Professor to undergraduates & graduate students,
Mentor to honors scholars, doctoral candidates & post-doctoral fellows

Teaching Awards:
: 2016 Zebulon Pearce Distinguished Teaching Award in the Social Sciences. (Highest recognition of excellence in teaching in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, ASU)

: 2016 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, Faculty Women’s Association, ASU.
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: 2017 Master Teacher Award, Communication & Instruction interest group, Western Communication Association

I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in computer-mediated communication, Internet & society, intercultural communication, transnationalism and globalization.

I serve as an Honors faculty and Chair of honors’ theses at Barrett, the Honors College.

I also serve as a graduate faculty and doctoral advisor at the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, and the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University.

In the university, I have served as Faculty Mentor in the President Barack Obama Scholars program, and in The Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, Undergraduate Research Fellows Program.

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Beyond the university, I have served as the Chair of the Doctoral Colloquium at the Association of Internet Researchers Conference (#IR16), and as Co-Chair for the Doctoral Colloquium at #IR17.

I also served as Founding Chair of the inaugural Doctoral Colloquium at the 10th international conference on Media, Religion & Culture, Seoul, August 2016.

I have been a Tutor at the Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Program, and currently am an Advisory Board member for the Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies , and the Center for Intercultural New Media Research.