Media Studies PhD Alumni

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Colin Ackerman ('19)

Research Associate, Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (Chicago, IL)

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Diane Alters ('02)

Academic Communications Specialist, Colorado College (Colorado Springs, Colorado)

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Radia Amari ('12)

Research Analyst, IBISWorld Inc. (Los Angeles, California)

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Mark Andrejevic ('01)

Professor, Communication and Media Studies, Monash University (Melbourne, Australia)

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Ryan Bartlett ('19)

Media and Communications, Utah Department of Health (Salt Lake City, UT)

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Olga Baysha ('12)

Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in Media Communications, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) (Moscow, Russia)    

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Christopher Bell ('09)

Assistant Professor, Communication Department (University of Colorado Colorado Springs)

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Mark Borchert ('97)

Associate Professor of Communications, Carson-Newman College (Jefferson City, Tenn.)  

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Marco Briziarelli ('12)

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication & Journalism, University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM)

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Jared Bahir Browsh (’17)

Scholar in Residence, Department of Journalism, CMCI (Boulder, Colorado)

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Claudia Bucciferro ('10)

Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY)

        

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Gino Canella ('18)

Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Emerson College (Boston, MA)

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Kimberly Casteline ('13)

Assistant Professor, Communication and Media Studies Department (Rose Hill Bronx, New York)

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Mary Caton-Rosser ('06)

Associate Professor, Department of Mass Communication, Black Hills State University (Spearfish, South Dakota)

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Joseph Champ ('01)

Associate Professor, Department of Technical Journalism, Colorado State University (Fort Collins, Colorado)

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Lynn Clark ('98)

Professor, Media, Film & Journalism Studies; Director Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media, University of Denver (Denver, Colorado)

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Curtis Coats ('08)

Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor, Media, Film and Journalism Studies, University of Denver (Denver, CO)

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Dean Colby ('03)

Instructor, Program in Writing and Rhetoric and College of Media, Communication and Information, University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder, Colorado)

 

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Nancy Cornwell ('97)

Dean, Arts & Architecture, Montana State University (Bozeman, Montana)

 

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Chelsea Daggett ('17)

Lecturer, Department of Communication, Frostburg State University (Frostburg, MD)

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Wan-Wen Day ('99)

Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Institute of Telecommunications, National Chung Cheng University (Taiwan)

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James DeFrank ('98)

Vice President, Communications and Government Relations, Pratt & Whitney (East Hartford, Connecticut)

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Christof Demont-Heinrich ('06)

Associate Professor, Mass Communications and Journalism Studies, University of Denver (Denver, Colorado)

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Ashmi Desai (’18)

Postdoctoral Associate and Instructor, School of Education (Boulder, Colorado)

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Sergio De Souza ('98)

Associate Professor of Social Communication (Journalism & Advertising), University Center of Brasilia, Brazil

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Cari Eastman ('08)

Independent Researcher and Writer (Phoenix, Arizona)

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Brooke Edge ('15)

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Monica Emerich ('06)

Instructional Designer/Project Manager, CSU Global Campus

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Madeline Esch ('09)

Associate Professor, Department of English, Salve Regina University (Newport, Rhode Island)

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Jan Fernback ('98)

Associate Professor, School of Communications, Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

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Mark Finney ('07)

Associate Professor, Mass Communication, Henry and Emory College (Emory, Virginia)

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Brian Frederick ('07)

Executive Director of Sports Fan Coalition and Visiting Assistant Professor, Georgetown University (Washington DC)

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Cinda Gillilan ('99)

Resident Program Manager, Rocky Mountain Communities; Lecturer, University of Colorado Boulder; Co-owner and Editor of Neon Rainbow Press.

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Courtney Goodheart ('16)

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Edit Klara Gorogh ('02)

(Hungary)

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Donald Heider ('97)

Dean, School of Communication, Loyola University (Chicago, Illinois)

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Leona Hood ('01)

Associate Professor, Broadcast Journalism, School of Journalism, Loyola University (Chicago, IL)

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Megan Hurson (’16)

Instructor, Internship Director, Communication, University of Colorado Denver

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Patrick M. Johnson (’18)

Assistant Professor, Broadcasting & Journalism, Western Illinois University (Macomb, Illinois)

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Nadezhda Kaneva ('07)

Associate Professor, Mass Communication, University of Denver (Denver, Colorado)

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Richard Khleif ('07)

Sr. Director of Communications, Oracle Corporation (Boulder, Colorado)

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Jaime Kirtz ('19)

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Digital Democracies Group, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, BC, Canada)

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Kyle Kontour ('11)

Lecturer, Communication, University of Colorado Denver (Denver, CO)

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Christina LeFevre-Gonzalez ('13)

Senior Analyst in Marketing Research, E Source (Boulder, Colorado)

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Rachael Liberman ('13)

Lecturer, Department of Media, Film & Journalism Studies, University of Denver (Denver, Colorado)

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John Lumpkin ('15)

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Katalin Lustiyik ('03)

Associate Professor, Television and Radio Department, Ithaca College (Ithaca, New York)

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Thomas McQuaide ('02)

Chair, Digital Filmmaking & Video Production Program, Art Institute of Houston (Houston, Texas)

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Colleen Mihal ('15)

Instructor, Communications, College of Marin (Kentfield, California)

