Graduate Faculty

Claudio Moreira, Professor and Chair, B.A.,Universidad de Campinas, Brazil, 1999; M.A., Illinois, 2002, Ph.D.; 2007.

Gonen Dori-Hacohen, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, B.A., Open University of Israel, 1996; M.A., Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2000; M.A., California at Los Angeles, 2003; Ph.D., Haifa, Israel, 2009.

Kevin Anderson, Senior Lecturer, B.A., Portland State, 1995; M.A., Umass, Amherst, 1999; Ph.D. 2006.

Seyram Avle, Assistant Professor, B.A., Brandeis, 2007; Ph.D., Michigan at Ann Arbor, 2014.

Soo Young Bae, Associate Professor, B.A & BBA., Korea University, Seoul, 2008; Ph.D, Michigan, 2014.

Benjamin Bailey, Professor, B.A., Brown, 1987; M.A., California at Los Angeles, 1996; Ph.D., 1999.

Burcu Baykurt, Assistant Professor, B.A., Bogazici University, 2006; M.A. Goldsmiths, University of London, 2009; M.A. New York University, 2012; Ph.D., Columbia University, 2019.

Mari Castañeda, Professor, B.A., California at Los Angeles, 1993; Ph.D., California at San Diego, 2000.

Briankle G. Chang, Professor, B.A., Fu Jen Catholic, Taiwan, 1976; M.A., Alabama, 1978; M.A., Illinois, 1981; Ph.D., 1990.

Anne T. Ciecko, Associate Professor, B.A., LaSalle, 1986; M.A., Pennsylvania State, 1988; Ph.D., Pittsburgh, 1997.

Leda M. Cooks, Professor, B.S., Miami, 1986, M.A., Ohio University; Ph.D. 1993

Ayanna Dozier, Assistant Professor, B.A. Chapman Univ, CA, 2012; M.A. New York Univ., 2014; McGill, Montreal, 2020.

Martha Fuentes-Bautista, Senior Lecturer, B.A., Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1996; M.A., SUNY at Buffalo, 2000; Ph.D., Texas at Austin, 2007.

Stephen Olbrys Gencarella, Associate Professor, B.A., Providence College, 1993; M.A., Tufts, 1995; Ph.D., Indiana, 2003.

Seth K. Goldman, Associate Professor, B.A., George Washington, 2004; M.A., Pennsylvania, 2007; Ph.D., 2010.

Jonathan C. Ong, Professor, B.A., Ateno de Manila University, Philippines, 2003; M.Sc., London School of Economics, UK, 2007; Ph.D., Cambridge, UK, 2012.

Kimberly Pérez, Associate Professor, B.A., California State, Northridge, 2003; M.A. Maine, 2005; Ph.D., Arizona State, 2014.

Erica Scharrer, Professor, B.A. New York at Geneseo, 1992; M.A., Syracuse, 1995; Ph.D. 1998.

Shawn Shimpach, Associate Professor, B.A., Brandeis, 1993; M.A., New York University, 1996; Ph.D., 2004.

Alena L. Vasilyeva, Associate Professor, B.A., Minsk State Linguistic University, Belarus, 1996; Candidate of Science, 2002; Ph.D., Rutgers, 2010

Emily West, Professor, B.A.S., McMaster, Canada, 1997; M.A., Pennsylvania, 2000; Ph.D., 2004

Weiai Xu, Associate Professor, B.A. Zhejiang University of Technology, China, 2009; M.A., Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2011; Ph.D., SUNY, Buffalo, 2015.

Ethan Zuckerman, Associate Professor, B.A. Williams College of Public Policy, Communication, and Information, 1993.

Associate Faculty

Amrita Basu, Professor of Political Science & Women's & Gender Studies, Amherst College

Daniel Horowitz, Professor of American Studies, Smith College

Alexandra Keller, Associate Professor of Film Studies, Smith College

Jina Kim, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, Smith College

Faculty Emeriti

Carolyn Anderson, Professor Emerita (2006).

Donal A. Carbaugh, Professor Emeritus (2019).

Vernon Cronen, Professor Emeritus (2011).

Jarice Hanson, Professor Emerita (2016).

Sut Jhally, Professor Emeritus (2020).

Michael Morgan, Professor Emeritus (2016).