Isra Ali
- Feminism and the War on Terror
- Gender and Sexuality
- Digital Media
- Domestic Discourse and Foreign Policy
A J Bauer
- Political communication
- Journalism and media history
- Right-wing movements and media activism
- Conservative news cultures
Rodney Benson | Chair
- Global Production of Culture in the Digital Age
- Logics of Media Ownership
- Comparative Media Systems
- Media and Social Theory
Jamie Skye Bianco
- Digital and tactical media
- Queer, Feminist, New Materialisms and Affect Theory
- Practice-Based and Artistic Research
Finn Brunton
- The relationships between society, culture, and information technology
- The adoption, adaptation, modification and misuse of digital media and hardware
- Privacy and information security
Paula Chakravartty
- Comparative political economy
- Global governance and social justice
- Media and empire
Lily Hope Chumley
- Semiotics and linguistic anthropology
- Postsocialist histories
- Aesthetics of capitalism
Allen Feldman
- Visual culture and violence
- Political anthropology of the body
- Archeology and genealogy of media and technology
Alexander Galloway
- Critical theory, semiotics, aesthetics
- Digital media, networks, software
- New media art, video games, film
Brett Gary
- Liberalism and censorship
- Hollywood and history
- Intellectual and legal history
- US cultural history
Erin Gray
- critical theory and aesthetics
- visual culture and violence
- liberalism, white supremacy, and racial capitalism
- the black radical tradition, transnational feminisms, and queer of color critique
Radha Hegde | Director, Graduate Studies
- Mediated practices and migrants
- Globalization
- Transnational feminism
Ben Kafka
- Paperwork, bureaucracy
- Psychoanalysis, grammatology
- Intellectual and cultural history
of Europe
Arun Kundnani
- Islamophobia and racial capitalism
- Political violence and surveillance
- Black radical movements
Charlton McIlwain
- Race, media, and politics
- Racial discourse and social media
- Digital media and racial inequality
Mark Crispin Miller
- Modern propaganda
- History and tactics of advertising
- American film
- Media ownership
Mara Mills
- Science and technology studies
- History and politics of digital media
- Telephone and mobile communication studies
- Disability studies
Laine Nooney
- Computer and video game histories
- Game studies and game design
- Media archaeology and media theory
Juan Pinon
- U.S. Latino and Latin American media
- Political and cultural economy
- Immigration and appropriation of new technologies
Arvind Rajagopal
- History of media
- Critical theory
- Public sphere formation
- South Asia
- Religion and media
Erica Robles-Anderson
- Visual and material culture
- Media, culture, and space
- Architecture and interaction design
- Screens and displays
Natasha Schüll | Director, Undergraduate Studies
- Technology and the self
- Design and experience of digital media
- Ethnography, science and technology studies
- Capitalism and addiction
Helga Tawil-Souri
- Middle East and Palestinian politics and media
- Globalization, Capitalism, Development
- Geography, Borders, Infrastructure
Aurora Wallace
- Media, urban space and architecture
- History of American media
- Consumer culture
- Crime and media
Angela Xiao Wu
- Data analytics and algorithmic cultures
- Media use and infrastructures
- 
Information technology, politics, and post-reform China
Affiliated Faculty
Arlene Dávila
- Media and visual culture
- Urban studies and geographies of inequality
- Political economy
- Latino/a Latin American Studies
Faye Ginsburg
- Culture, media, and anthropology
- Ethnographic documentary
- Indigenous and alternative media
- Ethnography of media
Faculty Emeritus
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