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Michelle Miles ('07)

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Brice Nixon ('13)

Assistant Professor, English Literature and Communication, Chestnut Hill College (Philadelphia, PA)

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Yuri Obata ('05)

Associate Professor Mass Communication, Indiana University-South Bend (South Bend, Indiana)

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Ally Mead Ostrowski ('10)

Associate Director of Institutional Research, Excelsior College (Albany, New York)

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Shannon O’Sullivan (’17)

Assistant Professor, Communication Arts, Salisbury University (Salisbury, MD)

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Cinzia Padovani ('99)

Associate Professor, College of Mass Communication & Media Arts, Radio-Television, Southern Illinois University (Carbondale, Illinois)

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Jin Kyu Park ('06)

Associate Professor, Seoul Women's University (Korea)

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Rob Peaslee ('07)

Associate Professor and Chair, Journalism & Creative Media Industries, Texas Tech University (Lubbock, Texas)    

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Kristin Peterson ('18)

Assistant Professor, Communication Department, Boston College

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Ully Putri ('15)

Instructor, Media Studies Department, University of Colorado at Boulder

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Shoba Rajgopal ('03)

Director of Gender/Asian Feminist Studies, Westfield State College (Westfield, Massachusatts)  

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Magdelana Red ('12)

Instructor, Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver (Denver, Colorado)

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Wendy Redal ('97)

Editorial Director at Natural Habitat Adventures, Freelance Journalist (Boulder, Colorado)

        

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James Redmond ('93)

Professor Emeritus, Department of Journalism, University of Memphis (Memphis, Tennessee)

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Ildik Rézmûves ('06)

Director of Marketing and Communications, ICST (Hungary)

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Caitlin Ring ('13)

Assistant Professor, Communication/Journalism, Seattle University (Seattle, Washington)

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Tyler Rollins ('16)

Research Analyst, American River College (Sacramento, CA)

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Geoffrey Rubinstein ('98)

Director, Independent Learning Program, Continuing Education, University of Colorado Boulder

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Anna-Maria Russo-Lemor ('03)

Project Manager at tp21 GmbH Research (Saarbrucken, Germany)

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Joseph Russomanno ('93)

Associate Professor, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona)

 

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Donghyup Ryu ('12)

 

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Jiyoon Ryu ('17)

Instructor, Department of Communications, Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea)

 

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Todd Schack ('06)

Associate Professor, School of Communications, Ithaca College (Ithaca, New York)

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Timothy Schoechle ('04)

​Independent Information Technology and Services Professional (Denver, Colorado)

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Rebecca Self ('99)

Director of Program Development & E, TNM Coaching (Ticino, Switzerland)

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David Shaw ('98)

Co-Founder, Consumer Research Associates (Denver, CO)

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Shannon Sindorf ('14)

Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of Colorado, Denver; Instructor, Media Studies Department, University of Colorado at Boulder

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Noah Springer ('15)

Acquisitions Assistant, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA)

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Samuel Smith ('99)

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Greg Stene ('97)

Owner, mindthwack Inc. (Portland, Oregon)

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Jennifer Stone Gonzalez ('93)

Writer, Teacher and Owner of EarthSurf (Grand Isle, Vermont)

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Rianne Subijanto ('16)

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, City University of New York Baruch College (New York City, New York)

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Anne Meredith Sugar (’16)

Assistant Professor of Mass Communication Emory & Henry College (Emory, Virginia)

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Tamara Swenson ('09)

Director, Center for International Affairs, Professor, Dept. of English & International Studies, Osaka Jogakuin University (Japan)

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Helga Tawil-Souri ('05)

Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication; Director of the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University (New York City, New York)

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Joseph Terry ('13)

Lecturer, Department of Communication, University of New Hampshire (Durham, New Hampshire)

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Benjamin Thevenin

Assistant Professor of Media Arts, Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah)

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W. Bradley Thompson III ('97)

Associate Professor and Department Chair Department of Mass Communication, Linfield College (McMinnville, Oregon)

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Peter Vassiliev ('98)

Producer, NTV Television Network (Russia)

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Shalini Venturelli ('95)

Director, Global Public Media Research Project and Associate Professor of International Service, American University (Washington, DC)

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Zala Volcic ('03)

Senior Lecturer, Communication and Media Studies, Monash University (Melbourne, Australia)

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Carson Wagner ('02)

Assistant Professor, E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University (Athens, Ohio)

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Douglas Wagner ('99)

Publishing Consultant (Lafayette, Colorado)

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Denice Walker ('10)

Legislative Aide, Colorado State House of Representatives (Denver, CO)

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David Wallace ('11)

Assistant Professor, Communications, U of South Carolina Upstate (Spartanburg, South Carolina)

Dissertation Title
The Way We See It: Massive Resistance, Southern Myth, and Media Suppression

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Scott Webber ('03)

Co-Founder, Consumer Research Associates (Denver, CO)

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Dennis Wilkins ('96)

Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, St. Bonaventure University (St. Bonaventure, New York)

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Dinah Zeiger ('07)

Assistant Professor (retired), School of Journalism and Mass Media, University of Idaho (Moscow, Idaho)

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Liang Zheng ('11)

Researcher, Xinjiang University (Urumqi, China)

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