Graduate Alumni

By Year of Graduation

2023

Akshita Sivakumar, Ph.D. in Communication and Science Studies, 2023

Dissertation: Model Governance, Model Solidarity/ Social Infrastructure and Regulatory Technologies in California
Committee: Christo Sims (Chair), Lilly Irani, Matilde Córdoba Azcárate, Fernando Domínguez Rubio, Matthew Vitz
After Graduation: Assistant Professor, Department of Design, UC Davis

Juan Jose (Pepe) Rojo, Ph.D. in Communication, 2023

Dissertation: How to Misread Properly: The Metaphor on the Real
Committee: Fernando Dominguez (Chair), Kelly Gates, Page Dubois, Ricardo Dominguez, Patricia Ahn
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, UC San Diego

Sophie Staschus, Ph.D. in Communication and Science Studies, 2023

Dissertation: Curtailing Reproductive Freedom through Choice: The Informed Consent Doctrine and “Abortion Regret” in U.S. Abortion Regulation
Committee: Val Hartouni (Co-Chair), Robert Horwitz (Co-Chair), Claire Edington, Kelly Gates, and Cathy Gere
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, UC San Diego

Ben Berners-Lee, Ph.D. in Communication and Cognitive Science, 2023

Dissertation: Coping with Broken Data and Environmental Contingencies in Interaction: An Observational Study of a Digital Mental Health Trial
Committee: Morana Alac (Chair), Seana Coulson, Stuart Geiger, James Hollan, Carol Padden
After Graduation: Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Wellesley College

John Armenta, Ph.D. in Communication, 2023

Dissertation: VetBros: Masculinity, Militarism, Patriotism, and the Post-9/11 Veteran
Committee: Robert Horwitz (Chair), Brian Goldfarb, Valerie Hartouni, Rebecca Plant
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, UC San Diego

2022

Manel Palos Pons, Ph.D. in Communication, 2022

Dissertation: Media Wars: Mediatization, populism and media reform in Rafael Correa’s Ecuador
Committee: Dan Hallin (Chair), Alexander Fattal, Robert Horwitz, Nancy Postero, Thomas Schmidt
After Graduation: Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, San Jose State University

Jacob Hellman, Ph.D. in Communication, 2022

Dissertation: Gifts of Capital and Communities of Valuation: The Project to Popularize Startup Investing
Committee: Robert Horwitz (Co-Chair), Juan Pablo Pardo Guerra (Co-Chair), Lilly Irani, Chandra Mukerji, David Serlin
After Graduation: Postdoctoral Research, York University (CA) Center for Technoscience and Society

2021

Christina Aushana, Ph.D. in Communication, 2021

Dissertation: Screening Racial Visions, Scripting State Violence: The Performance and Visual Culture of Patrol Work and Police Training in San Diego
Committee: Elana Zilberg (Chair), Patrick Anderson, Lisa Cartwright, Ricardo Dominguez, Kelly Gates, Roshanak Kheshti
After Graduation: UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow with Geoff Raymond (Sociology, UC Santa Barbara) and Nikki Jones (African American Studies, UC Berkeley)

Thomas Conner, Ph.D. in Communication and Scienc Studies, 2021

Dissertation: Learning to Live With Ghosts: Holopresence and the Historical Emergence of Real Virtuality Technologies
Committee: David Serlin (Chair), Elizabeth Cartwright, Kelly Gates, Catherina Gere, Tara Knight
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, UC San Diego

Yelena Gluzman, Ph.D. in Communication, Science Studies, and Cognitive Science, 2021

Dissertation: Sleight of Hand: Cognitive Neuroscience and the Experimental Theater of Other Minds
Committee: Morana Alac (Chair), Bennetta Jules-Rosette, Catherina Gere, Fernando Dominguez Rubio, Patrick Anderson, Ricardo Dominguez
After Graduation: Assistant Professor, Science and Technology Studies, University of Alberta

