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PhD Core Faculty

Research Interests:
  • Computer and High Technology Crime
  • Criminal Justice Technology
  • Policing
  • Transnational Crime
  • Criminological Theory


Mary Ebeling

Mary Ebeling, Ph.D.

Phone: (215) 895-6145
Email: mfe@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
  • Science and Technology Studies (STS)
  • Emerging Technologies and Biocapital
  • Media and Democratic Cultures
  • Radical Social Movements
  • Sociology of Markets
  • Political Sociology
  • Ethnographic Methodologies


Ernest Hakanen

Ernest Hakanen, Ph.D.

Phone: (215) 895-1354
Email: eah22@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
  • Communication Theory and History
  • Adolescent Media Use
  • Telecommunications Policy
  • Mass Media Effects/History
  • Global Media
  • Semiotics


Emmanuel Koku

Emmanuel Koku, Ph.D.

Phone: (215) 895-6144
Email: emmanuelkoku@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
  • Social Network Analysis
  • Qualitative/Quantitative Research
  • Medical Sociology
  • Social Epidemiology
  • Social Demography
  • Sociology of Development
  • Communication and Information Technology
  • Community and Urban Sociology


Dr. Brent Luvaas

Brent Luvaas, Ph.D.

Phone: (215) 571-3660
Email: Luvaas@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
  • Visual and socio-cultural anthropology.
  • The global circulation of fashion, music, and aesthetics.
  • DIY, amateur, and independent media.
  • New media and mediated subjectivities.
  • Street fashion, streetwear, and street style blogging.
  • Youth culture in the United States and Indonesia


Douglas Porpora

Douglas Porpora, Ph.D.

Phone: (215) 895-2404
Email: porporad@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
  • War, Genocide, Torture, and Human Rights
  • Macro-Moral Reasoning in Public Sphere Debate
  • Contemporary Social Theory
  • Moral and Political Communication
  • Religion


Devon Powers

Devon Powers, Ph.D.

Phone: (215) 571-3550
Email: devon.powers@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
  • Popular Music
  • Cultural Intermediaries
  • Promotional Culture
  • 20th Century History
  • Journalism Studies


Rachel Reynolds

Rachel Reynolds, Ph.D.

Phone: (215) 895-0498
Email: rrr@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
  • Sociolinguistics, Ethnography of Communication and Discourse Analysis
  • Communication and Information Seeking (especially among Youth in West and Central African Contexts, including Nigeria and Cameroon)
  • Brain Drain, Immigrants and Transnational Immigration
  • Semiotics and Pragmatics


Mimi Sheller

Mimi Sheller, Ph.D.

Phone: (215) 571-3652
Email: mimi.sheller@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
  • Sustainable Mobility and Mobility Justice: new cultures and infrastructures of travel, transport, mobile communication, and urbanism
  • Caribbean Studies: history, culture and political theory of the region, including intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class
  • Caribbean Mobilities: the relation between tourism, migration and air travel across the U.S.-Caribbean borders
  • Tracing the histories and forecasting the futures of cultures of mobility and wider mobility regimes, including theorizing transitions in complex systems


Wesley Shumar

Wesley Shumar, Ph.D.

Phone: (215) 895-2060
Email: shumarw@drexel.edu

Research Interests:
  • New Media
  • Social Space
  • Ethnography and Education
  • Semiotic of Consumer Culture