Charnell Peters, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Communication

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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). “Add up all my Black”: 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