Kimberly E. Showalter curriculum vitae PDF
Kimberly is a second-year PhD student and holds a BA in communication with a concentration in journalism and media and an Asian studies minor from the State University of New York at Geneseo. She completed her MS in mass communication at Boston University.
After graduating from BU, she entered industry, where she worked in various nonprofit and higher education settings before spending the last six years of her career in marketing in the tech space for clients like AWS, Qlik, and VMware. Her research investigates the cultural and social impacts of representation in various pop culture
media and how consumers seek out media that breaks away from dominant messages and systems of power as an act of counterhegemony.
When not studying or working at her OIT graduate assistantship, Kimberly is an avid reader and likes to read three to four books at any given time. She is also a passionate fan of her hometown sports teams—namely the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres.
Research Interests
- Representation in media
- Pop culture studies
- Hegemony
- Non-American media
- Soft power
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