Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers University
Jill Campaiola
Research Assistant
Jill Campaiola is a fourth year doctoral candidate in Media Studies in the School of Communication & Information. Her dissertation investigates the extent to which Moroccan TV dramas are shaped by local, national and global cultural flows such as wider influences from the Arab world, the old colonial power - France - and from American popular culture. The purpose of her research is to understand how television drama can be used as a form of mental emigration in the era of globalization. She is a 2009 Dissertation Proposal Development Fellow through the Social Science Research Council.
