People

Adrienne Adams
Doctoral Student
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences - American Studies & Ethnicity
[they/them]

Keywords: archival, Black Queer/Trans, science of technology

So Yun Ahn
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

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

Quinn Anex-Ries
Doctoral Candidate
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences - American Studies & Ethnicity

Jeeyun Sophia Baik
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication

University of San Diego

[she/her]

Keywords: privacy, surveillance, Platform governance

Nathan Bartley
Doctoral Student
Viterbi School of Engineering

Laboni Bhattacharya
Doctoral Candidate
School of Cinematic Arts

Ziyaad Bhorat
USC Berggruen Fellow

Center for Science, Technology, and Public Life (STPL)

Keywords: automation, political theory, governance

Sarah Ciston
Doctoral Candidate
Media Arts + Practice, School of Cinematic Arts

[she/they]

Keywords: intersectionality, artificial intelligence, creative coding

Alanna Coombes
Doctoral Student
Price School of Public Policy

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 Student

Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

[she/her]

Keywords: reproductive technologies, bodies and borders, identity

Rohan Grover

Doctoral Student

Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

[he/him]

Keywords: political communication, digital activism, internet policy

Nisa Gurbiz
Doctoral Student
Price School of Public Policy and Management

Keywords: digital platforms, algorithmic management, gig economy

Meredith Hall

Society of Fellows in the Humanities

Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences - Sociology

Keywords: color, intellectual property law and policy, creativity, technological innovation

Grace Huang
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Keywords: artificial intelligence, algorithmic surveillance, gig economy

Alfonso Hedge
Masters Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[he/him]

Keywords: infrastructure, digital activism, platform affordances

Simogne Hudson
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[she/her]

Keywords: sound technologies, telephones, prisons, law & policy

Jackie Johnson
Doctoral Candidate
School of Cinematic Arts
[she/her]

Keywords: romance, cultural production, "new" media

Eugene Jang
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

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

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

Lee Kezar
Doctoral Student
Viterbi School of Engineering
[they/them]

Keywords: computational social science, computational linguistics (NLP), social psychology

Taner Kizilhan
Visiting Scholar
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Keywords: smart cities, digital citizenship, critical data studies

Maria Labourt

Doctoral Student

Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences - Sociology

Keywords: nature, infrastructure, river

Fidelia Lam
Doctoral Candidate
Media Arts + Practice, School of Cinematic Arts

Keywords: race & diaspora, geography, architectures, new media

Jody Liu

Doctoral Student

Price School of Public Policy

[she/her]

Keywords: LGBTQ+, policing, urban planning

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]

Azeb Madebo
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Studies

University of Portland

Reema Moussa
J.D. Candidate

Gould School of Law

[she/her]

Keywords: law & policy, cybersecurity, algorithmic bias

Pratik Nyaupane

Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

[he/him]

Keywords: surveillance technologies, activism, Global South

Will Orr

Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

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

Jef Pearlman
Associate Professor & Director, IP & Technology Clinic
Gould School of Law
[he/him]

Victor Manuel Garcia Perdomo
Full Professor
Universidad de La Sabana

Fulbright Visiting Scholar

USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Keywords: artificial intelligence, social media, journalism, politics, engagement

Pamela Perrimon
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Christopher Persaud
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[he/they]

Keywords: popular culture, platform governance, social media

Jennifer Petersen
Associate Professor & Director of STS Graduate Certificate Program
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[she/her]

Tyler Quick

Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

[he/him]

Key topics: identity, political economy, social media

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

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
Doctoral Candidate
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