PhD Students

Inhwan Bae
Inhwan Bae
she/her

Graduate Student

Department of Communication

Inhwan Bae
  • ib295 [at] cornell.edu
Media psychology, information processing, social disparity and social media
Stephanie Belina
Stephanie Belina
she/her

Graduate Student

Department of Communication

Stephanie Belina
  • spb229 [at] cornell.edu
Technology innovation, computational methods, corporate communication
Sohinee Bera
Sohinee Bera
she/her

Graduate Student

Department of Communication

Sohinee Bera
  • sb928 [at] cornell.edu
Culture-centered approaches, data infrastructures, community health interventions, social construction of risk
Talia Berniker
Talia Berniker
she/her

Graduate Student

Department of Communication

Talia Berniker
  • tpb63 [at] cornell.edu
Advertising, artistic activism, cultural studies, political communication, social media, surveillance studies
Soya Boo
she/her

Graduate Student

Department of Communication

Soya Boo
Emma Cox
Emma Cox
she/her

Graduate Student, CGSA Vice President

Department of Communication

Emma Cox
  • egc66 [at] cornell.edu
Media effects, persuasion, and health communication
Maggie Foster
Margaret E. (Maggie) Foster
she/her

Graduate Student

Department of Communication

Margaret E. (Maggie) Foster
  • mef262 [at] cornell.edu
Queer relationality, queer space, digital cultures, creator economies, epistemic justice, critical pedagogies, gender-based violence
Julia Goolsby
Julia Goolsby
she/her

Graduate Student

Department of Communication

Julia Goolsby
  • jbg322 [at] cornell.edu
Climate and environmental communication, risk communication, emotions, organizational change, actionable science
Ria Gualano
Ria Gualano
she/her

Graduate Student

Department of Communication

Ria Gualano
  • rjg322 [at] cornell.edu
Accessibility, community-based participatory research methods, disability and neurodiversity arts, disability media studies, embodiment, emerging technologies
Micah Haskins
Micah Haskins
he/him

Graduate Student

Department of Communication

Micah Haskins
  • mnh39 [at] cornell.edu
Work, Technology, Organization/s, Groups, Networks, Models, Neural Representations, Simulation
Ellie Homant
Ellie Homant
she/her/hers

Graduate Student

Department of Communication

Ellie Homant
  • ejh238 [at] cornell.edu
social media and online communities; digital labor; influencer culture; queer and feminist media studies; identity, marginality, and inequality; qualitative research methods
Ksenia Ionova
she/her

Graduate Student

Department of Communication

Ksenia Ionova
  • kbi4 [at] cornell.edu
Kemigisa Jackline
Kemigisa Jackline
she/her

Graduate Student

Department of Communication

Kemigisa Jackline
  • fk274 [at] cornell.edu
How algorithms and artificial intelligence influence democracy; feminist media and feminist technology
Everlynn Khamjoi
Everlynn Khamjoi
she/her

Graduate Student, CGSA Treasurer

Department of Communication

Everlynn Khamjoi
  • ek784 [at] cornell.edu
Video games, cultural industries, media systems, the political economy of media, assets, financial capital
Meghan Landsberg
Meghan Landsberg
she/her

Graduate Student

Department of Communication

Meghan Landsberg
  • mll294 [at] cornell.edu
Disinformation, Radicalization, Persuasive technology, Media Psychology, Information and Cognition
Abdulmalik Lawal
he/him

Graduate Student

Department of Communication

Abdulmalik Lawal
  • aal243 [at] cornell.edu
Mandy Luo
Mandy Luo
she/her

Graduate Student

Department of Communication

Mandy Luo
  • ml2897 [at] cornell.edu
Media Psychology, health communication, human-computer interaction, computer-mediated communication, persuasion
Jessica Lopez Diaz
she/her

Graduate Student

Department of Communication

Jessica Lopez Diaz
  • jl4923 [at] cornell.edu
Kevin Martinez
Kevin Martinez
he/him

Graduate Student

Department of Communication

Kevin Martinez
  • ktm62 [at] cornell.edu
Emerging media; human-computer interaction; virtual reality; computer-supported collaborative learning; immersive learning; embodied interaction
Roxana Muenster
Roxana Muenster
she/her

PhD Candidate

Department of Communication

Roxana Muenster
  • rm858 [at] cornell.edu
Digital and political communication, social movements, lifestyle politics, alternative health
Rosie Nguyen
Rosie Nguyen
she/her

Graduate Student, Department Grad Rep

Department of Communication

Rosie Nguyen
  • nhn8 [at] cornell.edu
Digital culture, social media, social movements, online identity, media and gender, mixed methods
Xuan Qian
Xuan Qian
she/her

Graduate Student

Department of Communication

Xuan Qian
  • xq84 [at] cornell.edu
Risk communication, information seeking, media psychology
Andrew Restieri
Andrew Restieri
he/him

Graduate Student

Department of Communication

Andrew Restieri
  • ar2349 [at] cornell.edu
Online communities, digital culture, sexuality and intimacy, consent and privacy, platform governance
Sarah Snyder
Sarah Salman
she/her

Graduate Student

Department of Communication

Sarah Salman
  • sjs456 [at] cornell.edu
Media studies, content creation, and popular culture
Maggie Sardino
Maggie Sardino
she/her

Graduate Student, CGSA President

Department of Communication

Maggie Sardino
  • mms493 [at] cornell.edu
Political communication, media messaging, community storytelling, housing equity, urban development, social policy
Julia Sebastien
Julia Sebastien
she/her

Graduate Student

Department of Communication

Julia Sebastien
  • js3666 [at] cornell.edu
Media psychology, perception and cognition, top-down processing, social media, virtual reality, online communities, place and space, digital cultural studies, human-computer interaction, social psychology, judgment and decision-making, behavior
Ashley Shea
Ashley Shea
she/her

Graduate Student

Department of Communication

Ashley Shea
  • ald52 [at] cornell.edu
Critical information literacy, instruction interventions and behavioral change, global open knowledge networks, information discovery on social media
Nishat Tasnim
Nishat Tasnim
she/her

Graduate Student

Department of Communication

Nishat Tasnim
  • nts43 [at] cornell.edu
Anti-immigrant racism, digital media, Islamophobia, media representation, political communication, and U.S. foreign policy
Headshot of Teairah Taylor
Teairah Taylor

Graduate Student

Department of Communication

Teairah Taylor
  • tmt67 [at] cornell.edu
Health communication; racial and ethnic health disparities; community engagement; translational research; social determinants of health
Amanda Vilchez
Amanda Vilchez
she/her

Graduate Student

Department of Communication

Amanda Vilchez
  • av442 [at] cornell.edu
Science communication, public understanding of science, participatory research, citizen science, public engagement, inequities in science communication
Ruiyao Wang
Ruiyao Wang
she/her

Graduate Student, Department Grad Rep

Department of Communication

Ruiyao Wang
  • rw728 [at] cornell.edu
Media platforms; migration; gender and media; cultural labor
Zuri Wilson
Zuri Wilson
she/her

Graduate Student, CGSA Vice President

Department of Communication

Zuri Wilson
  • zw835 [at] cornell.edu
Black English, digital media, artificial intelligence, media representation