People

Mike Ananny
Associate Professor
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[he/him]
Keywords: theories of the public, science & technology studies, journalism

Ash Baird
Doctoral Student

Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

[they/ them]

Keywords: queer information & futures, embodiment, STS

Ziyaad Bhorat
Country Lead: USA, South Africa (Responsible Computing Challenge) and Global AI Policy at Mozilla; Associate Director, Center for Generative AI (USC); Visiting Scholar, Dornsife Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life (STPL)

Keywords: automation, political theory, governance

Lei Cao
Doctoral Student

Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

[she/her]

Keywords: computational social science, social networks

Cale Epps
Doctoral Student
Cinema and Media Studies, School of Cinematic Arts
[he/him]
Keywords:  precarious labor, media industries, cultural studies 

Katalin Fehér

Associate Professor

University of Public Service - Department for Science Strategy

Nicholas P. Fernacz
Doctoral Student
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, & Sciences - East Asian Languages and Cultures

Keywords: economic history, infrastructure, media theory

Molly Frizzell

Doctoral Candidate

Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

[she/her]

Keywords: reproductive technologies, bodies and borders, identity

Alfonso Hegde
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[he/him]

Keywords: infrastructure, digital activism, platform affordances

Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang
Assistant Professor, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism; USC Center for AI in Society Keywords: artificial intelligence, human-AI collaboration, future of work

Kyooeun Jang
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[she/her]

Keywords: social networking platforms, platform and online content governance, trust and safety

Maria Labourt

Doctoral Student

Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences - Sociology

Keywords: nature, infrastructure, river

Stella Kexin Lin
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

[she/her]

Keywords: infrastructure, material flows, geopolitics of media

Alphoncina (Allie) Lyamuya
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[she/her]

Keywords: humanitarian innovation, border technologies, digital infrastructure

Colin Maclay
Research Professor
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[he/him]

Lisa Müller-Trede
Doctoral Candidate
Media Arts + Practice, School of Cinematic Arts

Keywords: kinaesthetic intelligence, non-verbal communication, local + context-specific data practices

Pratik Nyaupane

Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

[he/him]

Keywords: surveillance technologies, activism, Global South

Celeste Oon

Doctoral Student
School of Cinematic Arts

[she/her]

Keywords: social media, power and intimacy, information flows

Christopher O'Neil

Fulbright Scholar / Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization (ADI)

Will Orr

Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Ali Rachel Pearl
Lecturer
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences - English
[she/her]

Jennifer Petersen
Associate Professor
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[she/her]

Barath Raghavan
Assistant Professor
Viterbi School of Engineering

Jessica Ramos
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

[she/her]

Keywords: surveillance studies, STS, race & technology

Diego Ramos Aguilera
Doctoral Student
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
[he/him]
Keywords: natural hazards, disaster resilience, sustainable energy 

Peter Redfield
Professor
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences - Anthropology

Jermaine Anthony Richards
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[he/him]

Alejandro (Alex) Alvarado Rojas
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[he/him]

Keywords: datafication, infrastructure, networks

Daniel Rosen
PhD
School of Cinematic Arts
[he/him]

Keywords: media studies, livestreaming, infrastructure

Cyrus Shahabi
Helen N. & Emmett H. Jones Professor of Engineering, Professor of Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering & Spatial Sciences
Vitberbi School of Engineering

Hamsini Sridharan
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[she/her]

Noy Thrupkaew
Journalist
Independent / Annenberg Innovation Lab

Keywords: investigative journalism, labor issues, archival

Marlon Twyman II
Assistant Professor
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Cristina Visperas
Assistant Professor
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[she/her]

Louise Xie

Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[she/hers]

Keywords: environmental health, participatory design, digital media

Josh Widera
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Keywords: platform urbanism, bicycle delivery workers

Stephen Yang
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Keywords: temporality, rhythms, futures

Kedi Zhou
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Keywords: gender, surveillance

Adrienne Adams

So Yun Ahn
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication

Boston College

Andrea Alarcon
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Digital Cultures and Societies
University of Queensland

Soledad Altrudi
Conversation Safeguards Specialist
World Wildlife Fund

Quinn Anex-Ries, PhD
Senior Policy Analyst
Center for Democracy & Technology

Jeeyun Sophia Baik

Assistant Professor
Department of Communication

University of San Diego

Nathan Bartley

Laboni Bhattacharya

Sarah Ciston

Jean-Christophe Boucher
Associate Professor
Political Science
University of Calgary

Ho-Chun Herbert Chang
Assistant Professor
of Quantitative Social Science

Dartmouth College

Franny Corry
Assistant Professor
School of Computing & Information
University of Pittsburgh

Isabel Delano
(in memoriam)

Stefanie Demetriades
Assistant Professor
College of Communication
DePaul University

Sean Fraga
Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Environmental Studies and History
University of Southern California

Do Own Donna Kim
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
University of Illinois Chicago

Jillian Kwong
Research Scientist
MIT Sloan

Anna Loup
Project Manager
American Enterprise Institute

Azeb Madebo
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Studies

University of Portland

Sulagna Mukherjee
(in memoriam)

Christopher Persaud
Senior Researcher and Program Manager
Intel Lab

Thi Ngoc Bich Becky Pham
Assistant Professor in Communication Studies
Temple University

William Russell

Tyler Quick
Assistant Professor
Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design

Bita Tanavoli

Jack Tang
Assistant Professor of Digital Communication
University of Alabama

Jeff Watson
(in memoriam)
Assistant Professor
School of Cinematic Arts

Johannes Weiler

Yue Yang

Sharon Zhang

Rohan Grover

Assistant Professor
of AI and Media

American University

Nisa Gürbüz

Grace Huang

Simogne Hudson

Eugene Jang

Assistant Professor
Rochester Institute of Technology

Taner Kizilhan
Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design
Adnan Menderes University

Meredith Hall
Teaching Associate in the Sociology of Media and Culture
University of Cambridge

Lee Kezar

Jef Pearlman
Clinical Professor of Law & Executive Director BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic

Victor Manuel Garcia Perdomo
Associate Professor  School of Communication Univeridad de La Sabana

Alanna Coombes

Teaching Assistant Professor
Department of City and Regional Planning
UNC Chapel Hill

Fidelia Lam

Jody Liu

Reema Moussa

Pamela Perrimon

Education and Communications Coordinator
Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network