PhD Candidates (ABDs) in the Institute and Prospective Titles of their Dissertations

Heidi Brush "Netwars: Information Technologies, Global Politics and the Reappropriation of Space" Advisor: Paula Treichler

Diem-My Bui "Representations of Vietnamese Women and their Bodies in the U.S. Social Imaginary" Advisor: Angharad Valdivia

Rachel Dubrofsky "The Bachelor Industry: Surveillance and Regulation of Women" Advisor: Kent Ono

Michael Elavsky "Czech Identity, Music, and the Global Music Industry" Advisor: Cameron McCarthy

Alice Filmer "The Acoustics of Identity: Linguistic Passports Beyond Empire and Essentialism" Advisor: Norman Denzin

Susan Harewood "Caribbean Popular Music, Masquerade, and Transnational Subjectivity" Advisor: Cameron McCarthy

Soochul Kim "Reimagining the City of Seoul: The Transformation of Public Space in South Korea" Advisor: Norman Denzin

Marina Levina "The Stake and the Chip: Popular Culture, Scientific Discourse, and the Management of Monstrous Bodies" Advisor: Paula Treichler

Marie Leger "Clinical Globalization: Pharmaceutical Research in the Developing World" Advisor: Paula Treichler

Mark Nimkoff "Media(ted) Memories: Museum Constructions of Communications History" Advisor: John Nerone

Jin Kyung Park "Governing Korean Women's Bodies: Japanese Colonialism, Maternal Health and Mass Media in Colonial Korea, 1920-1945" Advisor: Paula Treichler

Elizabeth Perea "How Do You Define Success? Business, Community, and Music at Righteous Babe Records" Advisor: Cameron McCarthy

Joy Pierce "Communication Unplugged: A Cultural Analysis of the Digital Divide" Advisor: Norman Denzin

Rajiv Shah "The Regulator is the Medium: How the Architecture of the Internet Regulates Behavior" Advisor: Jay Kesan

Rob Sloane "Accounting and Taste: Economics and Culture in an Independent Record Store" Advisor: Cameron McCarthy

Sukki Yoon "When Paying More is Feeling Better: Counterfactual Thinking in Consumer Satisfaction" Advisor: Patrick Vargas