Our faculty

Research areas: Black media and cultural Studies, critical race studies, post/de-colonial studies, media of the global South, Gender, Development and rural communications, gender visuality and culture,

Research areas: Media and Cultural Theory, Film and Moving Image Studies, Cultural History, Audiovisual Technology, Popular Culture, Media Industries

Research areas: sound, mobility studies, critical disability studies, technology, research-creation

Research areas: Media effects on health beliefs and behavior, journalism and public opinion, media consumption and perception of social environment

Research areas: game studies, qualitative research methods, new media, popular culture.

Research areas: critical disability studies, performance studies, research-creation, medical anthropology, environmental humanities

Research areas: Digital media, gender and sexuality, networked publics, digital research methods, social media, digital platforms and governance, science and technology studies, app studies, identity

Research areas: news forms (journalism studies); newsgames; media history; feminist media studies; game studies

Research areas: poetics, research-creation, governance, platforms, domesticity, contemplative studies, elemental media, environmental justice, money and finance, sex work, mysticism

Research areas: Film Theory, Documentary Media, Documentary Production, Communication technology and Innovation, Communication networks, Minority rights and community vitality

Research areas: feminist media studies; contemporary art and activism; queer theory; migration studies; globalization; border theory; feminist STS; infrastructure studies; critical race studies; affect; research-creation; environmental humanities

Research areas: Algorithmic Media, Critical Approaches to Social Media and Big Data, Internet Policy, Digital Political Communication, Network Neutrality

status: Not accepting PhD students at this time

Research areas: Media & Environment, interactive documentary, immersive documentary, VR, human rights, community based research, participatory documentary, feminist media, climate change, research-creation

Research areas: media and identity, interfaces, affordances, image practices, material culture, STS

Research areas: Social Movements Media, Data Justice, Collaborative and Participatory Media, Art and Activism, Surveillance, gentrification and housing rights, algorithmic governance, Media Democracy, co-research and co-design, data activism.

Research areas: ageing studies; activist ageing; critical disability studies; mobile media; research creation; community based research; cultural discourses of age; social media as a representational force for generating knowledge about ageing subjects; ageing and technology

Research areas: Political economy of images, artistic research, archival studies, postcolonial ecologies, visual cultures of resource extraction

Research areas: Media History, Material Religion, Religion & Media, History of Photography, Technology and Culture, Print Culture, Spiritualism Magic and the Occult, Science and Technology Studies, History of the Body.

status: Not accepting new graduate students

Research areas: environmental and ecological humanities; atomic photography; nuclear and atomic history and aesthetics; cultural theory; writing as method; north and nordicity; monuments, archives and memory; risk and futurity

Research areas: Storytelling: dramatic structure and character development in scriptwriting for film, TV, and graphic novels. International myth and folk tales.

Research areas: Data Sonification; Nonlinear audiovisual Installations; Improvisation; Dark Ecology

Research areas: experimental, documentary film and video practices

Research areas: digital platforms, platform economics, media industries, media management, transmedia, animation, Japanese anime, digital culture, character merchandising, media studies, digital media, Internet history, media theory, visual culture, East Asia

Research areas: muselogy, feminism, moving image technologies, portable film technologies, cultural histories of cinema, moving image studies, film/media historiography, women and film/media, film/media theory, cultural studies, history of media arts, cinema, sound, television, web videos, critical curatorial studies, emergent media

Research areas: meda and cultural history, organizational communication, communication theory, international communications, cultural studies

Research areas: Race; Gender;, Representations; News Media; Popular Television; Critical Race Theory; Colonialism/decoloniality; Youth Studies; Violence Against Women; Islam/Muslim representations; Girl Studies; Memorials; Virtual Graveyards

Research areas: Indigenous & Alternative Media History; Multicultural & Multiracial Technology; Reconciliation Media; Skin Colour & Intelligent Media Design; International Media & Globaliz- ation; Transculturalism & Interculturalism; "Development" & Neo-colonialism.

Research areas: Critical Cultural Studies, Intermedia Arts, Residual and Emergent Media, Media Archaeology, Studies of Cultural Production, Experimental Film, Web Docs, Graphic Design

Research areas: experimental media arts; alternative media; Expo 67; identity and cultural politics

Research areas: Documentary production, still photography, Middle East, art and politics, human rights, environment and restorative ecology.