Communication, Culture & Media Faculty

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.
	Mary Ebeling Associate Professor of Sociology; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media 3201 Arch Street, 285 mfe@drexel.edu	Sociology of science and technology, data brokers and big data, healthcare privacy, marketing communication, medicine, health, knowledge and power in late capital, the production of value and alternatives, anarchism and democratic potentials of artist-run spaces, collectives and feminist methodologies
	Ernest Hakanen Director, Graduate Programs in Communication, Culture & Media; Professor of Communication; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media; Editor, Explorations in Media Ecology: The Journal of the Media Ecology Association 3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 149 eah22@drexel.edu	Communication history, media theory, emotions and technology, semiotics
	Barbara Hoekje Associate Professor of Communication; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media 3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 171 bjh10@drexel.edu	Sociolinguistic theory, discourse analysis, applied linguistics (language teaching, learning, and testing).
	Emmanuel Koku Associate Professor of Sociology; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media 3201 Arch Street, 288 emmanuelkoku@drexel.edu	Social Network Analysis, Qualitative/Quantitative Research, Medical Sociology, Social Epidemiology, Social Demography, Sociology of Development, Communication and Information Technology
	David Kutzik Professor; 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 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 strategies for relationship and reputation management in public relations, examining media messages of public health issues and its psychological and behavioral effects on the public, communication theory and research methods
	Brent Luvaas Director of the Minor Program in Anthropology; Associate Professor; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media Academic Building, 317 luvaas@drexel.edu	DIY and independent media production; transnational consumer culture; popular music; new media and mediated subjectivities; youth culture in the US and Indonesia.
	Rakhmiel Peltz Professor of Sociolinguistics; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media Library 331 rakhmiel.peltz@drexel.edu	Judaic studies, Yiddish culture and linguistics, ethnography of communication and immigrant cultural studies
	Douglas Porpora Professor; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media 3201 Arch Street, 380 porporad@drexel.edu	Rhetoric, political communication, morality, religion, political economy and war
	Rachel Reynolds Associate Professor; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media 3201 Arch Street, Suite 340, Room 354 rrr28@drexel.edu	Sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, intercultural communication, globalization and the rhetoric of community, political economy of immigration, race and ethnicity, new African immigrants in the United States, Igbo studies.
	Mimi Sheller Department Head; Director, Center for Mobilities Research and Policy; Professor of Sociology; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media 3101 Market Street, Room 219 mimi.sheller@drexel.edu	Sustainable mobility and mobility justice: new cultures and infrastructures of travel, transport, mobile communication, and urbanism; Caribbean Studies: history, culture and political theory of the region, including intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class; Caribbean mobilities: the relation between tourism, migration and air travel across the U.S.-Caribbean borders; tracing the histories and forecasting the futures of cultures of mobility and wider mobility regimes, including theorizing transitions in complex systems.
	Wesley Shumar Professor; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media 3201 Arch Street, 372 shumarw@drexel.edu	Ethnography of cyberspace, online learning communities, political economy of higher education, globalization, activity theory, semiotics, critical realism, psychoanalysis, identity and the self.
	Hilde Van den Bulck Department Head; Professor 3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 152 hdv26@drexel.edu	Political economy of media structures; Media policies for digitized media ecologies; Stakeholders and coalitions in media policies; Digitization, convergence and legacy media; Public (service) media; Methods of media policy analysis; Media culture in a digitized media ecosystem; 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, User-Generated Content, Computer-Mediated Communication, Interactivity, Active Audience Analysis, Mobile Communication, Gender and Online Identity, Prosumer Culture, Internet of Things, Quantitative/Qualitative Research.