I received my Ph.D. in Media and Communication from Temple University, with concentrations on critical media studies, public memory, disability studies and ethnographic methods. My research interests include technology and love; digital and media literacy; history in popular culture; tourism and historic asylums; ethnographic audience research; and self help culture. My research has been published in The Pennsylvania Communication Annual, Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, Disability Studies Quarterly, and BMC Public Health.
My current research is a community media project engaging audiences around stories of living with disability during the pandemic. “Witnessing the Impact of COVID-19 in Disabled People’s Lives” was funded by the Waterhouse Family Institute for the Study of Communication and Society and made possible through a collaboration with the Institute on Disabilities at Temple. Together with 10 community partners, we collected 16 oral history interviews and produced an eight article newspaper series with three different media outlets in the Greater Philadelphia Area. You can hear interviews, read transcripts, and see press at the project website: https://disabilityandcovidproject.org/.
Currently, I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Arts, Languages, and Letters at Immaculata University, where I teach in the communication major and university honors program and serve as the Director of Sponsored Research.
Previously, I co-led the Multimedia Research Project in Engaged Scholarship at Rutgers University’s Doctorate in Social Work Program.
You can download my CV here, and you can contact me at kgeorge@immaculata.edu.