Black cinema and media studies faculty
Learn more about IU faculty that teach and research in the area of Black cinema and media studies.
Akinwumi Adesokan
Associate Professor, Cinema and Media Studies, and Department of Comparative Literature
Research and Creative Interests
African cinema • Nollywood • Globalization and film • Intersections of print and electronic media • Postcolonial artistic and intellectual traditions • Cultural theory • Writing
Cara Caddoo
Associate Professor, Cinema and Media Studies and Department of History
Research and Creative Interests
Race and media • Film history • Journalism • History • Visual culture • Print culture • African American cinema
Michael T. Martin
Professor, Cinema and Media Studies
Research and Creative Interests
Diasporic and emigre cinematic formations • Latin, African, and Caribbean postcolonial cinemas • Transnational migration • Documentary practice • Redress social movements
Radhika Parameswaran
Associate Dean and Herman B Wells Endowed Professor
Research and Creative Interests
Gender and media • Cultural Studies • South Asia • Qualitative research
Lauren Smith
Associate Professor
Research and Creative Interests
Sports media • Sports media effects • Gender and sports • Olympics • Olympic media • Sports and race • Gender, sexuality, and sex • Social and psychological media effects • NCAA and amateurism
Andrew Weaver
Associate Professor
Research and Creative Interests
Moral psychology • Race and media • Media violence • Cognitive science