PhD Candidates (ABDs) in the Institute and Prospective Titles of their Dissertations

Jillian Baez "Between Spectacular and Ordinary Bodies: A Discourse Ethnography of the Latina Body, Citizenship, and Popular Culture" Advisor: Angharad Valdivia.

Himika Bhattacharya "Women's experiences of marriage practice, violence and healthcare in Lahaul-Spiti, India". Advisor: Paula Treichler

Diem-My Bui "Representations of Vietnamese Women and their Bodies in the U.S. Social Imaginary" Advisor: Angharad Valdivia

Catherine Coleman "Disempowering Through Definition: Nike Advertising and Constructions of Vulnerability" Chair: Linda Scott, Advisor: Cliff Christians

Sabryna Cornish "The Framing of the Internet by Traditional Mass Media" Advisor: Steve Jones

Kevin Dolan "Whiteness and News: The Interlocking Social Construction of 'Realities'" Advisor: John Nerone

Alice Filmer "The Acoustics of Identity: Linguistic Passports Beyond Empire and Essentialism" Chair: Norman Denzin, Advisor: Cameron McCarthy

Theodore Gournelos

Yu Hong "Class Formation in High-Tech Information and Communications as an Aspect of China's Reintegration Into Transnational Capitalism" Advisor: Dan Schiller

Camille Johnson-Yale "'Runaway Film Production': The Discursive Construction of Spaces of Cultural Production by the U.S. Film Industry, 1949-2007" Advisor: John Nerone

Jeong-ho Kim

Soochul Kim "Reimagining the City of Seoul: The Transformation of Public Space in South Korea" Advisor: Norman Denzin

Shoshana Magnet "Encoding the Body: Critically Assessing the Collection and Uses of Biometric Information" Advisors: Paula Treichler and Kent Ono

Ellen Moore

Mark Nimkoff "Media(ted) Memories: Museum Constructions of Communications History" Advisor: John Nerone

Andrew O'Baoill "Impact of Podcasting on Community Radio" Advisor: John Nerone

Jin Kyung Park "Governing Korean Women's Bodies: Japanese Colonialism, Maternal Health and Mass Media in Colonial Korea, 1920-1945" Advisor: Paula Treichler

Elizabeth Perea "How Do You Define Success? Business, Community, and Music at Righteous Babe Records" Advisor: Cameron McCarthy

Victor Picard "Media Democracy Deferred: Critical Junctures in U.S. Communications Policy, 1945-1949" Advisor: Robert McChesney

Roswell Quinn "Broader Spectrum: A History of Antibiotic Research and Development" Advisor: Paula Treichler

Maritza Quinones Rivera

Carolyn Randolph

Celiany Rivera Velasquez "Embodying Multimedia: Cuban Las Krudas, Feminist Cultural Resistance, and Spanish Caribbean Practices of Sight and Sound"
Advisor: Norman Denzin

Maria Teresa Rodriguez

James Salvo

Ben Scott

Rob Sloane "Accounting and Taste: Economics and Culture in an Independent Record Store" Advisor: Cameron McCarthy

Katherine Sredl "Consumer Behavior in Postsocialist Eastern Europe" Advisor: Linda M. Scott

Desiree Yomtoob

Alex Zhou