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Hannah Artman, PhD Student
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Hannah is a first-year PhD student, and a two-time graduate of the University of Miami. She completed the Fellows in Latin American Studies program at UM, then worked at a local polling firm before returning to academia. Her graduate work explored concepts of cross-cultural media production, with a focus on Spanish-language mass media in the United States. She employs a practical approach alongside theory, often producing audio and visual components to her work.
Hannah’s current research interests lie in cross-cultural communication; news consumption; and political participation through mainstream and social/digital media.
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US; Latin America
Keywords
culture; news; social media;
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Sanjeev Chatterjee, Professor
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Sanjeev Chatterjee's international work falls in 3 categories - documentary filmmaking, teaching/mentoring and consulting. Over a career spanning 3 decades, Sanjeev's documentary work focuses broadly on environment and culture. He is a two-time Fulbright scholarship recipient (2011 and 2018) and is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar. He has served as a consultant for UNDP, UN Water, World Bank among others. Sanjeev's documentary work has been seen on television channels worldwide including National Geographic, The History Channel, Discovery, PBS, CCTV (China), ARTE (France and Germany), Doordarshan (India) among others. His awards include top prizes at Foyle (Ireland), Cinemaambiente (Spain), Artivist (USA), Broadcast Education Association (USA).
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India; Mexico ; Brazil; China
Cities
Kolkata; Ahmedabad; São Paulo, Yichang
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documentary; media education ; environment ; culture ; media literacy
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Lindsay D. Grace, Knight Chair and Associate Professor
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Lindsay Grace is a researcher, designer, developer, artist and author focusing on social impact through playable media. He has authored and co-authored more than 70 academic publications include the books Doing Things with Games, Social Impact through Design and Love and Electronic Affection, a Design Primer. His creative work has been showcased across Asia, Europe and South America and he’s co-curated exhibitions in Asia and Europe. He is Vice President for the Higher Education Video Game Alliance and the former Vice President of the Global Game Jam. For this work he received the 2019 Games for Change Vanguard award.
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The Netherlands; Singapore; Australia ; Brazil
Cities
Amsterdam;Melbourne
Keywords
social impact; game design; persuasive play; game art; news games;
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Kim Grinfeder, Associate Professor
Kim Grinfeder is a multidisciplinary media maker and storyteller who uses emergent technologies to practice new ways to communicate social and environmental issues.
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Ali Habashi, Assistant Professor
Ali Habashi is an award-winning filmmaker and educator with 23 years of professional experience in initiating and leading cross-disciplinary media projects anchored in pressing global issues such as marine conservation, clean drinking water and sanitation, health care disparities among underserved communities and aging populations. Having filmed stories in more than 50 countries, his various research and film projects have been supported by more than 3 Million Dollars in grant funds and featured in CBS4, NBC6, Miami Herald and USA Today and aired on several international Cable and Public TV channels and received major awards in numerous International Film Festivals.
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China; Mexico; Ecuador; France
Cities
Shanghai; Monterrey; Quito; Montpellier
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filmmaking; global; collaboration; innovation; education
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Sallie Hughes, Associate Professor
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Sallie Hughes' research examines journalism, journalists and risk, as well as immigrant audiences and belonging. She mentors doctoral students in both of those areas. Her books include Newsrooms in Conflict: Journalism and the Democratization of Mexico and Making a Life in Multiethnic Miami: Immigration and the Rise of a Global City. Dr. Hughes is also coordinate the Latin American and Caribbean region of the Worlds of Journalism Study, the largest study of journalists globally. Her service includes consultation for the RSF Press Freedom Index and she teaches classes in comparative media and journalism, media and society, LatinX media and Latin American Studies.
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Mexico; United States; Brazil; Colombia
Cities
Mexico City; Miami
Keywords
Journalism Studies; Latin American Studies
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Miachael Kim
Michael Kim's research interests primarily lie in the fields of development communication, global media, and communicatiom for social change. Some of his current research examines the interplay between ICTs and participation; social media and international development discourse; humanitarian communication; and development journalism.
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United States; South Korea
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Konstantia Kontaxis, Associate Professor
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Kontaxis is a filmmaker, film curator and film educator. Her film work focuses on art, public art and the creative process.