Jungyoung Kim, Ph.D. in Communication and Critical Gender Studies, 2021

Dissertation: Rethinking Intimacy, the Self, and Ethics: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis of Polyamory Cultures in the US and South Korea
Committee: David Serlin (Chair), Patricia Ahn, Suzanne Brenner, Valerie Hartouni, Todd Henry

Riley Taitingfong, Ph.D. in Communication, 2021

Dissertation: Editing Islands: (Re)Imagining Isolation in Gene Drive Science and Engagement
Committee: Brian Goldfarb (Chair), Akosua Boateng, Angela Booker, Cinnamon Bloss, Daniel Hallin, Elana Zilberg
After Graduation: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Public Health Education, University of California, San Diego

2020

Poyao Huang, Ph.D. in Communication and Science Studies, 2020

Dissertation: How to Become “HIV Negative, on PrEP” in the Post-AIDS Era: The Material Culture of Gay Taiwanese Men’s Sexual Health
Committee: David Serlin (Co-Chair), Lisa Cartwright (Co-Chair), Patrick Anderson, Dredge Byung'chu Kang, Kalindi Vora
After Graduation: Postdoctoral Fellow, The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University

Monika Sengul-Jones, Ph.D. in Communication and Science Studies, 2020

Dissertation: The Liminal Work of Online Freelance Writing: Networked Configurations of Gendered Labor, Technologies, Subjectivities
Committee: Lisa Cartwright (Chair), Kalindi Vora, Elizabeth Losh, Martha Lampland, Lilly Irani, Daniel Hallin
After Graduation: Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of Washington, Seattle

2019

Caroline Collins, Ph.D. in Communication, 2019

Dissertation: Manifest Re-Destined: The Politics of Remembering & Forgetting in the American West
Committee: Valerie Hartouni (Chair), Patrick Anderson, Angela Booker, Zeinabu Davis, Chandra Mukerji, Alison Wishard Guerra
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, UC San Diego

Rebecca Hardesty, Ph.D. in Communication -- Science Studies, 2019

Dissertation: Biology and Pedagogy: From Public Outreach to Training Future Experts
Committee: Morana Alac (Chair), William Bechtel, Daniel Hallin, Lilly Irani, Clinton Tolley, Robert Westman
After Graduation: Joint Postdoctoral Scholar, Teaching + Learning Commons and Biological Sciences, UC San Diego and Teaching Excellence and Innovation, UC Irvine

Edward (Ned) Randolph, Ph.D. in Communication, 2019

Dissertation: Clear As Mud: The Struggle Over Louisiana’s Disappearing Wetlands
Committee: Patrick Anderson (Chair), Angela Booker, Kelly Gates, Valerie Hartouni, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza
After Graduation: Adjunct Professor, Tulane University
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Communication/Environmental Studies Program, Tulane University

Audra YiHong Sim, Ph.D. in Communication, 2019

Dissertation: Avatars of the Work Ethic: The Figure of the Classical Musician in Discourses of Work
Committee: Robert Horwitz (Chair), Boatema Boateng, Daniel Hallin, Stefan Tanaka, Amy Cimini, Nancy Guy
After Graduation: Freelance editor and researcher at Giant Squid Edits

2018

Matthew Dewey, Ph.D. in Communication, 2018

Dissertation: Reconceptualizing the Community Media Project Through Space and Scale: A Case Study of Public Access Television in San Francisco, CA
Committee: Robert Horwitz (Chair), John McMurria (Co-Chair), Kelly Gates, Jesse Drew, Gerald Hendrickson, Isaac Martin
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California San Diego
Current Position: Clinical Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Media, Communication Studies Department and Journalism Program, Loyola Marymount University

Louise Hickman, Ph.D. in Communication, 2018

Dissertation: Curating Accessible Infrastructure: Disability, Technology, and Transcription (1956-present)
Committee: David Serlin (Chair), Valerie Hartouni, Lilly Irani, Elizabeth Cartwright, Michael Davidson
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California San Diego
Current Position: Senior Research Officer, Department of Media and Communications and Ada Lovelace Institute, London School of Economics

