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
Samira Baei
Graduate Employee
Ph.D. Student
Email: samirab@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 320 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Her research interests include AI-generated cinema, audience perception, algorithmic authorship, posthuman aesthetics, and the future of cinematic labor.
Ronja Behrends
Doctoral Student
Affiliated Departments: SOJC-Media Studies PhD
Email: ronjab@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
Research Interests: Film School Pedagogy, Production Studies, Creative and Cultural Labor, Political Economy of Film
Nahla Bendefaa
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: nahlab@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Creator Studies; Political Economy of Communication; Food Media; African Media
Ashli Blow
Graduate Employee
Ph.D. Student
Affiliated Departments: Environmental Studies
Email: ashlib@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Zainab Bolanle Jagun
Graduate Employee
Ph.D. Student
Email: zainabj@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-948-7627
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Media, Race and Cultural Identity, Social Media, Africa Diaspora Studies
Sandra Boone
Graduate Employee
Doctoral Candidate
Email: sboone5@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Public Relations/Strategic Communication, Equity and Power, Language/Writing
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
Affiliated Departments: SOJC
Email: sdabbour@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: Allen Hall 312I
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Reality Television, Pop Culture, and Game Studies
Suenia De Azevedo
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Doctoral Student
Affiliated Departments: Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, SOJC-Media Studies PhD
Email: sdeazeve@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Critical and Cultural Media Studies, Latin American Studies, Political Economy of Media, Social Justice, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Digital 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
Michaela Flaherty
Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: mifl@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: fandom, film & television, gender & sexuality, popular culture, themed entertainment
Giovanni Francischelli
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Affiliated Departments: Cinema Studies
Email: gfrancis@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: documentary, cinema, digital media, mass media, political economy of communicatons, platforms,
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
Amanda Harrington
Graduate Employee
Ph.D. Student
Email: alhar@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
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
Affiliated Departments: School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: bibol@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-6304
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Human-Machine Communication, Digital Journalism, Global Media
Febe (Yanfei) Lin
Graduate Employee
Ph.D. Student
Email: yanfei@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: Allen 312
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Privacy in Information Technology, Technology Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, Media Studies
Cecilia Sumita Louis
Doctoral Candidate
Email: slouis@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall, 1275 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1275
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
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
Sara Mirza
Graduate Employee
Ph.D. Student
Email: smirza@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Omusula Omuholo
Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: omusula@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office:
City: Eugene
Benedict Owusu
Graduate Employee
Ph.D. Student
Email: bowusu@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: social media use in sports communication, sports brand management, sports marketing
Bismark Owusu-Yeboah
Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: bismark@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3738
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Advertising, Diversity and Inclusion (Race, Ethnicity, Gender & Sexuality), AI and Social Media Studies
McKenna Pace
Graduate Employee
Ph.D. Student
Email: mpace@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Environmental communication, climate change, risk assessment, decision making, misinformation
Nishat Parvez
Ph.D. Candidate
Graduate Employee
Affiliated Departments: SOJC-Media Studies PhD
Email: nparvez@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Political Communication, Journalism, Media & Society, Gender, Media, & Identity, South Asian Political Culture
James Phillips
Graduate Employee
Ph.D. Student
Email: jphill@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Science Communication, Space Science, Space Policy, NASA, Narrative Paradigm, Framing Theory, Public Engagement with Science
Emilie Pons
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: emiliep@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Erica Pulley
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Doctoral Student
Email: epulley@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Critical Communication Studies, Discourse, Ecological Crisis, Housing Crisis, Ideology, Property, Rhetoric, Visual Production
Ramtin Ranjpour
Doctoral Student and Teaching Assistant
Ketchum PRISM Fellow
Affiliated Departments: SOJC-Media Studies PhD
Email: ramtin@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-6304
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: User experience (UX), information communication, artificial intelligence (AI), extended reality (XR), human-computer interaction (HCI), inclusivity & accessibility, data science
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
Affiliated Departments: Global Studies
Email: ksaxena5@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Global Communications and Social Change, Media Activism and Social Justice, 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 Candidate
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Affiliated Departments: SOJC-Media Studies PhD
Email: awilso25@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: feminist game studies, online gaming, memetic communication, social media, esports, popular culture
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: 541-650-5827
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Cryptocurrency, distributed communication, decentralized identity, AI, social media, digital humanity, emerging media
Stella Zhang
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Email: szhang2@uoregon.edu
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene