Calvin Hall

Calvin L. Hall is the department chair of the Department of Mass Communication at North Carolina Central University. He earned his doctorate in mass communication from UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. His research interests include the function of mass communication in society in the areas of race, class, gender, and culture. Other areas of research interest include literary journalism, journalism history, journalism biography, and journalism pedagogy. He currently teaches specialized journalism courses.

Born and raised in Asheville, N.C., Hall holds bachelor and master’s degrees in English from N.C. State University and taught English and journalism at Asheville High School. Has also taught at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., and at St. Augustine’s College in Raleigh, N.C. While at Appalachian, he served as a visiting professor in the International Journalism graduate program at the Fudan University School of Journalism in Shanghai, China. He has also served as an instructor for the Summer Scholastic Journalism Institute of the North Carolina Scholastic Media Association (NCSMA), headquartered at UNC-Chapel Hill.

He has had work published in the Journal of Communication Studies and the Encyclopedia of American Journalism. Hall has had book reviews published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly and at H-Net.org. His credits as reviewer include American Journalism, the journal of the American Journalism Historians Association (AJHA), and the Association for Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). He is the author of African American Journalists: Autobiography as Memoir and Manifesto, published by the Scarecrow Press.

He has participated in the Carlotta Spears Bass Faculty Institute, the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Virtual Data Journalism Bootcamp for Educators, the Solutions Journalism Educators Academy, the Television Academy Faculty Seminar, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Institute for Diverse Leadership, and the American Society of News Editors (ASNE) Institute for Journalism Excellence.

He is a former member of the board of trustees of the North Carolina Humanities Council and is currently a member of the board of directors for the North Carolina Open Government Coalition and Carolina Public Press.

His creative work has been published in the journals the Rectangle, Writer to Writer and A Thousand Faces and in the anthology Carolina Crimes: 19 Tales of Lust, Love, and Longing, published by Wildside Press.

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