Profiles in "Media Studies" Expertise Area

  • Dan Gillmor, a journalist and author, is co-founder of the News Co/Lab (http://newscollab.org) at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, where he is a professor of practice.
  • Dell’Anna has been teaching Italian at ASU since 2005. Her areas of teaching and research include teaching Italian language through literature, Italian mass media communication, and pedagogy in language teaching.
  • Dan Fellner is an eight-time Fulbright Fellow and experienced journalist who has worked in television news, corporate public relations and travel writing for newspapers and magazines around the world.
  • Kevin Sandler's books include The Naked Truth: Why Hollywood Doesn't Make X-Rated Movies, Titanic, and Hanna and Barbera: Conversations. Upcoming ones are Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and The Hanna and Barbera Anthology
  • Sadowski-Smith works in border and migration studies. She has published "The New Immigrant Whiteness: Race, Neoliberalism, and Post-Soviet Migration to the United States," "Border Fictions," and "Globalization on the Line."
  • Jurik's research and teaching interests address issues of gender, occupations, work-related technology, and work organizations.
  • Benkert is a historian of modern Germany working on the history and memory of both dictatorships on German soil.
  • Mark Scarp is a former newspaper reporter, editor, editorial writer and columnist who in recent years has worked in public relations and community relations in the Phoenix area.
  • Avilés-Santiago is the Vice Dean of the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts (CISA) at Arizona State University (ASU). He is also a former Director of ASU's OVMAE.