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Research Areas research areas

Overview

  • Kate Zambon earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania after completing her bachelor's degree in Italian and German studies from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Her research in global media studies focuses on the cultural politics of nationalism and migration in the media. Her current research project analyzes how the rejection of multiculturalism across Europe has paved the way for the rise of "integration" as a new paradigm for policing transnational and multiethnic populations. Other areas of interest include the political economy of representations of culture in global media flows including international sporting events, news, and entertainment media. Zambon's research takes a historically grounded and critical approach to analyzing media, connecting representation in news and entertainment media to political and economic logics as they develop over time. Her work also involves the development and promotion of multimodal approaches to scholarship. She is the founding director of CAMRA at UNH, an interdisciplinary group dedicated to conducting and supporting research and pedagogy that goes beyond the written word, including digital, film, audio, and web-based scholarship.
  • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title
    2023 The Refusal to Sing: Affective Demands on Athletes of Color in German National FootballColloquia Germanica.  56:69-89. 2023
    2022 Hip-Hop Pedagogy, Social Justice, and Transnational Media Studies: Eko Fresh's "Aber" and Joyner Lucas's "I'm Not Racist" in DialogueTeaching German.  55:25-40. 2022
    2021 Celebrity migrants and the racialized logic of integration in GermanyPopular Communication.  19:207-221. 2021
    2021 The global politics of celebrity Introduction to a special issue of Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and CulturePopular Communication.  19:159-163. 2021
    2020 Immigrants in the Catalanist Project: Migration, Language, and Culture in Politics of IndependenceNationalism and Ethnic Politics.  26:369-388. 2020
    2017 Negotiating new German identities: transcultural comedy and the construction of pluralistic unityMedia Culture and Society.  39:552-567. 2017
    2016 Patriots and Pedagogues: Cultural Institutions and the Performative Politics of Minority German Hip-HopInternational Journal of Communication.  10:726-747. 2016
    2014 Producing the German Civic Nation: Immigrant Patriotism in Berlin's World Cup Flag FightPopular Communication.  12:1-16. 2014
    Unruly Boys and Unemancipated Girls: Football Integration and Gendered Imaginaries of DifferenceColloquia Germanica.  57.

    Book

    Year Title
    2023 Global Politics of Celebrity 2023

    Chapter

    Year Title
    2023 Transnational Hip-Hop and Social Justice Pedagogy: Approaches to Race and Belonging in the Media Studies Classroom 2023
    2022 Controlling Definitions: Racism and German Identity after Mesut Özil's National Team Resignation.  119-140. 2022
    2020 Cultural contingencies of discursive practices.  139-141. 2020

    Conference Paper

    Year Title
    2017 Migration, Language, and Culture in Politics of Catalan Independence 2017
    Models and Miscreants: Integration by Celebrity Example
    Populist Preconditions: Media Investments in Defining the People

    Teaching Activities

  • Global Media, Culture, & Power Taught course
  • Introduction to Media Studies Taught course
  • Introduction to Media Studies Taught course
  • Sem/Media & Global Populism Taught course
  • Global Media, Culture, & Power Taught course 2024
  • Introduction to Media Studies Taught course 2024
  • Introduction to Media Studies Taught course 2023
  • Sem/Media & Global Populism Taught course 2023
  • Introduction to Media Studies Taught course 2022
  • Sem/Global Media,Culture & Pwr Taught course 2022
  • Introduction to Media Studies Taught course 2022
  • Sem/Media & Global Populism Taught course 2022
  • Introduction to Media Studies Taught course 2021
  • Sem/Comn Global Cultures Taught course 2021
  • Introduction to Media Studies Taught course 2021
  • Sem/Media & Global Populism Taught course 2021
  • Introduction to Media Studies Taught course 2020
  • Seminar in Media Theory Taught course 2019
  • Introduction to Media Studies Taught course 2019
  • Sem/Global Populism &the Media Taught course 2019
  • Honors Thesis Taught course 2018
  • Introduction to Media Studies Taught course 2018
  • Seminar in Media Studies Taught course 2018
  • Introduction to Media Studies Taught course 2018
  • Sem/Commcting Global Cultures Taught course 2018
  • Introduction to Media Studies Taught course 2017
  • Seminar in Media Studies Taught course 2017
  • Education And Training

  • B.A. Communication, Vassar College
  • M.A. Communication, University of Pennsylvania
  • Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
  • Full Name

  • Kate Zambon
  • Mailing Address

  • University of New Hampshire

    Department of Communication

    20 Academic Way

    Durham

    New Hampshire

    03824