Rachel Grant, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Department of Journalism
Bio
Grant previously served as an assistant professor in Xavier University of Louisiana’s Mass Communication Department teaching classes in strategic communication, social media management and media law.
Her academic research looks at media studies of race, gender and class and she has conducted extensive research with social movements, social justice, and Black feminism.
She has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Celebrity Studies, Visual Communication Quarterly, American Journalism and Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication Journal.
Grant has worked professionally as a news reporter for local daily newspapers and statewide magazines and has worked in corporate advertising as a digital copywriter.
Education
B.A. Journalism, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
M.A. University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Ph.D. University of Missouri
News
- Study: Mainstream Media’s Biased Coverage of Monkeypox Contributed to False Messaging Affecting Treatment for Gay and Bisexual Men (April 2, 2024)
- Analyzing Media with Rachel Grant (February 19, 2024)
- Rachel Grant to Speak at 2024 McKnight Annual Fellows and Mid-Year Research and Writing Conference (February 6, 2024)
- Study: How Black Communities Effectively Used Humor to Communicate and Critique Health Information During the COVID-19 Pandemic (January 31, 2024)
- Rachel Grant Named Associate Editor of AJHA’s American Journalism Journal (January 19, 2024)
- All News About Rachel Grant
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
Grant, R., & Ezeh, D. (2023). With Pride:” Media Coverage of Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union’s Black Parenting of Zaya. Journal of Communication Inquiry.
Grant, R., Byer, C., & Sha, B. (2023). “Fighting Strength with Strength: Uncovering Intersectionality and the Strong Black Woman Myth in Black Women’s Mental Health Coverage. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly..
Grant, R. (2023). "City by City:” Reclaiming POC Voices Through the Narrative Justice Project. Human Communication. Research.
Grant, R., Jenkins, J., & Cabas, A. (2022). Selling Breonna Twitter Responses to Breonna Taylor on the Covers of O, The Oprah Magazine and Vanity Fair. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.
Cabas, A., & Grant, R. (2020). “Toward a Transnational Queer Politics of Visibility”. Visual Communication Quarterly.
Grant, R., & Mislan, C. (2020). "‘Improving the Race’: The Discourse of Science and Eugenics in Local News Coverage, 1905-1922". American Journalism.
Grant, R. (). “As High as I Could:” Media Discourse Shaping Patricia Okoumou’s Statue of Liberty Protest. Howard Journal of Communication.
Grant, R. (). Is This Justice?”: Charlotta Bass and the Wesley Robert Wells case, 1950-1954. Media History.
Mislan, C., Grant, R., & Broussard, J. (2017). "Larger than Life”: Celebrity Journalism, Gender and Black Politics in Fay M. Jackson’s Hollywood Adventures, 1933-1935. Celebrity Studies.
Grant, R. (2010). The Revival: The "New" Arkansas State Press, 1984-1988. Southwestern Mass Communication Journal.
Book Chapters
Grant, R. (2022). Don’t Scare Me Like That, Colonizer!” : Black Panther’s Shuri Through a Post-Colonial Feminist Lens. In Gendered Defenders. .
Grant, R., & Markovich, H. (2021). “Then We Show Ourselves:” Resisting Immigration in Party of Five Reboot. .
Presentations
Grant, R. (2020). Narrative Justice Project. Lecture at Journalism & Women Symposium.
Grant, R. (2020). Resist, Recover and Reimagine: Black and Indigenous Women for Climate Change.”. Oral Presentation at Sustainable Online Network for Global Cultural Studies Fall Symposium, .
Grant, R. (2020). “Black Women, Black Media and the Legacy of Women’s Suffrage.”. Oral Presentation at American Journalism Historians Association Annual Conference.
Grant, R. (2020). “Contextualizing the History of Black Lives Matter”. Keynote/Plenary Address at Diversity & Inclusion Week 2020 Communication Why Black Lives Matter.
Grant, R. (2020). “Connecting Today’s Students with Jim Crow-era Media History,”. Oral Presentation at Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Grant, R. (2020). The Primary Contradiction We Live With. It is Not the Only Contradiction:” Feminist Media in Iowa City’s Ain’t I a Woman?, 1970-1974. Paper/Poster at International Communication Association, Sydney, Australia.
Cabas, A., & Grant, R. (2020). “Toward a Transnational Queer Politics of Visibility”. Paper/Poster at International Communication Association, Australia.
Grant, R. (2020). Stepping Out of the Shadow: the UndocQueer Movement. Lecture at FRANK, Gainesville, FL.
Grant, R. (2019). The Politics of Justice Reform (Part 2): What To Prioritize. Oral Presentation at "Florida's Path to Criminal Justice Reform".
Grant, R. (2019). The Primary Contradiction We Live With. It is Not the Only Contradiction:” Feminist Media in Iowa City’s Ain’t I a Woman?, 1970-1974. Paper/Poster at American Journalism Historian Association, Dallas, TX.
Research
Specialization
Media History, Critical/Cultural Media Studies, Intersectional Studies
Courses
Syllabi from the current and three previous semesters:
- MMC 6485 - Advanced Qualitative Research Methods - Spring 2024 (PDF)
- MMC 6936 - Critical and Cultural Theories in Media Studies - Spring 2024 (PDF)
- MMC 6936 - Critical and Cultural Theories in Media Studies - Spring 2024 (PDF)
- JOU 4930 - Gender and Media - Fall 2023 (PDF)
- MMC 6426 - Qualitative Research Methods - Summer 2023 (PDF)
- MMC 6426 - Seminar in Qualitative Research - Spring 2023 (PDF)
- MMC 6936 - Critical and Cultural Studies - Spring 2023 (PDF)
- MMC 2604 - Media, Cultures, and Identity - Fall 2022 (PDF)