Associates

Professor Monroe Price (email) is the Director of the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research, Founding Director of the Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy at Oxford University, as well as the Joseph and Sadie Danciger Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. He has an extensive background in comparative communications law and policy research and the study of media and crisis.

Alicia Altorfer-Ong (email) is the manager of the Stanhope Centre's London office. She managed capacity-building projects in Vietnam and Laos while she was country manager with a Singapore-based NGO from 2000-2002. She completed an MSc in Development Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science in December 2003 and is a founding member of Mosaikon Development Consultants.

Nicole Stremlau (email) is a PhD candidate at the Development Studies Institute (DESTIN), London School of Economics. Her research focuses on the role of the media in conflict and post-conflict situations and explores the possible long-term benefits of tight media restrictions during crises, using Eritrea, Ethiopia and Uganda as case studies. She is also organizing several projects for our London office, including a seminar series on media environments in Iraq and South Africa and a training program for East African journalists. This intellectual capacity building project will complement Stanhope's other research and seminars on the topic of media and peacebuilding.

Dorothea Kleine, Media@LSE (email) currently leads the Stanhope research team in the multinational partner consortium of the EU-funded Met@LoGo project for e-governance in Latin America. She is also Convenor of the Development and Internet Initiative (DII), a research network based at Stanhope. A journalist by training, Dorothea works as a consultant to the German Federal Development Agency GTZ and InWEnt, focussing on the effects of globalization on small and medium-sized enterprises, e-business, e-learning, participatory e-strategies, and local e-government. She is also Managing Editor of Information Technology and International Development, a journal published by MIT Press.

Dorothea teaches at the London School of Economics and Political Science and is currently writing her PhD at the Department of Geography and the Department of Media and Communications. Her research is on the use of information and communication technologies in empowering owners of small, medium and micro-enterprises in Latin America. Dorothea's MA-graduate thesis at the University of Munich was on "The Potential of the Internet (esp. e-commerce) for Fair Trade in Germany."

Susan Abbott (email) provides a number of outreach and program development functions. Her research interests include media development and democratization of media in transitioning and developing countries. In her capacity as Sr. Research Coordinator at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, she works with Professor Monroe E. Price on increasing international and comparative research and activities.

Susan has previously worked as a consultant for Central European University in Budapest, where she helped establish the CEU Center for Media and Communications Studies and at Stanhope Centre in London on various projects including the international media lawyers association. Prior to this she was a program officer in the Media Development Division at the International Research & Exchanges Board, in Washington, DC, on the USAID-funded Serbia Professional Media Program. As an editor for Central Europe Review, she commissioned stories and worked with a variety of journalists on an award-winning online journal. Earlier in her career, as a communications officer at The Media Institute in Washington, DC, and as a legal intern at the International Federation of Phonographic Industry in Brussels, Susan developed her interest in comparative media law and policy issues.

Christian Sandvig (email) is an Assistant Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Research Associate of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University. Sandvig's research investigates the interplay between social, legal, and technical mechanisms of control in the development of ICTs. Sandvig recently received the PhD in Communication from Stanford University (2002) and was a Markle Foundation Information Policy Fellow at the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Oxford University.

In the area of ICT policy, his research has appeared in Community Practice in the Network Society, Communications Policy in Transition, The Information Society, Political Communication, and the newsletter of the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. He recently guest edited a special issue of The Communication Review on studies of Internet policy across four nations, and he is currently convenor of an Economic and Social Research Council (UK) research seminar group on integrating academic research about the Internet and public policy. In November he was named a "next-generation leader in science and technology policy" in a competition among junior faculty jointly organized by Columbia University, Rutgers University, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His current research project investigates the development of wireless Internet and is funded by the US National Science Foundation.

Matthew Burton (email) is Webmaster and manager of the Iraq Media Developments Newsletter. A recent graduate of Duke University, he has over nine years of Web design experience, working mainly as a volunteer for nonprofit organizations. At Duke, his research focused on media environments and telecommunications networks in Eastern Europe. He researched similar topics as an analyst at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency from 2003-2005. He recently left the DIA to begin graduate work at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

Andrew Wood (email) is a student at The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York and recently received his Ph.D. in Cultural and Critical Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to this reengagement in academics he worked in the publishing industry in New York, notably as senior editor at Marsilio Publishers. His current research is an attempt to integrate critical theory with recent legal scholarship in order to produce a useful account of contemporary subjective engagements with media and technology.

Moira O’Keeffe (email) is an entering doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests center on the sociological and political-science analyses of media use. Over the course of her M.A. studies in Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Mass Media at Temple University, she became concerned with examining how “alternative” media forms are absorbed or incorporated into the mainstream media landscape.

Ana Andjelic is a PhD student in the Sociology of Media Program at New School University in New York. She obtained her M.A. degree in Media Studies at the same University in spring 2003. Over the past three years, Ana worked as a research assistant on freedom of expression issues in the non-profit organizations Committee to Protect Journalists, Human Rights Watch and Freedom House. From October to April 2003, Ana worked as a project coordinator on the founding of International Media Lawyers Association, which was a joint project of Stanhope Centre and Open Society Justice Initiative.

Besides being involved in the various Stanhope Centre initiatives, Ana currently works as a research for Columbia Institute for Tele-Information at Columbia University in New York on the voluminous research project on media concentration in the U.S. Her academic and research interests are focused on media ownership issues, economic and structural characteristics of media industry, media management, and regulatory and media market implications of digitalization of broadcasting.