About Samira

Samira Rajabi has her Ph.D. in media studies with a specialty in media and research practice and trauma and digital media. She is an Assistant Professor, Author and Public speaker specializing in trauma, grief, digital media and meaning making. She is currently working on her second book, A field guide to uncertainty and grief. Her first book, All My Friends Live in My Computer received the International Communication Association book award in 2022. That book combines personal stories and academic theory to build a rich discussion of trauma, digital media, and how we make meaning out of life's hardest stuff.

Samira is currently in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Colorado. There, she also serves as Associate chair of Graduate Studies. Outside of the university, Samira is a public speaker, freelance culture writer and qualitative research consultant specializing in research design. Previously she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.