Phone: 213 821 5243
E-mail: christhs@usc.edu
Office: ASC 321A
Office Hours: TBA

Christopher Holmes Smith received his B.A. in Sociology from the University of Chicago and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Media and Cultural Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Smith's current research and teaching interests concern the social study of modern financial markets and the impact of these markets on everyday culture. He also conducts research, teaches, and publishes analyses about cultural marketing, entertainment and public diplomacy, convergence trends in American media industries, and the ethical dimensions of leadership. He is currently completing a book on financial speculation and cultural identity. His work on popular music has been published in many scholarly journals including Social Identities and Social Text. He has also published in edited anthologies such as Music and the Racial Imagination (University of Chicago Press) and Kitchen Culture in America: Representations of Food, Gender and Race (University of Pennsylvania Press). Media outlets including The Washington Post, NPR, the BBC, CBC-Radio Canada, and Reuters have sought his commentary, and he has written extensively about entertainment for publications such as AOL.com, Elle, Interview, The Source, XXL, and Vibe. Before joining the faculty at Annenberg, Dr. Smith served as the Director of Primary Research for the Intelligence Group at Ruder Finn Public Relations in New York City.