I’m an Associate Professor of Journalism Studies in the Department of Communication at Wayne State University.
I earned a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, including a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies, and an M.S. from Ohio University after studying Journalism Studies, Communication and Media Studies, and American Studies at the University of Leipzig, Germany.
In my research I am interested in the intersections of journalism, media, gender, and minoritized groups as well as the democratic potential of new and social media and its limits, for instance through online harassment and abuse and other problematic phenomena.
My co-edited book We can do better: Feminist manifestos for media and communication, with Linda Steiner is currently in press, slated to be published by Rutgers University Press in April 2025.
I co-edited the volume Reflections on feminist communication and media scholarship: Theory, method, impact (2022), with Ingrid Bachmann. Edited with Linda Steiner, our book Feminist manifestos for media and communication is forthcoming with Rutgers University Press.
I have published articles in journals such as Journalism; Journalism Practice; New Media & Society; the International Journal of Communication; Media, Culture & Society; Feminist Media Studies, M&K Medien und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Health Communication;Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism; and Journalism Research/Journalistik.
I am editor of the peer-reviewed open-access journal Journalism Research / Journalistik which publishes each article in English and German, including studies, essays, commentary, and book reviews, online three times a year.
I am also co-PI on the NSF ADVANCE grant “Gender Equity Advances Retention in STEM” (WSU-GEARS, 2020-2023) to address barriers to women and underrepresented minorities on Wayne State University’s campus regarding issues relating to hidden and unequal workload, work-life-family strains, and toxic work environment.
I am Team Lead of the “Hidden and Low Promotability Work Project” of the NSF ADVANCE Partnership Grant SIEDS (2024-2028), with Michigan State University and The Ohio State University.
Previously, I was Co-PI for a grant from the World Health Organization (2015-2016) for a systematic review of extant literature on media use in public health crisis. My work focused on research on the use of social media during global public health crisis, including for/with vulnerable populations. I also worked as Co-PI for a grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (2016-2017) to synthesis studies on the civic and political participation for women in developing countries.
My teaching experience includes feminist media theory; interviewing as a research method; qualitative research methods; journalism and new media; introduction to news reporting; introduction to broadcast news reporting, writing and editing; media literacy; and journalism and media history, and the “dark sides” of social media.
Previously, I initiated and co-founded the #WikidGRRLS project (2013-2017) to teach middle and high school girls how to create content on knowledge sharing sites such as Wikipedia. WikidGRRLS was awarded several grants from the Future of Information at the University of Maryland, the College of Fine, Performing, and Communication Arts at Wayne State University and Wayne State University.
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