-Chair); Geoffrey Bowker (Co-Chair) Robert Horwitz, Yrjö Engeström, Joseph Goguen, Steven Shapin
After Graduation: Researcher, NERDI Networked Research and Digital Information in Amsterdam , KNAW-Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Jennifer Rayman Ph.D. in Communication, 2004

Dissertation: “Instabilities of Place and Visions of Equality: the Case of a Deaf Congregation in Los Angeles”
Committee: Carol Padden (Chair), Tom Humphries, Michael Cole, Kathryn Woolard, Richard Madsen
After Graduation: Assistant Professor, Department of Education and Social Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, England.
Current Position: Associate Professor of American Sign Language and Deaf Studies, College of Education at California State University, Sacramento.

Brett M. Rhyne, Ph.D. in Communication, 1995

Dissertation: "Efficiency, Empowerment, Control: Quality Management in Contemporary American Academia"
Committee: Yrjö Engeström (Co-Chair), Herbert Schiller (Co-Chair), Michael Bernstein, DeeDee Halleck, Hugh Mehan
After Graduation: Stringer and staff reporter for several Boston-area newspapers.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Communications, Salem State College, MA.

Rivka Ribak, Ph.D. in Communication, 1993

Dissertation: "Decoding the News in a Divided Country: Political Socialization Among Israeli Jews and Palestinians"
Committee: Michael Schudson (Chair), Daniel Hallin, Yrjö Engeström, Gershon Shafir, Richard Madsen
After Graduation: Instructor, Department of Education, University of Haifa.
Current Position: Lecturer (equivalent to the rank of tenure-track assistant professor), Department of Communication, University of Haifa.

America Rodriguez, Ph.D. in Communication, 1993

Dissertation: "Made In The USA: The Constructions Of Univision News"
Committee: Michael Schudson (Chair), Daniel Hallin, Helene Keysaar, Wayne Cornelius, Kathryn Woolard
After Graduation: Associate Professor, Department of Radio-TV-Film, College of Communications, University of Texas at Austin.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Radio-TV-Film, College of Communications, University of Texas at Austin.

David Ryfe, Ph.D. in Communication, 1997

Dissertation: "The Interactive President: Presidential Communication and Political Culture in 20th Century America."
Committee: Daniel Hallin (Co-Chair), Michael Schudson (Co-Chair), Robert Horwitz, Samuel Kernell, George Lipsitz
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, School of Journalism, Middle Tennessee State University.

Nicholas S. Sammond, Ph.D. in Communication, 1999

Dissertation: "The Uses of Childhood: The Making of Walt Disney And The Generic American Child, 1930-1960"
Committee: Chandra Mukerji (Co-Chair), Yrjö Engeström (Co-Chair), Yen Espiritu, Rachael Klein, Carol Padden
After Graduation: Assistant Professor, Media and Society Program, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, English Department and Cinema Studies Program, University of Toronto

Catherine Saulino, Ph.D. in Communication, 2002

Dissertation: “Room to Breathe: Feminist Expression and the Political Economy of the Oxygen Network ”
Committee: Ellen Seiter (Chair), Michael Cole, Daniel Hallin, Winifred Woodhull, John Caldwell
After Graduation: Teacher, Consultant, Researcher and Journal Editor.
Current Position: IMO Productions – Multimedia Productions

Xiaoguang Shi, Ph.D. in Communication, 1992

Dissertation: "Communism And Communication: News Media and Political Communication in China"
Committee: Daniel Hallin (Chair), Chalmers Johnson, Richard Madsen, Herbert Schiller, Michael Schudson
After Graduation: Consultant, British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Service for China; Consultant for American companies wishing to do media and telecommunications business in China.
Current Position: Unknown.

Heide Solbrig Ph.D. in Communication, 2004

Dissertation: “Film and Function: A History of the Industrial Motivation Film ”
Committee: Robert Horwitz (Co-Chair), Lisa Cartwright (Co-Chair), Michael Cole, Lesley Stern, Michael Schudson
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of English, Bentley College, Boston, MA.

Matthew Stahl, Ph.D. in Communication, 2006

Dissertation: ” Reinventing Certainties: American Popular Music and Social Reproduction”
Committee: Valerie Hartouni (Chair), Michael Schudson, Robert Horwitz, George Lipsitz, Michael Mascuch, Will Straw
After Graduation: Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Communication, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Communicaiton, Western Ontario University, Canada.

Gregory K. Stephens, Ph.D. in Communication, 1996

Dissertation: "On Racial Frontiers: The Communicative Culture of Multiracial Audiences"
Committee: Helene Keyssar (Co-Chair), Michael Schudson (Co-Chair), Michael Cole, Christine Hunefeldt, Marta Sanchez
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Mass Communications, Contra Costa College; Lecturer, Department of American Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Human Relations, University of Oklahoma.

Melinda Stone, Ph.D. in Communication, 2003

Dissertation: "If It Moves We'll Shoot it: San Diego Amateur Movie Club"
Committee: Michael Schudson (Chair), Daniel Hallin, Akira Lippit, George Lipsitz, Jane Rhodes
After Graduation: Assistant Professor, Media Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, University San Francisco.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Media Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, University San Francisco.

