From Airbnb to Casa Particula: the Costs of Emotional Labor in Havana, Cuba
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...
LeiLani Nishime is an Associate Professor of Communication. Her research areas are multiracial and interracial studies, the intersection of race and gender, Asian American media representations...
On (Im)Possible Futures: Voodoo Lyrics and Queer Temporalities in Ghanaian Music Videos
Kwame Otu’s research transects issues of sexual citizenship, gender, human rights NGOs, and neoliberal racial formations in postcolonial Africa, traversing the anthropology of Africa, race, gender...
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...
Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Summary & Closing Remarks
Prof. Punathambekar is an Associate Professor of media studies and Founding Director of the Global Media Studies Initiativein the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan...
Truth, Justice, and the (Ancient) Egyptian Way: DC's Doctor Fate and the Arab Spring
Ph.D. student in the American Studies Program at the College of William & Mary. Her research interests include Arab and Muslim representation in American popular media, the superhero genre, and (new)...
Presenter on Charlottesville, Media, and Anti-Racist Activism Roundtable
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...
Embodied Exchanges: B Circuits of Cinema Across South/West Asia, 1950s-1970s
After completing my PhD at Rice University (2014), I joined the American University of Beirut as an Assistant Professor of Visual Culture. My location in Lebanon for two years (2014 - 2016)...
Good/Bad/Excellend Asian: Racial Identities across Generations in The Kids Table and Subtle Asian Traits
Tony Tran is an Assistant Professor in the Communication Department at Boston College. His teaching and research interests include global and transnational communication, Vietnamese diasporic...
Dr. Valdivia is Research Professor of the Institute of Communications Research and Department of Media and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois, Inaugural Head of Media and Cinema Studies...
