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Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication

Alumni

CARGC alumni work in academia, policy, non-profit, and industry positions around the world. Please see the charts below for a list of faculty, postdoctoral, doctoral, and undergraduate fellows that CARGC has hosted over the years and find out where our alumni are today.

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CARGC Visiting Scholars & Faculty Alumni

Alumnus Fellowship Year Current Position
Sneha Mehendale Fall 2024 Assistant Professor, Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Symbiosis International University, India
Samina Mishra Fall 2024 Documentary filmmaker, writer, and teacher based in New Delhi
Tupur Chattopadhyay Spring 2024 Assistant Professor in Global Film and Media, Department of English, Drama, and Film, University College Dublin
Meghanne Barker Spring 2024 Lecturer, IOE - Education, Practice & Society, University College London

Jean-Christophe Plantin

Spring 2024

Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Rohit Dasgupta Spring 2024 Incoming Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality at the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
Arturo Arriagada Spring 2024 Associate Professor of Communications, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI-Chile)
Douglas-Wade Brunton Fall 2023 Lecturer, Department of Literary, Cultural, and Communication Studies, University of the West Indies
Paromita Vohra Fall 2023 Filmmaker, Writer, Founder Agents of Ishq
Myria Georgiou Fall 2023 Professor, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed Spring 2023 Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Cornell University

Bilge Yesil

Spring 2023 Professor of Media Culture, College of Staten Island, City University of New York
Christopher Ali Fall 2022 Pioneers Chair and Professor of Telecommunications, Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, Penn State
Annemarie Iddins 2020 Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Fairfield University
Hatim El-Hibri 2019 Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, George Mason University
Ergin Bulut 2019-2020 Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Visual Arts, Koc University
Mette Mortensen 2018-2019 Professor, Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen
Christopher Ali 2017 Pioneers Chair and Professor of Telecommunications, Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, Penn State

CARGC Postdoctoral Alumni

Alumnus Fellowship Years Current Position
Ignatius G.D. Suglo 2022-2024 Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Communication Studies, School of Arts & Sciences, University of Richmond
Sandeep Mertia 2023-2024 Assistant Professor, School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Stevens Institute of Technology
Prateekshit "Kanu" Pandey 2022-2023 Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
 Yuval Katz 2022-2023 Lecturer, Department of Communication and Media, Loughborough University
Eszter Zimanyi 2022-2023 Senior Research Manager, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Woori Han 2021-2023 Lecturer, Department of Communications, Drama, and Film, University of Exeter
Ayesha Omer 2021-2023 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, York University
Ali Karimi 2021-2022 Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Media and Film, University of Calgary
Katerina Girginova 2021-2022 Research Associate, Annenberg Virtual Reality ColLABorative, University of Pennsylvania
Jinsook Kim 2020-2022 Assistant Professor, Department of Film and Media, Emory University
Hana Masri 2020-2021 Outreach Specialist: Education, Communication, and Outreach (ECO), Center for Health Disparities Research, School of Medicine and Public Health,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Padma Chirumamilla 2019-2021  
Fernanda R. Rosa 2019-2021 Assistant Professor, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, Virginia Tech
Yakein Abdelmagid 2018-2020  
Clovis Bergère 2018-2020 Assistant Director for Research, Northwestern University in Qatar
Stanislav Budnitsky 2018-2020 Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies, Colgate University
Giang Nyugen-Thu 2018-2020 DECRA Research Fellow, School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland
Rayya El Zein 2017-2019 Principal Investigator, Cultural Constructions of Race and Racism Research Collective
Samira Rajabi 2017-2019 Assistant Professor, Department of Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
Maria Repnikova 2014-2016 Associate Professor in Global Communication, Georgia State University
Donatella Della Ratta 2013-2014 Associate Professor, Department of Communications and Media Studies, John Carbot University

CARGC Doctoral Alumni

Alumnus Fellowship Years Current Position
Zane Griffin Talley Cooper 2018-2023 Assistant Professor, Department of Digital Media and Film, St. Lawrence University
Lauren Emily Bridges 2018-2023 Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia
Florence Zivaishe Madenga 2018-2023 Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, African and African Diaspora Studies Program, Boston College
Pris Nasrat 2021-2022  
Maria Celeste Wagner 2018-2022 Assistant Professor, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Heather Jaber 2017-2022 Assistant Professor in Residence, Northwestern University in Qatar
Yasemin Celikkol 2017-2021 Assistant Professor in Residence, Northwestern University in Qatar
Katerina Girginova 2018-2019 Research Associate, Annenberg Virtual Reality ColLABorative, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Revati Prasad 2017-2019 Vice President of Programs, Benton Institute for Broadband & Society
Mohammed Salih 2017-2018 Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Middle East Program, Foreign Policy Research Institute
John Vilanova 2017-2018 Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism & Communication, Lehigh University
Rowan Howard-Williams 2016-2017 Analyst and Science Writer, New Zeland Ministry for the Environment

CARGC Undergraduate Alumni

Alumnus Fellowship Year Current Position
Oscar Vasquez Spring 2023 Senior Undergraduate Student, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Sudeep Bhargava 2021-2022

Senior Undergraduate Student, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania

Toni Walker 2019-2020 Senior Undergraduate Student, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Julia Becker 2018-2019  
Zubaida Salman AlQaissi 2018-2019