Sela Sar

Professor Affiliations Education Course Specialties Sar has taught a variety of small and large-lecture courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels: Background and Research Sar is an advertising professor whose research focuses on affect, emotions, advertising, and consumer behavior. His work examines how emotional and motivational processes shape advertising responses, with a particular emphasis on electroencephalography (EEG) and […]

Sang-Hwa Oh

Associate Professor Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Dr. Oh is an interdisciplinary researcher, teacher, and consultant for societal- and individual-levels of wellbeing via innovative communications and media strategies. Her research investigates the realms of emerging media effects and scrutinizes the dissemination of health and risk misinformation. She explores how digital technologies can be leveraged for […]

Julie Turnock

Professor Affiliations Education Course Specialties Awards Research and Creative Endeavor Books: The Empire of Effects: Industrial Light and Magic and the Rendering of Realism (University of Texas Press, 2022).  Plastic Reality: Special Effects, Technology, and the Emergence of 1970s Blockbuster Aesthetics (Columbia University Press, 2015).  Selected Articles:  “Jurassic Park’s Smoothing Pass: The Dinosaur Input Device […]

Michelle Nelson

Professor and Head Affiliations Education Course Specialties Nelson has taught a variety of small and large-lecture courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Graduate Courses Background Nelson studies and teaches advertising and consumer research. She has published nearly 70 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. She is associate editor of the International Journal of Advertising. She […]

Shachar Meron

Senior Lecturer Affiliations Education Background Shachar teaches advertising strategy, creativity and campaigns. His primary focus is The Sandage Project, our program’s capstone course that all seniors take before graduating. Before life as a lecturer, Shachar worked for 12 years as a creative director, brand strategist and copywriter in Chicago. His clients included Boeing, Johnson & […]

Jenny Oyallon-Koloski

Associate ProfessorDirector, Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background My research explores the history of film style and craft, Franco-American cinema and its transnational intersections, the musical genre, movement and the body on screen, the relationship between dance and film history, methods for movement analysis, and videographic criticism. My first book, […]

Chang-Dae Ham

Professor Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Dr. Ham joined Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising in 2010 as a tenure-track faculty. Prior to joining academia, Dr. Ham worked in the advertising industry for ten years as an account executive, account planner, and Internet marketing consultant at LG AD (HS AD), a major advertising agency in […]

Steve Hall

Senior Lecturer Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Steve currently teaches the Introduction to Advertising course, a Weston Exploration Freshman Discovery advertising class and special topic Advertising Campaign courses with national and global client brands. Steve is the faculty advisor for the largest American Advertising Federation (AAF) student chapter in the country, NSAC advisor, and member/past chair […]

Margaret Yee Man Ng

Associate Professor Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Ng is a media researcher with certified industrial training (Galvanize) in data science and database tools. Broadly speaking, her research examines technology use, social media, and information diffusion using large-scale, unstructured data and computational methods. Particularly, she explores three distinctive yet interrelated components of the web: user behavior, […]

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