An ethnographer with fieldwork experience in Havana, Cuba, Guadalajara, Mexico, the slums of Vitória, Brazil, and in the Appalachian region of eastern Kentucky, David Nemer is the author of Favela...

Dr. Avery’s overarching research interests are at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and mainstream media. Specifically, she is interested in Black women’s intersectional identities and...

Aniko Bodroghkozy is a media historian with a focus on television, the 1960s, and movements for social change. She is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia and has been on its...

I am a White anti-racist queer femme applied developmental psychologist, sexuality educator, and community organizer. I lived in Boston and New York City before moving to Charlottesville in 2016...

Prof. Punathambekar is an Associate Professor of media studies and Founding Director of the Global Media Studies Initiative in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan...

Mr. Zinner oversees the areas of American and Cultural Studies, Media and Communication, and Literary Studies at NYU Press where he is Associate Director and Editor in Chief. 

Lisa Woolfork is an associate professor of English at the University of Virginia, where she specializes in African American Literature and Culture. She is an organizer with Black Lives Matter...

Dr. Jade Petermon received her Ph.D. from the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2014. She is currently completing a manuscript entitled Hyper(in...

Sean Lee is a first-year law student at the George Washington University School of Law. He graduated from UVA this past May with High Distinction in African-American and African Studies. His...

My research and teaching is focused upon African diaspora religions of the Caribbean and Latin America, and particularly festivity and ritual. I teach courses which consider the effects of...