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Joshua Jordan, Ph.D.

Instructor of Communication

Jordan

My teaching philosophy encourages students to examine our society and think of ways to make it better. I always enter the classroom as a critical/reconstructionist educator and lead with Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings's culturally relevant pedagogy, which encourages not only the development of a critical consciousness but encourages us to bring ourselves—teachers, as well as students—into the classroom. Over the past several years of teaching, I have engaged in learning, unlearning, and sharing experiences in the classroom, and this has made teaching a transformational experience for me.

-Joshua Jordan

William F. Chatlos Building

Biography

Joshua holds a PhD in Media & Public Affairs from the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University (LSU), where he was an Instructor of Record from for three years prior to coming to FSC. Joshua is a critical-cultural scholar whose research focuses on storytelling, public relations, and propaganda through the lens race, power, and inequality. Joshua's dissertation was funded by the John Maxwell Hamilton Fellowship for Media and Public Affairs Research, and his doctoral research was twice funded by the Diversity, Equity and Media (DEM) Grant. In the past, Joshua held a Pre-Doctoral Fellowship at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University and a COMPASS Fellowship in Media Policy at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Originally from Texas, Joshua hold's a bachelor's degree from The University of Texas at Dallas, a master's degree from the University of Minnesota, and an unremitting love for gumbo and red beans and rice.

Education

  • Ph.D. - Louisiana State University
  • M.A. - University of Minnesota
  • B.A. - The University of Texas at Dallas

Interests

Reading, live music, arts markets, and (hopefully soon) the art of perfume science.

Awards

  • 2024 John Maxwell Hamilton Award for Research in Media & Public Affairs
  • 2023 Diversity, Equity & Media (DEM) Grant
  • 2022 Diversity, Equity & Media (DEM) Grant

Publications

  1. Joshua Jordan, Winfield, A. S., Birrer-Lundgren, K., Burry, J., Beard, D., Bloom, Z., Carlson, E. B., Gouge, C., Rogers, B. & Sirek, A. "Deficit, Exploitation, Beauty, Opportunity: Academics and Practitioners Talk Rural Health and the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine". Journal of Rural Health and Medicine (2025).*
    *Equal authorship.
  2. Winfield, A. S., Mushtarin, N. & Joshua Jordan. "Love and Tradition of the Grand Design: Exploring Culturally Responsive Qualitative Methods with Intergenerational and Intercultural Teams & Participants". Qualitative Health Research (2025).

Projects

  1. Breathing In Justice: Propaganda in Cancer Alley and Its Relationship to Historic Black Communities
  2. The Plight of Police Propaganda: Audiences’ Consumption of In-Group Police TV Characters and Attitudes Toward The Police
  3. Etched in Time: The Story of Creation and Destruction in Cancer Alley's Freetowns