Briana Iatarola, Ph.D. in Communication, 2018

Dissertation: 'Saved Forever?': An Eco-Ethnography of Trestles' Surfscape
Committee: Elana Zilberg (Chair), Fernando Dominguez Rubio, Brian Goldfarb, Keith Pezzoli, Richard Carson, Cary Lowe
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California San Diego
Current Position: Lecturer in UC San Diego Seventh College Synthesis Program

Tara-Lynne Pixley, Ph.D. in Communication, 2018

Dissertation: Making Pictures: Framing the Photographer in News Image Production
Committee: Zeinabu Davis (Chair), Daniel Hallin (Co-Chair), Angela Booker, Brian Goldfarb, Sara Kaplan
After Graduation: recieved tenure at LMU last year and she is heading to a professorship in Temple University's Klein College of Media and Communication in Fall

2017

Barbara Bush, Ph.D. in Communication, 2017

Dissertation: It's Personal: Nostalgia and National Identity in Switzerland
Committee: Patrick Anderson (Chair), Fatima El-Tayeb, Gary Fields, Patrick Patterson, Elana Zilberg
After Graduation: Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
Current Position: Lecturer, San Diego Mesa College

Diego Cortes, Ph.D. in Communication, 2017

Dissertation: Community Oriented Radio Stations and Indigenous in Cauca, Colombia
Committee: Daniel Hallin (Chair), Natalia Roudakova (Co-Chair), Robert Horwitz, John McMurria, Nancy Postero
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, UC San Diego
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Division of Communication and the Arts, University of Pittsburgh, Bradford

Natalie Forssman, Ph.D. in Communication – Science Studies, 2017

Dissertation: Staging the animal oceanographer: An ethnography of seals and their scientists
Committee: Lisa Cartwright (Chair), Morana Alac, Fernando Dominguez Rubio, Catherina Gere, Anna Tsing, Elana Zilberg
After Graduation: Writing Instructor, UCSD Muir College Writing Program
Current Position: Lecturer, Technical Communication, University of British Columbia

Jahmese Fort, Ph.D. in Communication, 2017

Dissertation: Altered Civic Participation in the U.S. Census as a Dispute to the Myth of Equal Citizenship
Committee: John McMurria (Chair), Angela Booker, Zeinabu Davis, Dayo Gore, Olga Vasquez
After Graduation: Fair Play Project Outreach Coordinator, Wisconsin Center for Education Research

Ivana Guarrasi, Ph.D. in Communication, 2017

Dissertation: The Standard in the Body: An Ethnographic Reading of Standarized Patient Laboratory Simulations
Committee: Carol Padden (Chair), Michael Cole, Brian Goldfarb, Valerie Hartouni, Martha Lampland, Anna Harris
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego

Sarah Klein, Ph.D. in Communication – Science Studies, 2017

Dissertation: Getting Experimental: Performing Cognition in the EEG Lab
Committee: Morana Alac (Chair), Patrick Anderson, Michael Cole, Catherina Gere, Chandra Mukerji, Ricardo Nemirovsky
After Graduation: Writing Instructor, UCSD Muir College Writing Program
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Arts, University of Waterloo

Anna Starshinina, Ph.D. in Communication – Science Studies, 2017

Dissertation: Stabilizing the Unstable: Biomedical Research on Bipolar Disorder
Committee: Kelly Gates (Chair), Alac Morana, Valerie Hartouni, Martha Lampland, Chandra Mukerji
After Graduation: Director, Strategy Management, United Way of New York City
Current Position: Director, Strategy Management, United Way of New York City

Cristina Visperas, Ph.D. in Communication – Science Studies, 2017

Dissertation: Science in Captivity: The Visual Culture and Bioethics of Biomedicine behind Bars
Committee: Patrick Anderson (Co-Chair), Lisa Cartwright (Co-Chair), Dennis Childs, Kelly Gates, Martha Lampland, Jared Sexton
After Graduation: Assistant Professor, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California

