User:Andrew Kennis

Andrew Kennis is a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois. He holds a M.A. in Political Science from the City University of New York, where he specialized in comparative politics. As a research assistant, Andrew has been investigating open standards policy adoption and their societal impact. His dissertation focuses on applying the propaganda and indexing models toward coverage of the Iraq war, immigration into the U.S. and oppositional social movements to official U.S. policy. Besides having taught as an adjunct Professor in Mexico City, San Francisco and New York, Andrew also worked as a freelance investigative journalist reporting from an array of locations, including Chiapas, Guatemala, Quebec, Palestine, Israel and Taiwan.