PhD Placements

Recent PhD Placements

2024

Name: Salwa Hoque
Dissertation Title: Digitizing Law: Legal Pluralism and Data-Driven Justice
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Scholar, AI Network, Emory University

Name: Sam Kellogg
Dissertation Title: Topographic Mediations: Moedeling Mountains, Composing Earth
Current Position: Postdoctoral Teaching, Research, and Mentoring Fellow at the Davidson Honors College, University of Montana

Name: George Ramirez
Dissertation Title: Brown Physics of Media: Sensing Race and Moving Matter in Rarefactions
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Cleveland Institute of Art

Name: Cheraine Donalea Scott
Dissertation Title: Grime Refusal: Navigating The Sounds Of Crisis And Resistance Through Grime Music
Current Position: Adjunct Faculty, NYU London

Name: Megan Wiessner
Dissertation Title: Digital Timber: Remediating Resource Economies and Automating Sustainable Futures
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Digital Technology for Democracy Lab, University of Virginia

2023

Name: Asif Ali Akhtar
Dissertation Title: Television Siyasat: Genealogies of Electronic Media and Extralegal Politics in Pakistan
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics

Name: Wendy Yuen Chen
Dissertation Title: Education Arms Race: Discourses that define American Education Reform in the Obama Era
Current Position: 

Name: Sandeep Mertia
Dissertation Title: Starting Up with State: Computing, Entrepreneurship, and the Governance of Aspiration in India
Current Position: Assistant Professor of STS, Stevens Institute of Technology

Name: Ramon Resendiz
Dissertation Title: Landscapes of Violence: Documentary Media, Countervisualities, and Archival Resistance on the US-Mexico Borderlands
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Oregon

Name: Anna Stielau
Dissertation Title: Unsettling the Contemporary: Race, Redress, and Revolutionary Times in South African Visual Culture (1994-2021)
Current Position: Weisman Postdoctoral Instructor in Visual Culture, Cal Tech

Name: Shari A Wolk
Dissertation Title: To Whom It May Concern: Case Histories of Complaint In Twentieth Century America
Current Position: Staff Associate in Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College

2022

Name: Angela Arias-Zapata
Dissertation Title: Tropical Unknown: Technological Expansion and Racialized Territorial Formations in Colombia
Current Position: Media Literacy Instructor at Salt and Light Coalition

Name: Laura Bullon
Dissertation Title: The Time for Talk is over: Youth as Revolutionaries in UN Climate Summitry 
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, Geneva Graduate Institute

Name: Michelle Pfeifer
Dissertation Title: Data & Borders: Tracking Media Technologies of Migration Control in Europe
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technologies, and Social Change, Dresden University of Technology

2021

Name: Ian Alexander  
Dissertation Title: The Carceral Media Regime: Technologies of Disaggregation, Pacification, and Rebellion in US Prisons   
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Technology, Justice & Equity, University of Colorado, Boulder

Name: Yoav Halperin   
Dissertation Title: The Many-Faced Public: The Struggle over the Online Representation of the Social Sphere on Israeli Facebook    
Current Position: Adjunct Faculty, New York University

Name:  Victoria Grubbs 
Dissertation Title: Kumva Meze Neza: Sounding Blackness in Rwanda    
Current Position:  Assistant Professor of Music, Cornell

Name: Harris Kornstein 
Dissertation Title: Queer Enchantment: Contours, Cruising, Crystal Visions, and Other Queer Tactics for (Not) Being Seen    
Current Position: Assistant Professor in Public and Applied Humanities, University of Arizona

Name: Daniel Wiley
Dissertation Title: Time Machined: Clocks, Values, and Digital Computation
Current Position: Aecon Group (Toronto)

2020

Name: Francis Jervis
Dissertation Title: Eating the World: Iterative Capital After Silicon Valley
Current Position:  CEO of Augrented

Name: Rachel Kuo
Dissertation Title: Conduits of (Im)Possibility: Mediating Solidarities
Current Position:  Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Name: Ayesha Omer
Dissertation Title: Networks of Dust: Media, Infrastructure, and Ecology along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor  
Current Position:  Assistant Professor of Anthropology, York University 

Name: Colette Perold  
Dissertation Title: The Empire of Informatics: IBM in Brazil Before Modern Computing
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Media Studies, UC Boulder

Name: Rory Solomon
Dissertation Title: Meshiness: Mesh Networks and the Politics of Connectivity 
Current Position: Assistant Professor and Program Director of Code as a Liberal Art, New School