Shirley Staples Carter has been named director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Carter is a professor and director of The Elliott School of Communication at Wichita State University.
"We are very fortunate to have been able to attract an educator with Dr. Carter's depth of experience," said Charles Bierbauer, dean of the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies.
The position is a new one created when the College of Journalism and Mass Communications merged with the College of Library and Information Science last spring.
Carter was the first African American to serve as president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communications. Before her tenure at Wichita State, she directed the communications programs at Norfolk State University, the University of Florida, Jacksonville, Louisiana State University, and Prairie View University.
For more than 20 years, she has taught advertising, ethics, mass communications in society, media management, news editorial, and public relations. Her research areas include audience analysis, freedom of expression in advertising and the arts, multi-cultural communications, and values analysis.
Carter earned doctoral and master's degrees in journalism from the University of Missouri and Ohio State University, respectively, and a bachelor's degree in English from Tuskegee University.
She is expected to begin at USC July 1.
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