Shauntae Brown White, Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Mass Communication at North Carolina Central University where she also serves as the coordinator of the Women’s & Gender Studies program.
Throughout her own educational journey, she has been influenced by many great teachers. The ones who made the most impact demanded a standard of excellence yet were nurturing enough to help cultivate the standard when she fell short, while believing in her abilities. Dr. White has used that same approach to cultivate a standard of excellence for her own students. Dr. White exhibits creativity in the classroom to engage students making the course topics relevant to everyday life. Dr. White has created multiple courses which examine popular culture and the construction of race, gender and class including: The Urban Narrative and HBO’s The Wire, Interpreting Tyler Perry, Black Women in Film, and Media Images of Black Women.
Dr. White’s research informs her teaching. She has made countless presentations and published in multiple academic journals and books focusing on media images of black women, the politics of hair in the African American community and the negotiated roles of African American pastors’ wives. Most recently, she co-edited a book, Television Representations of Black Womanhood: Being Mara Brock Akil. Akil is the showrunner for the hit shows Girlfriends, The Game, Being Mary Jane and Love Is. She also is the author of several non-academic books including: a devotional and bible study for Communication Matters: 31-Days to Speaking Life into Your Relationships and The First Lady: African American Pastors’ Wives in Their Own Voices.
