Susan Weil

Susan Weil, Ph.D.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
College of Fine Arts and Communication
512.245.3486
weill@txstate.edu

Areas of Interest: Civil rights, race and mass media

Dr. Susan Weill has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in the Texas State School of Journalism & Mass Communication since 2002, where she is a tenured associate professor.

Her research on the mass media related to race and ethnicity, and interest she developed while growing up in rural Mississippi during the civil rights movement of the 1960's. She holds a bachelor's degree in history from Millsaps College, a master's degree in mass communication from Jackson State University and a doctorate in communication from the University of Southern Mississippi. Her dissertation, 'In a Madhouse's Din': Civil Rights Coverage by Mississippi's Daily Press, 1948-1968, was published by Praeger in 2002. Her research can be found in American Journalism, The Press and Race, Journalism Studies and the Journal of Mississippi History.

As someone intrigued by cultures, Dr. Weill worked with the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians to record oral histories with elders in order to produce TV and radio documentaries. She assisted First Nations in Canada as a Fulbright scholar by consulting with freelance writers and reporters at the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society's radio station and at the newspaper Windspeaker. She also taught at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica as a Fulbright scholar. With a research grant from the American Council on Germany, she collected oral histories from Black Germans.

A recent convert to online teaching, Dr. Weill completed the prestigious Sloan-C Certification Program in online teaching in 2014. She is interested in conducting research on the pedagogy of online teaching and learning.