Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Charlton McIlwain (Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 2001) is an Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. His research focuses on the intersection of race, media and politics. In addition to continuing work on race and political campaigns, he currently studies the influence of digital media in contemporary racial justice activism. He is the co-author of the award winning book, Race Appeal (Temple, 2011), the Routledge Companion to Race & Ethnicity (Routledge, 2011), along with two additional books and numerous journal articles.