People

Habeeb Abdulrauf
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[he/him]
Keywords: Human-AI, Human-robot, Health information access, health inequities, health misinformation

Rhysea Agrawal
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
Keywords: environmental communication, community resilience, identities 

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

Zahraa Badr
Doctoral Student

Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Keywords: Critical Culture Studies, Media Studies, Identity

Ash Baird
Doctoral Student

Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

[they/ them]

Keywords: queer information & futures, embodiment, STS

Andrea Ballestero
Associate Professor

Anthropology, School of Social Sciences.

Keywords: environment, finance, sts, law, water, underground

Max Berwald
Doctoral Student
Cinema and Media Studies, School of Cinematic Arts
[he/they] 

Keywords: media studies, US-China relationship, militarism

Laboni Bhattacharya
Doctoral Candidate
Cinema & Media Studies
School of Cinematic Art

[she/her]
Keywords: television and new media, nationalism, the body, mediatization

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

Alexandra Bliziotis
Doctoral Student

Cinema and Media Studies 

Keywords: media studies, Cold War, environmental technologies 

Lei Cao
Doctoral Student

Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

[she/her]

Keywords: computational social science, social networks

Camille Coy
Doctoral Student

Cinema and Media Studies

School of Cinematic Arts 

[she/her]

Keywords: media studies, history of technology, feminist and queer theory, multimodal scholarship

Maggie Davis
Doctoral Candidate

Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, Sociology

[she/her]

Keywords: energy flows, infrastructure, civic science

Peter Ekman
Adjunct Assistant Professor
School of Architecture
Keywords: urban, cultural, and historical geography; landscape studies; intellectual histories of planning and social science

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

Megan Finn

Associate Professor and Director of Research,

School of Communication, American University, & 

Affiliate Associate Professor, Information School, University of Washington

Keywords: infrastructure, technology governance, disasters

Katalin Fehér

Associate Professor 

LUPS | KU Leuven | AI Policy & Governance – UN/EU

Keywords: AI governance, strategic foresight, generative AI

Molly Frizzell

Doctoral Candidate

Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

[she/her]

Keywords: reproductive technologies, bodies and borders, identity

Riley Gold
Doctoral Candidate
Cinema & Media Studies

Keywords: automation, media theory, environmental history

Timothy Greer
PhD, Applied Scientist,
Amazon Music
[he/him]

Keywords: music emotion, music information retrieval, explainable recommendations 

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

Keywords: online communities, migration, politics of technology

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

Muyao Jiang

Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Keywords: Logistics, Labor, Media (LLM)

Aisling Kelliher
Associate Professor
Associate Professor, Media Arts + Practice, School of Cinematic Arts
[she/hers]

Keywords: interaction design, design memoirs, AI and health

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

Keywords: media industry, media policy and regulation, diversity in media

Maria Labourt

Doctoral Student

Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences - Sociology

Keywords: nature, infrastructure, river

Seongkyung Lee
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Keywords: risk, artificial intelligence, STS

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

Felicia Lu
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[she/her]

Keywords: artificial intelligence, human-AI relationships, parasocial relationships

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

Angelina Mason
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[she/they]

Keywords: media studies, gender, race & technology 

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 Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

[he/him]

Keywords: surveillance, datafication, stadiums

Celeste Oon

Doctoral Student
School of Cinematic Arts

[she/her]

Keywords: social media, power and intimacy, information flows

Joy Panaligan
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Keywords: platform labor, ethnography, global south

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

Caitlin Petre
Associate Professor
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[she/her]

Keywords: labor, media industries, emerging technologies

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

Barath Raghavan
Associate Professor
Viterbi School of Engineering

Jessica Ramos
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

[she/her]

Keywords: surveillance studies, STS, race & technology

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

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

Alejandro (Alex) Alvarado Rojas
Doctoral Candidate
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

Ryland Shaw
PhD Student
Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism
Keywords: environmental technologies, technology cultures, science & technology studies

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

Selwa Sweidan
Doctoral Candidate
Media Arts + Practice, School of Cinematic Arts
[she/her]

Noy Thrupkaew
Reporting Fellow
Type Investigations

Keywords: investigative journalism, labor issues, archival

Sook-Lin Toh
Doctoral Candidate
Anthropology
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
[she/her]

Keywords: datafication, healthtech, financialisation

Denise Dilbir Kaur Toor
Doctoral Student
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[she/her]

Keywords: information environment, artificial intelligence technologies, marginalized experiences

Marlon Twyman II
Assistant Professor
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

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

Sui Wang
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[she/hers]

Keywords: feminist STS, datafication, ethnography

Josh Widera
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Keywords: platform urbanism, bicycle delivery workers

Louise Xie
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
[she/hers]

Keywords: environmental health, participatory and speculative design, worldbuilding

Stephen Yang
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Keywords: control and communication; infrastructures; environmental media

Virginia  Zangs
Doctoral Student
Media Arts & Practice
School of Cinematic Arts
[she/hers]

Keywords: computational design, spatial intelligence, OSINT, digital infrastructure

Yibo Zhao
Master's Student
Viterbi school of engineering & Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

Keywords: tech ethics, tech policy and online nationalism

Kedi Zhou
Doctoral Candidate
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Keywords: gender, surveillance

Naima Adams
PhD Student

Department of American Studies

University of Southern California

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
Fellow
Center for Advanced Internet Studies

Jean-Christophe Boucher
Associate Professor
Political Science
University of Calgary

Ho-Chun Herbert Chang
Assistant Professor
of Quantitative Social Science

Dartmouth College

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

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

Rohan Grover

Assistant Professor
of AI and Media

American University

Nisa Gürbüz
PhD Student
Department of Technology Management
UC Santa Barbara

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

Grace Huang
Cultural Development Manager
Design Society

Simogne Hudson

Eugene Jang

Assistant Professor
Rochester Institute of Technology

Lee Kezar
Postdoc
Action & Brain Lab
Gallaudet University

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

Taner Kizilhan
Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design
Adnan Menderes University

Jillian Kwong
Research Scientist
MIT Sloan

Fidelia Lam
Assistant Professor of Computational Media
Ontario College of Art & Design University

Jody Liu
PhD Candidate
Sol Price School of Public Policy
University of Southern California

Anna Loup
Project Manager
American Enterprise Institute

Azeb Madebo
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Studies

University of Portland

Sulagna Mukherjee
(in memoriam)

Reema Moussa
Associate Attorney
Goodwin

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

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

Christopher Persaud
Senior Researcher and Program Manager
Intel Lab

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

Pamela Perrimon
Education and Communications Coordinator
Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network

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

Tyler Quick
Assistant Professor
Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design

Diego Ramos Aguilera
Postdoctoral Researcher
Arizona State University
[he/him]
Keywords: natural hazards, disaster resilience, sustainable energy 

Bita Tanavoli
Head of Community
Slingshot

Jack Tang
Assistant Professor of Digital Communication
University of Alabama

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

Johannes Weiler
Labor Market Expert
Austrian Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection

Yue Yang

Sharon Zhang