2016

Hannah Dick, Ph.D. in Communication, 2016

Dissertation: Challenging Christian Liberalism: Religious Minorities and the Public Sphere
Committee: John McMurria (Chair), John Hyde Evans, Valerie Hartouni, Marcel Henaff, Robert Horwitz
After Graduation: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Media, Culture & Communication, NYU
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada

David González-Hernández, Ph.D. in Communication, 2016

Dissertation: Critical media participations: media literacy and youth-produced videos from Latina/o audience in the U.S. – Mexico border
Committee: Daniel Hallin (Chair), Michael Cole, Edwin Teddy Cruz, Christopher Sims, Stefan Tanaka
After Graduation: UCSD Communication Lecturer
Current Position: Professor, Department of Sociocultural Studies, ITESO-Jesuit University Guadalajara

Laurel Hodges Friedman, Ph.D. in Communication, 2016

Dissertation: Control, Cure, and Prevention: Situating Global Responses to Tuberculosis
Committee: Brian Goldfarb (Chair), Patrick Anderson, John Hyde Evans, Shelley Streeby, Elana Zilberg
After Graduation: Visiting scholar at Bogazici University, Department of Sociology, Istanbul, Turkey
Current Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of South Florida

Monica Hoffman, Ph.D. in Communication – Science Studies, 2016

Dissertation: Malaria, Mosquitoes, and Maps: Practices and Articulations of Malaria Control in British India and WWII
Committee: Valerie Hartouni (Chair), Catherina Gere, Chandra Mukerji, David Serlin, Kalindi Vora
After Graduation: Freelance Editor
Current Position: Geographer, Department of Defense

Jason Magabo Perez, Ph.D. in Communication, 2016

Dissertation: Critical Race Poetics and the Ghostly Matter of U.S. v. Narciso and Perez
Committee: Zeinabu Davis (Co-Chair), Patrick Anderson (Co-Chair), John D. Blanco, Boatema Boateng, K. Wayne Yang
After Graduation: Assistant Professor of English, CSU San Bernardino
Current Position: Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, CSU San Marcos

Benjamin Medeiros, Ph.D. in Communication, 2016

Dissertation: Right to Be Forgotten or Right to Not Be Talked About? Public and Private Speech Regulation and the Panic About Critical Speech on the Interactive Web
Committee: Robert Horwitz (Chair), Kelly Gates, John McMurria, Kwai Hang Ng, Natalia Roudakova & David Serlin
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, State University of New York, Plattsburgh

Rachel Pfister, Ph.D. in Communication, 2016

Dissertation: Unraveling Hogwarts: Understanding an Affinity Group through the Lens of Activity Theory
Committee: Michael Cole (Chair), Brian Goldfarb, Jay Lemke, Stefan Tanaka, Olga Vasquez, Mizuko Ito

Harry Simón Salazar, Ph.D. in Communication, 2016

Dissertation: Democracy, Television, and the Mediatization of Chilean Politics: How the Medium Became the Message in Post-Pinochet Chile
Committee: Michael Cole (Co-Chair), Daniel C. Hallin (Co-Chair), Jaime Concha, Luis Martin-Cabrera, Nancy Postero, Natalia Roudakova
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California San Diego
Curent Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Communication, Muhlenberg College

Kara Wentworth, Ph.D. in Communication – Science Studies, 2016

Dissertation: Performing the Slaughterhouse: Making Meaning and Worlds in Daily Practice
Committee: Chandra Mukerji (Chair), Patrick Anderson, Joseph Hankins, Martha Lampland, Carol Padden
After Graduation: Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSD
Current Placement: Strategic Impact Analyst, TPT - Twin Cities PBS

