Fellowships/ Projects
2024-2025
The Institute for Social Research (IfS) in Frankfurt, Germany - the birthplace of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory - is an internationally recognized site for critical research.
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I spent time at the Institute as a visiting fellow and presented my ongoing project focusing on the importance of incorporating critical theory and reflection in the field of Communications titled Arguing from Within: Foregrounding Immanent Critique in the study of Communications .
2023
The Pennsylvania Broadband Research (PBR) Institute aims to critically examine the political and economic dynamics of broadband policy at the state and federal levels. As the PBR Institute fellow, I work closely with leading scholars in the field through a collaboration between the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at The Pennsylvania State University, and the MIC Center under the Annenberg School for Communication at The University of Pennsylvania. Scholars involved include Christopher Ali, Sascha Meinrath, Victor Pickard and David Berman.
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I spent my summer working at the MIC Center under the Annenberg School for Communication in Philedelphia.
2022
The Consortium on Media Policy Studies (COMPASS) program is administered by the Media, Inequality & Change Center (MIC) at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication and allows summer Fellows to gain experience at major national, non-profit institutions in Washington, D.C.
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I spent my summer in Washington, D.C. with an internship placement at Common Cause.
WPSU Board Member
2021-2025
WPSU is central Pennsylvania's Public Media provider, operating as both a PBS and NPR member station to a primarily rural population of 1.3 million Pennsylvanians.
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I was nominated and elected as WPSU’s first student member on the Board of Representatives, and I sat on the government relations committee.
News Literacy - Penn State
2021-2024
Working with prominent scholars at Penn State campuses across the commonwealth, I was involved in the Penn State News Literacy Initiative from the ground up. Collectively working to implement News Literacy as an essential skill for all Penn State students, the initiative worked to bring together interdisciplinary university faculty and administrators, in addition to community leaders, public media representatives, and members of Penn State's news readership program.
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I led the News Literacy Ambassador Institute, which ran once a year and aimed to teach high achieving Penn State undergraduate students the values foundational to news literacy, such as critical thinking, active consumption of news, and political and economic dynamics impacting the journalism industry today.
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Projects
Global Media & Internet Concentration Project
United States Research Team alongside Pawel Popiel, Hendrik Theine, and Christopher Ali
The GMICP is a SSHCR funded project led by Dwayne Winseck that brings together a multidisciplinary team of more than 50 scholars and almost a dozen non-academic external partners to study questions of media concentration in nearly 40 countries.
Seminars/Workshops
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This biennial summer school brings together scholars and graduate students from all over the globe to explore media transformations from a critical political economy perspective.
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The 2025 Summer School was held in Šibenik, Crotia. See conference abstracts here.
Milton Wolf Seminar
Emerging Scholar Fellow
Co-organized by The University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication, The American Austrian Foundation (AAF), and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna (DA), the annual seminar addresses developing issues in diplomacy and journalism held at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna.
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The Emerging Scholar Fellow program selects outstanding advanced MA candidates, PhD students, postdoctoral students or law students studying areas related to the seminar theme to attend.
2024 Local Journalism Researchers Workshop
Co-organized by the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy at Duke University and the Center for Sustainability and Innovation in Local Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the annual workshop brings together researchers across the academy, industry, non-profit, and government sectors whose work addresses contemporary issues confronting local journalism.
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I received travel funding to attend the 2024 workshop in Durham, North Carolina.
