Nicole R. Fleetwood Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication joins one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies.
Curry J. Hackett named 2026 United States Artist Fellow
Media, Culture, and Communication Clinical Assistant Professor Curry J. Hackett was named a 2026 United States Arts Fellow, one of 50 artists recognized for their "groundbreaking artistic vision."
Mara Mills Awarded $1 Million Grant from Mellon Foundation
The three-year grant will support Mills and the NYU Center for Disability Studies in running the Access for Small Arts Partnerships program.
Nicole R. Fleetwood Awarded Second Grant from Mellon Foundation
The $600,000 grant supports the continuation of Fleetwood’s groundbreaking project, Marking Time.
Curated by Nicole R. Fleetwood, Exhibition Spotlights Black Community Photographers
A new exhibition offers a rare glimpse into the history of Black community photographers working across Texas from 1942 to 1984.
Who’s Buying the Free Press? A Q&A with Rodney Benson
The professor of media, culture, and communication explains the spectrum of media ownership—public to market and everything in between—and how these forms support or threaten today’s journalism.
Celebrating a Half Century of Electronic Art and Media History
Open Circuits Revisited, sponsored by NYU Media, Culture, and Communication, Electronic Arts Intermix, and the NYU Center for Disability Studies, explored accessibility and video art on the 50 year anniversary of the groundbreaking conference.
NEH Grant to Study Implications of AI Listening Technologies
With a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Media, Culture, and Communication Assistant Professor Edward Kang will convene experts to examine the relationship between machine listening systems and society.
Cool Course: Critical Making
Students in this hands-on course engage with software and hardware to create a technological device—no engineering or coding experience required.
Award Highlights Impact on Disability and Communication
Media, Culture, and Communication Associate Professor Mara Mills was recognized by the National Communication Association for outstanding achievement and enduring impact in disability and communication studies.
How the Computer Became Personal
Media historian Laine Nooney documents the rise of the personal computer in the new book, The Apple II Age.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
The Activist Angler
A new book by Media, Culture, and Communication Professor Stephen Duncombe considers the parallels between fly fishing and a life of activism.
Angela Wu Awarded AAUW Fellowship
Angela Wu, Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, has received the American Association of University Women Fellowship.