[Linganth] PhD studentships available

[Rachel R Reynolds]

Please share this announcement widely as we are recruiting for Fall of 
2017.  The degree is cross-disciplinary although our students tend to 
get jobs in Media Studies.  Thank you!  Rachel


Assistantships for Ph.D. Study Available, Communication, Culture & 
Media, Drexel University, Philadelphia PA, applications due Dec 15 for 
Fall 2017 admission.

The Ph.D. program in Communication, Culture and Media at Drexel 
University is announcing that teaching and research assistantships are 
available for those admitted for Fall of 2017.  Offers include tuition 
remissions and stipend.  Deadline for applications is December 15, 2016.

This interdisciplinary program in Media and Cultural studies draws on 
faculty in Communication, Sociology and Anthropology. It offers 
strengths in online communities, political communication, consumerism 
and branding in mass media, visual culture and political economy 
approaches to mass media discourse and critical discourse studies. To 
learn more about our faculty, click here: 
http://drexel.edu/coas/academics/graduate-programs/communication-culture-media/ccm-faculty/

A few recent student projects include work on the following:

·Late Night Political Comedy as Electoral Persuasion

·Theories of the Sublime, Horror and Boundary-Making in Media about Media

·Ethnography of Independent Film Making

·Portraying Refugee Resilience among Survivors of the Rwandan Genocide

·Rock Journalism and Middle Class American Culture in the 90s

·Visual Semiosis in Portraits of Muslim Women,

·Upskirting and the Feminist Struggle for Online Privacy

·Death in Social Media

·Critical Approaches to the Promotion of Self-Driving Cars

·Linguistic Landscapes in a Changing Italian Market

Please see our website for more information.

http://drexel.edu/coas/academics/graduate-programs/communication-culture-media/

or for more information on the Masters program:

http://catalog.drexel.edu/graduate/collegeofartsandsciences/communicationcultureandmedia/


For full consideration, applications should include a 1500 word 
statement of purpose, three letters of recommendation, transcripts of 
all college-level coursework and GRE scores. Persons with specific 
questions should contact the graduate director, Douglas Porpora, 
porporad at drexel.edu <mailto:porporad at drexel.edu> or graduate 
coordinator, Christina Vanella, clv33 at drexel.edu <mailto:clv33 at drexel.edu>


-- 
Rachel R Reynolds
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
and Graduate Faculty,
Programs in Communication, Culture and Media
Drexel University
3141 Chestnut Street, Bldg 47
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-895-0498
rrr at drexel.edu

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