Shannon B. Campbell joined the Annenberg School of Journalism in 2003 as an Assistant Professor. She came to Annenberg from the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Kansas, where she taught graduate and undergraduate coursework in public relations and critical cultural media analysis.
She is co-editor of a book (with Laura Castaneda) published by Sage (2005) entitled News and Sexuality: Media portraits of Diversity. She has presented research at more than 35 refereed conferences around the nation and the globe. Campbell is a Freedom Forum Fellow who has served as a consultant for the Internal Revenue Service (Jacksonville, FL), the federally funded One-Stop Service Centers Conference (Daytona, FL), and the Florida Fund for Minority Teachers. She has been an invited presenter at Rand Afrikaans University (15-day lecture tour, Johannesburg, South Africa); Truman State University (Images of Blacks Symposium); and The Institute of Public Relations (International Symposium III).
Campbell served as a senior research associate on the $3.3 million National Television Violence Study and the $1.4 million Urban AIDS prevention project. She has received grants to examine the ties between black and Hispanic Serving newspapers, blacks and the tenure process in the state of Florida, the relationship between teen magazines and Generation-Y females' interpretation of the feminine ideal, and the gangsta rap musical genre.
Campbell received a doctorate in Journalism Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.
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