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, … 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

Dr. Anis Rahman is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Communication at the University of Washington, Seattle. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication from Simon Fraser University and an M.A. in Television Journalism from Goldsmiths, University of London, where he was a recipient of the Chevening Scholarship. At UW, Anis teaches courses related to information technology and … 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

LeiLani Nishime is a Professor of Communication. Her research areas are multiracial and interracial studies, the intersection of race and gender, Asian American media representations, and Asian American subcultural production. Her book Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture (University of Illinois Press) looks at the visual representation of multiracial people in mass media. … Read More

Wang Liao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington. He studies everyday interactions (mediated or not) and their social consequences, typically in the contexts of groups and interpersonal relationships. He is particularly interested in the roles that communication dynamics and related technologies play in the emergence of solidarity … Read More