2025 | Paloma Duong

Ford International Career Development Associate Professor of Latin American and Media Studies

Paloma Duong outside MIT Photo by Allegra Boverman.

Research areas: Cultural studies, media theory, critical theory, Latin American culture.

Duong works with social texts and emergent media cultures that speak to the exercise of cultural agencies and the formation of political subjectivity. CMS/W head and professor of science writing Seth Mnookin, describing Duong’s impact on student outcomes, notes that “students become conversant with region-specific vocabularies, worldviews, and challenges.”

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