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Since her arrival at the Center in September 2025, Dr. Gjoci has designed and led several projects aiming that academic research has a direct impact in SETX region. She works with distinguished Faculty and Graduate Research Fellows across Colleges in campus and collaborates with community members, policymakers, regional organizations, and other universities on research projects that address the most pressing topics of our time.  Her work this year includes the launch of Journal, , and the magazine. Additionally, she has two forthcoming books: "Transnational Influence on Public Memory of Communism," with Berghahn Books Incorporated, and "Answering Communication Questions: A Researcher's Toolkit," with Rowman & Littlefield.

She holds a PhD in Media and Communication and before her role at Â鶹ӳ»­, Dr. Gjoci taught at Howard University, the European University of Tirana, City University of New York - Baruch College, and Bowling Green State University. Among other publications, she is the editor and an author of the "Amending Our Pasts and Futures" Book and Journal series, contributing significantly to the national academic research on relationship of media to public memory and related policies of commemoration and reconciliation at national and international contexts. She has guided hundreds of undergraduate students and supported dozens of PhD students in their research pursuits. Before committing herself to academia, she worked for the press and media industry,  and also was the head of the National Public Affairs Office of the Ministry of Education in Albania, influencing education policy and reform during a dynamic period aligned with European Union integration efforts. 

Dr. Gjoci examines resiliency as a collective effort towards effective recovery.