Faculty

Communication, Culture & Media

The PhD in Communication, Culture and Media is taught by social sciences faculty across several Drexel departments. These faculty govern the program and are responsible for its curriculum, student advising and mentoring.

	Contact	Specialization
	Ronald Bishop Professor of Communication 3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 148 bishoprc@drexel.edu	Investigative reporting, sports journalism, journalism history, journalism sourcing patterns, textual narrative and ideological analysis, cultural history of fame, media portrayals of marginalized groups.
	Mary F.E. Ebeling Professor of Sociology; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media 3201 Arch Street, 285 mfe@drexel.edu	Science and technology studies; critical data studies; algorithmic justice; marketing; data brokers and big data; healthcare privacy; biocapital; medicine; health; knowledge and power in late capital; the production of value and alternatives; anarchism and democratic potentials of artist-run spaces and collectives.
	Ernest Hakanen Professor Emeritus of Communication 3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 149 eah22@drexel.edu	Communication history, media theory, emotions and technology, semiotics
	Barbara J Hoekje Associate Professor Emerita, Department of Communication bjh10@drexel.edu	Sociolinguistic approaches to second language teaching; learning and assessment; Second language literacies and academic discourse; Medicine, communication, and culture; embodiment
	Bernat Ivancsics Assistant Professor bi84@drexel.edu	Data journalism; computational journalism; communication technology; history of media technology
	Alexander Jenkins Associate Teaching Professor 3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 162 arj28@drexel.edu	Digital games, video games, emotion, morality, online fan communities, emerging media, convergence
	Nahyun Kim Assistant Professor 3201 Arch, Suite 100, Room 171 nk865@drexel.edu	Public Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Social Advocacy; Crisis Communication; Emotion in Persuasive Communication
	Emmanuel F. Koku Associate Professor of Sociology; Department Head; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media 3201 Arch Street, 288 emmanuelkoku@drexel.edu	Social Network Analysis; Quantitative Analysis; Mixed Methods; Medical Sociology; Social Epidemiology; Global/Immigrant Health; Globalization, Development and Underdevelopment
	David Kutzik Professor Emeritus; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media Stratton 311 kutzikdm@drexel.edu	Social and cultural theory; political economy; gerontology; materialisms; semiotic realisms; activity theory; reflection theories; communities of practice and labor theories of culture.
	Hyunmin “Min” Lee Director of Undergraduate Programs in Communication; Associate Professor; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media 3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 164 hl586@drexel.edu	Social media effects on organizational relationship and reputation management; media representation of public health issues; health message design effects; communication theory and research methods.
	Brent Luvaas Professor of Global Studies and Modern Languages Academic Building, 317 bal47@drexel.edu	Visual Anthropology; Autoethnography; Digital Culture; Photography; Fashion; New Cities and Urban Culture in Southeast Asia.
	Rakhmiel Peltz Professor Emeritus of Sociolinguistics; Founding Director of Judaic Studies rp27@drexel.edu	Molecular and cellular biology, Yiddish Studies, Language and Society, Ethnography of Communication; Children of Immigrants; Educational Restitution after Genocide
	Douglas V. Porpora Professor of Sociology 3201 Arch Street, 380 porporad@drexel.edu	Meaning; Morality; Politics; Religion; Social Justice.
	Rachel Reynolds Associate Professor of Communication; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media 3201 Arch Street, Suite 340, Room 354 rrr28@drexel.edu	Discourse Analysis and Semiotics, including the Textual, the Visual and Multimodality; Violence Against Women in Mass Media; Television and Culture; Language, Immigration and Youth Development
	Wesley Shumar Professor; Director, Graduate Programs in Communication, Culture & Media; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media 3201 Arch Street, 372 shumarw@drexel.edu	The Commodification of Culture; Consumer Culture and the Production of Value; Cultural Change in Higher Education; Digital Media and Learning; Learning and Communication
	Hilde Van den Bulck Professor of Communication; Department Head 3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 152 hdv26@drexel.edu	Political economy of media structures; Algorithmization, datafication and platformization; Trust and digital media; Media policies for digitized media ecologies; Public (service) media; Digital media and popular culture; Digital media, popular culture and populism; Media and (collective) identities; Celebrity culture and industry; Celebrity philanthropy and activism; Fandom and anti-fandom
	Asta Zelenkauskaite Associate Professor of Communication; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media 3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 165 az358@drexel.edu	Social media research; User-generated content analysis; Emergent practices online; Ideological influence; Inauthentic coordinated behaviors online; Misinformation/disinformation online; Mixed methods