Credentials
Degree
Ph.D.
Department
Communication Studies
Interviewed by
Denver7, FOX31, 850KOA
Topics
African American/Black Communications Diversity/Equity Rhetoric Social Justice Social MediaExpertise
- Freedom of speech (related to communication studies and democracy)
- Diversity studies
- Equity and inclusion in academia and K-12
- Rhetoric/persuasion
- Dialogue and civic engagement
About
Katia Campbell, Ph.D., is an professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
Her scholarship and teaching focuses on rhetoric, free speech, cultural representation, popular media and critical pedagogy. Campbell is also the Faculty Senate President. Outside of MSU Denver, she consults and facilitates workshops on communication and diversity, media literacy, free speech, public speaking, and dialogic ethics. After completing her doctorate, Campbell worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Communication at University of Colorado Denver.
Her research areas of interest include, but are not limited to, citizenship and civic engagement, cultural diversity and communication within a U.S. cultural context and cultural studies with an emphasis on media studies. Campbell has co-authored three publications in the areas of civic engagement and social justice. Her book, “Neo-Pragmatism, Communication, and the Culture of Creative Democracy,” focuses specifically on the malleable conceptions of citizenship and civic responsibility and explicates the possible social ramifications of our modern practice of citizenship.
Campbell earned her doctorate in human communication studies from University of Denver in 2004.
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