2025 George Gerbner Lecture in Communication: Khadijah Costley White (Ph.D. '13)
- Annenberg School for Communication (Room 109)
Please join us for the 2025 George Gerbner Lecture in Communication.
About The Talk:
This talk explores community-engaged research and public scholarship in media and communication, and how they intersect with both activist and academic traditions. In particular, in a heightened era of political attacks on knowledge production and scientific inquiry, Costley White thinks through how engaged research provides scholars with important insights and opportunities.
In addition to Dr. Khadijah Costley White's talk, her Installation "This is not a Drill" an immersive experience that explores the impact of active shooter drills on students, parents, teachers, and the general public will be viewable at the Annenberg School.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Khadijah Costley White is an Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. A former PBS journalist, she researches politics, social change, and identity in media. In her community engaged research, she creates public facing interactive media projects that promote democratic deliberation on key policies and social issues. She is the author and co-editor of two books, The Branding of Right-Wing Activism: The News Media and the Tea Party (2018) and Media and January 6th (2024).
Dr. Costley White’s work has also been published in academic journals such as International Journal of Communication, Urban Geography, Communication Culture and Critique, and Media Theory. Her writing and commentary has been featured in news outlets like The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Root, National Public Radio, and The Washington Post.
She has been a National Association of Black Journalists and United Nations fellow, an assistant producer for an Emmy-nominated team on the show Now on PBS (formerly Now with Bill Moyers), a consultant on documentaries (including PBS films such as Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali) and a 2020 Whiting Public Engagement Fellow. In 2024, she became the inaugural recipient of the National Communication Association Everett Hughes Holle Award for Social Justice and Community Engagement. She is also the founding executive director of a community non-profit, SOMA Justice, which organizes for racial, social, and economic justice in New Jersey.
She earned her PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania in 2013 and her BA from Swarthmore College.
Event Format:
- 5:00-5:30pm Reception
- 5:30-6:30 Lecture
- 6:30-7:00pm Reception Continues
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