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 /at/ usc.edu) <mailto:(commdir /at/ usc.edu)>
Use subject line format: “Recommendation - 2016 Doctoral Institute
Applicant”
• Submission - via email:
Send to: (commdir /at/ usc.edu) <mailto:(commdir /at/ 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
American Studies and Ethnicity
Sarah Banet-Weiser
Taj Frazier
Chris Smith
Josh Kun
Dean Ernest Wilson
Jack Halberstam
Macarena Gomez-Barris
Shana Redmond
University of Virginia
Media Studies
Hector Amaya
