Graduate Mentoring

As a faculty member, an important part of my service to the research community–and the public at large–is to help mentor graduate students. This can be done by collaborating with graduate students on coauthored research papers and by helping them become established scholars at other institutions.  Part of my mentoring work has involved writing short memos on how to develop good coauthoring and collaborating relationships, and on how to write the cover letter for academic job applications.

Most graduate students have several mentors, and some of my collaborative relationships are with students at other institutions. But I have enjoyed productive and creative relationships with all the people below.

Laura Busch, a doctoral student at UW. We have collaborated on several projects, including a dataset of gini coefficients for technology access (now available from the ICPSR) and a paper about indexing global technology diffusion.
Kris Erickson, defended in 2008 and now an assistant professor at Bournemouth. We have several papers and book chapters together, all on the presentation of hackers in the news media.
Deen Freelon, defended in winter 2011, is an assistant professor at the School of Communication at American University. We collaborated on research into the use of social media during the Arab Spring.
Muzammil Hussain helps manage the Project on Information Technology and Political Islam, we have written several articles and book chapters together, just finished Democracy’s Fourth Wave? for Oxford University Press. He will be an assistant professor in  Communication Studies at the University of Michigan next year.
Laura Hosman had a prominent post-doc at Berkeley and is now an assistant professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. We have a policy paper together on how different reform strategies have had different outcomes in the countries of the former Yugoslavia.
mary Mary Joyce, is working on developing an original data set on global digital activism, with the support of the US Institutes of Peace.  She has been awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.
Daniel Kreiss, defended in 2010, is an an assistant professor in Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. We have several papers together, including a policy paper on privacy norms in four advanced democracies and an article on the data mining industry that supported Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.
Laura Hosman had a prominent post-doc at Berkeley and is now an assistant professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. We have a policy paper together on how different reform strategies have had different outcomes in the countries of the former Yugoslavia.
Shin Lee works on technology diffusion and journalistic norms in South East Asia.
Nimah Mazaheri, defended winter 2010, is now an assistant professor in political science at Tufts University. We wrote a paper in the prominent journal World Development about what kinds of telecommunications policy reforms actually have an impact on technology access.
Fenwick McKelvey, a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, focuses on how software affords new forms of control in digital communication systems and is launching a new project called Programming the Vote.  He will be an assistant professor at Concordia University next year.
Tema Milstein, defended in 2006 and now an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico. We have one book chapter and one article together, both on the topic of the political economy of personal information.
Fahed Al-Sumait, defended in 2010 and won the dissertation of the year award from the National Communication Association.  He’s had a post doc at the National University of Singapore and has a permanent position as Assistant Professor of Communication at the Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait.