Tegan R. Bratcher

Dr. Tegan Bratcher is a digital media and strategic communications scholar. She is a Senior Researcher for the Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media and has recently worked as a contract researcher for the Smithsonian Institution. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Roy H. Park fellow. Dr. Bratcher's research is focused on using critical lenses to examine social and strategic communication through podcasts and new digital media. As a Ph.D. Park fellow, she won numerous awards for her research on podcasts, including a Top Student Paper Award at the International Communication Association (ICA) annual conference and the INSPIRE and SPARK awards from the American Political Science Association (APSA) Pre-conference. Her most recent work is featured in PR Journal and the Atlantic Journal of Communication. She has two manuscripts forthcoming with Lexington Books.

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