Niloufar Hajirahimikalhroudi
Doctoral Candidate
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About
Niloufar Hajirahimikalhroudi is a doctoral candidate in Communication and Media Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her research examines socio-technical issues, with a focus on how people engage with communication technologies in their daily lives. Her dissertation investigates how migrants experience communication technologies in relation to both collective and personal memories.
Her master’s thesis explored how Turkish immigrants negotiate power dynamics in Germany through technologies such as mobile phones and was selected for publication in the Excellent MSc Dissertations 2021 volume (Lund University, 2022, ed. Michael Bossetta). Since then, she has presented her work at several international conferences, worked as a research assistant on projects across Europe, and currently teaches the COMM 100 course at UIC. She is also a research assistant with the Media Democracy Lab at UIC. Beyond academia, Niloufar has professional experience as a journalist and communication officer for international publications and non-profit organizations.
Education
MA in Communication and Media Studies at Lund University, Sweden, 2021
BA in Journalism at Istanbul university, Turkey, 2019