Meredith Pruden
TCV Alumni Communication- Education
Meredith Pruden earned her doctorate in the Department of Communication: Media & Society at Georgia State University. She earned her Master of Arts degree in Communication from Georgia State and her Bachelor of Science in Communication from Kennesaw State University. She holds a minor in professional writing and currently is completing a graduate certificate in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
- Specializations
Research interests lie in critical feminist media studies with specific attention to visual and digital cultures. Much of her recent work, including her dissertation, uses mixed methods (primarily qualitative and computational) and focuses on extremist masculinist groups and their entanglement with other far-right ideologies. She also serves as a doctoral research assistant on a Facebook grant exploring the internationalization of far-right publics.
- Biography
With a professional background as a journalist, Pruden’s long-term goal is to be a public intellectual working at the intersection of academia and the popular press. To date, she has had academic research published in Communication, Culture and Critique on conservative populism and journalistic practice, in VISTA: Visual Culture Journal on memes as decolonial political struggle, and in the edited volume Misogyny and Media in the Age of Trump on mediated misogyny and conservative populism.
Pruden also has presented her research at numerous conferences, including the International Communication Association (ICA), the International Critical Media Literacy Conference (ICML), the Lisbon Winter School for the Study of Communication: Media and Populism, the National Communication Association (NCA), and the Popular Culture Association (PCA). She has been accepted to both the Centre for Research on Extremism (C-REX) Extremism & Democracy Summer School and the Conference on Right-Wing Studies/Conference for Research on Male Supremacism (jointly hosted by the Center for Right-Wing Studies and the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism) for 2021. Both originally were slated for summer 2020 but were postponed for the coronavirus pandemic. She currently serves as an NCA Feminist and Gender Studies Division Graduate Student Representative and sits on the GSU Student Communication Committee as the Graduate Student at Large.
Previously, Pruden was a freelance writer and staff editor for several magazines. She also has worked as a marketing copywriter for numerous corporations. On a personal note, Pruden is mom to both two-legged and four-legged kiddos and loves water sports, including surfing, scuba diving, kayaking, and stand-up paddle.
- Publications
With a professional background as a journalist, Pruden’s long-term goal is to be a public intellectual working at the intersection of academia and the popular press. To date, she has had academic research published in Communication, Culture and Critique on conservative populism and journalistic practice, in VISTA: Visual Culture Journal on memes as decolonial political struggle, and in the edited volume Misogyny and Media in the Age of Trump on mediated misogyny and conservative populism.
Pruden is also a current IRMS Fellow. She has also has presented her research at numerous conferences, including the International Communication Association (ICA), the International Critical Media Literacy Conference (ICML), the Lisbon Winter School for the Study of Communication: Media and Populism, the National Communication Association (NCA), and the Popular Culture Association (PCA). She has been accepted to both the Centre for Research on Extremism (C-REX) Extremism & Democracy Summer School and the Conference on Right-Wing Studies/Conference for Research on Male Supremacism (jointly hosted by the Center for Right-Wing Studies and the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism) for 2021. Both originally were slated for summer 2020 but were postponed for the coronavirus pandemic. She currently serves as an NCA Feminist and Gender Studies Division Graduate Student Representative and sits on the GSU Student Communication Committee as the Graduate Student at Large.