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Antoine Haywood
Assistant Professor - Department of Journalism
Bio
Haywood currently is a Ph.D. candidate and Penn Presidential Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. His studies have focused on local media ecosystems, community-engaged journalism, civic communication and community media history. His dissertation explores the cultural experiences of African American media makers at Philadelphia Community Access Media and how communities of color use geographically defined communication infrastructures to facilitate civic participation, democratic communication, collective learning and community care.
His research has been published in Journalism Practice, Javnost – The Public and the Journal of Popular Music Studies. He has presented more than 20 papers and lectures at both academic and professional conferences and co-authored a book chapter on public access television in the first edition of Issues in Contemporary American Journalism published in June 2023.
Haywood has been a visiting faculty member at Haverford (Pennsylvania) College, a teaching assistant and teaching excellence fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication and an adjunct professor at Thomas Jefferson University East Falls Campus in Philadelphia.
Before academia, Haywood spent fifteen years directing public engagement programs and documentary video projects at community media centers in Atlanta and Philadelphia. He has served as a board member for Radio Free Georgia, the Alliance for Community Media and the Independence Public Media Foundation.