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