Visiting Scholar Inquiries

CGCS's visiting scholars program provides opportunities for PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and young faculty members to further their academic careers and participate in the intellectual life of the Annenberg School. If you are interested in contacting one of our current visiting scholars, or are interested in visiting CGCS, please contact us.

Visiting scholar applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.  Due to the volume of applications we receive, however, we recommend these general deadlines for applying for the following academic year:
For a stay beginning in the Fall semester: January 1
For a stay beginning in the Spring semester: April 1
Applications received after the deadlines will be considered on a case by case basis.

Dong Leshuo is a PhD candidate specializing in international communication at the School of Journalism and Communication at Tsinghua University in China. Her research interests lie in international public relations, public diplomacy and framing. At CGCS, she plans to continue her research project and also focus on China’s international public relations efforts in US. She has published several papers in leading Chinese academic journals, including the Journal of International Communication and Chinese Journalist. As a member of IAMCR, she has also presented several papers at the annual conference. She is also an assistant editor of Global Media Journal which is an academic journal co-published by Purdue and Tsinghua. She holds a MA in Journalism from Tsinghua University, and a BA in media communication from China Agricultural University.

Duan Yundong is an associate professor of Fine Arts School at Southwest University in Chongqing China. Duan Yundong obtained the PhD Degree in Film Studies at Chinese National Art Academy in Beijing, and M.A in film studies at Southwest University.

His research interests include film studies, visual communication, cyber space in a comparative perspective, and art history. Duan Yundong chose the cinematic metaphor as his PhD thesis, which involved the nature, types, and mechanism of the cinematic image. Now he is engaged in three projects; The first is “the problematic history of Chinese mainstream film” which was founded by the National Planning Office of Art Studies; The second is “studies of cinematic metaphor”, which was founded by the Educational Ministry of China; The last is “new media and the cultural governance in China”, which was founded by Southwest University.

He has published a monograph and more than 40 articles. They are: Film: As an Art of Metaphor (which was revised from his PhD thesis); and many articles published in Chinese academic journals, such as the Journal of Literature and Art Studies, Contemporary Cinema, Film Art, Modern Communication, World Cinema, Television Studies, and so on.

Han Xiaoning is a lecturer at the School of Journalism and Communication, Renmin University of China (RUC) in Beijing. He is also a research fellow at the Research Center of Journalism and Social Development at RUC, and the vice director of the Public Opinion Studies Center of Renmin University.
Dr. Han’s research interests include public communications, public opinion, media regulation and the media industry. From 2002 to 2006, Dr. Han participated in many projects on public opinion research for mainstream media entities and governments, and then turned to research on development of the media industry. He now focuses his research on public communications within the new media environment and media regulation with development of the media industry. During he visit to Annenberg, he will focuse on public communications and media regulation.

He holds a BA in journalism, a MA in communication, and a PhD in media economics from the School of Journalism and Communication at RUC.

Christian Schemer is a senior researcher at the Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He holds a PhD in Communication Science from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and an M.A. in Communication from the University of Mainz, Germany.

His research focuses on cognitive, affective, and attitudinal effects of news media reporting and advertising in political campaigns. Additional research interests include media effects on intergroup emotions and stereotypes and research methodology.

Miriam Stehling is research fellow and PhD student at the Institute of Communications and Media Culture at the Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Germany. Her PhD research focuses on the reception and appropriation of the global reality television format „Top Model“ in different cultural contexts. For this, she conducts qualitative audience research in form of focus groups in Germany and the US. The study is based on the theoretical frameworks of the concept of transculturality, cultural studies and governmentality studies. During her research visit at the CGCS, Miriam will conduct focus groups research on the appropriation of "America’s Next Top Model“.

Miriam holds an M.A. in Cultural Studies with specializations in Business Administration, Language & Communications as well as Media & Public Relations from the Leuphana University of Lueneburg. She was Erasmus exchange student at the Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona in 2006/07 and completed an internship at the German Embassy in Washington D.C. in 2008.

She teaches classes at the Leuphana University of Lueneburg in the field of media commmunications and media culture and has published articles and presented papers on the topics of global reality television formats, transcultural research and the female enterprising self in reality tv (in German: "Die ‚Unternehmerin ihrer selbst‘ im Reality TV: Geschlechtsspezifische Anrufungen und Aushandlungen in Germany’s next Topmodel“).

Dr. Taegyu Son is a professor at the School of Journalism & Mass Communication at Dankook University, South Korea. He teaches Media Law, Media Ethics, Media and Politics, and Writing & Reporting.

He is currently a vice president of the Korean Association for Information Society. He was a vice chairperson of the Korean Communications Standard Commission, a member of the Deliberation Committee for Presidential Election Broadcasting, the Korean Broadcastings Commission, a member of the Editorial Board of the Korean Journal of Journalism & Communication Studies, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Kwanhun Journal.

He has published two books, Traditional Press and New Media: the Future of Journalists and A Call for Freedom of the Press and a Free Press in Seoul in 2011.

Dr. Son was a correspondent to the Presidential Office, the National Assembly, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, and the National Police Agency for the Hankook Ilbo (Korean Daily) in Seoul,

He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, a M.A. in Political Science from the University of Connecticut at Storrs in the United States, and a Ph.D. in Journalism & Mass Comm. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Yan Gao is a PhD candidate specializing in New Media Communication at the School of Journalism and Communication, Renmin Universtiy of China. Her research interests lie in new media communication, and media and social transformation. At CGCS, she will do research to explore how new media communication, especially mobile phone communication, affects human perception, understanding, feeling, and values; and the impact of new media on social cohesion and civic engagement.

She holds a MA in communication from Renmin University of China, and a BA in Broadcast and Television Journalism from Shantou University.

Zhou Baohua is an associate professor at the Journalism School, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He is also a research fellow of the Center for Information and Communication Studies and associate director of Media and Public Opinion Research Centre (FMORC) of Fudan University. His research focuses on new media, public opinion and media effects. His current research projects include social differentiation, media use, opinion expression and political participation in China, media use and identity of new migrants in Shanghai, new media and journalism, and comparative foreign TV news around the world, among others. His works have appeared in Asian Journal of Communication, Chinese Journal of Communication, Communication & Society, and various major journals in the field of communication in China.

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