Lora E. Taub, Ph.D. in Communication, 1998

Dissertation: "Enterprising Drama: The Rise of Commercial Theater In Early Modern London"
Committee: Daniel Schiller (Chair), Michael Cole, Susan Davis, Rachel Klein, Don Wayne
After Graduation: Instructor, Graduate Program in Media Studies, Distance Learning Program, New School for Social Research, New York; Research Director, University of California Links Multi-Campus After School Initiative, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley.
Current Position: Associate Professor and Chair of Media and Communication at Muhlenberg College since 2007, Scheller Endowed Honors Professor since 2008, and editor of the Youth Media Reporter since 2013

Suzanne Thomas, Ph.D. in Communication, 2004

Dissertation: "Heroes, Assassins, Mobsters and Murderers: Martial Arts TV and the Popular Chinese Imagination in the PRC"
Committee: Chandra Mukerji (Chair), Yrjo Engestrom, Robert Horwitz, Richard Madsen, Paul Pickowicz
After Graduation: Research Scientist, Intel Corporation.
Current Position: : Research Scientist, Intel Corporation.

Lisa Tripp, Ph.D. in Communication, 2002

Dissertation: "Trying to Bend the Bars of the Iron Cage: A Case Study of a K-16 Partnership"
Committee: Mike Cole (chair), Jorge Mariscal, Hugh Mehan, Carol Padden, Olga Vásquez
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego.
Current Position: Assist. Director, Center for Multimedia Literacy, Annenberg Center, University of Southern California.

Jennifer L. Troutner, Ph.D. in Communication, 1996

Dissertation: "Language, Culture, and Politics: English in China, 1840s-1990s"
Committee: Helene Keyssar (Chair), Michael Cole, Richard Madsen, Carol Padden, Tracy Strong
After Graduation: Lecturer and Research Associate, Department of Communication, Univerisity of California, San Diego.
Current Position: Unknown,

Frederick Turner, Ph.D. in Communication, 2002

Dissertation: “From Counterculture to Cyberculture: How Stewar Brand and the Whole Earth Catalog Brought Us Wired Magazine”
Committee: Michael Schudson (Chair), Geoffrey Bowker, Robert Horwitz, Chandra Mukerji, and Lev Manovich, Art, Steve Epstein, Sociology
After Graduation: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Stanford University.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Stanford University.

Fatma Ulgen, Ph.D. in Communication, 2010

Dissertation: “Sabiha Gökçen’s 80 Year Old Secret”: Kemalist Nation Formation and the Ottoman Armenians”
Committee: Robert Horwitz (Chair), Daniel Hallin, Gary Fields, Ivan Evans, Hasan Kayali
After Graduation: On job market.
Current Position: Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication of Bilkent University, Ankara

Kathryn Vann, Ph.D. in Communication, 2001

Dissertation: "The Duplicity of Practice"
Committee: Susan Leigh (Chair), Michael Cole (, Robert Horwitz, Geoffrey Bowker, Martha Lampland, Gerry Doppelt
After Graduation: Postdoctoral Researcher, Virtual Knowledge Studio, Amsterdam , Netherlands .
Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher, Center for Science, Technology Studies, Santa Clara University, CA.

Carol Vernallis, Ph.D. in Communication, 1994

Dissertation: "The Aesthetics of Music Video: The Relation of Music and Image"
Committee: DeeDee Halleck (Co-Chair), Daniel Hallin (Co-Chair), Helene Keyssar, George Lipsitz, Wilbur Ogden, Jann Pasler
After Graduation: Assistant Professor, Arts and Humanities Unit, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Electronic Media Division, Department of Communication Studies, University of Northern Iowa.

Jenifer Vernon, Ph.D. in Communication, 2008

Dissertation: “Making Community with the Deep Communication of Popular Live Poetry at the Millennium”
Committee: Carol Padden (Chair), Chandra Mukerji, Olga Vasquez, George Lipsitz, Michael Davidson
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego.
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Communication, Humanities Department, University of Alaska Southeast.

Yael Warshel, Ph.D. in Communication, 2010

Dissertation: "How Do You Convince Children that the “Army”, “Terrorists” and the “Police” Can Live Together Peacefully? A Peace Communication Assessment Model"
Committee: Daniel Hallin (Chair), Carol Padden, Patrick Anderson, Michael Schudson, Gershon Shafir
After Graduation: International Communication Program, School of International Service, American University
Current Position: International Communication Program, School of International Service, American University

Douglas Williams, Ph.D. in Communication, 1996

Dissertation: "The Eagle or the Cross: Rome, the Bible, and Cold War America"
Committee: Helene Keyssar (Chair), Michael Cole, William Fitzgerald, Daniel Hallin, Tracy Strong
After Graduation: Adjunct Professor, Department of Drama and Communication, Mills College
Current Position: Technical Writer, Oracle Corporation, Platform Technologies Division.

Ferruh Yilmaz, Ph.D. in Communication, 2006

Dissertation: "Ethnicized Ontologies: From Foreign Worker to Muslim Immigrant. How Danish Public Discourse Moved to the Right through the Question of Immigration."
Committee: Daniel Hallin (Chair), Michael Schudson, Robert Horwitz;, Yen Le Espiritu, George Lipsitz;, Ernesto Laclau
After Graduation: Faculty Fellow, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Tulane University.