LARISA ANDERSON-HORNE

LaRisa Anderson-Horne, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the department of communication at the University of Utah. Her work focuses on the relationships between religion, media, race, and technoculture. She is a transdisciplinary qualitative researcher borrowing from media theories, digital black religion studies, and critical religion frameworks. She was a Roy H. Park Fellow during the completion of her doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Media where she was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student Award. Her dissertation explored religious deconstruction as a digital media phenomenon using interviews, textual analysis, digital ethnography, and text mining. She has presented her research nationally and internationally including with the International Communication Association and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. She is currently preparing an academic journal manuscript titled "What Blackness Can Teach Us About Religion and Media" and plans to write a book monograph based on her dissertation research.