

Dr. Tia C. M. Tyree
Interim Associate Dean
ttyree@howard.edu
Dr. Tia C. M. Tyree is the Interim Associate Dean and a professor at Howard University within the Department of Strategic, Legal and Management Communications. Her research interests include hip hop, rap, reality television, film, social media as well as African-American and female representations in mass media. She has several published book chapters and peer-reviewed articles in journals, such as those in Women and Language; Howard Journal of Communications; Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism; Journal of Black Studies and the International Journal of Emergency Management. She is the author of The Interesting and Incredibly Long History of American Public Relations and coeditor of HBCU Experience – The Book, Social Media: Pedagogy and Practice as well as Social Media: Culture and Identity. She is also cofounder of the Social Media Technology Conference and Workshop.
Research Interests
Hip hop, rap, reality television, film, social media as well as African-American and female representations in mass media
Selected Creative and Published Works
Tyree, Tia C. M. (November 2020). Speak up, Sis: Black Women, Race and News Coverage of the Me Too Movement. In Joan McAlister and Marnel Goins. The Routledge International Handbook to Gender and Communication.
Tyree, Tia C.M. (In press.) #ThisIsAmerica: Rappers, Racism, and Twitter. In Roy Christopher, (Ed.), Hip-Hop Theory: Time, Technology, and the Future. Northwestern University Press: Evanston, IL.
Somani, I. & Tyree, Tia C. M. (In press). Black Broadcast Journalists: Implications of Mentorship and Race in the Newsroom. Journalism and Mass Communication Educator.
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