Dafna Lemi

Dafna Lemish is a renowned Israeli-American media researcher and Distinguished Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She specializes in children, youth, and leisure culture, as well as gender identity construction in media, and is the founding editor of the Journal of Children and Media. Lemish previously served as Interim Dean at Rutgers and held faculty positions at the University of South Illinois and Tel Aviv University.