Todd Woodlan, Ph.D. in Communication, 2016

Dissertation: Tracking the Human: Posthumanism, Ethics, and Critique in Health Tracking Technologies
Committee: Valerie Hartouni (Chair), Patrick Anderson, Martha Lampland, Stefan Tanaka, Clinton Tolley
After Graduation: Contract digital growth and development coordinator
Current Placement: Content Strategist, Doctorpedia

Emily York, Ph.D. in Communication – Science Studies, 2016

Dissertation: Nano Dreams and Nano Worlds: The Emergence and Disciplinary Formation of Nanoengineering
Committee: Valerie Hartouni (Chair), Kelly Gates, Robert Horwitz, Lilly Irani, Colin Milburn, Charles Robert Thorpe

After Graduation: Assistant Professor, Department of Integrated Science and Technology, James Madison University
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Integrated Science and Technology, James Madison University

2015

Erin Cory, Ph.D. in Communication, 2015

Dissertation: Re-membering Beirut: Performing memory & Community Across a 'Postwar' City
Committee: Elana Zilberg (Chair), Patrick Anderson, Gary Fields, Nitin Govil, Dietrich Jung, Michael Thomas
After Graduation: External Lecturer, Institute for History, University of Southern Denmark
Current Position: Senior Lecturer, Media and Communication Studies, Malmo University

Stephen Mandiberg, Ph.D. in Communication, 2015

Dissertation: Responsible Localization: Game Translation Between Japan and the United States
Committee: Lisa Cartwright (Chair), Amelia Glaser, Brian Goldfarb, Nitin Govil, Elizabeth Losh, Stefan Tanaka
After Graduation: Lecturer in the Global Arts Studies Program at the University of California, Merced
Current Position: Lecturer, Department of Media Arts, University of North Texas

Pawan Deep Singh, Ph.D. in Communication, 2015

Dissertation: Mediating the Optics of Privacy: LGBTQ Rights, Public Subjecthood & the Law in India
Committee: Elizabeth Cartwright (Chair), Catherina Genre, Nitin Govil, Valeria Hartouni, John McMurria, David Serlin
After Graduation: Instructor, Department of Communication, UCSD
Current Position: New Generation Scholar Fellow Postdoc, Australia-India Institute, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

2014

Camille Campion, Ph.D. in Communication, 2014

Dissertation: Collaborative Video Production as Method, Process and Text in Participatory Action Research
Committee: Mike Cole (Chair), Patrick Anderson, Tom Humphries, Bennetta Jules-Rosette, Chandra Mukerji
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego

Kelli Moore, Ph.D. in Communication 2014

Dissertation: Visualizing Violence: The Ethics of Photographic Evidence in the Domestic Violence Trial and Popular Culture
Committee: Patrick Anderson (Chair), Lisa Cartwright, Kelly Gates, Marcel Henaff, Roshanak Kheshti
After Graduation: UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, UC Berkeley, Department of Rhetoric
Current Position: Associate Professor, Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU

Kim De Wolff, Ph.D. in Communication – Science Studies, 2014

Dissertation: Gyre Plastic: Science, Circulation and the Matter of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Committee: Chandra Mukerji (Chair), Joseph Dumit, Kelly Gates, David Serlin, Charles Thorpe
After Graduation: Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Humanities, University of California, Merced
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy & Religion, University of North Texas

Lyn Headley, Ph.D. in Communication, 2014

Dissertation: Algorithms and the Organization of Independent Journalism
Committee: Chandra Mukerji (Chair), Morana Alac, Robert Horwitz, Andrew Lakoff, Robert Westman
After Graduation: Web Developer, McGraw Hill Education
Current Position: Web Developer, McGraw Hill Education

Aaron Gurlly, Ph.D. in Communication, 2014

Dissertation: Affect in the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus
Committee: Patrick Anderson (Chair), Lisa Cartwright, Zeinabu Davis, David Kirsh, George Mariscal
After Graduation: Faculty Fellowship, Department of Theater, Dance, and Media Studies, Beloit College
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Arts, Salisbury University

