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Director of the Center for Media, Communication, and Global Change

Jayson Harsin

Associate Professor, Communication, Media, and Culture 

Affiliated Researcher, Northwestern University Center for Global Culture and Communication

Research focus; Political trust and truth; emotion, gender, and politics; political distraction and attention; U.S. history of socio-economic rights movements.

Faculty Affiliates

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Assistant Professor, Communication, Media, and Culture 

Program Coordinator for Film Studies

Research focus: global art cinema and its aesthetic, geopolitical and institutional contexts

Isabelle Carbonell

Assistant Professor, Communications, Media and Culture

Research focus: expanded documentary filmmaking, environmental justice, and the Anthropocene; creating a multispecies cinema

Julian Culp

 Associate Professor, History and Politics

Program Coordinator for Philosophy

Research focus: Digital Democracy and Education

Waddick Doyle

Professor, Communication, Media, and Culture 

Director Emeritus, Civic Media Lab 

Research focus: semiotics of belief, attention, branding and religion, coexistence and belief 

Jessica Feldman

Assistant Professor, Communication, Media, and Culture,  

Affiliated Researcher, Stanford University’s Digital Civil Society Lab 

Research interests: social movements and digital tools, AI and listening, new media art, digital democracy 

Youna Kim

Professor, Communications, Media and Culture

Research focus: Sociology of media/culture, gender and media globalization, Korea/Asia, media audiences, digital media and everyday life, transnational migration, digital diaspora, cultural identity, cultural and educational consequences of globalization, ‘de-westernizing’ media and cultural studies

Sophie Kurkdjian

Assistant Professor, Communications, Media and Culture

Research focus: Cultural and social history of fashion; history of labor and the fashion industry

Noémie Oxley

Assistant Professor, Communication, Media, and Culture 

Research focus: visual culture, tactical media, and depictions of violence in wartime 

Robert Payne

Professor, Department Chair Communication, Media and Culture

Research focus: representation of gender and sexual identity in media and popular culture; digital cultures and practices; queer theory

Christy Shields

Associate Professor, Communication, Media and Culture

Research focus: Culture, food, and the senses

Renate Stauss

Assistant Professor, Communications, Media and Culture

Program Coordinator for Fashion Studies

Research focus: Sociology and politics of fashion and dress

Hannah Westley

Interim Provost

Research focus: representations of the body online; ‘selfies’; changing nature of news production and distribution

Zed Zhipeng Gao

Assisstant Professor, Psychology, Health and Gender

Research focus: Chinese immigration, with focus on Identity, belonging, and political participation