Laura Cañuelas-Torres

Doctoral Advisor: Lars Willnat, Ph.D.

Education:
University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus: Sociology
University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus: Theory and Research in Communication

Areas of Research: Social Movements, Non-electoral forms of political participation, Media and Protest, Spanish-speaking populations

Publications & Presentations:

Cañuelas-Torress, L., Brook, N. (2022). Interrupted: Puerto Rican college students and post-hurricane María communications. CENTRO, 34(3).

Cañuelas Torres, L.E. (2021, August 4-7) American adults’ opinions of the March of Our Lives student-activist. [Poster presentation] AEJMC 2021 Convention, New Orleans, United States.

Shi, J., Cañuelas-Torres, L., Annis,C., Ghulamhussain, Z. (2020, August 6-9) Partisan Ambivalence, Emotions, and Civic Engagement: Hierarchy Regression Analyses on Online and Offline Civic Engagement. [Conference presentation] AEJMC 2021 Convention, San Francisco, CA, United States.

Cañuelas-Torres, L.E. (2020) The effect of news source language in bilingual individuals' trust judgments. [Conference presentation]. IAMCR 2020 Online Conference Papers.

Bio: Laura E. Cañuelas-Torres, a doctoral candidate, was born and raised in Puerto Rico, where she completed her undergrad and master studies. She has a natural curiosity and integrational world view that drives her interest in interdisciplinary approaches, frequently combining elements of sociology, anthropology, and other social sciences into media research.

Laura’s main areas of interest are social movements, non-electoral forms of political participation, minorities, and media coverage of protests. During her time in Newhouse, she has presented in multiple academic conferences, including International Communications Association (ICA), UNM Mentoring Conference, PRESENCE 2018, IAMCR, and AEJMC. Laura earned a Certificate in University Teaching from the Newhouse School’s Future Professoriate Program and was able to apply this knowledge while co-teaching a Newhouse undergrad course, Communications and Society, and during guest lectures in Public Relations courses. Students describe Laura as energetic, passionate, and knowledgeable.

Cañuelas-Torres also worked with Newhouse professor, Sean Branagan on the New Bosses-New Voices initiative to develop a Media Entrepreneurship curriculum for diverse students. She has been a member of the Teaching Evaluation Committee, the Dean Search Committee, and a GSO senator.