Media & Cultural Studies

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Master's Requirements

PhD Requirements

Internal Minor

Professional Organizations

Recent PhDs

Recent PhDs

• Aswin Punathambekar, "Bollystan: Bollywood, New Media, and Transnationalis in Contemporary India" (2007)
  • First job: Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
• Philip Sewell, "The Substance of Things Hoped For: US Television and the Problematics of 'Quality'" (2007)
  • First job: Assistant Professor, Washington University – St. Louis
• Mobina Hashmi, "No Longer the Iconic American? The Changing Cultural and Economic Value of White Masculinity in the Global Economy" (2006)
  • First job: Assistant Professor, Brooklyn College
    
• Bill Kirkpatrick. "Localism in American Media, 1920-1934" (2006)
  • First job: Assistant Professor, Denison University
• Josh Heumann, "Configuring the Viewer in Transition: Communication Policy and the Television Viewer between "Old" and "New" Media" (2006)
  • First job: Assistant Professor, Texas A & M University
• Jennifer Hyland Wang, "Convenient Fiction: The Construction of the Daytime Broadcast Audience, 1927-1960" (2006)
• Kelly Cole, "From Homeboys to Girl Power: Media Mergers, Emerging Networks, and 1990s Television (2005)
  • First job: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Middlebury College (Spring 2006)
• Jennifer Fuller. Recovering the Past: Race, Nation and Civil Rights Drama (2004).
  • First job: Assistant Professor, Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas-Austin
• Ronald Becker. Straight panic: Gay Theme Television and American Culture in the 1990s (2004).
  • First job: Assistant Professor, Communication, Miami University
• Madhavi Mallapragada. Home, Homeland, Homepage: The Web, Transnationalism and Indian-American Identities (2004).
  • First job: Assistant Professor, Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas-Austin
• Doug Battema. Going for the Gold: A History of the Olympic Games and U.S. Television, 1956-1988 (2002).
  • First job: Assistant Professor, Community & Humanities, Western New England College
• Norma Coates. It’s a Man’s, Man’s World: Television and the Masculinization of Rock Discourse and Culture (2002).
  • First job: Assistant Professor, Media and Music Studies, University of Western Ontario
• Clare Bratten. Contested Sights: The Internet as Cultural Contagion or Panacea? (2002).
  • First job: Assistant Professor, Radio/Television/Photography, Middle Tennessee State University
• Elana Levine. Wallowing in Sex: American Television and Everyday Life in the 1970s (2002).
  • First job: Associate Professor, Journalism & Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• Michael Kackman. Secret Agents, Civil Subjects: Espionage, Television, and Cold War Nationalism (1999).
  • First job: Assistant Professor, Radio-TV-Film, University of Texas-Austin
• Jason Mittell. Telegenres: Television Genres as Cultural Categories (2000).
  • First job: Associate Professor, Film & Media Culture, Middlebury College
• Derek Kompare. A Rerun Nation: The Regime of Repetition on American Television (1999).
  • First job: Assistant Professor, Radio-TV-Film, Southern Methodist University
• Darrell Newton. Beyond the Black Atlantic: Cultural Production, West Indian Imagery and BBC Television (2002).
  • First job: Assistant Professor, Communication & Theater Arts, Salisbury University
• Donald Meckiffe. Subcultures and Mainstreams: The Hidden Histories of Female Bodybuilding, Muhammad Ali, Skateboarding and Black Divas (2002).