Sananda Sahoo
Sananda Sahoo is a PhD candidate in Media Studies at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Western University, Canada. Her doctoral research explores mob violence, public space, and digital infrastructures. Her previous research includes political posters and platforms, questions of collective responsibility, sites of violence in the digital sphere, and colonial narratives in photographs and memoirs by women. She holds an MPhil in English, an MA in Journalism, and an MA in English. She also has extensive experience as a radio and newspaper journalist in the United States and the United Arab Emirates. Sahoo worked as a research assistant for the Surviving Memory project from 2020 to 2021 to compile archival research about historical newspaper coverage of the Salvadoran Civil War.