Department of Media, Culture, and Communication

Faculty - Media, Culture, and Communication

 


Arjun Appadurai
Mark Crispin Miller
  • Global media, consumption, and migration
  • Poverty, violence, and social inclusion
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  • Modern propaganda
  • History and tactics of advertising
  • American film
  • Media ownership
Rodney Benson | Director, Graduate Studies
 Nicholas Mirzoeff
  • Immigration and Public Discourse
  • Comparative Media Research
  • French press, Alt. media
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  •  Visual culture
  • Decolonial genealogy of "visuality"
Deborah J. Borisoff
Terence Moran
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  • Gender and communication
  • Conflict management
  • Organizational communication
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  • History of communication, technology
  • Propaganda analysis
Gabriella Coleman
Susan Murray
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  • Anthropology of science, technology and medicine
  • Computers/hacking
  • Liberalism and communication
  • Patient activism
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  • History of the media
  • Gender issues
  • Consumer culture
  • Reality television
Allen Feldman
Helen Nissenbaum
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  • Visual culture and violence
  • Political anthropology of the body
  • Archeology and genealogy of media and technology
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  • Information technology and new media
  • Social, ethical, and political dimensions
JoEllen Fisherkeller
Victor Pickard
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  • Kids, teens, and media
  • Media and education
  • Youth media
  • Audiences and new media users
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  • The politics of media policy
  • Media activism and reform
  • History of communication
  • Democratic theories of the press
Alexander Galloway
Juan Pinon
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  • Critical theory, semiotics, aesthetics
  • Digital media, networks, software
  • New media art, video games, film
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  • U.S. Latino and Latin American media
  • Political and cultural economy
  • Immigration and appropriation of new technologies
Brett Gary
Arvind Rajagopal
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  • Media and liberalism
  • Mass media and modern democracy
  • Propaganda
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  • Contemporary South Asia
  • Social theory
  • Audience theory
  • Globalization
Lisa Gitelman
Ron Robin
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  • American media history
  • Print culture studies
  • History of Technology
  • History of communication and media studies
  • Political communication
  • Visual culture
Radha Hegde
Erica Reyna Robles
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  • Globalization and migrant identities
  • Race, gender and communication
  • Visual and material culture
  • Media, culture, and space
  • Architecture and interaction design
  • Screens and displays
Ben Kafka
Martin Scherzinger
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  • Paperwork, bureaucracy
  • Print media and culture
  • Psychoanalysis, grammatology
  • Sonic culture
  • Music
  • Media and politics
Ted Magder
Marita Sturken | Chair
  • Communication policy and law
  • Contemporary media culture
  • Globalization
  • Cultural memory
  • Visual culture
  • Consumerism
  • Popular culture
 Charlton McIlwain
Helga Tawil Souri
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  •  Race and political communication
  • Contemporary Middle East and Palestinian politics and media
  • Capitalism
  • Globalization
 
Aurora Wallace | Director, Undergraduate Studies
   
  • Crime and media
  • History of American newspapers
  • Advertising and urban space

 

Affiliated Faculty

Craig Calhoun
  • Social, political, cultural theory
  • comparative historical sociology
  • collective action, social movements
Stephen Duncombe
  • Culture and politics
  • Alternative culture
  • Cultural resistance

Faye Ginsburg
  • Culture, media, and anthropology
  • Ethnographic documentary
  • Indigenous and alternative media
  • Ethnography of media
 
Anna McCarthy
  • Visual culture
  • Media and space


Dana Polan
  • Cinema studies
  • Politics of film
  • History and narrative