Dr. Carrie Teresa Isard

Biography

Dr. Carrie Teresa Isard, Ph.D. is Chair and Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Niagara University, where she joined the faculty in 2014. Her research and teaching interests include journalism and mass communication history, popular culture, and mass communications law. She is one of the founders of NU’s Faculty Membership Program and has served on the NULTA Executive Committee, the Tenure & Promotion Committee, the Committee on College Teaching & Learning, and the Women’s Studies committee. She has also served on the editorial board of American Journalism.

Focus of Teaching

Dr. Carrie Teresa Isard’s courses at NU have included Media Theory, Mass Communication Law, Research Methods, Politics and Media, and Stereotyping in Media. She has also taught special topics courses on journalism and communication history.

Current Research

Her research interests include critical studies in journalism history, ethnomusicology, and social identity. She is the author of Looking at the Stars: Black Celebrity Journalism in Jim Crow America (University of Nebraska Press, 2019) and co-curator of The Adolescentia Project digital archive. She has published articles in American Historian, American Periodicals, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and Howard Journal of Communications. She has also contributed to the Routledge Companion of American Journalism History (Routledge, 2023) and The Adolescentia Project: Essays on Music, Adolescence, and Identity (Palgrave, 2024).

Educational Background

• Ph.D., Temple University
• M.L.A., University of Pennsylvania
• B.A., Villanova University