[Air-L] REMINDER: WLU Call for Applications, Communication Studies MA program (Jan. 15 deadline)

[Nathan Rambukkana]

Dear Colleagues,

Please see below a reminder about the approaching deadline for first consideration applications to our MA Communication Studies program that might be of interest to some of your students. 

All Best, 

Nathan

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Call for applications
M.A. in Communication Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University | Waterloo

Deadlines:
January 15, 2023: Co-op Stream Closes (no applications accepted after this date)
January 15, 2023: Applications for first consideration to regular stream MA program due

Apply here <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wlu.ca%2fadmissions-toolkits%2fgraduate-admissions-toolkit%2findex.html&c=E,1,qoMU_TCVPoCkZA9-sZLln8VqIE2HYxeHFCpGGEc7lAi5XidGPQdeTMyf17LNV_q1MLMEFIlzQjTLfUKie4hkUJaXjIS0IDeTzjlrdbUjLVComPm39GsOKA,,&typo=1>.

The Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University welcomes applications to its MA program.
Our program offers critical engagement with core perspectives in communication studies as well as contemporary research methodologies and practices. Students in the one-year, full-time program typically take three courses each term (Fall and Winter) and complete a Major Research Paper in the Spring/Summer. Students may also seek permission to take the Thesis or Course Work option. 

Our courses for the 2023/2024 academic year are:

Critical Discourse Analysis
Sound, Aurality, and Power
Art as Method: Power, Materiality, Unknowability
Culture Wars
Communication Studies Research Methods
Graduate Seminar in Communication Studies

We have a large, supportive and interdisciplinary faculty consisting of established and emerging researchers in areas of specialization that include mobile and social media, visual communication, media history, internet studies, transnationalism, cultural policy, mobilities, digital media, and creative industries. Our MA cohorts are generally small and the Communication Studies department has on campus facilities that support student research, including a media lab. The MA Program in Communication Studies is offered at Laurier’s campus in Waterloo, Ontario, a university-oriented region with a thriving media technology sector.

All applicants are considered for an entrance scholarship. MA students are employed as Teaching Assistants in undergraduate Communication Studies courses, and have the opportunity to work as Research Assistants to funded faculty members. Students who hold a major external award (e.g., SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship) are eligible for additional scholarship funding. In addition, our program offers a co-op option.

Graduates from our program have pursued doctoral studies and launched professional communication careers in a variety of private, public sector, and non-profit organizations.

For more information, see our website here: CS MA at Laurier <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wlu.ca%2fprograms%2farts%2fgraduate%2fcommunication-studies-ma%2findex.html&c=E,1,a6qRjRA4rtBIbWN5YERU4HGnoRWxu4p9OYJtZAlMAEUupbrwxxcuNBVBIEu--hMwAoUDbBHNE6zIUDvv1sPd9Dy6kRX42wVUROAFhx-TIe85Op3GjHQpgH-26KUr&typo=1>. Or contact Dr. Nathan Rambukkana, Graduate Program Coordinator, at nrambukkana at wlu.ca <mailto:jhennebry at wlu.ca>.

Graduate Faculty

Alexandra Boutros (PhD, McGill University)
diaspora and globalization; critical cultural theory; religion and media; digital, social, alternative media studies; social movements; popular culture; popular music; critical race theory

Shaunasea Brown (PhD, York University)

Black (Canadian) studies, Black feminism and Womanism, arts praxis, Black women’s hair politics, African Diasporic aesthetics, radical care ethics

Colleen Kim Daniher (PhD, Northwestern University)
communication arts; feminist and decolonial media studies; theatre and performance studies; critical race and critical ethnic studies; race and visual culture; perception, sensorium, and embodiment; cultural memory, history, historiography; popular culture (including food, fashion, and dance); nationalism and imperialism; regional foci: transnational Americas, global Asias

Greig de Peuter (PhD, Simon Fraser University)
political economy of communication, cultural and creative industries, cultural work, digital labour, collective organizing, co-operatives

Jonathan Finn (PhD, University of Rochester)
sport and media, self-tracking, surveillance, history and theory of photography, visual communication and culture

Jenna Hennebry (PhD, University of Western Ontario)
international migration; mobility, transnationalism; labour migration and temporary foreign worker programs; immigration policies and migration governance; migration flows and trends; migrant rights, health and social protection; remittances, ICTs and development; political economy of migration; regional expertise: Canada, Mexico, Morocco, Spain

Andrew Herman (PhD, Boston College)
social theory/media theory/cultural theory; qualitative research methodologies of the Internet and digital media; sound studies; radio studies; materialist media studies; critical internet studies; cultures of production, creativity, and innovation in the digital economy

Jeremy Hunsinger (PhD, Virginia Tech)
cultural politics and cultural theory; Internet politics and policy; Internet theory and culture; infrastructures and their governance; interpretive methods; social media, social software and virtual worlds

Penelope Ironstone (PhD, York University)
health, science, and risk communication; cultural studies of science and medicine; pandemics and culture; social, cultural, and political theory; queer and feminist media studies; biopolitics, communication, and culture

Barbara Jenkins (PhD, Yale University)
cultural economy; the creative city; smart cities; NFTs and CryptoArt; cultural policy; critical museum studies; psychoanalytic theory

Jordan Kinder (PhD, University of Alberta)
environmental media and communication, energy and environmental humanities, infrastructure studies, critical Indigenous studies, resource extraction, energy justice, architecture and design, critical theory

Sara Matthews (PhD, York University)
critical security studies; war, memory and visual culture; museum studies; public pedagogy; critical race theory; psychoanalysis; dystopias/utopias and cultural futurities; research-creation

Jade Miller (PhD, University of Southern California)
global media flows, media industries, media capitals, global cities, urban and regional agglomeration in creative production, global networks in media industries, distribution studies

Judith Nicholson (PhD, Concordia University)
mediated mobilities, smart mobbing, flash mobbing, lynching imagery

Hillary Pimlott (PhD, Goldsmiths College, University of London)
democracy & communication (Language, Media); public advocacy; culture wars; 'cultural Marxism'; free speech & moral panics; inequality, social movements & communication; alternative media; political & economic rhetoric

Nathan Rambukkana (PhD, Concordia University)
digital and platform intimacies; hybrid and mixed identities; robotic and AI intimacies; haptics and digital touch; hashtags and hashtag publics; socio-political aspects of videogames, VR, and AR worlds; representation of non-monogamies (e.g., polyamory, polygamy, adultery); discourse analysis; queer theory; cultural studies; critical intimacy theory; public sphere theory

Ian Roderick (PhD, Monash University)
technology and society, visual discourse analysis, visual communication and disciplinary vision, multimodal discourse analysis, critical military studies

Karen Stote (PhD, University of New Brunswick)
intersectional feminism(s), reproductive rights and justice, coerced sterilization, colonialism, Indigenous-settler relations and decolonization, environmental (in)justice, genocide studies and eugenics in Canada

Peter Urquhart (PhD, McGill University)
Canadian film and television industries; documentary film and television; cultural policy; contemporary Canadian, British and American popular culture; media history; visual communication and culture    
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"We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them."  — Michel Foucault

Dr. Nathan Rambukkana
Graduate Coordinator,
MA in Communication Studies
Assistant Professor, 
Communication Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo

DAWB 3-136 
75 University Ave W
Waterloo ON  Canada N2L3C5
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