HomeDoctoral Summer Seminar 2006 Members
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A former public radio and television executive, Dr. Robert Avery has a long-standing research interest in public telecommunications history and policy and has authored numerous books on the topic, including Critical Perspectives on Media and Society. |
| John Arold is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, radio programmer, and nationally syndicated talk show host. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Journalism at Howard University. His areas of research interest include media studies: radio, television, and the Internet I & II. |
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| Nick Bowman (B.A. '03, M.A. '04; University of Missouri - St. Louis) is in the second year of his Ph.D. program in the Dept. of Communication at Michigan State University. There, he studies mass media effects - specifically "new" media - with a primary focus on video games and other interactive media. Prior to his graduate work, Nick worked as a journalist in the St. Louis area. Email: bowmann5@msu.edu |
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Neil Butt (B.A. International Studies, Communication; M.A.I.S. Communication and Policy Analysis from George Mason University) is a Ph.D. student and assistant debate coach at Wayne State University. His research interests include the interaction of argument and culture and media representations of argument and debate. Email: ax0515@wayne.edu |
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Serena Carpenter (Michigan State University) |
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| Tariq Elseewi (University of Texas) | |
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Anna Maria Flores (Wayne State University) pictured on left here with Jessi McCabe |
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Anup Kumar is a doctoral candidate in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Iowa, Iowa City. Before entering the graduate program he was a practicing journalist in India. His research interests are new media, freedom of the press, identity and social movements. Email: anup-kumar@uiowa.edu |
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Inkyu Kang is a Ph.D. candidate in Media and Cultural Studies in the Communication Arts Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include new media and visual studies from a cultural studies perspective. Email: inkyukang@wisc.edu |
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Janet Kwami is a second year Communication & Society doctoral student at the University of Oregon. Her research interests include new media, development communication and gender studies. She is an associate researcher with the Information Society Research Group (ISRG). Email: jkwami@uoregon.edu |
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Mikaela L. Marlow is a doctoral candidate at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Department of Communication. Mikaela's scholarship explores the role of language, ethnicity, and culture in identity and communication processes among various groups, often marginalized in mainstream interactions. Email: mmarlow@umail.ucsb.edu |
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Jessi McCabe (B.A. '03, M.A. '04; Central Michigan University) is a second year Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication at Wayne State University. Her research interests in media effects primarily focus on Internet Policy, presence of traditional forms of news media on the Internet, and ethnic media. Email: mccabej@wayne.edu |
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Chris McKinley (University of Arizona) |
| Eun-a Park (Pennsylvania State University) | |
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Allison Perlman is a doctoral candidate in the department of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation examines the role that media reform campaigns have played in the twentieth century social movements. Email: aperlman@mail.utexas.edu |
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John Wirth (University of Minnesota) |