Assistantships at Drexel

[Leila Monaghan]

Dear Colleagues:

Will you please share ad from the Communication Department at Drexel this
widely?  There are three linguists and one conversation analyst in our
department -- Rakhmiel Peltz, Barbara Hoekje, Alan Zemel, and me.  And
students can do ethnographic work in this degree, although it is a
Communication degree at the end of the day.  Then, there are a smidgeon more
jobs in Com than in Anth...

Rachel

rrr28 at drexel.edu







Ph.D. Assistantships (Tuition and Stipend) Available for Fall 2010



The Department of Culture & Communication, Drexel University, Philadelphia,
PA is offering multi-year renewable teaching/research assistantships
(tuition and stipend) for students wishing to pursue an interdisciplinary
Ph.D. in Communication Studies.  To be considered for a fall 2010 admission
and assistantship, applications must be received by February 1, 2010.



Program of study includes course work in social theory, semiotics and
discourse analysis, media ecology, communication ethics, and major research
methods in Communication, including content analysis, marketing and social
surveys, ethnography and other quantitative and qualitative methodologies.
 Faculty expertise includes political communication (particularly in areas
of war and conflict), migration and media, consumer culture, social media,
media and urban space, popular music, and environmental communication and
environmental justice.



Many faculty work collaboratively with graduate students on conference
presentations and journal articles, and a number of our students present and
publish papers early in their course of study. Current students are
conducting research in areas such as race, local news media and crime
reporting; comparative studies in reportage on the War on Terror between
Germany and the U.S.; graffiti and claiming of public space; politics of
environmental discourse around energy; and bisexuality and identity
experiments in online communities.



Completed applications must include:  resume or C.V., minimum GPA of 3.0,
GRE scores, 1500 word statement of purpose, and three letters of
recommendation.  TOEFL (minimum score of 600 or equivalent) for
international students.  For more information on applications see:

<http://www.drexel.edu/em/apply/coas/p_comm.html>
http://www.drexel.edu/em/apply/coas/p_comm.html

or

<http://www.drexel.edu/catalog/grad/coas/com-index.htm>
http://www.drexel.edu/catalog/grad/coas/com-index.htm



For more information about the department, faculty and programs, see: <
http://www.drexel.edu/culturecomm/>http://www.drexel.edu/culturecomm/
-- 
Leila Monaghan, PhD
Department of Anthropology
University of Wyoming
Laramie, Wyoming