Media Studies PhD Alumni

Brian Frederick ('07)

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

Cinda Gillilan ('99)

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

Courtney Goodheart ('16)

Edit Klara Gorogh ('02)

(Hungary)

Donald Heider ('97)

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

Leona Hood ('01)

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

Megan Hurson (’16)

Instructor, Internship Director, Communication, University of Colorado Denver

Patrick M. Johnson (’18)

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

Nadezhda Kaneva ('07)

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

Richard Khleif ('07)

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

Jaime Kirtz ('19)

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

Kyle Kontour ('11)

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

Christina LeFevre-Gonzalez ('13)

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

Rachael Liberman ('13)

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

John Lumpkin ('15)

Katalin Lustiyik ('03)

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

Thomas McQuaide ('02)

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

Colleen Mihal ('15)

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

Michelle Miles ('07)

Brice Nixon ('13)

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

Yuri Obata ('05)

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

Ally Mead Ostrowski ('10)

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

Shannon O’Sullivan (’17)

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

Cinzia Padovani ('99)

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

Jin Kyu Park ('06)

Associate Professor, Seoul Women's University (Korea)

Rob Peaslee ('07)

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

Kristin Peterson ('18)

Assistant Professor, Communication Department, Boston College

Ully Putri ('15)

Instructor, Media Studies Department, University of Colorado at Boulder

Shoba Rajgopal ('03)

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

Magdelana Red ('12)

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

Wendy Redal ('97)

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

James Redmond ('93)

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

Ildik Rézmûves ('06)

Director of Marketing and Communications, ICST (Hungary)

Caitlin Ring ('13)

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

Tyler Rollins ('16)

Research Analyst, American River College (Sacramento, CA)

Geoffrey Rubinstein ('98)

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

Anna-Maria Russo-Lemor ('03)

Project Manager at tp21 GmbH Research (Saarbrucken, Germany)

Joseph Russomanno ('93)

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

Donghyup Ryu ('12)

Jiyoon Ryu ('17)

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

Todd Schack ('06)

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

Timothy Schoechle ('04)

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

Rebecca Self ('99)

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

David Shaw ('98)

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

Shannon Sindorf ('14)

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

Noah Springer ('15)

Acquisitions Assistant, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA)

Samuel Smith ('99)

Greg Stene ('97)

Owner, mindthwack Inc. (Portland, Oregon)

Jennifer Stone Gonzalez ('93)

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

Rianne Subijanto ('16)

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

Anne Meredith Sugar (’16)

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

Tamara Swenson ('09)

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

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)

Joseph Terry ('13)

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

Benjamin Thevenin

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

W. Bradley Thompson III ('97)

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

Peter Vassiliev ('98)

Producer, NTV Television Network (Russia)

Shalini Venturelli ('95)

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

Zala Volcic ('03)

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

Carson Wagner ('02)

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

Douglas Wagner ('99)

Publishing Consultant (Lafayette, Colorado)

Denice Walker ('10)

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

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

Scott Webber ('03)

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

Dennis Wilkins ('96)

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

Dinah Zeiger ('07)

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

Liang Zheng ('11)

Researcher, Xinjiang University (Urumqi, China)