Rate My Professor Lucas Graves

Lucas Graves is a Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He earned a Ph.D. and an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University and a B.A. in political science from the University of Chicago. Prior to his academic career, Graves worked as a magazine journalist, writing for Wired on topics including citizen journalism, doomsday cults, and the future of advertising, as well as for Interview, Time Out New York, Food & Wine, and The Brooklyn Rail. From 1999 to 2002, he served as a media and technology analyst at Jupiter Research in New York City and São Paulo. Graves joined the UW–Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 2012 as an associate professor and advanced to full professor. He holds concurrent roles as Distinguished Researcher at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Faculty Associate at the Public Tech Media Lab. Additional affiliations include the Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies, the Center for Communication and Democracy, research fellowships at the New America Foundation and Columbia University’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, and research associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, where he previously served as acting Director of Research.