Professor to undergraduates & graduate students,

Mentor to honors scholars, doctoral candidates & post-doctoral fellows
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Teaching Awards:
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: Zebulon Pearce Distinguished Teaching Award in the Social Sciences. (Highest recognition of excellence in teaching in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, ASU)

:  Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, Faculty Women’s Association, ASU.
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: 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 Honors faculty and Chair of honors’ theses at Barrett, the Honors College. I have also been appointed to serve as member of the Honors Faculty Council, under the Office of the Provost, at ASU. 

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 also serving on the Scientific Advisory Board of Digital Religion(s), University of Zurich, Switzerland.