Mass Media and Communication Doctoral Program
MM&C Students
There are just over 40 MM&C students, outstanding scholars with diverse backgrounds and interests within the field of communication. (If you are a student and wish to update the information listed here, please send the new information to mmc@temple.edu.)
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Michelle Amazeen
political communication, emotions in advertising, media ethics
michelle.amazeen@temple.edu
Darren Bau-Madsen
psychological processing of media, new media
Kathryn Beardsley
communication history, disability studies, cultural and historical constructions of difference in mass media, race and gender studies
Weidan Cao
comic arts, intercultural communication, quantitative research methods
weidan@temple.edu
[more information]
Angela Carter
representations of race and gender, media literacy, psychological
processing of media
angela.carter@temple.edu
[more information]
John C. Church, Jr.
political communication and the history of service to country and community and how the processing and communication of such service was and is portrayed in the media
Maria Christina Cipollone
media and identity construction, psychological processing
of media, media and the cognitive process, US popular culture and representations
of race
mariacip@temple.edu
[more information]
Angela M. Cirucci
social media's
effects on identity formation and perception of reality, social media
and immersion, teen usage of new media, digital and media literacy
angela.cirucci@temple.edu
[more information]
Susannah Cobb
new media, advertising, public relations,
how social media is shifting the way organizations communicate with their
audiences
susannah.cobb@temple.edu
[more information]
David Crider
radio studies (in particular, industry practices
and problems); effects of new media on audience fragmentation; the connection
between broadcaster and audience
david.crider@temple.edu
[more information]
Satarupa Dasgupta
health communication, preventive journalism, popular culture, South Asian cinema
satarupa@temple.edu
Katrina Flener
political economy of media; current changes in the ways in which people produce and consume media, "liveness" and interactive television viewing; the intertwining of media and consumer cultures; media representations of drugs, drug users and drug policy
kflener@temple.edu
Michael Fuller
communication
between peripheries and centers, decolonization, legitimacy
tuc15308@temple.edu
Yvonne Fulmore
educational media production, image representation and media depictions of race and gender with a concentration on Black women, digital arts/interactive media, animation
Thomas Gallagher
political communication, broadcast journalism, politically focused new media, media representations of popular culture
Kelly C. George
disability studies, strategic communication, non-profit organizations, health communication, qualitative research methods
Maxine Gesualdi
public relations, integrated marketing communication, corporate reputation especially as created in online channels, social media, Cultural Studies and the cultural construct of "working mother"
Linda Greenwood
political communication & new media, psychological processing of
media, social impact of technology, visual communication
greenwood01@comcast.net
Constanta Alina Hogea
social change, communication and public policy, globalization, media ethics
constanta.hogea@temple.edu
Jaehyeon Jeong
genre studies on comic arts, cultural studies on media, globalization and localization, cultural hybridization in the mediascape
Russell Johnson
tuc14411@temple.edu
Rachel Jones
reception of American media in developing nations, camera as a vehicle for social change, gender studies, intercultural communication, social impact of technology
Juoak Kim
global communication, media production and industries, media in education, digital storytelling, narratives and representation of culture, the construction of identity through media
Jessica Knab
communication and education, media literacy
Byron Lee
gender and sexuality studies, ethnic studies, citizenship, construction and representations of identity, social networking, urban geography, cultural studies
byron.lee@temple.edu
Hojeong Lee
globalization, audience studies, interaction between society and people through media, political dynamics
Marc Londo
psychological processing
of media, uses and gratifications, popular culture, intercultural communication,
comic art, African American studies
Heidi Mau
film and media studies, new media, digital culture, visual communication, gender and sexuality
heidi.mau@temple.edu
[more information]
Brian McFadden
social networking, web-based dramaturgical relationships, identity and representation, sports broadcasting, new media
bfadds@gmail.com
[more information]
Melissa R. Meade
international and intercultural communication issues
Kelly Mendoza
media literacy, health communication, feminist studies, media criticism, rhetoric in media
kmendoza@temple.edu
[more information]
Jennifer Midberry
visual communication and photojournalism, intercultural communication, media coverage of conflict and representations of the Middle East
Alanna Miller
film and television studies, popular culture, cultural and critical studies, ideology in science fiction and cult media, interactive media
Armando Morales
international media, Latin America and specifically Cuba, press relationships with governments and institutions
Stephanie Morrow
political communication, public relations, communication history
Eloise Murphy
critical analysis of political rhetoric
Heather Muse
popular culture, press coverage of popular culture (especially television), mythology in journalism, critical theory, cultural studies, television studies
Stephanie Palmieri
representations of gender and sexual violence in media, psychological processing of media, media literacy
stephanie.palmieri@temple.edu
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Lingling Pan
deliberation and political communication, Chinese media and society,
social implications of new media technologies
lpan@temple.edu
Tina Peterson
media literacy, globalization, international advertising, media effects on dietary choices and food cultures, construction of identity
tina.peterson@temple.edu
Michael Plugh
collaboration, collaborative education, public discourse, media ecology,
general semantics
mike@plugh.net
Elizaveta Provorova
television studies, audience studies, impact of the foreign mass
media and globalization studies
lisa.provorova@gmail.com
Mary Beth Ray
social networking, internet culture, popular culture, subcultures, youth culture
meray@temple.edu
Michael RobbGrieco
media literacy (in relation to K-12 education, academic achievement, civic engagement, adolescent identity, urban learners, critical and constructivist pedagogy, teacher education, and parental involvement in children’s media use); remix culture; remix practice as a component of literacy (appropriation, modification and distribution of digital texts for new purposes and contexts as a means of cultural participation); teaching and learning about copyright and fair use; music and adolescent identity
robbgrieco@temple.edu
Kelly K. Ryan
online identity construction, cyberculture studies, media ownership issues, media literacy, political economy of information, history of advertising
keisryan@earthlink.net
Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri
film studies; documentary film; Iranian
cinema; cinema, culture and representation
tuc16440@temple.edu
[more information]
Michael T. Schuyler
representations of queerness, gender, race, and ethnicity; post-colonialism; film; television; camp; pornography; production and reception; HIV in the media
profmike89@aol.com
Chad Sims
film studies, video essay, psychoanalytic theory
chad.sims@temple.edu
[more information]
Sam Srauy
political communication, new media, media structures, development communication, municipal wireless network
Laura Stephenson
children and media, media literacy, and parental mediation
Siobahn (Tara) Stiles
development communication, discourse analysis, globalization, and women's
studies, with a specific concentration on the mass media's influence and involvement
with human sex trafficking
tara.stiles@temple.edu
Chiaoning Su
cultural studies, popular culture, consumer culture and modernity, culture
commodity, globalization, international communication, culture imperialism
chiaoning.su@temple.edu
Haelim Suh
international film industry, gender representation in intercultural communication, audience studies of digital media and online games
Carrie Teresa
cateresa@gmail.com
[more information]
Diane Varner
globalization and news, journalism, journalistic ethics, social cognitive theory and its relation to values and the news media, mediation of meaning between news oganizations and their audiences
Yuanxin Wang
media effects, new media study, environmental communication
