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Mary Ainomugisha

PHD Student

Media, Culture, and Communication

Mary Ainomugisha (she/they/any) is a doctoral student in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Their research broadly attends to the entanglements of East African migrant domestic workers in global labor supply chains through conceptual threads of social reproduction, race, gender, performance, political economy of debt subjugation, and care pedagogies. Their MA thesis (from MCC) explores the possibilities and absences of media infrastructural interventions in the experiences of migrant domestic workers from Uganda and Kenya abroad in Gulf Council states of the Middle East. Segments of their field research have received support from the NYU Migration Network, where she is a 2023-24 graduate student fellow. Ainomugisha also serves as a Research Assistant with the Critical Racial Anti-Colonial Study (CRACS) Co-Lab and an Editorial Assistant with the Communication, Culture & Critique (CCC) Journal.

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Media, Culture, and Communication

Our media studies programs train agile researchers of a shifting media landscape. Learn to analyze media and technology in its cultural, social, and global contexts.

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