Isabel Awad PhD

Assistant Professor

Biographical Note

Isabel Awad has recently been appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She teaches courses on communication theory and international communication, as well as on qualitative and comparative approaches to communication research. Her research focuses on journalism, multiculturalism, and democracy.

Isabel obtained her PhD in Communication from Stanford University (USA) in 2007. In her dissertation, she analyzed the relationship between the Latina/o community and the press in San José, California. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, in-depth interviews, and discourse analysis, she compared the role of ethnic and mainstream media for the (dis)empowerment of minority communities.

A native from Chile, Isabel studied journalism and aesthetics in Universidad Católica de Chile. Before moving to the U.S. and to Europe, she worked as a journalism lecturer in Universidad Católica and as a political reporter in a national Chilean newspaper.

Isabel arrived to the Netherlands in 2007 with an Erasmus Mundus 6-month teaching scholarship based in the Department of Communication at the University of Amsterdam. Between 2007 and 2009, she worked in that department as a lecturer and an international academic coordinator.