Catherine R. Squires

Catherine Squires is the inaugural John and Elizabeth Bates Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity and Equality. Her work focuses on the interactions between racial groups, mass media, and the public sphere. Squires' first book, Dispatches from the Color Line, analyzes news coverage of controversies surrounding people of multiracial descent. She also has published work on African American-owned media, African American identity, and the public sphere in Communication Theory and the Harvard International Journal of Press and Politics. Her work has been included in the books Counterpublics and the State (SUNY, 2001), Say It Loud! African American Audiences, Media and Identity (Routledge, 2002), and reprinted in The Black Studies Reader (Routledge, 2004) and African American Communication and Identities: Essential Readings (Sage,2004). Other articles concerning racial identity and the mass media have appeared in the Journal of Intergroup Relations and Critical Studies in Media Communication.

Education

Ph.D., Communication Studies, Northwestern University

M.A., Communication Studies, Northwestern University

Current Research Interests

• Diversity, media and the public sphere, with emphasis on controversies surrounding social identities, racial identities and mass media.

Courses Taught

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan

Visiting Instructor, University of California, Santa Barbara

Selected Publications

Squires, C. Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America. (2007 SUNY Press).

Squires, C. Agents of Change: African American Experiences with Mass Media (Under contract, Polity Press, UK).

Squires, C. (lead author), Kohn-Wood, L., Chavous, T. & Carter, P.L. (2006) Evaluating responsibility and agency in interpersonal violence. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 54 (11/12).

Squires, C. and Daniel, G.R. (2003) Resistance to a multiracial identifier in the Black press: Narratives of distrust and concerns for minority political power. Journal of Intergroup Relations, 30 (1); 3-28.

Brouwer, D. & Squires, C. (2003) Public intellectuals, public life, and the university. Argumentation and Advocacy, 39: 201-213.