People
CGCS Advisory Board
- Cameron Hurst, Director of the Center for East Asian Studies
- Devesh Kapur, Director of the Center for Advanced Study of India
- Elihu Katz, Annenberg School for Communication
- Vincent Price, Annenberg School for Communication
- Joseph Turow, Annenberg School for Communication
- Robert Vitalis, Political Science Department
- Barbie Zelizer, Annenberg School for Communication
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Visiting Scholars
CGCS also hosts visiting scholars that enrich its mission. See who is currently visiting.
CGCS Team
Monroe E. Price
Adjunct Full Professor of Communication
Prof. Price is Director of The Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and Director of the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research in London. Prof. Price, who was Dean from 1982 to 1991, is now the Joseph and Sadie Danciger Professor of Law and Director of the Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media and Society at the Cardozo School of Law. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale, where he was executive editor of the Yale Law Journal. He clerked for Associate Justice Potter Stewart of the U.S. Supreme Court and was an assistant to Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz.
He was founding director of the Program in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Wolfson College, Oxford, and a Member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Prof. Price was a senior fellow of the Media Studies Center in spring 1998. He was deputy director of California Indian Legal Services, one of the founders of the Native American Rights Fund, and author of Law and the American Indian. Among his many books are Media and Sovereignty and Television, The Public Sphere and National Identity, and a treatise on cable television.
Susan M. Abbott
Associate Director
In her capacity as Associate Director at the Center for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School for Communication, she works with Professor Monroe E. Price on increasing international and comparative research and activities. She has been the project manager on major CGCS initiatives including helping to identify and develop capacity with international partners, managing international development projects such as Annenberg's media law and policy efforts as part of the USAID-funded Jordan Media Strengthening Program, and Researching Attitudes to Conflict and Peace in Darfur. Abbott played an active role in coordinating CGCS partnership on publications with the World Bank Institute and the Global Forum for Media Development.
Susan has previously worked as a consultant for Central European University in Budapest, where she helped establish the CEU Center for Media and Communications Studies. Prior to this she was a program officer in the Media Development Division at the International Research & Exchanges Board, in Washington, DC, on the USAID-funded Serbia Professional Media Program. As an editor for Central Europe Review, she commissioned stories and worked with a variety of journalists on an award-winning online journal. Earlier in her career, she was a communications officer at The Media Institute in Washington, DC, and worked as a legal intern at the International Federation of Phonographic Industry in Brussels. She received her BA from American University in Washington, DC, and MA from Central European University in Budapest.
Drew Cahan
Grants Coordinator
Drew Cahan is Grants Coordinator at the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. In this capacity, he helps backstop CGCS's government and foundation funded projects. Drew was a finance and accounting major from Northeastern University in Boston, where he also spent time working in the Grants Department at Harvard Medical School.
Libby Morgan
Research and Editorial Coordinator
Libby Morgan is Research and Editorial Coordinator at the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She works with Prof. Price on the Center's publication initiatives, including the Spring 2008 publication of Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China, the first CGCS occasional paper on media policy in Iraq (May 2007), and various book chapters and journal articles. In addition, she supports the planning and administration of CGCS's Jordan Media Strengthening Program, a 3-year USAID-funded effort to improve the legal regulatory environment for media in Jordan. In 2006, she received an MA in International Relations, with a concentration in Media and Communications, from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Prior to graduate school, she worked in international advertising and publishing in Washington, DC. She received her BA from Dartmouth College.
Stefaan Verhulst
CGCS Sr. Research Fellow
Mr. Verhulst is Chief of Research at the Markle Foundation. He was the founder and director of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) at Oxford University, as well as senior research fellow at the Centre for Socio Legal Studies. In that capacity he was appointed the socio-legal research fellow at Wolfson College (Oxford). In addition, he was the Unesco Chairholder in Communication Law and Policy for the UK.
Before his move to Oxford in 1996, he had been a lecturer on communications law and policy issues in Belgium and founder and co-director of the International Media and info-comms Policy and Law studies (IMPS) at the School of Law, University of Glasgow. Mr. Verhulst has served as consultant to various international and national organizations including the Council of Europe, European Commission, Unesco, UNDP, USAID and DFID.
His numerous publications include: In Search of the Self: Conceptual Approaches to Internet Self Regulation (Routledge, 2001), Convergence in European Communications Regulation (Blackstone, 1999), EC Media Law and Policy (AWL, 1998), Legal Responses to the Changing Media (OUP, 1998) and Broadcasting Reform in India (OUP, 1998). Mr. Verhulst is invited regularly to speak at industry and academic conferences globally. He is also the founder and editor of the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy and the Communications Law in Transition Newsletter.
Aamir Wyne
CGCS Legal Research Fellow
Aamir Wyne is CGCS Legal Research Fellow. His role at the center covers research in international, Middle Eastern, and North African law. In January 2010 he will travel to Amman to work with the Center for Defending Freedom of Journalists as part of Annenberg's involvement in the Jordan Media Strengthening Program. He received a JD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and an MA in International Studies from the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn Law he served on the board of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. Prior to graduate school, Aamir worked in China for a microfinance organization and as an English teacher. He received a BA from Williams College.
Graduate Students
Annenberg graduate students are at the forefront of many CGCS-supported initiatives and research projects. Read more about their important contributions.
Visiting Scholars
CGCS is also hosts visiting scholars that enrich its mission. See who is currently visiting.
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Annenberg Faculty
At the core of intellectual life at Annenberg is its faculty. Among the areas of research with an international dimension are communication research concerning AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, representations of the Holocaust, cultural communication in Israel and the role of flags in nationalism.
In addition to this, much research undertaken with a domestic focus on has international relevance, including work on cybernetics and information communication technology, health, the cultural dimensions of journalism, environmental justice, racial identity, children's development, advertising and education.
Published works by Annenberg scholars demonstrate their familiarity with international ideas and issues, and a selection of the many books and articles by current faculty members dealing with global issues is listed on the CGCS research page.
Members of the faculty also hold positions and fellowships at institutions abroad, including the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, University of Oxford (Prof. Price). Central European University, Budapest (Prof. Price), Hebrew University (Prof. Katz), Society for Science of Design Studies, Japan (Prof. Klaus Krippendorf). Several Annenberg scholars sit on editorial boards of journals with an international focus, such as the Journal of African Communication (Prof. Oscar Gandy, Jr.) and Communications, The European Journal of Communication Research (Prof. Krippendorf)
All of the faculty are active in the International Communication Association (ICA), publishing in its journals, attending its annual conferences and engaging in other activities it organizes. Prof Barbie Zelizer is currently the President-Elect-Select of the ICA. Prof. Joseph Cappella is an ICA Fellow and a former president of the organization, and Prof. Katherine Sender is Co-Chair of the ICA's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender special interest group.
Last updated: November 11, 2009
