Erica Watson-Currie

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, MEDIA IMPACT PROJECT

Erica joined the Norman Lear Center as a Research Associate in Summer 2017. She has contributed to projects including: exploring connections between ideological values and entertainment through different lenses; investigating podcasts and transmedia in journalism; and comparison studies on media depictions vs. reality for Africa, immigration, and the criminal justice system.

​Erica previously spent 2 years as a Senior Evaluator at a private firm, whose projects included NASA and NSF grant-funded STEM education projects, and educational films. She has worked as an instructor, researcher, and experiential learning trainer at the University of Southern California. Erica holds a PhD in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC, along with Masters degrees in both Communication Theory and Communication Management.

Contact Erica here.

See selected reports:

• Are You What You Watch? Tracking the Political Divide through TV Preferences

• KCRW's Case Study Radio Voices: How One Grant Changed a Public Radio Station

• Define American's Immigration Nation: Exploring Immigrant Portrayals on Television

• Color Of Change's Normalizing Injustice report

• The African Narrative's Africa in the Media study