Undergraduate Student Researchers

Sean Gransee

Sean Gransee

Undergraduate web developer

Phone: 630-337-4944
Email: seangransee2014@u.northwestern.edu

Interests: Social network analysis, data visualization, web development, social media, entrepreneurship

Melina Sherman

Undergraduate researcher

Email: melinasherman2013@gmail.com
Phone: 712.389.6705

Research interests: Cultural studies, psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, feminist theories & performativity, youth cultural politics

Melina is interested in thinking & theorizing about “disorder” and self-related pathologies (e.g., personality disorders); as well as examining the relationship between subjectivity, new media institutions, postmodernity, and the average everyday.

Melina is a primary research assistant for the MTS project (aka Project Groupscope).

Joseph Celentino

Joseph Celentino

Email: josephcelentino2013@u.northwestern.edu

Phone: 619-807-8743

Interests: Cultural Studies, Journalism, Political Science, legal policy and history, online social network analysis

Joseph is a primary research assistant for the MTS project (aka Project Groupscope).

Hannah Aubry

Hannah Aubry

Undergraduate Research Assistant
email: hannah.aubry@gmail.com
phone: 415-497-9050
Office: 1-459C, Frances Searle Building

Interests: Performance, theatrical/cinematic theory and their application, marketing, community management

Agata Bogucka

Agata Bogucka

Multimedia Producer
Email: abogucka1228@gmail.com
Phone: 224 422 7304

Interests: documentary filmmaking, metaphysics, cosmology, quantum theory, natural history, morality

Blake Paine

Blake Paine

Undergraduate Multimedia Producer Email: blake.d.paine@gmail.com Phone: 812-243-4809 Interests: Filmmaking, production and design, performance for young audiences, carpentry, beer

Alex Acosta

Alex Acosta

Undergraduate Researcher Assistant Email: alexacosta2015@u.northwestern.edu Phone: 407-967-7517 Interests: Engineering, military, leadership development, Greek life, mixed martial arts

Joseph Knox

Joseph Knox

Undergraduate Researcher Assistant Email: josephknox2013@u.northwestern.edu Phone: 925-395-1888 Interests: I do Alzheimer’s research which I am very passionate about. Along with that I volunteer at Children’s Memorial Hospital and am engaged in the Evanston community.

Abigail Dennis

Abigail Dennis

Undergraduate Research Assistant Email: abigaildennis2013@u.northwestern.edu Phone: 913-961-9410 Interests: Reporting, writing, traveling, Alyssa Mercado, Montana

Joseph Wain

Joseph Wain

Undergraduate Research Assistant Email: jgwain5@gmail.com Phone: 216-402-8124 Interests: Programming, kinesiology, construction/architecture, sports

Brandon Caldwell

Brandon Caldwell

Undergraduate Research Assistant Email: brandoncaldwell2015@u.northwestern.edu Phone: 617-538-4328 Interests: Biology, Sociology, Psychology, medicine, Radiology

Andrew Lim

Andrew Lim

Undergraduate Researcher Assistant Email: junglim2014@u.northwestern.edu Phone: 847-702-4810 Interests: entrepreneurship, social network analysis, information and communication technologies, investment banking, web development, social media

Marissa Pederson

Marissa Pederson

Undergraduate Researcher Assistant Email: marissapederson2015@u.northwestern.edu Phone: 651-274-9602 Interests: Communications, Sociology, Marketing, Cultural Studies, soccer, photography, Minnesota Vikings

Andrew Cook

Andrew Cook

Undergraduate Researcher Assistant Email: cookandrew92@gmail.com Phone: 347-831-3456 Interests: Chemistry, soccer, Game of Thrones

Sunjay Kumar

Sunjay Kumar

Undergraduate Researcher Assistant Email: sunjaykumar2015@u.northwestern.edu Phone: 704-465-8577 Interests: Queer activist networks, international online communities, online team formation

Jim Harrell

Jim Harrell

Undergraduate Researcher Assistant Email: harrell.jim2@gmail.com Phone: 425-223-2299 Interests: Mechanical Engineering, space travel, green technologies