Sandra Braman

Sandra Braman’s research on the macro-level effects of digital technology and their policy implications has been supported by the US National Science Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the First Amendment Fund. She edits the Information Policy Book Series at The MIT Press, and is former Chair of the International Communication Asssociation Law & Policy Division and former Head of the International Association of Media, Communication, and Research Law Section.

Before joining MSU, Sandra served most recently as endowed full professor at Texas A&M University. Braman’s research has been honored internationally for her research since a paper from her MA thesis won an AEJMC student research award. Most recently, she received the 2022 ICA Edwin C. Baker Award for research on media, markets, and democracy and the 2022 ICA Fellows Book Award for a book of enduring value for Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power (The MIT Press, 2006).