Doctoral Students, Graduate Assistants, Fellows

Najma Akhther
  • Najma Akhther
  • Doctoral Candidate
  • 508 Manoogian Hall

    najakhther@wayne.edu

  • Najma Akhther (Assistant Professor, Journalism and Media Studies, Jahangirnagar University) is a current Ph.D. Candidate and Graduate Research and Teaching...
Fatima Albrehi
  • Fatima Albrehi
  • Doctoral Candidate
  • fq0810@wayne.edu
  • Fatima Albrehi is a Ph.D. candidate, graduate teaching assistant, and graduate research assistant at Wayne State University. Fatima earned her M.A. in...
Lacey Brim
Madelaine Coffman
  • Madelaine Coffman
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant
  • madelainecoffman@wayne.edu
  • Madelaine Coffman is a Ph.D. student and Graduate Teaching Assistant at Wayne State University, whose Applied Communication research interests center on...
Rishi Gudduguriki
  • Rishi Gudduguriki
  •   Rishi Gudduguriki is a second year Graduate student majoring in Media Arts & Studies. He is currently a Graduate Student Assistant at the Midtown...
Farah Harb
  • Farah Harb
  • fharb@wayne.edu
  • Farah Harb is a 4th year PhD Candidate and instructor in the Department of Communication at Wayne State University. She is also the Assistant Basic Course...
Md Khadimul Islam
  • Md Khadimul Islam
  • Ph.D. candidate, Graduate teaching assistant
  • 508 Manoogian Hall

    gv2784@wayne.edu

  •  Khadimul is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication at Wayne State University studying the influence of religious sources on health risk...
Khairul Islam
  • Khairul Islam
  • Ph.D. Candidate & Graduate Teaching Assistant
  • gx5092@wayne.edu
  • Khairul Islam, M.A., M.S., is a Ph.D. Candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Communication at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI....
Nina Kelly
  • Nina Kelly
  • Ph.D. Student and Graduate Teaching Assistant
  • av6837@wayne.edu
  • Nina is a Ph.D. student and Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Communication, and is pursuing the dual-title degree in Communication and Urban...
Anna Lindner
  • Anna Lindner
  • Doctoral Student
  • gk7101@wayne.edu
  • Anna (MA, Media Culture, and Communication, New York University) is a doctoral candidate. A critical/cultural media historian, her dissertation analyzes...
Christine Nyawaga
Fariba Pajooh
  • Fariba Pajooh
  • fpajooh@wayne.edu
  • Fariba is a Ph.D. student and Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Communication at Wayne State University. She is an experienced journalist and...
Erin Perry
  • Erin Perry
  • Ph.D. candidate and Dean's Diversity Fellow
  • erinperry@wayne.edu
  • Erin is a Ph.D. candidate studying the effects of new media and television on the journalism profession, using a framework that focuses on journalism...
Ariel Seay-Howard
  • Ariel Seay-Howard
  • Doctoral Candidate
  •  Manoogian Hall office 508

  • Arielseay@wayne.edu
  • Ariel Elizabeth Seay-Howard is a Doctoral Candidate in the communication department at Wayne State University. Ariel is working to become a rhetorician; her...
Trejha Whitfield
  • Trejha Whitfield
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant and Ph.D. Candidate
  • Trejha is a Ph.D. student and graduate teaching assistant. She is a Black feminist autoethnographer that also uses interviewing methods to center the lived...
Meagan Winkelseth
  • Meagan Winkelseth
  • Ph.D. Student
  • hi6099@wayne.edu
  • Meagan Winkelseth is a Ph.D. Student and Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Communication at Wayne State University. Her scholarly interests...