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US; Greece; Italy; Spain
Keywords
film; documentary; editing; art; art in education
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Victoria Orrego, Associate Professor
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Dr. Victoria Orrego’s research specialization is in health communication with a focus on health promotion and evaluation to reduce health disparities in vulnerable populations. Dr. Orrego has worked with the Haitian community in Miami Dade on increasing organ donation consent. Dr. Orrego is currently part of an interdisciplinary team working on HIV prevention through early infant male circumcision in Zambia. Lastly, She has conducted field research in Santiago Atitlán over the past seven years, and recently completed a pilot grant, “Engaging the Capacity of Local Comadronas in Rural Guatemala: A tool for HIV prevention and Maternal Health” funded by the UM CFAR.
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Guatemala: Zambia: USA
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Santiago Atitlan; Lusaka, Miami
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HIV prevention, Maternal health, community engaged research, health disparities, health communication
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Jyotika Ramaprasad, Professor
Dr. Ram,aprasad's research has mainly encompassed advertising, journalism studies (JS) and communication for social change (CFSC). Her advertising research was in Asia, her JS work in Africa and South Asia, and her CFSC work, for which she conducted formative research, developed communication strategy, and oversaw message production, was in Uganda and Macedonia (health related), and in Vietnam (disaster reduction). The study of cultures is salient in all her research, and the social justice and the critical perspectives are increasingly central to Jyotika's work. Apart from global CFSC, she teaches intercultural communication, and is developing a course in indigenous epistemologies and communication.
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Uganda; Botswana; India; Macedonia
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International; journalism studies; communication for social change; cultures; advertising
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Fernanda Da Silva, PhD Student
My research interests include intercultural communication in media and social media involving Latinx and immigrant audiences and users. Some areas I am currently exploring are: understanding how culture lives on social media; understanding social media influencers and their roles across cultures; understanding Latinx culture in social media. Furthermore, as part of UM’s COVID-19 Observatory, I participate in research about the pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean, mostly emphasizing in Brazil and Mexico.
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Brazil; United States
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Latinx; Immigrants; Social Media; Influencers; Intercultural Communication
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Joseph B. Treaster
Professor Treaster a journalist, author and academic specializing in international, environmental, economic affairs and the arts with experience in disasters and public health. He teaches narrative writing and coordinates the Writing for the Digital Age teaching group. He writes for The New York Times and scholarly journals. Treaster has worked in more than 80 countries. For more than 30 years he worked as a reporter and foreign correspondent for The New York Times. He is on the University of Miami's Board of Student Publications He is the adviser to the university's chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
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Ecuador; Cuba; Kenya; Great Britain
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Guayaquil; Havana; Nairobi; London
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Global; environment; economics; art; writing
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Wan-Hsiu Sunny Tsai, Associate Professor
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Dr. Tsai's research examines the influence of advertising and marketing communication as a powerful cultural institution in the globalized markets. She has investigated topics such as minority consumers’ response to multicultural advertising, glocalization of brand meanings, consumer acculturation, and consumer ethnocentrism, political consumption and consumer advocacy, and recently, chatbot for brand communication and augmented reality advertising. Her research addresses the shifting political and cultural influences in brand communication, and consumers' sociopolitical interpretations of brand messages.
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Taiwan, USA, China, South Korea
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minority consumer; international advertising; cross-cultural comparison; political consumption
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Rechna Varma, Assistant Professor
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Rechna Varma, producer of feature films Margarita and Catch and Release was a 2020 recipient of the Banff-Netflix Diversity of Voices fellowship for her series Love Rules; which is currently under option with Entertainment One. As a writer/producer Rechna works under her banner Rechna Varma Productions. Past work includes: story and digital producer in lifestyle television, development executive in scripted television - Bad Blood (Netflix), 19-2 (CBC), This Life (CBC) and as a production executive at the Canadian Film Center. Rechna has an MBA from University of Toronto and a Global EMBA from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
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USA; Canada
Cities
Toronto; Miami; Ottawa
Keywords
Film; Television; Storytelling; Business; Innovation
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Karin Wilkins, Dean and Professor
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Dr. Wilkins' scholarship integrates global communication, development, media studies with attention to gender and power.
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United States; Arab world; East Asia
Keywords
global; development; social change
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Yang Yi, PhD Student
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Based on the applications of mixed research methodologies, Yang Yi's current research focuses on how to improve the effectiveness of people’s health information seeking and sharing, as well as how to narrow health inequality and improve social justice mainly though improving health literacy and bridging health digital divide. Her research agenda is mainly on how to adapt to the needs of rapid social changes through timely and effective health interventions.
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United States
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health information seeking; health inequality; health literacy
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