Office Location: Media, Film & Journalism Studies, Room 125A

Areas of Focus

Sociology of news, cultural repair work, political economy and cultural/critical communication studies, U.S. foreign policy and the press, democracy and the media system

Education

• PhD, University of Texas at Austin (2010)
• MA, Temple University (2003)
• BS, Grand Valley State University (2001)

Selected Accomplishments

• 2012 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Emerging Scholar Award
• Continuing Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, 2008-2009
• Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Cultural and Critical Studies Division, Top Student Paper, 2nd Place, in 2008 and 2009