Sanjay Jolly
- Doctoral Candidate
Sanjay Jolly studies how communication technologies shape international political economy, with a focus on global financial infrastructures.
Sanjay Jolly is a joint degree candidate (Ph.D. / J.D.) at the Annenberg School and Penn Law, where he was a Toll Public Interest Fellow and editor-in-chief of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change. His dissertation project draws on political economy, historical sociology, and transnational economic law to examine the rise of U.S. financial sanctions as a technopolitical phenomenon. Prior to the University of Pennsylvania, he was a Fulbright Scholar based in Ecuador, where he studied the implementation of several South American media reform laws. Jolly has long been an independent media producer and advocate, most recently as the C. Edwin Baker Fellow at the media reform organization Free Press. Currently, he is the executive director of the Program on Law and Political Economy at Harvard Law School.
Education
- B.A., University of Michigan
- M.A., University of Pennsylvania
- J.D., University of Pennsylvania
Selected Publications
Democratizing the Internet: Platforms, Pipes, Possibilities
A symposium held by the Media, Inequality & Change Center brought together a diverse array of thinkers to envision a more democratic internet.
