Faculty

Press

Andrea Press is Chair of the Media Studies Department and the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Media Studies and Sociology at the University of Virginia, where she also served as Executive Director of the Virginia Film Festival and serves as a College Fellow. She came to the University of Virginia in 2006 to shepherd the Media Studies Program to departmental status and to begin its graduate program.

Coleman

Robin R. Means Coleman, PhD is a Professor of Media Studies and of African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. She is Director of the Black Fantastic Media Research Lab. An accomplished, prizewinning administrator, she has held several senior leadership positions. Before joining the University of Virginia, Dr. Coleman was the Vice President & Associate Provost for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer, and the Ida B. Wells and Ferdinand Barnett Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University.

Sloane

Mona Sloane, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Data Science and Media Studies. As a sociologist, she studies the intersection of technology and society, specifically in the context of AI design, use, and policy.

Martin

A social scientist specializing in technology policy and data governance, Aaron Martin studies how regulation can facilitate just, inclusive, and secure digital societies. In addition to focusing on how transnational policy is established by international bodies and humanitarian organizations, he explores how users in historically marginalized communities, including refugees and other vulnerable people, understand and shape technology and its regulation.

Wade

Ashleigh Greene Wade is Assistant Professor of Digital Studies, jointly appointed in Media Studies and African American Studies. Broadly speaking, her work traverses the fields of Black girlhood studies, digital and visual media studies, Black Feminist theory, and digital humanities. Wade has a Ph.D. in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University and is an alumna of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies Fellowship Program.

Etem

Dr. Jülide Etem (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Media Studies Department at the University of Virginia. As a scholar of media history, documentary film, and race & ethnicity, her research examines how institutions produce media with the intention of generating transformative social impact.​

Sweeney

Kate is a veteran nonfiction media producer and journalist. As an associate producer, field producer and co-producer at National Geographic Television & Film, she earned multiple credits for news and documentary projects that explored diverse topics, from scientific discoveries to life on the front lines of conflict. Later, Kate served as the Supervising Producer on the editorial team that launched Smithsonian Networks, a joint venture between CBS/Showtime and the Smithsonian Institution.

Williams

Dr. Tyler Solon Williams is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. He holds a PhD in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa and an MA in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University.

Dia

Mamadou Dia is an award-winning Senegalese film director, screenwriter, and co-founder of the production company, Joyedidi. Often based on his life growing up in West Africa, Mr. Dia’s films explore the tension between fact and fiction, realism and abstraction.

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