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.