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 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
	Emmanuel F. Koku Interim Department Head; Associate Professor; 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 Associate Professor; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media Academic Building, 317 bal47@drexel.edu	Visual anthropology; photography; social media; global media; digital culture; urban culture; Southeast Asia
	Douglas V. Porpora Professor of Sociology 3201 Arch Street, 380 porporad@drexel.edu	Meaning; Morality; Politics; Religion; Social Justice.
	Rachel Reynolds Associate Professor; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media 3201 Arch Street, Suite 340, Room 354 rrr28@drexel.edu	Sociolinguistics, Ethnography of Communication and Discourse Analysis; Violence Against Women in Mass Media; Political Economy of Migration – Brain Drain, Immigrants and Transnational Immigration; Semiotics including the Textual, the Visual and the Multimodal
	Wesley Shumar Professor; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media 3201 Arch Street, 372 shumarw@drexel.edu	The Commodification of Culture, Consumer Culture and the Production of Value, Entrepreneurship and Craft Culture, Cultural Change in Higher Education, Digital Media and Learning, Learning and Communication
	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; Celebrity and populism; 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