Doug Underwood is Professor of Communication at the University of Washington who teaches in the areas of journalism and literature, media ethics and management, journalism and trauma, and media and religion. He is the author of six books, including Journalism and the Novel (2008), From Yahweh to Yahoo! (2002), and When MBAs Rule the Newsroom … Read More

Dr. Meg Spratt, Teaching Professor and co-director of the UW Integrated Social Sciences program, brings an extensive background as a communication scholar and journalist to her course development, teaching, and program management. Her academic and professional projects have focused on news coverage of tragedy, media representations of race and gender, and influences of photojournalism in shaping … Read More

Timeka N. Tounsel is an Associate Professor of Black Studies in Communication. She earned a Ph.D. in Communication Studies with a Graduate Certificate in African American and Diaspora Studies from the University of Michigan, where she was also a Rackham Merit Fellow. Dr. Tounsel’s work considers the stories that society tells about Black women and … Read More

Adrienne Russell is Mary Laird Wood Professor of Communication and co-director of the Center for Journalism, Media, and Democracy. Her research lies at the intersection of journalism, technology and political communication. It focuses on emerging technologies and pressing social problems, with an eye toward how to foster democratic and participatory publics. Her most recent book, The Mediated … Read More

Janine Slaker is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Communication for the Integrated Social Sciences program at the University of Washington. Her Ph.D. is in Media and Information from Michigan State University. She also holds a B.F.A. in New Genres from the Maryland Institute, College of Art (MICA). Janine uses ethnographic approaches to … Read More

Matthew Powers is a Professor in the Department of Communication, and Co-Director of the Department’s Center for Journalism, Media and Democracy.  His most recent book, The Journalist’s Predicament: Difficult Choices in a Declining Profession, (with Sandra Vera-Zambrano) was published in 2023 by Columbia University Press. Based on a decade of research in France and the United States, … Read More

Andrea Otáñez is an educator and journalist who has written, edited and developed online and print packages in a variety of beats, including environment, science, politics, medicine, communities, religion and consumer affairs. In 2017, she was named Journalism Educator of the Year by the Society for Professional Journalist, Western Washington Pro Chapter. From 2005 to … Read More

Curriculum Vitae Katy E. Pearce, Associate Professor, researches social and political uses of technologies and digital content in non-democratic contexts, specifically in the semi- and fully-authoritarian states of former Soviet Union. Her current research areas include digital divides and inequalities; the affordances of information and communication technologies for social and opposition movements; and online impression … Read More

Patricia Moy is a political communication scholar who focuses on communication and citizenship, specifically, how mediated and interpersonal communication can shape public opinion, citizens’ social and political trust, and political behavior. Her research addresses communication content, processes and effects across myriad issues in multiple continents. Moy’s scholarship has been published as books and articles in … Read More