Carl McKinney, Ph.D. in Communication, 2014

Dissertation: SexEd: Pedagogy, Pornography, Precocity and Adolescent Sexual Subjectivity
Committee: Valerie Hartouni (Co-Chair), Robert Horwitz (Co-Chair), Kelly Gates, Toby Miller & Charles Thorpe
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego
Current Position: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego

James Perez, Ph.D. in Communication, 2014

Dissertation: Stand-Up Justice
Committee: Patrick Anderson (Chair), Camille Forbes, John McMurria, Carol Padden, Michael Parrish, Olga Vasquez
After Graduation: Visiting Professor, Department of Mass Communication, Wiley College
Current Position: Adjunct Professor, Department of Mass Communications and Speech, Wiley College

Katrina Petersen, Ph.D. in Communication – Science Studies, 2014

Dissertation: Mapping a Wildfire: Mapping Practices, Authoritative Knowledge, and the Unpredictable Nature of Disaster
Committee: David Serlin (Chair), Morana Alac, Lisa Cartwright, Caren Kaplan, Martha Lampland, Chandra Mukerji
After Graduation: Research Associate at Lancaster University, UK, Department of Sociology, Centre for Mobilities Research
Current Position: Research Associate at Lancaster University, UK, Department of Sociology, Centre for Mobilities Research

Michaela Walsh, Ph.D. in Communication, 2014

Dissertation: Partiendo La Madre: Borders, Thresholds & Performances of Crossing Among the Hñähñu
Committee: Patrick Anderson (Chair), Robert Alvarez, Ricardo Dominguez, Dan Hallin, Elana Zilberg
After Graduation: Visiting Professor, Department of Theatre, University of San Diego
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, Bowling Green State University

Andrew Whitworth-Smith, Ph.D. in Communication, 2014

Dissertation: Solidarity Economies, Networks & the Positioning of Power in Alternative Cultural Production & Activism in Brazil: The Case of For a do Eixo
Committee: Dan Hallin (Chair), Boatema Boateng, Nitin Govil, John McMurria, Toby Miller, Nancy Postero
After Graduation: Continuing lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego
Current Position: Continuing lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego

2013

Lauren Berliner, Ph.D. in Communication, 2013

Dissertation: Making it Better: New Pedagogies of Media Production
Committee: Lisa Cartwright, Brian Goldfarb, Zeinabu Davis, Roddey Reid, Shelley Streeby, Nitin Govil,
After Graduation: Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Bothell
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Bothell

Marisa Brandt, Ph.D. in Communication – Science Studies, 2013

Dissertation: War, Trauma, and Technologies of the Self: The Making of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
Committee: Chandra Mukerji (Chair), Joseph Dumit, Kelly Gates, David Serlin, Charles Thorpe
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego
Current Position: Academic Specialist, History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science, Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University

Robert Lecusay, Ph. D. in Communication, 2013

Dissertation: Telemonitoring Physics: University-Community After-School Collaborations and the Mediation of the Formal/Informal Divide
Committee: Mike Cole (Chair), Morana Alac, Patrick Anderson, Edwin Hutchins Jr., Rafael Nunez
After Graduation: Research Associate, Center on Global Justice; Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego
Current Position: Research Coordinator, School of Education and Communication, Jönköping University

Stephanie Martin, Ph.D. in Communication, 2013

Dissertation: Evangelical Economic Rhetoric: The Great Recession, the Free-Market and the Language of Personal Responsibility
Committee: Robert Horwitz (Chair), Val Hartouni, Gary Fields, Isaac Martin, John Evans
After Graduation: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Religious Studies Program, University of Mary
Current Position: Frank and Bethine Church Endowed Chair of Public Affairs, School of Public Service, Boise State University

