| Dafna Lemish | |
| Birth Date: | 26 September 1951 |
| Birth Place: | Haifa, Israel |
| Field: | Media studies Social science |
| Work Institutions: | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| Alma Mater: | Tel Aviv University (BA) Hebrew University of Jerusalem (MA) Ohio State University (PhD) |
| Thesis Title: | Viewing television in public places : an ethnography[1] |
| Thesis Year: | 1982 |
Dafna Lemish is an Israeli media researcher in the fields of children, youth and leisure culture; as well as construction of gender identity in the media.
She is the Interim Dean and Distinguished Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information in New Brunswick, New Jersey.[2] She is also the founding editor of the Journal of Children and Media.[3] Lemish is a fellow of the International Communication Association (ICA).[4]
Dafna Lemish was born in Haifa. She worked at Oranim Academic College teaching media literacy, and later directed the non-profit Institute for the Research of Media and the Family in Jerusalem.[5] From 1990-1996, she was a senior lecturer at The New School of Media Studies, Academic College of Management.In 1995, she moved to Tel Aviv University, as part of the founding team of the Department of Communication, where she taught until 2010 and served as chair for five years.[6]
In 2010, she accepted a position as chair of the Department of Radio, Television, and Digital Media at Southern Illinois University, later becoming the Dean of the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts.[7]