Graduate Employees

Nermine Aboulez

Doctoral Student
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Office: 210 Allen Hall, 1275 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1275

Songyi Ahn

Graduate Teaching Fellow
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City: Eugene

Akua Akakpo

Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
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City: Eugene

Stephen Anti

Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
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City: Eugene
Research Interests: Media representation, Health Communication, Media effects, audience perception, construction of social realism

Will Arangelov

Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
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City: Eugene
Research Interests: Gaming communication, Media Psychology, Health Communication, Esports

Samira Baei

Graduate Employee
Ph.D. Student
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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
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Office: 312 Allen Hall, 1275 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1275
Research Interests: Film School Pedagogy, Production Studies, Creative and Cultural Labor, Political Economy of Film

Nahla Bendefaa

Graduate Teaching Fellow
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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
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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

Graduate Employee
Doctoral Candidate
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City: Eugene
Research Interests: Public Relations/Strategic Communication, Equity and Power, Language/Writing

Grant Burgess

Graduate Teaching Fellow
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Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene

Önder Can

Graduate Teaching Fellow
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Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene

Saeed Dabbour

Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
Affiliated Departments: SOJC
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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
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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
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City: Eugene
Research Interests: Political Communications, Social Media, Digital Media

Christena Dowsett

Graduate Teaching Fellow
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City: Portland

Michaela Flaherty

Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
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City: Eugene
Research Interests: fandom, film & television, gender & sexuality, popular culture, themed entertainment

Giovanni Francischelli

Graduate Teaching Fellow
Affiliated Departments: Cinema Studies
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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
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City: Eugene
Research Interests: Sexuality & Media, Sex Work, Kink & BDSM

Daniel Gyekye

Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
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City: Eugene

Lanore Hahn

Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
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City: Eugene

Amanda Harrington

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

Jack Hart

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

Nakyung Lee

Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
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City: Eugene

Febe (Yanfei) Lin

Graduate Employee
Ph.D. Student
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Office: Allen 312
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Privacy in Information Technology, Technology Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, Media Studies

Cecilia Sumita Louis

Doctoral Candidate
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Office: 210 Allen Hall, 1275 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1275
City: Eugene

Aimee Matsumura McAffee

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

Sara Mirza

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

Omusula Omuholo

Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
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City: Eugene

Benedict Owusu

Graduate Employee
Ph.D. Student
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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
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City: Eugene
Research Interests: Advertising, Diversity and Inclusion (Race, Ethnicity, Gender & Sexuality), AI and Social Media Studies

McKenna Pace

Graduate Employee
Ph.D. Student
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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
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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
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City: Eugene
Research Interests: Science Communication, Space Science, Space Policy, NASA, Narrative Paradigm, Framing Theory, Public Engagement with Science

Emilie Pons

Graduate Teaching Fellow
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Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene

Erica Pulley

Graduate Teaching Fellow
Doctoral Student
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Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene
Research Interests: Critical Communication Studies, Discourse, Ecological Crisis, Housing Crisis, Ideology, Property, Rhetoric, Visual Production

Ramtin Ranjpour

PhD Student & Teaching Assistant
CSU Doctoral Fellow
Affiliated Departments: SOJC-Media Studies PhD
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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
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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
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City: Eugene

Sabrina Sonner

Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
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City: Eugene

Stephen Ssenkaaba

Doctoral Student
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Office: 210 Allen Hall, 1275 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1275
City: Eugene
Research Interests: African folklore/story telling, digital media, journalism

Martha Tejeda

Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Fellow
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City: Eugene

Nishtha Yadav

Graduate Teaching Fellow
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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
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Office: 312 Allen Hall
City: Eugene