Jason A. Peterson, PhD

I am an Associate Professor and the Program Coordinator of Communication Studies at USCB. Over my career, I have taught a variety of subjects, primarily in journalism and public relations. My book, Full Court Press: Mississippi State University, the Press, and the Battle to Integrate College Basketball, was published in 2016, and my research has been featured in the academic journals American Journalism and the Southeastern Review of Journalism History. I received the J. William Snorgrass Memorial Award for Outstanding Paper on a Minorities Topic from the American Journalism Historians Association in 2009 and was a finalist for the organization’s Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize in 2012. Prior to entering academia, I worked as a journalist for The Macon Telegraph in Macon, Georgia; The Daily Herald in McDonough, Georgia; and as the publications and marketing coordinator for the College of Education and Psychology at the University of Southern Mississippi.