Lana Swartz

I am a PhD student in communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. Most of my work is on money (and other regimes of value) as socio-technical practice, popular and participatory cultures, and civic engagement. I am the 2011-2012 Wallis Annenberg Chair Fellow and Manuel Castells' research assistant. I have also worked on the Civic Paths research collaborative and the Media, Economics, and Entrepreneurship working group.

In 2009, I completed a masters in Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusettes Institute of Technology. My thesis was on "fake" luxury fashion. I also worked on a teachers' strategy guide and unconference on cultural geography and new media literacies. I have been a high school English teacher, an autism educator and researcher, a non-profit development officer, and an ethnographic consultant. My first name is actually Deja, and my middle name is Elana, but most people call me Lana.

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