Thomas Patrick Pringle is an Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. He was previously Assistant Professor of Communication and Environmental Studies at Tulane University and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge at the University of Chicago. Thomas holds a PhD in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University, and an MA in cultural studies from McGill University, and has held research fellowships with the SenseLab Montréal at Concordia, the Digital Cultures Research Lab at Leuphana, and SSHRC. In 2019, he received the Sir James Lougheed Award of Disti…
Thomas Patrick Pringle is an Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. He was previously Assistant Professor of Communication and Environmental Studies at Tulane University and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge at the University of Chicago. Thomas holds a PhD in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University, and an MA in cultural studies from McGill University, and has held research fellowships with the SenseLab Montréal at Concordia, the Digital Cultures Research Lab at Leuphana, and SSHRC. In 2019, he received the Sir James Lougheed Award of Distinction. His research considers historical case studies when media production enlists ecological and technological knowledge to support political ends, like state violence and unjust economic development. Thomas’s current book manuscript, “The Climate Proxy,” analyzes the regional mediation of global climate change information in documentary film and mass and grassroots digital content, such as online journalism, social media, and digital video. He traces how media discourses of sustainability, resilience, vulnerability, and speculation serve the financial and national security cultures of global warming adaptation.
