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Raiana de Carvalho

Assistant Professor

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Dr. Raiana de Carvalho is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Furman University. Her work bridges media studies, political communication, and cultural analysis to examine how digital and legacy media shape identity formation, social movement mobilization, and cultural and political memory-making — with particular attention to groups at critical intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and nationality across Latin America and the United States.

Her work has appeared in journals such as Media, Culture & Society, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Communication Education, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Global Studies of Childhood, and Animus: Revista Interamericana de Comunicação Midiática.

Dr. de Carvalho's teaching takes an interdisciplinary and student-centered approach. She has taught courses in International Communication, Communication Research Methods, Media & Diversity, Media & Society, and Public Speaking.

Honors and Awards

Top Faculty Paper Award
Third Place, Cultural and Critical Studies Division
Association for Education of Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), 2026

Top Faculty Paper Award
Runner-up, Global Communication and Social Change Division
International Communication Association (ICA), 2025

Outstanding Teaching Award
Doctoral Program Committee
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, 2023

Top Student Paper Award
Third Place, Cultural and Critical Studies Division
Association for Education of Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), 2022

Bachelor’s Thesis Award
First Place, Adelmo Genro Filho National Award
Brazilian Association of Researchers in Journalism (SBPJor), 2016

Education

  • Ph.D., Syracuse University
  • M.A., Kent State University
  • B.A., Federal University of Ceará

Research Interests

Identity and media representation, digital activism and political communication, cultural and political memory in Latin America and the U.S.

Publications

  • De Carvalho, R., & Moreira, R. (2025). Centering Latin America: gender politics, attacks on higher education, and lessons of resistance from Brazil. Communication Education, 74(2), 202–210. https://doi.org/10.1080/03634523.2025.2489477
  • De Carvalho, R. (2024). Remembering Marielle Franco: Haunting online presence and the memorialization of resistance on social media. Media, Culture & Society, 46(5), 1010–1026. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437241228734
  • De Carvalho, R., Santia, M., & Ramasubramanian, S. (2024). Framing the Yanomami: decolonial analysis of U.S coverage of Indigenous people in Brazil during COVID-19. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2362453
  • Corsbie-Massay, C. L., Riley, B. K., & Soraia De Carvalho, R. (2022). Examinations of the unprofitability of authentic Blackness: insights from Black media professionals. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 50(3), 327–343. https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2083433
  • Marôpo, L., De Carvalho, R., & Jorge, A. (2021). Children’s cancer narratives on YouTube: Agency and entrepreneurship in Brazilian CarecaTV. Global Studies of Childhood, 11(4), 318–330. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043610620967018
  • Jorge, A., Maropo, L., & de Carvalho, R. (2020). Sick children and social media. In L. Green, D. Holloway, K. Stevenson, T. Leaver, & L. Haddon (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children (1st ed., pp. 414–423). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351004107
  • De Carvalho, R., Sampaio, I. V., & Marôpo, L. (2016). Entre a dor e a superação: adolescentes com câncer discutem sua representação nas notícias [Between pain and overcoming: adolescents with cancer discuss their representation in the news]. Animus. Revista Interamericana de Comunicação Midiática, 15(30). https://doi.org/10.5902/2175497719171

Additional Professional Activites

Raiana de Carvalho is the 2025-2025 Vice-Head for the Cultural and Critical Studies Division at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).

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