Jeremiah Spence: Academic Background

Doctorate in Communications

Department of Radio, Television and Film, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

• Specialization in the New Media, Sociology of Technology, Virtual Worlds Research and Information and Communication Technologies
• Minor in Latin American Studies and Mixed-Methodology Research
• August 2007 to Present

Master of Arts in Communications

Department of Radio, Television and Film, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

• Specialization in International Communications Theory and Technology Policy
• Thesis: “Socioeconomic Genograms: Methodological Experimentation in the Study of Social Mobility and Cultural Assimilation”
• Additionally expertise in applied social science and sociological methodologies
• Graduated: May 2007

Bachelor of Arts, Latin American Studies

Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

• Specialization in Brazilian Studies
• Graduated: May 2002
  

Additional Academic Training

Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

• Graduate Trainee in Demography
  
• 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009
  

Univerisidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

• Graduate Researcher, Public Policy of Digital Inclusion
  
• September 2006 – February 2007

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Taxco, México

• Centro de Enseñanza para Enstranjeros (CEPE)
  
• Completed Spanish Language Training (Levels 0 – 2.5)
  
• June - July 2005

Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil

• Conducted Graduate Research in the area of the Digital Divide in Northeastern Brazil,
  
• May 2003 – March 2004

Fundação Getulio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil 

• Doing Business in Brazil, July 1998 (Graduate Level Summer Program)