Profiles in "Media Studies" Expertise Area

  • Kristy Roschke is a media literacy scholar and educator. She is the director of the News Co/Lab, an initiative aimed at advancing media literacy via journalism, education and technology.
  • As a scholar, Weight is fascinated by the interface of religion with media, news, the social construction of reality, and other social institutions like the arts, politics, family, and education.
  • Raena Quinlivan is the Director of the Online M.A. in Communication Program.
  • Ashley Gimbal earned both her master’s degree from San Francisco State University and bachelor’s degree from California State University, Chico. Her research examines mass media framing of terrorism.
  • Booth received his master's and doctorate from the Hugh Downs School at ASU. His primary teaching interests are gender and communication, identity, diversity, and rhetoric.
  • Robert Mack's research generally examines the text-audience interface in U.S. American popular culture. He draws widely on rhetorical, reception, critical, and psychoanalytic approaches in order to analyze this relationship.
  • Monica De La Torre earned her doctorate in Feminist Studies from the University of Washington in 2016. Her research and and teaching practices bridges Chicana feminist theory, Latina/o media studies, and radio production.