Student Collaborators Now Faculty

 

Jessica Beyers, defended her dissertation on movements that began online and apolitical but transitioned to various forms of activist organizations. She is managing a large research project on technology and development in Burma, and her dissertation came out as a book, Expect Us: Online Communities and Political Mobilization, from Oxford University Press.
Kris Erickson, defended in 2008 and now an assistant professor at the University of Glasgow. We have multiple papers and book chapters together, all on the presentation of hackers in the news media and the way journalists frame data leaks.
Maria Garrido contributed a chapter to the edited book I did with Steve Jones, Society Online. Her chapter was a redux of her doctoral project on digital media use by the Zapatistas.

Deen Freelon, defended in winter 2011, is now an associate professor at the School of Communication at American University. I served on his dissertation committee, and we collaborated on research into the use of social media during the Arab Spring.
Tabitha Hart is now an Assistant Professor at San Jose State University. I served on her committee, and we collaborated on a feminist ethnography of how poor women in developing countries encounter new digital technologies, a project that involved extended fieldwork for Tabitha in India.
Muzammil Hussain helped 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. I chaired his doctoral project, and he is an assistant professor in Communication Studies at the University of Michigan.

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, and he specializes in large data sets on public opinion and technology use. We wrote a paper on citizen journalism and digital activism through the Digital Activism Research Project, and I chaired his doctoral committee. Currently, he is a post-doc at Hong Kong University.
Fenwick McKelvey was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow with me at the University of Washington. He focuses on how software affords new forms of control in digital communication systems and is launching a new project called Programming the Vote. He is now an assistant professor at Concordia University.

Daniel Kreiss, defended in 2010, is now an associate 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.
Adrienne Massanari is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago. She and I wrote several academic articles about “political omnivores”, the growing cohort of U.S. voters who consume many kinds of political content over multiple devices and from many sources.
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.

Tema Milstein, defended in 2006 and now an associate 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.
Justin Reedy, defended in 2012. He worked as a managing editor on the Handbook of Internet Politics and did a chapter on the impact of the internet on the initiative process. He is a tenure-track assistant professor position in the Department of Communication at the University of Oklahoma and a research associate in the Center for Risk, Crisis & Resilience.
Luis Santana studies the impact of information technologies on public participation in civil society groups. We have collaborated on citizen journalism and digital activism research, and I chaired his doctoral committee. He currently teaches at the Catholic University of Santiago, Chile.

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 is now an Assistant Professor of Communication at the Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait.