Research
Interests

• Communication for Development

• Media Representations of Conflict

• Critical perspectives and New Media

• Framing/Media Sociology

• Inclusive and Intercultural Communication

• Leadership Studies

Research
Positions

Research Associate | University of Colorado Boulder | Fall 2017 - Present

CU Engage collaborates with campus, communities, schools, and organizations to address complex public challenges. It facilitates the development of equity-oriented partnerships that sustain engaged learning and mutually beneficial community-based research. My research involves examining engaged learning and communication practices through classroom dialogues and leadership ePortfolios.

Responsibilities:

• Conducting and publishing research on dialogic and leadership communication,

• Teaching undergraduate courses on dialogue across difference, inclusive leadership

• Coordinating/facilitating dialogues on a variety of topics, including race, immigration, religion

• Curriculum development

• Outreach to faculty across campus

• Developing and analyzing program assessment

• Periodic training workshops for students, staff, or faculty

• Assistance with grant writing

Graduate Research Assistant | University of Colorado Boulder | Fall 2011 - Spring 2017

• News Analysis

  • Helped design content analysis codebook, collaborated with other researchers and conducted news analysis for a media analysis project exploring the relationship between political news and citizenship in India

• Mediated representations

  • Collaborated on a project on mediated representations of tea and nationality

• Book project

  • Provided research support for book project on Other Gender in Black Cinema

• Grants, research and transcription

  • Conducted literature reviews, applied for research grants, researched journal metrics for article submissions, finished transcription for various research projects

• Presentations

  • Presented papers at national and international academic conferences