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Represntations of place, Urban Communication, Cultural Studies and Sociology of Culture

Professor of Communication, U. of Mass since 1970. Senior Consultant, KCC Foundation, UK since 1985. Co-author with W. B. Pearce Coordinated Management of Meaning Theory.

I am a second year PhD student in critical media studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. I received my MA at the University of Pittsburgh. My research focuses on the intersections between media, race, and space.

Emily West is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research and teaching interests include consumer culture, emotion, audiences, and gender and performance. Her new work is in the area of media and cultural studies of health.

Jeremy Franklin is a PhD student at the University of Utah in the Department of Education, Culture, and Society. He earned his BA at Michigan State University in Political Theory and his MS at the University of Utah. He considers himself a sociologist of higher education. His research interests included campus racial climate and retention for historically underrepresented/marginalized students, racial microaggressions, Racial Battle Fatigue, higher education policy, quantitative methods, and qualitative methods.

Judith Flores Carmona is a doctoral candidate at the University of Utah in the Department of Education, Culture, and Society. She is co-founder of the Latinas Telling Testimonios group. She earned her BA and MA from California State University, Monterey Bay. Her research interests include, Latina mothers’ pedagogies of the home and testimonio as method and communal-reciprocal methodology. Judith was born in Veracruz, Mexico, raised in Los Angeles, and is a first-generation college student. Her academic and community work is guided by a sense of responsibility and commitment to social change.

Razvan earned his double B.A. degree in Journalism/Mass Communication and Political Science/International Relations from the American University in Bulgaria in 2001. Following graduation, he worked as a full-time political reporter for two Romanian publications. He is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at UMass Amherst (Communication). His Master’s thesis was built around the concepts of ideology & culture and “Romanian-ness.” Since 2003, he has taught more than 20 undergraduate classes as a stand-alone instructor, both in-class and online (e.g. Newswriting and Reporting, Media Ethics, Media Criticism, Public Speaking, Interpersonal Communication, Media and Society, News Analysis, Cultural Codes in Communication) at UMass Amherst (departments of Communication and Journalism) and the Holyoke Community College. Raz’s academic interests include issues of identity, culture, and ideology; political communication; media & storytelling; and critical pedagogy.