Julia Sonnevend is a Ph.D. student in Communications at Columbia  University, a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Cultural  Sociology at Yale University and a Visiting Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale  Law School.

She received her Master of Laws degree from Yale Law School, her Juris Doctorate and her Master of Arts degrees in German Studies and  Aesthetics from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.

Sonnevend studies the intersections between communications, art  history, visual sociology and legal theory. Her research interests  include icons and societies, visual culture theories and aesthetics,  theories of space, architecture and design, cultural trauma,  globalization, the history of photography with a special focus on digital  photography, the intellectual history of communication, visual  representations of justice, law and performance, art and activism,  education and social media, and post-communist identities.

She enjoys life in New York and spends considerable amount of time in the  Frick Collection and the Metropolitan Opera.