![]() Even when her work isn’t explicitly about gender, she considers her research questions through a feminist lens. ![]() She comes to Penn from the London School of Economics, where she was Professor and Head of Department in Media and Communications.īroadly, Banet-Weiser’s scholarly interests include gender in the media identity, citizenship, and cultural politics consumer culture and popular media race and the media and intersectional feminism. ![]() In addition, she will be the director of the Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication, a first-of-its-kind joint center between the two universities. She will be an appointed faculty member at Penn’s Annenberg School while also serving as a Professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. She has focused much of her research on what it means to be a citizen, ranging from beauty pageants to kids’ television to brand culture to popular feminism.īanet-Weiser's hire is unique in the field of Communication. ![]() When she was working on her first book on beauty pageants and national identity, Sarah Banet-Weiser, who will join the faculty at the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania on July 1, couldn’t have predicted how performances of gender would both drastically shift and resolutely remain the same over the next 25 years. ![]()
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