Julia Sonnevend is a Ph.D. Candidate in Communications at Columbia University, a PepsiCo Junior Fellow at the Harriman Institute and a Visiting Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project and the Yale Center for Cultural  Sociology.

Her dissertation discusses how the mainstream press constructs and represents icons (iconic personalities, iconic objects, iconic places, and iconic colors) of historic protests (advisor: Michael Schudson). Her research interests include journalism and collective memory, social movements, the sociology of culture, global media,  the history of media and communication research and the New York intellectuals.

Sonnevend 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. She enjoys life in New York and spends considerable amount of time in the  Frick Collection and the Metropolitan Opera. Her long-term plan is to become a tenured Professor of In-Betweenness.

Photo by Eugene Gorny