This was an incredible, overwhelming year for internship applications. We had well over 200 PhD students apply, and we were deeply impressed by the quality of suggested projects. Thanks to everyone for your submissions. Here are the four people who will be joining us over the summer – congratulations to you all. We’re looking forward to working with you!

Tressie McMillan Cottom is a Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology Department at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Broadly Tressie studies organizations, inequality, and education. Her doctoral research is a comparative study of the expansion of for-profit colleges (like the University of Phoenix) in the 1990s.) She will be working with Kate, Mary and Nancy this summer on a project about hashtag activist groups on Twitter and their ties to institutional power.

Luke Stark is a PhD student in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University under the supervision of Helen Nissenbaum. His dissertation research focuses on the history and philosophy of digital media technologies, and their use in tracking, monitoring and shaping the everyday emotional lives and experiences of users. This summer he will be working with Kate on epistemologies of big data, privacy, and computational culture.

Katrin Tiidenberg is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of International and Social Studies at Tallinn University in Estonia. Her dissertation is about online experience and identity in the context of NSFW blogs on Tumblr. She will be working this summer with Nancy on a project about selfies, power and shame.

Kathryn Zyskowski is a Ph.D. Student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington and an Editorial Intern at the Journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology. Her doctoral work examines identity, representation, and Muslim/Hindu relations in South India. This summer, she will work with Mary studying how people crowdsourcing in India and the United States use online discussion forums to organize their work and structure their identities as workers in specific locations.