Congratulations to Annenberg’s 2024 Ph.D. and M.A. Graduates
Thirteen students earned their doctoral degrees, and fifteen students received M.A. degrees.
Photo Credit: Sarah J. Jackson
Yesterday, the Annenberg School for Communication held its annual doctoral graduation ceremony. The in-person celebration honored Annenberg's 2024 Ph.D. and M.A. recipients.
The ceremony recognized the following thirteen students who earned their doctoral degrees in Communication, listed with their dissertation titles:
| Mary E. Andrews | "Health Equity in Tobacco Control Through an Intersectionality Framework: Examining the Compounding Effects of Minority Stressors and Tobacco Advertising" |
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| David S. Cordero | "Where Can We Get Help? Examining Attitudinal Factors and Message Selection Methods to Promote Young Adult Mental Health Treatment Seeking" |
| Antoine Haywood | "Focused in the Frame: An Autoethnographic Reflection on African American Community Participation in Philadelphia Public Access Television" |
| Darin Johnson | "Communicating in the Face of Oppression: The Antecedents of Code Switching and Consequences of (Linguistic) Racism among Black Americans" |
| Helene Langlamet | "Living Under the Rule of the Growth Machine: How the Growth Ethic Structures Consent to the Fossil Fuel Industry in Southwestern Pennsylvania" |
| Sophie Maddocks | "Platformed Girlhood: How Online Harassment Shapes Girls’ Identity, Privacy, and Speech" |
| Florence Zivaishe Madenga | "Taking Satire Journalism Seriously: Living and Laughing to Bring the State Down?" |
| Brendan Mahoney | "The Platformization of Ideology: How Left- and Right-wing Social Movements Perform Intellectual Work on Reddit" |
| Fallon Alexandria Parfaite | "The Intersection of Identity and Algorithm: How Black Users Co-Produce Their Online Selves on TikTok" |
| Melissa Skolnick-Noguera | "Cultural Arts Networks in Philadelphia: The Impact of Praxis and Discourse on Politics and Policy" |
| Jeanna Sybert | "Risky Reporting: Journalistic Precarity Amidst Pandemic, Protests, and Insurrection" |
| Ryan Tsapatasaris | "Academic Cancel Cultures: Social Media as Peer Reviewer?" |
| Andrew Wirzburger | "The Video Game Industries' Hidden Curriculum: People Power and the Politics of Insurgent" |
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:
- Anjali DasSarma
- Christiana Dillard
- Timothy Dorr
- Tom Etienne
- Sim Gill
- Calvin Isch
- Ben Muzekari
- Kate Okker-Edging
- Devo Probol
- Valentina Proust Iligaray
- Taylor Smith
- Silvia Téliz Martínez
- Natasha Jade Williams
- Qijia Ye
- Nya Mbock
In addition, Valentina Proust, Taylor Smith, and Azsaneé Truss were recognized with the James D. Woods Award for outstanding teaching by a graduate assistant.
