Dr. Stein’s research focuses on the media’s influence on political activists. Her research has examined this relationship in the context of the former dictatorships of Latin America, and has extended her research to protesters’ contemporary use of media in regions struggling against authoritarian regimes. Dr. Stein received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2008. Prior to coming to UNO, Dr. Stein spent a semester-in-residence as a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in 2007.