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Stacy L. Smith

Dr. Stacy L. Smith is the Director of the Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. Dr. Smith has written more than 75 journal articles, book chapters, reports, and conference papers on content patterns and effects of the media. In terms of the popular press, Dr. Smith’s research has been written about in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, fivethirtyeight.com, The Atlantic, The Huffington Post, Newsweek, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Slate.com, Salon.com, The Boston Globe, and USA Today, to name a few. She also has a co-edited essay in Maria Shriver’s book, A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything (2009). Her work has been funded by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, Sundance Institute, Women in Film Los Angeles, Epix, The Jacquelyn and Gregory Zehner Foundation, the Harnisch Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Since 2005, Dr. Smith has been working with a team of undergraduate and graduate students to assess portrayals of males and females in popular media. Dozens of projects have been completed assessing gender in films, TV shows, video games, and point-of-purchase advertising. In 2012, Dr. Smith received the Trojan League of Southern California 2012 Outstanding Service Award and the LA Woman recognition by Los Angeles Magazine.

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