Teaching

Graduate Students & Postdoc Advising 

  • Xuenan Cao, Postdoctorate candidate in East Asian Literature & Languages, Yale University, 2022. External manuscript examiner. Currently employed on the tenure-track at the University of Hong Kong.

  • Anna Kalinina, MA candidate in Medienwissenschaften, Leuphana University, 2022. Thesis committee member and outside reader.

  • Bo An, PhD candidate in East Asian Languages & Literatures, Yale University, 2021. External Dissertation Prize examiner. Currently postdoc at Harvard.

  • Carlotta Chenoweth, PhD candidate in Slavic Languages & Literature, Yale University, 2020. Committee member. Currently employed on the tenure-track at West Point.

  • Scott Brennen, PhD in Communication, University of North Carolina, 2018. Committee member. Postdoctoral researcher at Oxford University, 2018-2021.

  • Kent Emerson, PhD in English, the University of Tulsa, 2012-2016.

Courses

Assistant-Associate Professor, Media Studies, the University of Tulsa, Fall 2011-Present

  • Cyber & Society: Spring 2022. Upper-level elective for Media Studies & requirement for Cyber Security majors.

  • Internship: Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Spring 2022. Upper-level internship course for Media Studies majors.
  • Your Computer is on Fire: Fall 2020. Senior-level elective seminar for Media Studies majors.
  • Digital Media Studies: Spring 2016. Senior-level elective seminar for Media Studies majors.
  • Senior Project: Fall 2019. Independent capstone projects for all Media Studies seniors.
  • Media Theories (Theories of Communication): Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022. Required sophomore-level course for the major
  • Inquiry in Media Studies: Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2020, Fall 2021. Required sophomore-level major course on mixed research methods
  • Communication Technology & Society: Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Fall 2019. Required sophomore-level course and general education elective.
  • Introduction to Media Studies: “Communication Systems”: Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021. Required introduction to the major
  • Cyber Culture since 1945: Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2017, Spring 2018. Concluding “contemporary issues” seminar in Honors program curriculum.
  • Global Media: Spring 2016. Junior-level Communication major and general education elective.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Hebrew University

  • Understanding Media (between Nature and Culture): Winter break 2012-2013. Intensive doctoral seminar co-taught with John Durham Peters.

Postdoctoral Instructor, Hebrew University

  • Networks: Science, Technology, and Society: Spring 2011. Junior-level seminar for Communication & Journalism major.
  • The Cybernetic Front: Digital Media and the Cold War: Fall 2010. Communication doctoral seminar.

Adjunct Faculty, New York University, Media, Communication, & Culture

  • Mass Persuasion and Propaganda: Fall 2009. Junior-level seminar elective

Adjunct Faculty, Salt Lake Community College

  • Elements of Effective Communication: Summer 2006. Introduction to Communication major.

Adjunct Faculty, Brigham Young University

  • Research Methods in Communication: Summer 2006. Co-led with Abraham Gong the statistics lab component.

Sample Independent Study Courses

  • 2022 Wes Addington “Documentary, Philosophy, Art”
  • 2021 Josh Johnson “Social Media & Sports”
  • 2020 Brandan Moore: “Russian Hackers”
  • 2018 Helen Clara Ard: “French Theory”
  • 2018 Carlie Wisley: “Feminism & Media Ethnography”
  • 2017 Jesse Haynes: “Podcasts & Audio Production”
  • 2017 Alex Isaak: “Marine Media Theory”
  • 2017 Megan Lee: “Prosthetics & Media Theory”
  • 2016 Haley Anderson: “Media & International Development”
  • 2015 Franzi Voellinger: “Sports Media Economics”
  • 2014 Hope Forsyth: “Sound and Symbol Studies”
  • 2014 Rachel Johnson: “Reference Sciences from Footnotes to Databases”
  • 2013 Steven Schrag: “Critical Digital Studies”

Sample Undergraduate Student Advising

  • 2018 Ryan Starkweather, Awarded US Thomas Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship.
  • 2018 Alex Garfollo, Fulbright Fellowship to Siberia, Russia.
  • 2018 Rachel Wolf, TURC fellow, US National Security Boren Fellowship to Kazakhstan

Metrics

Student Evaluations: Average overall teaching evaluation rating (out of 5): quality of course 4.4 and of instructor 4.7

Teaching Awards

  • Outstanding Teaching Award, lifetime career award, top 1% of teachers campus-wide, University of Tulsa, 2023 (nominated 2019, 2022).
  • Most Valuable Professor award, eleven times over Fall 2013, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, Spring 2014.