Brad Rawlins
Brad Rawlins, Ph.D., who has served as interim director of the School of Media and Journalism at Arkansas State University for the past year, has been named to the position on a permanent basis.
Formed in 2019, the School of Media and Journalism encompasses programs previously in the Department of Media as well as student media and public radio assets of the college.
Rawlins will oversee academic programs in multimedia journalism, creative media production, KASU radio, printing services and student media, including student newspaper The Herald, ASU-TV, Red Wolf Radio and the Delta Digital News service.
He has served in several administrative roles for A-State, including as the vice rector for its Campus Queretaro. He returned to Jonesboro as a professor of communication, taking the spring 2019 semester as a sabbatical to work on research and his resumption of classroom duties.
Rawlins was dean of the College of Media and Communication before it merged with two other colleges.
He has two bachelor’s degrees from Washington State University, one in communications and one in foreign languages and literature (Spanish). He earned his master’s in advertising and public relations and a Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of Alabama.
Rawlins has also served as president of the Association of Schools in Journalism and Mass Communication, as a two-term member of the Accrediting Committee of the Accrediting Council for Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication, and he currently serves on several editorial boards of journalism and communication scholarly journals.
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