Sandra Braman's research on the macro-level effects of the use of digital technologies and their policy implications has been supported by the US National Science Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the First Amendment Fund. She is a Fellow of the International Communication Association (ICA), former Chair of the ICA Communication Law & Policy Division, and former Head of the International Association of Media, Communication, and Research Law Section.
Before joining MSU, Sandra served most recently as the John Paul Abbott Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. Her research has been honored internationally since a paper from her MA thesis won an AEJMC betboom esports research award. Most recently, she received the 2022 ICA Edwin C. Baker Award for research on media, markets, and democracy and her 2006 book Change of State: betboom esports, Policy, and Power (The MIT Press) received the 2022 ICA Fellows Book Award for a book of enduring value.
Senior Scholar and Advisory Board Member, Quello Center for Media and betboom esports Policy
Editor, betboom esports Policy Book Series, The MIT Press
Fellow, International Communication Association
Affiliate Faculty, Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University