2026 Hooding Ceremony
DEAN’S GREETING
Willow Bay
Dean, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and Walter H. Annenberg Chair in Communication
WELCOME
Gordon Stables
Director of Schools and Clinical Professor of Communication and Journalism
ANNOUNCEMENT OF DOCTORAL CANDIDATES
Hernan Galperin
Professor and Director, Doctoral Program
HOODING OF DOCTORAL CANDIDATES
Chairs
CLOSING REMARKS
Gordon Stables
Please join the faculty and staff for a reception honoring the graduates following the ceremony.
CANDIDATES FOR DOCTORAL DEGREES
IN COMMUNICATION
Shadee Ashtari
Chair: Henry Jenkins
A Socio-ecological Examination of Online Health Information Seeking and the Rise of Digital Health Misinformation: A Three-study Dissertation
Molly Frizzell
Chair: Sarah Banet-Weiser
Technologies of Shame: Reproduction and the Ultrasound Sensorium
Paulina Lanz Garcia
Chair: Josh Kun
Objects of Residue: The Afterlives of Leftover Migrant Objects
Juan Ortiz Freuler
Co-Chairs: Manuel Castells and Hernan Galperin
Internet Weaponization and the Search for Autonomy in a Changing Global Governance Order
Javier Rivera
Co-Chairs: Hector Amaya and Cristina Visperas
Ambivalent Attachments: The Cringeworthiness of U.S. Latinidad and the Crisis of In/Coherence
Josh Widera
Co-Chairs: François Bar and Josh Kun
Situating Platform Urbanism: Labor, Culture, and Technology of Bicycle Delivery Work
SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION FACULTY
Gordon Stables, Director
Shub A
Hector Amaya
Mike Ananny
Jonathan D. Aronson
Sandra Ball-Rokeach (Emerita)
Sarah Banet-Weiser
François Bar
◊ Daniela Baroffio
Willow Bay
Rook Campbell
Ben Carrington
* Manuel Castells
Peter Clarke (Emeritus)
Michael Cody (Emeritus)
* Geoffrey Cowan
David R. Craig
Kate Crawford
Nicholas J Cull
Mathew Curtis
Christina Dunbar-Hester
◊ Daniel T. Durbin
Emilio Ferrara
Robeson Taj Frazier
Janet Fulk (Emerita)
Hernan Galperin
G. Thomas Goodnight
Larry P Gross (Emeritus)
Thomas A. Hollihan
Andrea B. Hollingshead
Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang
Joseph Itaya
Henry Jenkins
Sean Kennedy
◊ Colleen Keough
Eunjin Kim
Monica Koyama
* Josh Kun
◊ Ben Lee
Carmen Lee
Hye Jin Lee
Colin Maclay
Margaret L. McLaughlin (Emerita)
Lynn Carol Miller
Peter Monge (Emeritus)
Sheila Teresa Murphy
Nithya Muthuswamy
Freddy Tran Nager
◊ Jessica Neff
Karen North
◊ Courtney Pade
Jennifer A. Petersen
◊ Jillian K Pierson
Allissa V. Richardson
Patricia Riley
Robert Scheer
Philip Seib (Emeritus)
Ken Sereno (Emeritus)
Brad Shipley
Sangita Shresthova
◊ Paolo Sigismondi
Stacy L. Smith
Robin Stevens
Douglas Thomas
Alison Trope
Marlon Twyman II
Cristina M Visperas
Jay Wang
◊ Rebecca Weintraub (Emerita)
◊ Dmitri Williams
Ernest J Wilson III
Lindsay Young
* Endowed chair
◊ USC Annenberg alumnus/a
