Biography

Eastern Michigan University - Telecommunications

Assistant Professor in Electronic Media at Eastern Michigan University. A former television and radio news reporter, Sadaf has worked for mainstream and ethnic media in Ohio and Michigan. She earned her M.A. in Broadcast Journalism from Columbia College-Chicago in 2002, examining capital punishment and the ensuing moratorium in Illinois. Her research focuses on risk/crisis, securitization, race, and audience attitudes towards messages originating from traditional and social media sources. Sadaf is a quantitative researcher, who favors content analysis and experimental design as her methodologies of choice.