Loren Saxton Coleman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
loren.coleman@howard.edu
Dr. Loren Saxton Coleman is a Black cultural and critical scholar of media studies. Dr. Coleman earned her Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of Georgia. She earned her M.A. from the University of Georgia, and her B.A. from North Carolina State University. She is a proud native Washingtonian, and currently lives in Northwest, Washington, D.C.
Research Interests
Her research critically examines how Black people engage various forms of media practices, including community media, social media, television and the Black press. More specifically, Dr. Coleman explores how Black communities exercise contingent agency via acts of resistance and community formations/transformations via media practice. In her most recent work, Dr. Coleman explores Black resistance and resilience in the D.C. Native movement and its politics of representation. She employs cultural theories to examine the intersections of structures of race, spatiality, and media practices to investigate how Black people practice both racial and spatial justice.
Creative and Published Works
Her work appears in journals, such as Social Media + Society, The Black Scholar, Howard Journal of Communication, and Journal of Intercultural Communication Research. She is the co-editor of the edited volume, Media, Myth, and Millennials: Critical Perspectives on Race and Culture.
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