 

Master’s Program Alumni

Starting with the arrival of our very first CMS students in 1999 and Science Writing students in 2002, our alumni have gone on to some extraordinary careers. And nearly all of them can draw a straight line from their studies at CMS/W to what they do today…

Featured Alumni

Jim Bizzocchi, '01, on "Going from CMS to Tenure"

Jim Bizzocchi, ’01, on “Going from CMS to Tenure”

Lisa Song, '09 Drinking Up the Desert

Lisa Song, ’09
Drinking Up the Desert

All Alumni (Alphabetical)

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Margaret Weigel
S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2002
Margaret Weigel Margaret graduated from CMS in 2002 and began her career in the glamorous and lucrative field of education technology as the Project Director of Project New Media Literacies with Dr. Henry Jenkins. She subsequently worked for Dr. Howard Gardner at Harvard's Project Zero, for academic publisher Cengage Learning as a digital strategist and content developer, for Six Red Marbles as a Director of Curriculum and Learning.

Thesis: The Commoditable Block Party: Electric Signs in Manhattan, 1881-1917
Matthew Weise
S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2004
Narrative Designer, Writer
Matthew Weise Matthew Weise is a game designer and writer whose work spans industry and academia. He has been a Narrative Designer at Harmonix Music Systems on Fantasia: Music Evolved, the Game Design Director of the GAMBIT Game Lab at MIT, and a consultant for Microsoft, PBS, and others on transmedia storytelling and game design. His work, both creatively and critically, focuses on transmedia adaptation with an emphasis on the challenges of adapting cinema into video games. Matt has given lectures and workshops on film-to-game adaptation all over the world, and his published work on Aliens, James Bond, and zombie and horror cinema can be found along with the rest of his writing on his blog at http://outsideyourheaven.blogspot.com/. His development work, including IGF finalist The Snowfield, is available at http://gambit.mit.edu/.

Thesis: Understanding Meaningfulness in Video Games
Evan Wendel
S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2008
Designer, Intuitive Company
Evan Wendel Thesis: New Potentials for “Independent” Music: Social Networks, Old and New, and the Ongoing Struggles to Reshape the Music Industry
Michelle Woodward
S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2002
Photo Editor, Middle East Report magazine
Michelle Woodward Michelle lives in Beirut with her husband and young daughter. She is the photo editor for the magazine Middle East Report (www.merip.org) and editor of the Photography Page on the e-zine Jadaliyya (www.jadaliyya.com). She is also an experienced photography researcher. She finds photos for authors to use in their published work and help them navigate the landscape of rights and permissions. She also pursues historical research into photography of the Middle East and occasionally publishes on this topic.

Thesis: The Construction of Photojournalism: Visual Style and Branding in the Magnum Photos Agency
Sam Wotipka
SM, Science Writing, 2014
Exhibit Development Coordinator, Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission
Sam Wotipka Thesis: Seizing A Species: The story of the Great Salt Lake Brine Shrimp Harvest
Ashley Yeager
S.M., Science Writing, 2008
Freelance Writer, Editor and Multimedia Producer
Ashley Yeager Thesis: Cosmos Incognito: Vera Rubin Shines Light on Dark Matter
Christopher York
S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2001
Christopher York Thesis: Anthropology of Nostalgia: Primitivism and the Antimodern Vision in the American Southwest, 1880-1930
Sarah Yu
S.M., Science Writing, 2013
New Media Editor at KTOO
Sarah Yu Thesis: The Butterfly People, and Their Impacts on the Creatures They Love
Huma Yusuf
S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2008
Pakistani columnist, policy analyst and media researcher
Huma Yusuf Thesis: Tactical Cities: Negotiating Violence in Karachi, Pakistan
Yannis Zavoleas
S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2004
Assistant Professor at University of Patras
Yannis Zavoleas Yannis Zavoleas teaches architecture as Senior Lecturer at University of Newcastle, Australia, also as Assistant Professor at University of Patras, Greece (on leave), before at Technical University of Crete, Greece. He holds a Ph.D. in Architectural Design from National Technical University of Athens (NTUA - 2011), an MSc in Comparative Media Studies from MIT (2004), an MArch from UCLA (2000) and a 5-year professional degree in architectural engineering from NTUA (1996). In 2013 Yannis published the book "Machine and Network as Structural Models in Architecture," Futura publications, Athens, Greece (in Greek) ISBN: 9789609489317. His research interests include architectural design methodology, theory and practice.

Thesis: Restating Artistic Value: Why Do People Pay 2,000,000 US.D. for a Urinal Signed by R. Mutt?
Jia Zhang
S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2013
Graduate Student, MIT Media Lab
Jia Zhang Thesis: Information Visualization as Creative Nonfiction
Lingyuxiu Zhong
S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2014
Associate Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group
Lingyuxiu Zhong Lingyuxiu Zhong is a digital media studies researcher at MIT. She previously received a B.A. degree in History from Yale University, where she studied how collective memories of the past can impact a society’s identity formation process. At MIT she focused on digital image sharing and collection practices and their cultural and commercial implications.

Thesis: My Pins Are My Dreams: Pinterest, Collective Daydreams, and the Aspirational Gap
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