Lifelong besties Kay Chansiri and Ping Thipkanok study neuroscience and health communication, respectively. Together they work with faculty associates in the SOJC’s Center for Science Communication Research to investigate Instagram use among female students and its impact on body image.

Hadil Abuhmaid researches cinema as a powerful storytelling medium and investigates how it has formed and represented national identities in her native Palestine.

Now an assistant professor of communication at the University of Wisconsin–LaCrosse, Irene Awino researches how media coverage, or lack thereof, of political issues in her native Kenya has led to further unrest and violence.

Bethany Grace Howe, a journalist and doctoral alum, shares her experiences as a transgender woman.

Shuo Xu researches the effects of censorship in her native China, particularly the coverage of the Dalai Lama in American versus Chinese media.

Patrick Jones’ research examines the effects of balloting technology on voter confidence and the stability of a democracy.

An enrolled citizen of the Coquille Nation and an assistant professor of Indigenous studies at UO, Ashley Cordes researched how groups communicate their identities through media, with a focus on currency as a communication medium among Native American populations.