Areas of Study
USC Annenberg Ph.D. students can choose to focus in one of seven different concentrations, and choose to work with USC Annenberg faculty whose areas of expertise survey one or more of the following areas:
- Global & Transnational Communication
- Jonathan Aronson
- Francois Bar
- Manuel Castells
- Nicholas Cull
- Robeson Frazier
- Thomas Hollihan
- Yu Hong
- Joshua Kun
- Peter Monge
- Patti Riley
- Jay Wang
- Ernest Wilson
- Groups, Organizations & Networks
- Sandra Ball-Rokeach
- Michael Cody
- Janet Fulk
- Andrea Hollingshead
- Peter Monge
- Patti Riley
- Dmitri Williams
- Ernest Wilson
- Health Communication and Social Dynamics
- Sandra Ball-Rokeach
- Peter Clarke
- Michael Cody
- Thomas Goodnight
- Margaret McLaughlin
- Lynn Miller
- Sheila Murphy
- Information, Political Economy & Entertainment
- Jonathan Aronson
- Sarah Banet-Weiser
- Francois Bar
- Manuel Castells
- Thomas Goodnight
- Larry Gross
- Yu Hong
- Henry Jenkins
- Lian Jian
- Kwan Min Lee
- Sheila Murphy
- Stacy Smith
- Dmitri Williams
- Ernest Wilson
- Media, Culture and Community
- Sandra Ball-Rokeach
- Anne Balsamo
- Sarah Banet-Weiser
- Manuel Castells
- Michael Cody
- Robeson Frazier
- Larry Gross
- Henry Jenkins
- Joshua Kun
- Peter Monge
- Sheila Murphy
- Stephen O'Leary
- Stacy Smith
- Douglas Thomas
- Jay Wang
- New Media & Technology
- Jonathan Aronson
- Sandra Ball-Rokeach
- Anne Balsamo
- Francois Bar
- Manuel Castells
- Janet Faulk
- Andrea Hollingshead
- Henry Jenkins
- Lian Jian
- Kwan Min Lee
- Margaret McLaughlin
- Lynn Miller
- Stephen O'Leary
- Douglas Thomas
- Dmitri Williams
- Ernest Wilson
- Rhetoric, Politics & Publics
- Nicholas Cull
- Robeson Frazier
- Thomas Goodnight
- Thomas Hollihan
- Henry Jenkins
- Randall Lake
- Stephen O'Leary
- Patti Riley