Regina Marchi

Regina Marchi's research examines alternative media and civic engagement, focusing on populations historically marginalized from official politics and news media. She has studied youth and news, youth political engagement via social media and community radio; Latinx public art as political communication, religious yard statues as vernacular media; activist media in under-resourced communities, and the relationship between media and civil rights activism. Ultimately, she is interested in the agency of communities to creatively appropriate and hybridize media formats to build community and foster participatory cultures in order to bring about a more just society.

Marchi has received national and international recognition for her research, including the James W. Carey Media Award from the Carl Couch Center for Internet and Media Research; the Nancy Baym Top Book Award for the Association of Internet Researchers; the International Latino Book Award from the American Library Association/Latino Literacy Now; and the George Washington Public Communication Award from the National Freedoms Foundation.

Marchi recently published an expanded edition of her award-winning book, Day of the Dead in the USA: The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon (Rutgers University Press) and is currently studying transnational activist influences on Gaeltacht civil rights media activism in Ireland. She is founding director of the Dept. of Journalism and Media Studies' short-term study abroad courses in Guatemala and in Ireland, and co-director of JMS's Global Journalism Program in Bologna, Italy. Marchi also received Rutger's highest teaching honor, The Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Ph.D., Communication, University of California, San Diego
M.A., English Literature, San Francisco State University
B.A., English Literature and Rhetoric, Bates College

Rutgers Center for Latin American Studies
Rutgers Global Faculty Advisory Council