Grad Caucus Member Bios
Maria Filomia is a Ph.D student in the Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e della Formazione, at the Università degli Studi di Perugia. She is an educator, an expert in family education, and she has taught in the Media Education laboratories at the Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione. Maria’s research area is media education, with particular interest in the relationship between families and media. Her research areas include school activities with particular interest in Whiteboard.
Debbie Fucoloro is an ICT Specialist in a K-8 school, a middle school social studies teacher, a PhD grad student, and technology geek. Her professional and research interests Include: Educational Technology, Web 2.0 tools and Social Network Services, Professional Development, Media Literacy, and Digital Video. She anticipates completing her PhD in December 2011.
Aaron T. Johnson is a doctoral student in the Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. (Mass Communication track). He received a B.A. in Psychology from Pomona College, and an M.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. His research revolves around the psychological moderators of media influence, with emphasis on entertainment media and the role of evaluative processes. He has been a Teach for America corps member and grant-recipient to conduct research in London, England.
Tina Peterson is a PhD candidate in the Mass Media & Communication program at Temple University. Her research focuses on the influence of media on food choices and dietary habits. Her dissertation explores the influence of imagery on the interpretation of food media, and how media literacy may impact the meanings individuals make of food media. She has four years’ teaching experience as an instructor of courses in media studies and advertising at Temple University and Penn State. Her other primary academic affiliation is with the Association for the Study of Food and Society.
Theresa Redmond is a doctoral candidate in the Educational Media & Technology Program at Boston University. For the past three years, she has instructed undergraduate students in the School of Education’s Technology Lab, facilitating the integration of educational technology and multimedia into web-based teaching and learning. Theresa’s research interests include educational media and technology integration in K-12 school-based settings and in teacher preparation. Specifically, Theresa is interested in the intersections between media literacy education and twenty-first century skills. Her dissertation research focuses on media literacy integration at the middle school level. Theresa was recently hired as a Media Studies Instructor at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC.
Erica Rosenthal is a doctoral candidate in social psychology at Claremont Graduate University (CGU), with an emphasis in evaluation and applied research. Her research pertains to individual and contextual moderators of media literacy processes. Specifically, her dissertation research examines potential motivational barriers to media literacy, as well as constraints on the ability to thoroughly process media messages. She also consults as a program evaluator and quantitative analyst on a variety of projects in the areas of education, health, and child welfare. She has a B.A. in psychobiology from Swarthmore College and an M.A. in psychology from CGU, and anticipates completing her Ph.D. in spring 2012.
