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Tim’s research and teaching interests include television studies; media globalization; race, ethnicity, and media; and critical analysis of media industries.

He is the author of Black Television Travels: African American Media Around the Globe (2013) and Global Television Marketplace (2006); the co-author with Amanda D. Lotz of Understanding Media Industries (2011, 2016); the co-editor with Paul McDonald and Courtney Brannon Donoghue of Digital Media Distribution: Pipelines, Platforms, Portals (2021); and co-editor with Aniko Imre and Katalin Lustyik of Popular Television in Eastern Europe Before and Since Socialism (2012).

He is a former Fulbright Scholar to Hungary, and holds affiliated appointments in African American Studies and International Studies.

Awards

• Algorithmic Personalization and Online Radicalization: A Mixed Methods Approach. (Award Amount: $1,026,047), awarded by Minerva Research Institute, U.S. Department of Defense. Principal Investigator (Dr. Brian Ekdale), Co-Principal Investigators (Dr. Timothy Havens, Dr. Andrew High, Dr. Raven Maragh-Lloyd, Dr. Rishab Nithyanad), 2020-23
• Locating Budapest: The Film and Television Locations Industry and the Rise of an Alternative Media Capital. (Award Amount: 52,400 €), awarded by Corvinus Institute for Advanced Study, Budapest, Hungary, 2020-21
• Outstanding Book Award, Communication Division for Black Television Travels: African-American Media Around the Globe (NYU Press, 2013), awarded by International Communication Association Popular Communication Division, 2015
• Faculty Fellowship, awarded by National Association of Television Programming Executives, 2001 & 2008
• Senior Fulbright Scholar, Research-Only Award to Hungary. “Hungarian Television Acquisitions and Scheduling Practices in Transition.”, awarded by Fulbright Scholar Program, 2002

Tim Havens CV