Primary Investigator
Anne MacLennan is an associate professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Studies at York University and member of the York-Ryerson Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture.
She joined the Communication Studies Program at York University in 2003 and has over twenty years of experience teaching communication studies, media studies, history, methodology and other interdisciplinary topics. She recently curated a show of historical radios and radio advertising with Michael Windover (Carleton University), accompanied by their co-authored book, Seeing, Selling, and Situating Radio in Canada, 1922-1956 (2018 Independent Publisher Book Award- Bronze in Popular Culture). Her ongoing work includes: a book on early Canadian radio programming; SSHRC funded research “Remembering Radio: The Canadian Radio Audience in the 1930s”, and a Canadian Media Research Council-funded project, First Person Plural: Transcribing the Perspectives of Canadian Broadcast Pioneers for a Digital Age” with Paul Moore. This project is “Programming, practices, production and policy: Canadian community radio” and has just received a Social Science and Humanities Research Insight Research Grant (May 2018) with her collaborator Katie Moylan (University of Leicester). She has published in Media and Communication, the Journal of Radio & Audio Media, Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, The Radio Journal, Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, Urban History Review and other collections. She works on media history, community radio, broadcasting, popular culture, Canadian history and Canadian studies, women, social welfare, poverty and cultural representations in the media. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Radio & Audio Media.
Research collaborator
Katie Moylan researches community radio programming and production in diverse contexts to identify and explore ways in which community radio enables community-led representation. She is Lecturer in the School of Media, Communication and Sociology at the University of Leicester, UK. Her first book, Broadcasting Diversity (University of Chicago, 2013), analyses migrant community representation across public service and community radio in Ireland. Her second book, The Cultural Work of Community Radio (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019) examines community-led radio programmes and production in North American contexts; this research was supported in part by a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant in 2015. Her 2018 article ‘Accented Radio: Articulations of British Caribbean Experience and Identity in UK Community Radio' analyses community-led programming in selected UK community radio. With Leicester multilingual station EAVA FM practitioners, she co-teaches a production-led module for undergrads: ‘Community Radio in Practice’. Her radio research incorporates and often combines analysis of complexities of ‘community’ and of communities; politics of cultural labour; radio aesthetics; and transcultural production practices.
Moylan’s other research includes a focus on television aesthetics, which she has published on in Television and New Media ('Uncanny TV: Estranged Space and Subjectivity in Les Revenants and Top of the Lake', 2015) and Critical Studies in Television ('"How’s Your House?": Treme’s Activated Aesthetic', forthcoming). Katie Moylan previously worked as an arts and features broadcaster and journalist in Dublin, Ireland before returning to academia.
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Graduate researchers
Jessica Ireland is a master's student in the Political Science program at York University. She was the 2019 recipient of the Packer Award for Social Justice and the Dean's Award for Research Excellence. She graduated summa cum laude from the Bachelor of Arts program in Political Science at York University in June 2019. Jessica joined Anne MacLennan’s research team in November 2017, and she will be working on the Community Radio project until December 2020. She can be contacted at jireland@yorku.ca.
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Undergraduate Researchers
Kad Mariano is a fourth-year undergraduate student completing a Bachelor of Arts Honours Double Major in Law and Society & Political Science at York University. His interests include linguistics, identity politics, Canadian politics, political theory, pop and world cultures and social justice. After graduation, he plans on pursuing a master’s degree in Political Science. Kad joined Anne MacLennan’s research team in May 2020 and is currently assisting with the Community Radio Project. He can be contacted at: km99@my.yorku.ca.
Askar Gilmanshin
Winnifred Kumi is a first-year undergraduate student in the program of Biomedical Science at York University. She was part of the ACE program which presents student with the opportunity to earn $5000 in scholarships from York University to pursue her studies. She aspires to complete her graduate studies leading to become an obstetrician-gynecologist (OB-GYN). She joined the program in October 2018 and is currently working as a Research Assistant for Professor Anne MacLennan. She can be contacted at winniek4@my.yorku.ca.
Ariel Muniz
Christina Nguyen
Eleni Pappas
Layla Samel
Catherine Shi is a fourth-year undergraduate student at York University. She is completing her Bachelor of Arts with Honors in the Law and Society program. Her interests reside in researching Canadian immigration developments and advocating animal justice. Upon graduation, Catherine wishes to pursue graduate studies so that she can specialise in either one of those fields. Outside of school, she works as a freelance writer and volunteers as a researcher for an animal rights organization. She can be contacted at catherineshi99@gmail.com.
Frankie St.Louis is a fourth year kinesiology student. She aspires to do a masters in sports management and then start a career in this field. She is also a member of the York Varsity field hockey team and hopes to bring home a national championship with the team. She joined the research team as a research assistant in September 2020. She can be contacted at fbstl15@my.yorku.ca.
Helen Valdez-Rocha