Chuktropolis Moran, Ph.D. in Communication, 2013

Dissertation: Interactive Time
Committee: Brian Goldfarb (Chair), Chandra Mukerji, Nitin Govil, Stefan Tanaka, Jordan Crandall
After Graduation: Teaching Assistant, Sixth College Writing Program, UCSD
Current Position: UX Researcher / Designer at EVERFI

Tamara Powell, Ph.D. in Communication, 2013

Dissertation: Making Healthy Minds Healthy Bodies: An Activity-Theoretical Analysis of the Development and Organizational Adaptation of a Medical Service-Learning Program
Committee: Michael Cole (Chair), Tom Humphries, Hugh Mehan, Carol Padden, Lindia Willies-Jacobo
After Graduation: Lecturer, Communication Studies, California State University, Sacramento
Current Position: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of Colorado, Denver

David Andrew Rice, Ph.D. in Communication, 2013

Dissertation: Indexical Embodiments: Sensory Ethnography and/as Historical Reenactment
Committee: Lisa Cartwright (Chair), Zeinabu Davis, Brian Goldfarb, Bennetta Jules-Rosette, Roddey Reid
After Graduation: Postdoctoral Fellow, Socially Engaged Media, Division of Undergraduate Education, University of California, Los Angeles
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Socially Engaged Media, Division of Undergraduate Education, University of California, Los Angeles

2012

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: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California San Diego
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Digital Media, University of South Florida

Kate Levitt, Ph.D. in Communication, 2012

Dissertation: Turning the Tables: Nightlife, DJing, and the Rise of Digital DJ Technologies
Committee: Chandra Mukerji (Chair), Fernando Dominguez Rubio, Kelly Gates, Christopher Sims, Timothy Taylor, Wane Yang
After Graduation: Direction of Communication & Strategy, Leadership Public Schools, Oakland
Current Position: Direction of Communications and Development, Leadership Public Schools, Oakland

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: Assistant Professor, Department of Media Culture, CUNY Staten Island

2011

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 Studies, University of Nevada, Reno

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: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Northeastern University

Antonieta Mercado, Ph.D. in Communication, 2011

Dissertation: Grassroots Cosmopolitanism: Transnational Communication and Citizenship Practices among Indigenous Mexican Immigrants in the United States
Committee: Daniel Hallin (Chair), David Fitzgerald, Robert Horwitz, Akos Ronatas, Olga Vasquez, Elana Zilberg
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego
Current Position: Associate Professor, Communication Studies, University of San Diego

Deborah Wilson, Ph.D. in Communication, 2011

Dissertation: The Microgenesis of Idiocultures
Committee: Mike Cole (Chair), Tom Humphries, James Levin, Hugh Mehan Jr., Carol Padden
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego
Current Position: Lecturer, Communication Studies, University of Nevada, Reno

2010

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

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: Human Resources Director, Glyde Corporation

Nadine Kozak, Ph.D. in Communication – Science Studies, 2010

Dissertation: On the Last Mile: The Effects of Telecommunications Regulation and Deregulation 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: Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Etienne Pelaprat, Ph.D. in Communication, 2010

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: Director of Product Management, Unizin

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: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

2009

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, Department of Communication, Georgia State University

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: Associate Professor, School of Education, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

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
Current Position: Registered Dietitian, Seattle Children's Hospital

Yael Warshel, Ph.D. in Communication, 2009

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: Assistant Professor, International Communication Program, School of International Service, American University
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Telecommunications, and Research Associate, Rock Ethics Institute, Pennsylvania State University

2008

Jericho Burg, Ph.D. in Communication, 2008

Dissertation: Fixing Famine, The Politics of Information in Famine Early Warning
Committee: Robert Horwitz (Chair), Geoffrey Bowker, Ivan Evans, Gary Fields, Martha Lampland
After Graduation: Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
Current Position: Associate Professor of Media and Communication at Mongolia International University

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: Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh

Zara Mirmalek, Ph.D. in Communication – Science Studies, 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 Fellow, Science, Technology & Society Program, Harvard University

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 Culture & Technology, Georgetown University

