The USC Annenberg Summer Doctoral Institute on Difference in Media and Culture
June 20-24, 2016
University of Southern California
We welcome applicants for the 3rd annual USC Annenberg Summer Doctoral Institute on Difference in Media and Culture, June 20-24, 2016. The Institute will bring together exemplary doctoral students and faculty members from across the disciplines of Communication, Media Studies and American Studies and around the nation to discuss issues of race, gender and difference in media, within the shifting conditions of technology, production, circulation and consumption as well as the shifting discourse of difference in the areas of politics, culture and globalization. Approximately 20 doctoral students will be chosen to participate based on submitted papers and recommendations from their advisors.
The Institute welcomes participants who are involved in a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields and who are interested in current critical debates in Communication and Media Studies. The commitment is full-time, daily. Workshop sessions will include current work from Institute faculty (listed below), and in-depth research seminars in which all participants present and discuss their own work-in-progress on an assigned day. Participants will examine race, gender, sexuality and other vectors of difference in the media.
The Institute will cover participants’ travel to Los Angeles and housing in USC dormitory space.
Application Requirements:
- Statement of background and interests
- A Paper that fits within the Institute’s broad topical range
- Contact Information:
- Full Name (+ nickname, if preferred)
- University
- Home mailing address, city, state, zip
- Email | Cell Phone #
- Full Name of Faculty Advisor providing recommendation
- Supporting Faculty Advisor Recommendation - via email
- Send to: commdir@usc.edu.
- Use subject line format: “Recommendation - 2016 Doctoral Institute Applicant”
- Submission - via email
- Send to: commdir@usc.edu.
- Use subject line format: “[Full Name] - 2016 Doctoral Institute – Application”
Deadline for Applications: March 1, 2016
Notification of Participants: April 1, 2016
2016 Institute Faculty
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
USC Dornsife - American Studies & Ethnicity
- Jack Halberstam
- Macarena Gomez-Barris
University of Virginia - Media Studies
- Hector Amaya
