Congratulations to Annenberg’s 2022 Ph.D. and M.A. Graduates
Eleven students earned their doctoral degrees, and 12 students received M.A. degrees.
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(L to R) María Celeste Wagner, Megan Genovese, Prateekshit Pandey, Chloé Nurik
Earlier today, the Annenberg School for Communication held its annual graduation ceremony for doctoral students. The in-person celebration honored 11 graduate students who have earned their doctoral degrees in Communication.
The ceremony honored the following students, listed with their dissertation titles:
Megan Genovese |
“Pop Culture Frameworks for Moral Expression in Left-wing Political Talk” |
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Heather Jaber |
“The Digital Bahdala: Recoding national humiliation across post-revolutionary Lebanon and Egypt” |
Chloé Nurik |
“Censored, Commodified, and Surveilled: How Facebook’s Self-Regulatory Governance Harms Marginalized Communities” |
Prateekshit Pandey |
“Disentangling the Reciprocal Relationship Between Political Efficacy and News Sharing Behavior” |
Jacob Pearl |
“A House’s Speech Divided: Novel Applications of Text-As-Data for the Study of Elite Polarization In the U.S. House of Representatives (1983-2016)” |
John Remensperger |
“Becoming Party Activists: Grassroots Progressive Activism and the Democratic Party” |
Mohammed Salih |
“The Islamic State: Discursive Articulations of Identity, Subjectivity, Community, and Statehood” |
Celeste Wagner |
Responding to Media Coverage of Gender-Based Violence in Argentina and the United States: A Mixed Methods Study of the Intersecting Roles of Gender, Class, and Racialized Ethnicity among General and Activist Publics” |
Chioma Woko |
“A Mixed-Methods Investigation of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Leveraging Surveys, Social Media Data, and Experimental Evidence to Address Vaccine Uptake Among Black Americans” |
Tian Yang |
“How Do Digital Intermediaries Shape News Consumption? An Observational Study based on A Large Web Panel in the US (2016 to 2019)” |
Alvin Zhou |
"Characteristics of the U.S. Digital News Landscape: Trends and Patterns in Audience Behavior” |
Congratulations are also in order to the following Annenberg students who have earned their M.A. in Communication en route to the completion of their doctoral degrees.
- Assil Frayha
- Cienna Davis
- Adetobi Moses
- Samuel Wolken
- Charles Howland
- Pris Nasrat
- Chloe Ahn
- Jenny Lee
- Azsaneé Truss
- Danielle Clark
- Louisa Lincoln
- Xinyi Wang
In addition, Mia Jovanova and Jeanna Sybert were recognized with the James D. Woods Award for outstanding teaching by a graduate assistant.