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Curriculum Vitae •
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Fall 2007, Summer 2008, Fall 2008, Summer 2009
04:189:102, Introduction to Media Systems and Processes
Introductory course is designed to present modern mass media and
communication theory to students. Course explores the developmental,
historical, socio-economic and political contexts, and ramifications of
mass media as they relate to the American and global societies.
Fall 2008, Spring 2009
04:189:196, RU-TV Living Learning Community Academic Course
Theoretical foundation of television studies to supplement the hands-on
television experience gained from production learning in the RU-TV
Living Learning Community.
Fall 2008, Spring 2009
04:567:334, Gender, Race and Class in the Media
Exploration of the content, treatment, and effects of women and
minority group coverage in television, newspapers, magazines, popular
music and film.
Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Spring
2008
189:102, Introduction to Media Systems and Processes. Instructor:
Steven Miller.
Teaching assistant.
EDUCATION
Fall
2006-present
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Ph.D. Student, School of Communication, Information and Library Studies
Journalism and Media Studies concentration
Completed courses: Information and Communication Processes (601);
Research Foundations (602); Mass Communication Theory and Research
(631); Qualitative Research Methods (603); Quantitative Research
Methods (604); Media Criticism (662); Media and Culture (664); Media
and Politics (665)
Qualifying exams anticipated for Summer/Fall 2009
2004-2006
New School for Social Research
Master of Arts, Sociology
Sociology of the Media concentration
Courses included: Sociology of the Media; Social Theory and Media;
Taboos, Censorship, and the Media; Televisuality; Information Wants to
be Free; Public Sphere in the Age of Television; Fundamentals of
Sociology of Culture; Foundations of Social Theory
1997-2001
Virginia Commonwealth University
Bachelor of Science, Sociology and Anthropology; minor in Political
Science
Sociology of the Media concentration
Graduated with University Honors and magna cum laude
Courses included: Sociology of the Media; Media Ethics; Sociological
Theory; and Social Science Research Methods
AWARDS
AND AFFILIATIONS
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL)
Graduate Student Fellow, 2008-present
Department of Journalism and Media Studies Teaching Assistantship, Fall
2006-2009
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Department of Journalism and
Media Studies, 2007
New School for Social Research
Sociology Student representative, Faculty Search Committee (Sociology
of Media professor hire)
Sociology Student Association member, 2004-2006
Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science scholarship, 2004-2006
Virginia Commonwealth University
Graduated with University Honors (VCU Honors Program) and magna cum
laude, 2001
Dean’s Scholarship, 1997-2001
General Honors Program Scholarship, Fall 1997
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
School of Communication, Information and Library Studies
Doctoral Student Association
Social Chair, 2009-present
International Communication Association
Student member, 2007-present
National Communication Association
Member, 2008-present
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Member, 2007-present
CONFERENCE
PRESENTATIONS
2009:
Ends of Television Conference
Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
Presentation: Questioning the Audience: Research Issues of Television Viewers and Medium Specificity
Unthinking Television: Visual Culture[s] Beyond the Console
Sixth Annual Visual Cultures Symposium
George Mason University
Presentation: Concentration or Distraction? An Analysis of Television
Viewing Practices
2008:
National Communication Association Conference
San Diego, CA
Presentation: Audience Studies and New Technology: Are iPods Changing
Television Viewing?
FlowTV Conference
University of Texas-Austin
Roundtable: Mobile Television
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
Philadelphia, PA
Presentation: Representations of Gender and the Domestic
Sphere in
Television Set Ad Campaigns, 1940-Present
2007:
New Jersey Communication Association Conference
Kean University
Presentation: Picket Lines and Papers: Content Analysis of
Newspaper
Coverage of the 2006 Robert Wood Johnson Hospital Nurses' Strike
OTHER
PRESENTATIONS
2009:
Teaching Assistant Orientation
Presentation: Using Social Networking Websites in Teaching
Teaching Assistant Project Guest Lecture
Presentation: Teaching a Summer Course
Teaching Assistant Project Guest Lecture
Panel: Learning from Experience
Where's Waldo? Week Academic Lecture Series
Presentation:Waldo Goes to Hollywood
2008:
Teaching Assistant Orientation
Presentation: Public Speaking and the TA
Presentation: Using Social Networking Websites in Teaching
Teaching Assistant Project Guest Lecture
Presentation: Using Social Networking Websites in Teaching
2007:
Teaching Assistant Orientation
Presentation: Public Speaking and the TA
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Impact of technology on the television viewing experience, such as
DVRs/TiVo, DVD, and video iPods
Relationships between gender, work, and class in television viewing
in the domestic sphere
Mobile television in urban spaces
Visual aesthetics and television