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The three-year grant will support Mills and the NYU Center for Disability Studies in running the Access for Small Arts Partnerships program.

Chris Hughes is the author of “Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy.”

The $600,000 grant supports the continuation of Fleetwood’s groundbreaking project, Marking Time.

A new exhibition offers a rare glimpse into the history of Black community photographers working across Texas from 1942 to 1984.

After studying Chinese art and material culture, Media, Culture, and Communication alum Alvina Ding (MA '15) founded the womenswear brand SHUMINGYU.

The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication welcomes Clinical Assistant Professor Curry J. Hackett, a transdisciplinary designer, visual artist, and educator exploring Black relationships to land, media, and memory.

Students will receive master’s degrees from both institutions and study with faculty from two of the world’s leading media studies departments.

A new book co-edited by Media, Culture, and Communication professor Mara Mills tells the story of how disabled people in New York City experienced the COVID-19 pandemic.

Working in Lincoln Center’s Artistic Programming Department, a Media, Culture, and Communication undergraduate provides hospitality to performers backstage.

At the 77th annual Emmy Awards on September 14, NYU Steinhardt alumni won Outstanding Talk Series, Outstanding Variety Special (Live), and more.

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.

Amanda Morris, a graduate of NYU’s Media, Culture, and Communication and Journalism departments, is a reporter for The Washington Post and considered a trailblazer on the national disability beat.

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.

The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication celebrates 50 years since Neil Postman founded the Media Ecology program, launching media studies at the university.

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.

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.

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, Culture, and Communication alum Kweighbaye Kotee (BS ‘09) founded the festival while a Steinhardt student. The festival will celebrate 15 years next fall.

New York University claims the 9th spot in the QS Top Universities ranking of media studies programs worldwide.