Ph.D. Job Placements

Ph.D. Graduates: Job Placements

Recent graduates and ABDs of the School of Communication and Information Ph.D. Program have been placed in a variety of academic and industry positions:

• Eliman Ahmed – Instructor, Rutgers University
• Cimmiaron Alvarez – Assistant Professor, Kean University
• Jorlanditha Austin – Assistant Professor, Morehouse College
• Holly Avella – Assistant Professor, University of Maryland–Baltimore County
• Bahareh Badiei – Assistant Professor, San Jose State University
• William Bejarano – Senior Grants Coordinator, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
• Henry Bóăchi – Program Manager, University of Virginia
• Allyson Bontempo – Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
• Elizabeth Broadbridge – Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Harvard University
• Robyn Caplan – Assistant Professor, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
• Hee Chang Chun – Assistant Professor, Ewha Womans University
• Laura Costello –  Director, Access and Information Services, University of Minnesota
• Bruce Duboff – Adjunct Professor, Camden County College
• Danyel Ferrari – Lecturer, Rutgers University 
• Diana Floegel – Senior Regulatory Analyst, University of Pennsylvania
• Melissa Gasparotto – Deputy University Librarian, University of Chicago
• Isha Ghosh – Human Factors Engineer, Intel Corporation
• Souvick Ghosh – Assistant Professor, San José State University
• James Hodges – Assistant Professor of Information Science, San José State University
• Marisa Holmes – Director, Living Free Productions
• Arpita Jindani – Senior Program Director, Health Equity, Grantmakers In Health
• Hannah Jones – Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Kentucky
• Thiam Huat Kam – Assistant Professor, SUNY Binghamton
• Minkyung Kim – Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Illinois
• Sung Un Kim – Assistant Professor, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
• Cheryl Klimaszewski – Public Art Cataloger, Mural Arts Philadelphia
• Jiqun Lu – Assistant Professor of Data Science, University of Oklahoma
• Soumik Mandal – Postdoctoral Fellow, NYU Langone Health
• Vyshali Manivannan – Assistant Professor, Pace University
• Christoph Mergerson – Assistant Professor, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland
• Kaitlin Montague – Private Lecturer, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
• Afrooz Mosallaeipour – Research Associate, Center for News, Technology and Innovation
• Nikhila Natarjan – Adjunct Professor, Rutgers University
• Haley Nolan – Assistant Professor, Fairfield University
• Jinkyung (Katie) Park – Postdoctoral Scholar, Vanderbilt University; Assistant Professor of Human-Centered Computing, Clemson University
• Song Hee Park – Postdoctoral Researcher, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, South Korea
• Katherine Prendella – Managing Facilitator, Grace Institute 
• Casey Randazzo – Assistant Professor, University of California–Santa Barbara
• Hajar Shirely – CEO and Founder, Inclusive Health Innovation Together
• SeoYoon Sung – Research Assistant Professor of Technology, Innovation, and Learning, University of Southern California
• Alyvia Walters - Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, College of Communication and Information
• Kevin Wang – Adjunct Professor, Saint Peter's University
• Luxuan Wang – Research Associate in News and Information, Pew Research Center
• Wan Wei – Assistant Professor, Penn State Abington
• Corinne Weinstein – Visiting Assistant Professor, Miami University
• Liyang Xue – Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Tennessee
• Deborah Yoon – Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota