Sara Lafia, Geography, Graduated S20, Adviser: Krzysztof Janowicz
Dissertation: Designing for Serendipity: Research Data Curation in Topic Spaces
Current position: Research Fellow in the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan
Website: https://saralafia.github.io
Lorna Gonzalez, Education, Graduated F18, Adviser: Karen J. Lunsford
Dissertation: Aspects of a Literacy of Infographics: Results from an Empirical-Qualitative Study
Current position: Instructional/Learning Designer; Interim Assistant Director of Innovation & Faculty Development | California State University, Channel Islands
Website: http://tlinnovations.cikeys.com/lorna-gonzalez/
Twitter: @lgonzalez1
Francisco Brandao, Jr., Political Science, Graduated S17, Adviser: Bruce Bimber
Dissertation: Campaign Spheres in Latin America: How Institutions Affect Digital Media in Presidential Elections
Current position: Data Scientist and Communications Analyst, Chamber of Deputies of Brazil; Visiting Scholar, Political Science Department, University of Brasilia
Twitter: @frbrando
Aubrie Adams, Communication, Graduated S17, Adviser: Norah Dunbar
Current position: Assistant Professor of Digital Communication and Culture, Communication Studies Department, California Polytechnic State University
Website: https://coms.calpoly.edu/faculty/dr-aubrie-s-adams
Grant McKenzie, Geography, Graduated S15, Adviser: Krzysztof Janowicz
Dissertation: A Temporal Approach to Defining Place Types based on User-Contributed Geosocial Content
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, McGill University
Website: http://www.grantmckenzie.com/
Rahul Mukherjee, Film & Media Studies, Graduated S14, Adviser: Lisa Parks
Dissertation: Competing Knowledges, Uncertain Futures: A Study of Mediated Technoscience Publics in India
Current position: Dick Wolf Associate Professor of Television and New Media Studies; Associate Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
Website: https://www.english.upenn.edu/people/rahul-mukherjee
Ryan Medders, Communication, Graduated S14, Adviser: Miriam Metzger
Dissertation: The Role of Need for Cognition and Credibility Assessment in Exposure to Political Information on the Internet
Current position: Chair and Associate Professor of Department of Communication at California Lutheran University
Website: https://www.callutheran.edu/faculty/profile.html?id=rmedders
Rebekah (Pure) Grossman, Communication, Graduated S13, Adviser: Miriam Metzger
Dissertation: Privacy expectations in online contexts
Current position: Consultant at IRI (formerly Survey Specialist at NORC at the University of Chicago)
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebekah-grossman-90b7024a
Veljko Pejovic, Computer Science, Graduated S12, Adviser: Elizabeth Belding
Dissertation: Adaptive and Resource-Efficient Rural Area Wireless Networks
Current position: Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Website: http://lrss.fri.uni-lj.si/Veljko/
Katy Pearce, Communication, Graduated S11, Adviser: Ron Rice
Current position: Associate Professor, Communication, University of Washington
Website: http://www.katypearce.net/
Darren Hardy, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, Graduated S10, Adviser: James Frew
Current position: Senior Software Engineer at Uplight
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenhardyphd/
Nicole Starosielski, Film & Media Studies, Graduated S10, Adviser: Lisa Parks
Current position: Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU
Website: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty/Nicole_Starosielski
Monica Bulger, Education, Graduated S09, Adviser: Richard Mayer
Dissertation: Online literacy and the trouble with information
Current position: Research Consultant at UNICEF; Senior Fellow at Joan Ganz Cooney Center; (Former fellow at Oxford Internet Institute and Berkman Center for Internet & Society)
Website: http://www.datasociety.net/people/bulger-monica/
Bola King, English, Graduated S09, Adviser: Alan Liu
Dissertation: A Theoretical Framework for Virtual-Worlds Research: Toward a Proxemics of Virtuality
Current position: Owner, Zeno Effect Media; Adjunct Instructor of English, College of the Canyons