Rate My Professor Brian Carroll

His research interests encompass the black press's role in professional baseball integration, digital media, communication law and policy, First Amendment freedoms, media depictions of crime, race and public memory, and Shakespearean explorations of national identity. Carroll has authored six books, notably When to Stop the Cheering? The Black Press, the Black Community and the Integration of Professional Baseball (Routledge, 2007), Writing and Editing for Digital Media (Routledge, 2023, third edition), A Devil's Bargain: The Black Press and Black Baseball, 1915-1955 (Routledge, 2014), and Shakespeare’s Sceptered Isle: Finding English National Identity in the Plays (McFarland, 2023). He has published approximately 35 peer-reviewed articles in journals including Journalism History, Black Ball, Visual Communication Quarterly, and Journal of Sports Media. Among his accolades are five J. William Snorgrass Awards from the American Journalism Historians Association for outstanding papers on minority journalism history, the most recent in 2023 for “Transgressions: An Editor’s Crusade to Thwart America’s First Black Shakespearean Acting Company.” Additional honors include Berry College's Teaching Excellence Award in 2006 and recognition as UNC Chapel Hill's outstanding Ph.D. student in 2003. Carroll teaches courses such as media law, digital storytelling, visual rhetoric, sports communication, and sports journalism.