Media, Culture, and Communication Faculty News

Whit Pow Receives Arnold Grossman Faculty Award

The award honors faculty for their commitment to education, outreach, and advocacy that centers queer and trans understandings of the world.

Personal Photography from Kodak to Polaroid to the iPhone

Named a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, Media, Culture, and Communication Professor Marita Sturken will work on a book tracing the history of personal photography.

A History of (and a Strike Against) White Sight

From Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication Nicholas Mirzoeff, a leading scholar of visual culture, comes a monograph about the white gaze and the tactics for dismantling it.

Global Media Research with Impact

Media, Culture, and Communication's Paula Chakravartty has been appointed a James Weldon Johnson Professor by the Provost's Office in recognition of her research on racial capitalism and global media infrastructures, as well as migrant labor mobility and justice.

Reintroducing a Cult Classic on the Fetish

Media, Culture, and Communication Associate Professor Ben Kafka is the co-editor of a new work compiling for the first time William Pietz’s writings on the history of the fetish.

Media History Told Through Code

A new video game from media scholar Alexander Galloway links to his research practice of reviving obsolete software.

Faculty Book Receives Honorable Mention from the American Studies Association

"Legal Spectatorship," by Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication Kelli Moore, challenges our understanding of domestic violence.

Nicole Fleetwood Receives $1M Grant from the Mellon Foundation for Prison Art Initiative

Support of Steinhardt Professor Nicole Fleetwood's Marking Time initiative will amplify the art of the incarcerated.

Mara Mills Recognized for Teaching Excellence

Media, Culture, and Communication Associate Professor Mara Mills has received the NYU 2022 Distinguished Teaching Award — this year given to only six faculty from across the University.

NYU Steinhardt Celebrates Prestigious Faculty and Alumni Awards

The Steinhardt School celebrates faculty and alumni whose powerful, visionary work has been honored with prestigious awards.

"Dirty Works" Wins Gold at the Independent Publisher’s Book Awards

The book, written by Media, Culture, and Communication Associate Professor Brett Gary, explores the characters who ran afoul of stiff obscenity laws in the first half of the 20th century.

Steinhardt Professor Nicole Fleetwood Named MacArthur Fellow

The Media, Culture, and Communication professor is one of 25 exceptional individuals recognized by the MacArthur Foundation for creating objects of beauty and awe, advancing our understanding of society, and fomenting change to improve the human condition.

New Book Examines Cultural Memory and National Identity

A new book by Media, Culture, and Communication Professor Marita Sturken explores the ways in which we memorialize acts of terror and what these choices reveal about our national identity.

Media Hot and Cold

A new book from media scholar Nicole Starosielski examines the many meanings and messages of temperature.

More Acclaim for Professor Nicole Fleetwood's 'Marking Time'

Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Harvard University Press, 2020) garners additional recognition with two prominent scholarly awards.

In 'Uncomputable,' Alexander Galloway Offers Long History of the Digital Age

From algebraic patterns woven on a hand loom to artificial-life simulations, a new book by Media, Culture, and Communication Professor Galloway charts the history of digital media.

New Album from Martin Scherzinger

Media, Culture, and Communication Associate Professor Martin Scherzinger has a new album of piano etudes.

NYU Steinhardt’s Susan Murray Awarded 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship

Susan Murray, a professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, has been awarded a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced.

With NSF Grant, Researchers Document the Experiences of Disabled People During COVID

Mara Mills, Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, is Principal Investigator on this study aimed at capturing and analyzing disability expertise during the Covid pandemic.

Ensuring Greener Operations for Global Communication

Media, Culture, and Communication Professor Nicole Starosielski is part of a research team that will offer the first carbon footprint assessment of subsea cables—a global network that currently carries 99% of transoceanic Internet traffic.

With ACLS/Mellon Fellowship, Nicholas Mirzoeff Pursues Anti-Racist Visual Activism

A leading figure in the field of Visual Culture, the Media, Culture, and Communication professor is spending the 2020/21 year as a Scholar in Residence at the Magnum Foundation.

Charlton McIlwain Named a 'Black Hero of the Internet'

The Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University celebrated Media, Culture, and Communication Professor Charlton McIlwain's many contributions to the field of race and media.