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: Instructor, Department of Communication, Sierra College

2007

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

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

2006

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 Cruz
Current Position: Director and Associate Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, Northern Arizona University

Regina Marchi, Ph.D. in Communication, 2006

Dissertation: Altar Images: US Day of the Dead as Political Communication
Committee: Michael Schudson (Chair), Chandra Mukerji (Co-Chair), Dan Hallin, Suzanne Brenner, David Gutierrez, David Avalos
After Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers University

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 of Communications, Office of L.A. County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl

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
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Information & Media Studies, University of Western Ontario

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: Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Tulane University

2005

Steve Jackson, Ph.D. in Communication – Science Studies, 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: Associate Professor, Department of Information Science and Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University

2004

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

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: Associate Professor, Digital Journalism, National 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: Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research; Associate Professor, The Media School, Indiana University

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: Research Manager (Facebook)

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: Assistant Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Ashford University

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: Professor, Department of English, Literature, and Reading, Wilbur Wright College (City Colleges of Chicago)

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, American Sign Language and Deaf Studies, California State University, Sacramento

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: Producer and Director, Whatever Floats Your Boat Productions

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: Senior Research Scientist, Systems & Software Research, User Innovation Lab, Intel Corporation

2003

Chad Harris, Ph.D. in Communication, 2003

Dissertation: Satellite 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: Director of Curriculum Development at Bridgepoint Education, University of the Rockies

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.

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: Associate Professor, Department of Latino/Latina Studies, College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State 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: Associate Professor, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto

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: Associate Professor, Media Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, University San Francisco

2002

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: Owner & Consultant, MVision Consulting

Cynthia Chris, Ph.D. in Communication, 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

Anthony Freitas, Ph.D. in Communication, 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: Advertising Team Lead, March of Dimes

Tarleton Gillespie, Ph.D. in Communication, 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; Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Cornell University
Current Position: Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and the Department of Information Science at Cornell University

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

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: Associate Scholar and Scientist, College of Motion Picture Arts, Florida State University

Frederick Turner, Ph.D. in Communication, 2002

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

2001

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

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: Department Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Tulane University

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

2000

Dianne Bartlow, Ph.D. in Communication, 2000

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

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: Professor, Department of Communication, & Associate Dean of Equity and Inclusion, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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; Assistant Professor, Institute of Design, Renssellaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Current Position: Associate Adjunct Professor; Co-Director, EVOKE & Values in Design Laboratory Department of Informatics, University of California-Irvine

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, California

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 Keyssar, Daniel Schiller, Chon Noriega, John Caldwell, George Lipsitz
After Graduation: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Texas, San Antonio
Current Position: Professor, Department of Communication, Tulane University

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: Associate Dean and Associate Professor, Linguistically Diversity Education, University of Colorado, Denver

1999

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: Legal Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation

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 Fellowship, Argentina
Current Position: Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City

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: Professor, Department of Communication, University of Washington

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

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: Associate Professor and Acting Director, Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto

1998

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

Dissertation: Stabilizing Mobility: Transportation and Isolation in 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: Adjunct Professor, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU

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: Professor, Media & Communication, Associate Dean for Digital Learning, Muhlenberg College

1997

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

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, Panteion University of Athens

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: Professor and Director, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Iowa

1996

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

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: Professor, Department of Radio, Television, Film, Hofstra University

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

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

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

1995

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: Principal of Secondary Education, Temple Israel, Minneapolis
Current Position: President, FOCUS Interactive Research and The Writing Source, Minneapolis

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: Professor and Director, Horowitz Center for Health Literacy, University of Maryland

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: Professor and Chair, Department of Media and Communication, London School of Economics

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

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: Editor in Chief, Jewish Advocate

1994

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

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: Affiliated Researcher, Department of Music, Stanford University

1993

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

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: Regional Director for Latin America & the Caribbean, International Development Research Centre, Uruguay

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: Senior 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

1992

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, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Current Position: Communications Consultant

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