Graduate Employees

Nermine Aboulez

Doctoral Student
Phone: 541-346-3604
Office: 210 Allen Hall

Songyi Ahn

Graduate Teaching Fellow
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene

Akua Akakpo

Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Phone:
Office:
City: Eugene

Stephen Anti

Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
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
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Gaming communication, Media Psychology, Health Communication, Esports

Samira Baei

Graduate Employee
Ph.D. Student
Phone:
Office: 320 Allen Hall
City: Eugene

Ronja Behrends

Doctoral Student
Affiliated Departments: SOJC-Media Studies PhD
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
Research Interests: Production Studies, Creative Labor, Political Economy of Film

Nahla Bendefaa

Graduate Teaching Fellow
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Political Economy of Media, Creator Studies, Food Media

Ashli Blow

Graduate Employee
Ph.D. Student
Affiliated Departments: Environmental Studies
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene

Zainab Bolanle Jagun

Graduate Employee
Ph.D. Student
Phone: 541-948-7627
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Media, Race and Cultural Identity, Social Media, Africa Diaspora Studies

Sandra Boone

Doctoral Student
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Public Relations/Strategic Communication, Equity and Power, Language/Writing

Dalton Bouzek

Graduate Teaching Fellow
Phone:
Office:
Research Interests: Ethics, Political Communications

Ben Bunquin

Graduate Teaching Fellow
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Science communication, Political communication, Computational communication, Media effects

Grant Burgess

Graduate Teaching Fellow
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene

Shane Burrell

Graduate Employee
PhD Student in Game Studies
Affiliated Departments: SOJC-Media Studies PhD
Phone: 541-346-6304
Office: 312 Allen Hall
Research Interests: Virtual Reality, Identity, Embodiment, Latino studies, Cultural Studies, Mixed-Methods

Önder Can

Graduate Teaching Fellow
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene

Saeed Dabbour

Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Affiliated Departments: IRES, SOJC
Phone:
Office: Allen Hall 312I
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Reality Television, Pop Culture, and Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, & Inclusion

Suenia De Azevedo

Graduate Teaching Fellow
Doctoral Student
Affiliated Departments: Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Critical and Cultural Media Studies, Latin American Studies, Social Justice, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Digital Media.

Álvaro Del Pozo

Graduate Teaching Fellow
Ph.D. Student
Affiliated Departments: SOJC-Media Studies PhD
Phone:
Office:
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Political Communications, Social Media, Digital Media

Megan Denneny

Graduate Teaching Fellow
Phone: 541-346-6304
Office:

Christena Dowsett

Graduate Teaching Fellow
Phone:
Office:
City: Portland

Tabitha Fairchild

Graduate Teaching Fellow
Phone: 541-346-6304
Office: 312 Allen Hall

Michaela Flaherty

Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
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 Program
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
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Sexuality & Media, Sex Work, Kink & BDSM

Laura Gattis

Graduate Teaching Fellow
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
Research Interests: Climate Change, Communication, Politicized News Sources, Global Warming, Media Studies

Daniel Gyekye

Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
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Office:
City: Eugene

Lanore Hahn

Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
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Office:
City: Eugene

Amanda Harrington

Graduate Employee
Ph.D. Student
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene

Jack Hart

Graduate Teaching Fellow
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Game Studies, Queer Studies, Parasocial Relationships, Independent Games

Nakyung Lee

Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Phone:
Office:
City: Eugene

Bibo Lin

Doctoral Candidate
Affiliated Departments: School of Global Studies and Languages
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
Phone:
Office: Allen 312
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Privacy in Information Technology, Technology Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, Media Studies

Cecilia Sumita Louis

Doctoral Candidate
Phone:
Office: 210 Allen Hall
City: Eugene

Emmanuel Maduneme

Doctoral Student
Phone: 541-346-6304
Office: 312 Allen Hall
Research Interests: Solutions journalism, Media effect, African media

Dennis Major

Graduate Teaching Fellow
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
Research Interests: Television Studies, Representations of Media Institutions in Fiction

Aimee Matsumura McAffee

Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Asian/American Women Mediated Representations, Communication & Media Studies

Beatriz Mira

Graduate Teaching Fellow
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
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene

Omusula Omuholo

Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Phone:
Office:
City: Eugene

Benedict Owusu

Graduate Employee
Ph.D. Student
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
Phone: 5415796963
Office: 321 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: New Media Studies, Advertising , Communication Education in the digital age

McKenna Pace

Graduate Employee
Ph.D. Student
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Environmental communication, climate change, risk assessment, decision making, misinformation

James Phillips

Graduate Employee
Ph.D. Student
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
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene

Erica Pulley

Graduate Teaching Fellow
Doctoral Student
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Housing, Ecolological Crisis, Discourse, Rhetoric, Ideology, Liberatory Research Methods

Ramtin Ranjpour

Doctoral Student and Teaching Assistant
Lorry I. Lokey Fellow
Affiliated Departments: SOJC-Media Studies PhD
Phone: 541-346-6304
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: User Experience (UX), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Strategic Communication Design, Information, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), & Extended Reality (XR)

Rajeev Ravisankar

Doctoral Student
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
Phone:
Office:
City: Eugene

Keya Saxena

Doctoral Candidate
Affiliated Departments: Global Studies
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
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
Phone:
Office:
City: Eugene

Stephen Ssenkaaba

Doctoral Student
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
Phone:
Office:
City: Eugene

Andy Wilson

Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Affiliated Departments: SOJC-Media Studies PhD
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: critical game studies, online gaming, popular culture, memetics, esports, social media

Nishtha Yadav

Graduate Teaching Fellow
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
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
Phone:
Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene