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
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
Research Interests: Political Economy of Media, Creator Studies, Food 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
Doctoral Student
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: IRES, SOJC
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
Doctoral Student
Affiliated Departments: Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Email: sdeazeve@uoregon.edu
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
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 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
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
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: 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
Email: mpace@uoregon.edu
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
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: 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
Email: ramtin@uoregon.edu
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
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: critical game studies, online gaming, popular culture, memetics, esports, social media
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