Marwan M. Kraidy, the Anthony Shadid Chair in Global Media, Politics & Culture and founding director of the Project for Advanced Research in Global Communication (PARGC) at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication, is one of 33 new Andrew Carnegie Fellows. Fellows receive funding to pursue one to two years of scholarly research and writing addressing challenges to US democracy and international order.

Dr. Kraidy teaches courses on globalization, culture and revolution, the body in digital culture, contentious publics and the geopolitics of popular culture. He has been studying the use of communications by the Islamic State, whose threat to global security, he argues, is intimately connected to its uses of media and technology.