Maria Elizabeth Grabe is inaugural Dalton Family Professor at COM
Working for South Africa’s state-controlled TV under apartheid, documentarian Maria Elizabeth Grabe faced unrelenting censorship. On January 1, Grabe joined the College of Communication as its inaugural Dalton Family Professor and second-ever director of Emerging Media Studies. “The [Dalton Family] Professorship,” says COM Dean Mariette DiChristina (COM’86), “aims to focus on the use of emerging communication platforms and research to engage communities around addressing societal challenges—building understanding while building bridges.”
