Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
M.A., Abilene Christian University
B.S., Freed-Hardeman University

Assistant Professor Craig Carroll joins the faculty from USC Annenberg in Los Angeles. He was most recently a visiting professor at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School, and the opening speaker for their Global Symposium on “Media and Business.”

Dr. Carroll teaches courses in public relations. He  is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including the Arthur W. Page Society’s Grand Prize Winner and the Andrew Mellon Award for Excellence in Mentoring. His former students in the past four years have accepted interns and jobs in L.A., Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Paris, London and Geneva at Burson-Marsteller, Ketchum, Weber Shandwick, Edelman, Hill & Knowlton, DDB, Korn/Ferry International, Ruder Finn, Business for Diplomatic Action, and the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, among others. His research has been funded by NSF, Foundation for Public Affairs, Lexis-Nexis, Reputation Institute, including a variety of corporate gifts for advances in public relations research and evaluation. Most recently he received a $500K gift-in-kind from K.D. Paine & Partners and CustomScoop.

He is currently completing a monograph on Corporate Reputation and the News Media, and an edited compilation on the same subject with contributors from 25 countries. He has published in Communication Research, Corporate Reputation Review, Management Learning, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Encyclopedia of Public Relations, Encyclopedia of Journalism, and the Global Encyclopedia of Communication. He serves as the vice chair of the International Communication Association’s PR division, completing two years as the chair of their taskforce on international PR Research. He serves on the Editorial Boards for Corporate Reputation Review, Management Communication Quarterly, and Corporate Communication.

Office phone: (919) 962-0735
Office location: Carroll Hall 226
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