A Dozen Or So Years In and Five Years Out: The Critical and Cultural Studies Division and the National Communication Association

Session Submission Type: Panel Discussion

Abstract

This roundtable discussion brings together many of the people involved in the establishment of what is now the Critical and Cultural Studies Division. It is intended to recount the origins of CCS to provide a framework for CCS to think about its future, and the new directions it can take as it champions a critical-cultural approach to the analysis of communication.

Sub Unit

• Five Years Out Programs

Cosponsor

• NCA First Vice President

Chair

• Craig Robertson, Northeastern University

Presenters

• Kent Ono, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• Raymie McKerrow, Ohio University

• Melissa Deem, Univ of New Hampshire

• Ronald Greene, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

• John Sloop, Vanderbilt University

• Carole Blair, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• Barbara Biesecker, University of Georgia

Session Organizer

• Craig Robertson, Northeastern University