Dr. Armond Towns

Biography

Armond R. Towns is an associate professor in Communication Media Studies at Carleton University, holding a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Communication. His research interests bridge Black studies, cultural studies, and media philosophy. In 2022, he published the book 'Black Media Philosophy' with the University of California Press. Dr. Towns is also a co-founder and inaugural editor of the journal 'Communication Race' under the National Communication Association in the U.S. Before joining Carleton, he taught at the University of Denver and the University of Richmond, where his contributions included co-authoring a proposal for the establishment of the Africana Studies Program, which was approved in 2020. Currently, he is developing a project that examines the relationship between the history of communication studies and the history of Black studies, with a specific focus on the development of these fields in the U.S. and Canada. His selected publications reflect his scholarly focus on Black studies and media theory, including articles in Canadian Journal of Communication, American Quarterly, and Cultural Studies.

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