Graduate Employees
Akua Akakpo
Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: aakakpo@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office:
City: Eugene
Stephen Anti
Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: smanti@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 210: Allen
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Media representation, Health Communication, Media effects, audience perception, construction of social realism
Will Arangelov
Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: willaran@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Gaming communication, Media Psychology, Health Communication, Esports
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
Doctoral Student
Email: sboone5@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Public Relations/Strategic Communication, Equity & Power, Language
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
Saeed Dabbour
Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: sdabbour@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: Allen Hall 312I
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Reality Television, Pop Culture, and Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, & Inclusion
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
Álvaro Del Pozo
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Ph.D. Student
Affiliated Departments: SOJC-Media Studies PhD
Email: adelpozo@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office:
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Political Communications, Social Media, Digital 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
Javay Frye-Nekrasova
Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: javay@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Sexuality & Media, Sex Work, Kink & BDSM
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
Daniel Gyekye
Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: dgyekye@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office:
City: Eugene
Lanore Hahn
Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: lanore@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office:
City: Eugene
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
Nakyung Lee
Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: nakyung@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office:
City: Eugene
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 Mahliaire
Doctoral Student
Affiliated Departments: SOJC-Media Studies PhD
Email: aricam@uoregon.edu
Phone: N/A
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene, OR
Research Interests: Public Relations, Health Communication, New Media, Social Media Literacy
Dennis Major
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: dmajor@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
Research Interests: Television Studies, Representations of Media Institutions in Fiction
Aimee Matsumura McAffee
Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: aimeer@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Asian/American Women Mediated Representations, Communication & Media Studies
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
Omusula Omuholo
Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: omusula@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office:
City: Eugene
Bismark Owusu-Yeboah
Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: bismark@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office:
City: Eugene
Nishat Parvez
Doctoral Student
Graduate Employee
Affiliated Departments: SOJC-Media Studies PhD
Email: nparvez@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Political Communication, Journalism, Critical Media Studies, Gender & Media
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
Rajeev Ravisankar
Doctoral Student
Email: rajeevr@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0304
Office: 214 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Labor organizing in news media, worker-run media cooperatives, alternative media, political economy of the media, social movements, labor, race, class
Nathan Rogers
Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: nlr@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office:
City: Eugene
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
Sabrina Sonner
Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: sonner@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office:
City: Eugene
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
Martha Tejeda
Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: mtejeda@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office:
City: Eugene
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, memetics
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
Haopeng Yuan
Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: haopengy@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office:
City: Eugene
Stella Zhang
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: szhang2@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene