Profiles in "Activism and Social Movements" Expertise Area

  • Nadesan teaches courses that look at risk and crisis communications, bio-ethics, economic and corporate communication, propaganda and online social advocacy, and interpretive and critical methods.
  • C. A. Griffith is an associate professor of film/media production and an award-winning filmmaker with more than three decades of film production experience. She's also proudly Afro-Latinx, despite her fading fluency ;)
  • K.Hazel Kwon is an associate professor and the lead researcher at the MIDaS Lab at Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Comm. Her research focuses on social/digital media and society, and online information disorder.
  • Switzer's interdisciplinary research combines several fields including critical girlhood studies, critical development and globalization studies, transnational feminist theory and feminist methods.
  • Ward's research explores the intersection of Black cultural production, culture industries and urban placemaking efforts to advance arts practice and foster inclusive community development.
  • Swank studies the ways that stigmatized populations accept and challenge social inequalities. He has over 65 publications and often teaches classes on social movements and research methods.
  • Renee D. James is the Curator for Greater Arizona Collection. She is responsible for acquiring published, manuscript, and archival resources, and engaging in outreach activities.