Congrats again to all of our 2016 graduates!

The NMCC blog will be on summer vacation for the next few months but will return in September to kick off the 2016-2017 school year! We wish everyone a safe and relaxing summer, and we look forward to seeing both new and returning NMCC students in the fall. Don’t forget to stop by our table at the annual Graduate Student Resource Fair!

See you in September for another great year with NMCC! 

We are thrilled to announce the NMCC graduates for the 2015-2016 school year, David Staton (SOJC) and Erin Zysett (AAA). We are very proud of the hard work and perseverance that both have displayed in their academic pursuits during their time with us, and we look forward to celebrating their scholarly, artistic, and technological accomplishments in the years ahead. Congratulations class of 2016!!

David Staton, Ph.D. Communication and Society

David Staton is an NMCC June graduate from the School of Journalism and Communication. He says the NMCC program offered him wide opportunities to delve into theory and praxis. “The great thing about the program is how wide open it is. It does have a focus, but I was able to largely determine what that focus would be and I never felt straightjacketed into a program,” Staton notes. The Media Studies PhD will begin his career as an assistant professor at the University of Northern Colorado this fall where he’ll specialized in digital storytelling. “It marries new media, the visual and telling stories,” he says of the job. “It couldn’t have worked out much better and the NMCC made me a more attractive candidate, absolutely.”

Erin Zysett, M.A. Arts Management

Erin Zysett is a 2016 NMCC graduate from the School of Architecture and Allied Arts. There is a growing trend among larger museums and heritage organizations to digitize their collections, both their artifact collections, and their back catalog of research publications and books. Erin’s research focuses on the emerging role of e-curatorship in museums, issues of mass digitization projects, and the marketing potential of making collections available online. Erin currently has a job at the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance and will continue with her position there next year.

NMCC would like to welcome Juan-Carlos Molleda, the new Edwin L. Artzt Dean of the School of Journalism and Communication, and Christoph Lindner, the new Dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, to campus!

Juan-Carlos Molleda

“Molleda’s research interests are in global corporate public relations management, public relations practices and regulations, and social roles in Latin America. He has introduced to the international academic community the concept and theory of cross-national conflict and the social roles of public relations in Latin America. He also is active in the professional community—currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Public Relations and a founding member of its Commission on Global Public Relations Research. He serves as Latin American liaison of the Public Relations Society of America’s Certification in Education for Public Relations and a board member of the LAGRANT Foundation.”

Christoph Lindner

“In his research and teaching, he is particularly interested in the interrelations between cities, globalization, and issues of political ecology, sustainability, and creative practice, which he approaches from a comparative, transnational perspective. He is currently Professor of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, where he directs the ASCA Cities Project. He is also the founding Director of the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA) and a member of the Amsterdam Center for Globalization Studies (ACGS). From 2010-2014, he was Director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), a research institute and doctoral school focused on the interdisciplinary study of contemporary society, politics, and culture. In addition, he has held visiting appointments at various universities internationally, including New York University, The New School, University of California-Berkeley, University of Edinburgh, University of Freiburg, Queen Mary University of London, University of Venice, and the University of London Institute in Paris.

His recent book publications include Imagining New York City (Oxford University Press, 2015), as well as the edited volumes Global Garbage (Routledge, 2016), Cities Interrupted: Visual Culture and Urban Space (Bloomsbury, 2016), Inert Cities: Globalization, Mobility and Suspension in Visual Culture (I.B. Tauris, 2014), and Paris-Amsterdam Underground (Amsterdam University Press, 2013). He is currently working on a new book titled Slow: Decelerated Living in an Accelerating World (under contract with Verso).