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Tina Harris Ph.D.

Professor and Endowed Chair of Race, Media, & Cultural Literacy, Louisiana State University

The most astounding career accomplishment to date for Dr. Harris is her position as the Douglas I. Manship-Dori Maynard Endowed Chair of Race, Media, and Cultural Literacy in the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University, which is the first of its kind in the country. Her primary research interest is interracial communication, with specific foci on critical communication pedagogy, race and identity, diversity and media representations, racial social justice, mentoring, and racial reconciliation, among others. As the inaugural occupant, she has had a far-reaching impact on the field through her research, service, excellence in teaching, and decades of mentoring students, faculty, and scholars across ranks.

Dr. Harris is also a leading scholar of interracial communication, having co-authored the leading textbook Interracial Communication: Theory Into Practice (2015, 3rd ed.). She is a prolific scholar who publishes in top journals within the communication discipline. Tina is regularly invited to contribute original research to books, top-tier peer reviewed journals, and encyclopedias to communication scholarship and in other disciplines because her expertise is vast, innovative, and of the highest quality. She is a very active senior scholar with many accolades and awards for her longstanding history of making valuable contributions to the discipline, university, and department for her teaching, research, and service.

Throughout her 31-year history, Dr. Tina M. Harris has emerged as an international scholar with a robust research program and extensive service to the discipline. She has massed a staggering 39+ recognitions and outstanding achievements and nominations for her excellence in teaching, research, and service. She was chosen by the 1st Vice President to give the 2021 Carroll Arnold Lecture at NCA in recognition of her reputation as one of “the most accomplished researchers in the field.” Harris was elected as 2nd Vice President of SSCA (2020-2025), won the 2020 Francine Merritt Award, selected as Scholar-in-Residence in the Center for Critical Race Studies at the University of Houston-Downtown, and won the 2019 Robert J. Kibler Memorial Award (NCA). She engages in invisible labor by serving on editorial boards for top-tier journals, award committees (i.e., SSCA, CSCA, NCA), and leadership committees, and writing approximately 3-5 Tenure & Promotion letters annually for faculty throughout the country.

Her vast accomplishments are evidenced by her 48 journal articles, 24 invited book chapters, 2 edited books, 1 textbook, 1 current book contract, 8 peer-reviewed book chapters, 4 invited encyclopedia entries, 119 conference presentations, and 32 invited lectures. Dr. Harris’ colleagues hold her in high regard and recognize her considerable contributions to the field as a distinguished communication scholar.


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