Graduate Employees
Songyi Ahn
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: sahn5@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: journalism studies, digital journalism, news industry, social media, media trust
Robert Apiyo
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: rapiyo@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Ronja Behrends
Doctoral Student
Affiliated Departments: SOJC-Media Studies PhD
Email: ronjab@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
Research Interests: Production Studies, Creative Labor, Political Economy of Film
Nahla Bendefaa
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: nahlab@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Sandra Boone
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: sboone5@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Public Relations, Strategic Communication, Equity & Power, Ethical Storytelling
Dalton Bouzek
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: dbouzek@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office:
Research Interests: Ethics, Political Communications
Ben Bunquin
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: jbunquin@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Science communication, Political communication, Computational communication, Media effects
Grant Burgess
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: gburges2@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Shane Burrell
Graduate Employee
PhD Student in Game Studies
Affiliated Departments: SOJC-Media Studies PhD
Email: sburrell@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-6304
Office: 312 Allen Hall
Research Interests: Virtual Reality, Identity, Embodiment, Latino studies, Cultural Studies, Mixed-Methods
Teresa Caprioglio
Doctoral Student
Email: tcaprio2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-6304
Office: 210 Allen Hall
Cassie Cole
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: ccole3@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Suenia De Azevedo
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: sdeazeve@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Gender, Race, and Sexuality Studies in Media
Tabitha Fairchild
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: tabithaf@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-6304
Office: 312 Allen Hall
Ivy Fofie
Doctoral Student
Affiliated Departments: Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: ifofie@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-6304
Office: 210 Allen Hall
Research Interests: Journalism, critical and cultural media studies, women, gender and sexuality studies.
Giovanni Francischelli
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Affiliated Departments: Cinema Studies Program
Email: gfrancis@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: documentary, cinema, digital media, mass media, political economy of communicatons
Laura Gattis
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: lgattis@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
Research Interests: Climate Change, Communication, Politicized News Sources, Global Warming, Media Studies
Jack Hart
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: jhart10@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Game Studies, Queer Studies, Parasocial Relationships, Independent Games
Bibo Lin
Doctoral Candidate
Email: bibol@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-6304
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Journalism, International Communication, Cultural Studies, Emotions and Feelings
Sam Lorenzo
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Research Assistant
Affiliated Departments: SOJC-Journalism, SOJC-Media Studies PhD, SOJC-Public Relations
Email: slorenzo@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Media Effects, Social Media, TikTok, Social Psychology, Conspiracy Theories, Emerging Consumers, Millennials, Generation Z
Cecilia Sumita Louis
Doctoral Candidate
Email: slouis@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Emmanuel Maduneme
Doctoral Student
Email: culatemerald@gmail.com
Phone: 541-346-6304
Office: 312 Allen Hall
Research Interests: Solutions journalism, Media effect, African media
Nii (Arica) Mahliaire
Doctoral Student
Affiliated Departments: SOJC-Media Studies PhD
Email: aricam@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-6304
Office: 210 Allen Hall
Research Interests: Public Relations, Health Messaging, Censorship
Dennis Major
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: dmajor@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
Research Interests: Television Studies, Representations of Media Institutions in Fiction
Beatriz Mira
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: bmira@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-6304
Office: 210 Allen Hall
Research Interests: Environmental communication, Science communication, Latin American studies, Photography, Media & Behavior
Nishat Parvez
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: nparvez@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Emilie Pons
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: emiliep@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Erica Pulley
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: epulley@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Waseq Rahman
Doctoral Student
Graduate Employee
Email: mrahman3@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Collin Robinson
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Doctoral Student
Email: crobins2@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: Allen 210
Research Interests: Popular Music, Hip Hop and Rap, Marginalized Media Representation
Keya Saxena
Doctoral Candidate
Email: ksaxena5@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Global Communications and Social Change, Media Activism and Social Justice, International Development and Gender
Faria A. Shaikh
Doctoral Student
Affiliated Departments: SOJC-Media Studies PhD
Email: fas@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3861
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Persuasion, Media Psychology, Advertising, Consumer Behavior, Strategic Communication, Health Communication
Stephen Ssenkaaba
Doctoral Student
Email: sssenkaa@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3604
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: African folklore/story telling, digital media, journalism
Christopher St. Louis
Doctoral Student
Email: cstlouis@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 126 Franklin Building
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Internet histories, mobile media, media genealogy, history of Japanese media technologies
Courtney Tabor
Doctoral Candidate
Affiliated Departments: Political Science
Email: ctabor2@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Political communication, media studies, media effects
Andy Wilson
Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Affiliated Departments: SOJC-Media Studies PhD
Email: awilso25@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-6304
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Game studies, critical/cultural studies, gender & identity, social media studies
Travis Wilson
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: twilson2@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Shuo Xu
Graduate Employee
Affiliated Departments: SOJC-Media Studies PhD
Email: shuox@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
Research Interests: Media censorship, propaganda, journalism ethics, digital media, visual politics
Nishtha Yadav
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: nishthay@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: civic engagement, social justice, political communication, global media, social media, media coverage, digital culture, digital activism
Stella Zhang
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: szhang2@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene