Presentation

I am a media scholar committed to arts-oriented activist media praxis. I have taught and researched in the US/Mexico border region, Denmark, Sweden, Lebanon, and Uganda, and earned my PhD in Communication from the University of California, San Diego (2015). After a postdoc in Media Studies and Refugee Migration at Malmö University, I received a solo grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. My work related to this project included a transmedia storytelling project. With interlocutors from Konstkupan Malmö and the surrounding community, I facilitated a series of online arts workshops during the COVID-19 pandemic, and produced a podcast called Picturing Home. I have recently partnered with The Cultural Avenue Uganda to carry out a digital storytelling project for refugee and host communities, funded by Svenska Institutet's Creative Force Initiative, and am publishing work on podcasting as a community-building and research practice. I am co-director of the MA programme in Media & Communication Studies, and co-director of Medea Lab.

Publications

Research Projects

You can find previous research projects in the Diva database.

Activities

My research environments

Medea Lab

Medea Lab, Malmö University, is a transdisciplinary media lab where researchers and artists address cultural and societal...

Rethinking Democracy

The Rethinking Democracy research platform (REDEM) is a shared space for discussing questions around democracy. We consider...

Imagining and Co-Creating Futures

In a world that seems caught in a crisis-ridden present, there is a need to reawaken our capacity to collectively imagine, make...