Tegan Bratcher

Senior Researcher,
Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media

Tegan Bratcher (she/her), Ph.D., is a Senior Researcher at the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media and an Assistant Professor of Public and Media Relations at the University of Pacific in Stockton, CA. She completed her Ph.D. as a Roy H. Park fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Bratcher’s research is focused on using critical lenses to examine social and strategic communication through podcasts and new digital media. In 2020, as a Ph.D. fellow, she won numerous awards for her research on podcasts, including a Top Student Paper Award at the International Communication Association (ICA) annual conference and the INSPIRE and SPARK awards from the American Political Science Association (APSA) Pre-conference. Dr. Bratcher’s most recent work is featured in PR Journal and the Atlantic Journal of Communication. Additionally, she has a co-authored book chapter forthcoming in 2022.