Julia Sonnevend is Associate Professor of Sociology and Communications at The New School in New York. She is a sociologist of global culture, focusing on the events, icons, symbols and charismatic personalities of public life.
Sonnevend is the author of Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics (Princeton University Press), Stories Without Borders: The Berlin Wall and the Making of a Global Iconic Event (Oxford University Press), and co-editor ofEducation and Social Media: Toward a Digital Future (MIT Press). Her work has been published in interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journals including New Media & Society; Information, Communication & Society; International Journal of Press/Politics; Media, Culture & Society and the American Journal of Cultural Sociology. She is also active in public-facing scholarship internationally; check out her recent op-ed in MS NOW. Sonnevend received her PhD in Communications from Columbia University, her Master of Laws degree fromYale Law School, and her Juris Doctorate and Master of Arts degrees in German Studies and Aesthetics from Eötvös Loránd University Budapest.
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