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By Year of Graduation

2025

Veronica Uribe del Aguila, Ph.D. in Communication (Science Studies), 2025

  • Dissertation: Technology as Sovereignty: Computing Popular Geopolitics and Forms of Political Participation in the Mexican Bajio
  • Committee: Lilly Irani (Chair), Boatema Boateng, Matilde Córdoba Azcárate, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, Hector Beltran
  • After Graduation: Assistant Professor of Design and Society, Science and Technology Studies Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 

Kathryne Metcalf, Ph.D. in Communication (Science Studies), 2025

  • Dissertation: Pathologies of Scale: Biobanks, Big Data, and the Making of Genomic (Dis)Order
  • Committee: Kelly Gates (Co-Chair), Daniel Navon (Co-Chair), Jenny Bangham, John Evans, Stuart Geiger, Lilly Irani
  • After Graduation: Postdoc Fellowship with Microsoft Research Social Media Collective and Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley School of Information

Nicoletta Vangelisti, Ph.D. in Communication with a Specialization in Critical Gender Studies, 2025

  • Dissertation: Making at the Margins: Labor, Value, and Social Reproduction in an Alternative Independent Filmmaking Industry
  • Committee: Boatema Boateng (Co-Chair), Zeinabu Davis (Co-Chair), Patrick Anderson, Erin Hill, and Roy Pérez

2024

Grant Leuning, Ph.D. in Communication, 2024

Erika Ramirez-Mayoral, Ph.D. in Communication with a Specialization in Critical Gender Studies, 2024

Rachel Fox, Ph.D. in Communication (Science Studies) with a Specialization in Critical Gender Studies, 2024

 


2023

Akshita Sivakumar, Ph.D. in Communication (Science Studies), 2023

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

Sophie Staschus, Ph.D. in Communication (Science Studies), 2023

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

John Armenta, Ph.D. in Communication, 2023



2022

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

Jacob Hellman, Ph.D. in Communication, 2022



2021

Christina Aushana, Ph.D. in Communication, 2021

Thomas Conner, Ph.D. in Communication (Science Studies), 2021

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 with a Specialization in Critical Gender Studies, 2021

Riley Taitingfong, Ph.D. in Communication, 2021

 


2020

Poyao Huang, Ph.D. in Communication (Science Studies), 2020

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

 


2019

Caroline Collins, Ph.D. in Communication, 2019

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 Yi Hong Sim, Ph.D. in Communication, 2019

 


2018

Matthew Dewey, Ph.D. in Communication, 2018

Louise Hickman, Ph.D. in Communication, 2018

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 Inclusion 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 

Jahmese Fort, Ph.D. in Communication, 2017

Ivana Guarrasi, Ph.D. in Communication, 2017

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

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

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 

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

Benjamin Medeiros, Ph.D. in Communication, 2016

Rachel Pfister, Ph.D. in Communication, 2016

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

Kara Wentworth, Ph.D. in Communication (Science Studies), 2016

Todd Woodlan, Ph.D. in Communication, 2016

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

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

 


2014

Camille Campion, Ph.D. in Communication, 2014

Kelli Moore, Ph.D. in Communication 2014

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

Lyn Headley, Ph.D. in Communication, 2014

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: Associate 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

Michaela Walsh, Ph.D. in Communication, 2014

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

 


2013

Lauren Berliner, Ph.D. in Communication, 2013

  • Dissertation: Making it Better: LGBT Youth and 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: Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Bothell

Marisa Brandt, Ph.D. in Communication (Science Studies), 2013

Robert Lecusay, Ph. D. in Communication, 2013

Stephanie Martin, Ph.D. in Communication, 2013

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

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: Associate 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: Instructor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Nevada, Reno

Ryan Ellis, Ph.D. in Communication, 2011

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: 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

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

Nadine Kozak, Ph.D. in Communication (Science Studies), 2010

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

 


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

Katrina Hoch, Ph.D. in Communication, 2009

Yael Warshel, Ph.D. in Communication, 2009

 


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

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: Social Scientist, Work Ethnographer,  NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) / Bay Area Environmental Research Institute (BAERI)

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

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

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: Professor, Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers University

Barbara Osborn, Ph.D. in Communication, 2006

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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