User:Andrew Kennis

Andrew Kennis is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Communications Research of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He holds a MA in Political Science from the City University of New York, where he specialized in comparative politics. His dissertation focuses on applying the propaganda and indexing models toward coverage of the Iraq war, immigration into the U.S. and oppositional social movements to official U.S. policy. As a research assistant during the past year, Andrew has been investigating open standards policy adoption and their societal impact. Besides having taught as an adjunct Professor in Mexico City, San Francisco and New York, Andrew also worked as a freelance investigative journalist reporting from an array of locations, including Chiapas, Guatemala, Quebec, Palestine, Israel and Taiwan.