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Raiana de Carvalho

Assistant Professor

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Dr. Raiana de Carvalho is a critical and interdisciplinary communication scholar who studies processes of identity formation, media representation, digital activism, and cultural and political memory, especially among historically marginalized groups and in Latin American contexts. Her research seeks to uncover the conditions under which media practices can either sustain or resist systems of power. Dr. Raiana has published in journals such as Media, Culture & Society, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Global Studies of Childhood, and Animus: Revista Interamericana de Comunicação Midiática. She has taught courses in International Communication; Diversity and Public Relations; Diversity, Media, and Latine; Media & Society, Public Speaking, and Introduction to Health Communication. Dr. Raiana joined the Department of Communication Studies in Fall 2024.

Honors and Awards

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

2023 Outstanding Teaching Award
Doctoral Program Committee
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

Top Student Paper Award
Third Place, James W. Carey Memorial Award
Cultural and Critical Studies Division (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 2024-2025 Research Chair for the Cultural and Critical Studies Division at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)

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