2009-2010 NCID Postdoctoral Fellow | Assistant Professor of Media Culture at College of Staten Island - CUNY
About
Jillian Báez is an assistant professor of media culture at the College of Staten Island-CUNY. Báez specializes in Latina/o media, audience studies, and transnational feminisms. She received her doctorate from the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her bachelor’s degree from Hunter College-CUNY in media studies and black & Puerto Rican studies. She has published her research in Critical Studies in Media Communication, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Journal of Popular Communication, Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, and several anthologies. The past recipient of fellowships and grants from the Ford Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and Tinker Foundation, she was most recently awarded grants to support her research from the Organization for Research on Women and Communication, GriffinHarte Foundation, and the Waterhouse Family Institute for the Study of Communication and Society at Villanova University.
Current Work:
Dr. Báez recently completed a book titled In Search of Belonging: Latinas, Media, and Citizenship, which is under contract with University of Illinois Press.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Communication and media studies; Latin American and Latina/o studies
