Charnell Peters, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
Courses Taught
Intercultural Communication; Media and Society; Race, Media and Technology; Stereotyping and Bias in the Mass Media
Education
Ph.D., University of Utah
M.A., Bowling Green State University
Research Interests
- Critical science and technology studies
- Black digital media studies
- Critical interpersonal and family communication
- Qualitative methods
Publications and Media Placements
- Peters, C. (2023). Racial-genomic interest convergence and the geneticization of Black families. Journal of Family Communication, 1-16. DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2023.2228315
- Peters, C. (2023). Performing Blackness: A composite counterstory of direct-to-consumer genetic ancestry testing. Text and Performance Quarterly, 1-18. DOI: 10.1080/10462937.2023.2206
- Peters, C. (2021). Instagramming diasporic mobilities: The Black travel movement and differential spatial racialization. Communication, Culture, and Critique, 14(2), 201-219. DOI: 10.1093/ccc/tcaa033
- Peters, C. (2021). 鈥淎dd up all my Black鈥�: Understanding race and genetic ancestry through critical interpersonal and family communication. Review of Communication, 21(3), 1-8. DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.1961851
Honors and Awards
- 2024 African American Communication and Culture Division/Black Caucus Outstanding Dissertation Award, National Communication Association (NCA)
Professional Organizations and Associations
- National Communication Association
- International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry