Byron Craig

Byron B Craig is an assistant professor in the School of Communication at Illinois State University. His research focuses on race, racism, and citizenship in American democracy. His work has appeared in journals such as Cultural Studies ó Critical Methodologies, The Journal of Religion and Communication, and Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning as well as edited volumes such as The Gig Economy: Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence (Routledge, 2021) and in Beyonce in the World: Making Meaning With Queen Bey in Troubled Times (Wesleyan University Press, 2021). He is currently editing (along with Stephen E. Rahko and Patricia Davis) Rupturing Post-Racial Fantasies: The Rhetorical Politics of Race and American Popular Culture Since the Ferguson Uprisings. A book contract has been signed with the University Press of Mississippi. Craig is also a fellow with the American Democracy Project and faculty fellow and chair of the Committee on LGBTQIA+ Policies and Initiatives at Illinois State University.