Students

Current PhD Students (Principal Advisor)

Sid Cook

Past PhD Students (Principal Advisor)

Dipto Das, CU Boulder, Defended in 2024
Post-graduation position: Postdoc at the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Toronto
Dissertation: Identity Decolonization amid the Coloniality of Computing

Bryan Dosono, Syracuse ³Ô¹ÏÍø, 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 ³Ô¹ÏÍø, 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 Boulder

Ellen Simpson, CU Boulder, Defended in 2024
Post-graduation position: Postdoc at the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Virginia
Dissertation: Investigating Creative Labor: Sociotechnical Examinations of Creativity and Creative Labor in a Multi-Mediated, Plaformed, World

Qunfang Wu, Syracuse ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Defended in 2022
Post-graduation position: Harvard ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Research Fellow
Dissertation: Conversations ³Ô¹ÏÍø Crime: Re-Enforcing and Fighting Against Platformed Racism on Reddit

Current Dissertation/Thesis Committees (in alphabetical order)

Latifa Al-Naimi, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder

Erin Bartolo, Syracuse ³Ô¹ÏÍø

Sarah Bratt, Syracuse ³Ô¹ÏÍø

Janghee Cho, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder

Ayse Dalgali, Syracuse ³Ô¹ÏÍø

Shiva Darian, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder

Shamika Klassen, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder

Isabel Munoz, Syracuse ³Ô¹ÏÍø (previously served as Principal Advisor)

Jean-Phillipe Rancy, Syracuse ³Ô¹ÏÍø

Subhasree Sengupta, Syracuse ³Ô¹ÏÍø (previously served as Principal Advisor)

Sarika Sharma, Syracuse ³Ô¹ÏÍø

Alex Smith, Syracuse ³Ô¹ÏÍø

Jennifer Sonne, Syracuse ³Ô¹ÏÍø

Madelyn Zander, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder

Past Dissertation/Thesis Committees (by graduation date)

Brennan Jones, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Calgary, Defended in 2021

Mahboobeh Harandi, Syracuse ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Defended in 2021 (now at Facebook)

Feifei Zhang, Syracuse ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Left program in 2020 at Syracuse ³Ô¹ÏÍø

Nata Barbosa, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Illinois-Urbana Champagne, Defended in 2020 (now at Facebook)

Ashley Walker, Northwestern ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Defended in 2020

Yaxing Yao, Syracuse ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Defended in 2020 (Postdoc at Carnegie Mellon ³Ô¹ÏÍø)

Sara Douglas, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Hawaii at Manoa, Left program in 2019 at UH Manoa

Olga Boichak, Syracuse ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Defended in 2019 (Assistant Professor at the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Sydney)

Brian Dobreski, Syracuse ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Defended in 2018 (Assistant Professor at the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Tennessee)

Corey Jackson, Syracuse ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Defended in 2018 (Assistant Professor at the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Wisconsin-Madison)

Sikana (Mook) Tanupabrungsun, Syracuse ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Defended in 2018 (Microsoft)

Jerry Lamont Robinson, Syracuse ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Defended in 2017 (Facebook Research)

Fatima Espinoza-Vasquez, Syracuse ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Defended in 2016 (Assistant Professor at the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Kentucky)

Misa Maruyama, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Hawaii at Manoa, Defended in 2016

Gabriel Mugar, Syracuse ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Defended in 2016 (Berkman Klein Center)

Matt Willis, Syracuse ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Defended in 2016 (Postdoctoral Scholar at Oxford Internet Institute)

Min-Chun Ku, Syracuse ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Defended in 2015

John D’Ignazio, Syracuse ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Defended in 2015

Keith Brand, Syracuse ³Ô¹ÏÍø, Defended in 2014