Students
Current PhD Students (Principal Advisor)
Sid Cook
Past PhD Students (Principal Advisor)
Dipto Das, CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, Defended in 2024
Post-graduation position: Postdoc at the University of Toronto
Dissertation: Identity Decolonization amid the Coloniality of Computing
Bryan Dosono, Syracuse University, Defended in 2019
Post-graduation position: User Experience Researcher at Ebay
Dissertation: Identity Work of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders on Reddit: Traversals of Deliberation, Moderation, and Decolonization
Lauren Britton, Syracuse University, Defended in 2017
Post-graduation position: Associate Professor at Ithaca College
Dissertation: Manifesting the Cyborg through Techno-Body Modification: From Human-Computer Interaction to IntegrationEllen Simpson, CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ
Ellen Simpson, CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, Defended in 2024
Post-graduation position: Postdoc at the University of Virginia
Dissertation: Investigating Creative Labor: Sociotechnical Examinations of Creativity and Creative Labor in a Multi-Mediated, Plaformed, World
Qunfang Wu, Syracuse University, Defended in 2022
Post-graduation position: Harvard University, Research Fellow
Dissertation: Conversations Crime: Re-Enforcing and Fighting Against Platformed Racism on Reddit
Current Dissertation/Thesis Committees (in alphabetical order)
Latifa Al-Naimi, ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ
Erin Bartolo, Syracuse University
Sarah Bratt, Syracuse University
Janghee Cho, ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ
Ayse Dalgali, Syracuse University
Shiva Darian, ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ
Shamika Klassen, ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ
Isabel Munoz, Syracuse University (previously served as Principal Advisor)
Jean-Phillipe Rancy, Syracuse University
Subhasree Sengupta, Syracuse University (previously served as Principal Advisor)
Sarika Sharma, Syracuse University
Alex Smith, Syracuse University
Jennifer Sonne, Syracuse University
Madelyn Zander, ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ
Past Dissertation/Thesis Committees (by graduation date)
Brennan Jones, University of Calgary, Defended in 2021
Mahboobeh Harandi, Syracuse University, Defended in 2021 (now at Facebook)
Feifei Zhang, Syracuse University, Left program in 2020 at Syracuse University
Nata Barbosa, University of Illinois-Urbana Champagne, Defended in 2020 (now at Facebook)
Ashley Walker, Northwestern University, Defended in 2020
Yaxing Yao, Syracuse University, Defended in 2020 (Postdoc at Carnegie Mellon University)
Sara Douglas, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Left program in 2019 at UH Manoa
Olga Boichak, Syracuse University, Defended in 2019 (Assistant Professor at the University of Sydney)
Brian Dobreski, Syracuse University, Defended in 2018 (Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee)
Corey Jackson, Syracuse University, Defended in 2018 (Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Sikana (Mook) Tanupabrungsun, Syracuse University, Defended in 2018 (Microsoft)
Jerry Lamont Robinson, Syracuse University, Defended in 2017 (Facebook Research)
Fatima Espinoza-Vasquez, Syracuse University, Defended in 2016 (Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky)
Misa Maruyama, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Defended in 2016
Gabriel Mugar, Syracuse University, Defended in 2016 (Berkman Klein Center)
Matt Willis, Syracuse University, Defended in 2016 (Postdoctoral Scholar at Oxford Internet Institute)
Min-Chun Ku, Syracuse University, Defended in 2015
John D’Ignazio, Syracuse University, Defended in 2015
Keith Brand, Syracuse University, Defended in 2014