Kate Zambon earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania after completing her bachelor's degree in Italian and German studies from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Her research in global media studies focuses on the cultural politics of nationalism and migration in the media. Her current research project analyzes how the rejection of multiculturalism across Europe has paved the way for the rise of "integration" as a new paradigm for policing transnational and multiethnic populations. Other areas of interest include the political economy of representations of culture in global media flows including international sporting events, news, and entertainment media. Zambon's research takes a historically grounded and critical approach to analyzing media, connecting representation in news and entertainment media to political and economic logics as they develop over time. Her work also involves the development and promotion of multimodal approaches to scholarship. She is the founding director of CAMRA at UNH, an interdisciplinary group dedicated to conducting and supporting research and pedagogy that goes beyond the written word, including digital, film, audio, and web-based scholarship.
Courses Taught
- CMN 455: Introduction to Media Studies
- CMN 620W: Global Media, Culture, & Power
- CMN 696W: Sem/Global Media,Culture & Pwr
- CMN 772: Sem/Media & Global Populism
Research Interests
- 20th century Germany
- Biopolitics
- Citizenship
- Critical cultural studies
- Ethnography
- European Communities
- European politics
- European Studies
- Gender, race, class in media
- Global communication
- Immigration
- Journalism
- Media
- Media and cultural studies
- Media studies
- Media theory
- Migration
- Multimedia
- Nationalism
- Popular culture
- Sports
- The public sphere
- Transnational migration
Selected Publications
Zambon, K. (n.d.). Unruly Boys and Unemancipated Girls: Football Integration and Gendered Imaginaries of Difference. Colloquia Germanica, 57(2). doi:10.24053/cg-2024-0011
Zambon, K. (2023). The Refusal to Sing: Affective Demands on Athletes of Color in German National Football. Colloquia Germanica, 56(1), 69-89.
Uca, D., Zambon, K., & Stehle, M. (2023). Transnational Hip-Hop and Social Justice Pedagogy: Approaches to Race and Belonging in the Media Studies Classroom. In K. Sark (Ed.), Social Justice Pedagogies Multidisciplinary Practices and Approaches. University of Toronto Press.
Semati, M., & Zambon, K. (2023). Global Politics of Celebrity.
Zambon, K. (2022). Controlling Definitions: Racism and German Identity after Mesut Özil's National Team Resignation. In R. Dawson, B. Heinsohn, O. Knabe, & A. McDougall (Eds.), Football Nation The Playing Fields of German Culture, History, and Society (pp. 119-140). Berghahn Books.
Uca, D., Zambon, K., & Stehle, M. (2022). Hip-Hop Pedagogy, Social Justice, and Transnational Media Studies: Eko Fresh's "Aber" and Joyner Lucas's "I'm Not Racist" in Dialogue. UNTERRICHTSPRAXIS-TEACHING GERMAN, 55(1), 25-40. Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/
Zambon, K. (2021). Celebrity migrants and the racialized logic of integration in Germany. POPULAR COMMUNICATION, 19(3), 207-221. doi:10.1080/15405702.2021.1892692
Semati, M., & Zambon, K. (2021). The global politics of celebrity Introduction to a special issue of Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture. POPULAR COMMUNICATION, 19(3), 159-163. doi:10.1080/15405702.2021.1922690
Zambon, K. (2017). Negotiating new German identities: transcultural comedy and the construction of pluralistic unity. Media Culture & Society, 39(4), 552-567. doi:10.1177/0163443716663640
Zambon, K. (2014). Producing the German Civic Nation: Immigrant Patriotism in Berlin's World Cup Flag Fight. Popular Communication, 12(1), 1-16. doi:10.1080/15405702.2013.869333
