|  | Phone: 213 821 5243 E-mail: christhs@usc.edu Office: ASC 321A Office Hours: TBA Christopher Holmes Smith is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Communication at USC's Annenberg School for Communication where he also serves as Director of the Johnson Center for Communication Leadership. Smith received his B.A. in Sociology from the University of Chicago and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Media and Cultural Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Smith's primary research and teaching interest currently concerns the relationship between modern financial markets, news media, and everyday culture. He also conducts research, teaches, and writes about multiculturalism and consumer society, entertainment and celebrity, and the technological disruption of traditional media industries.
Smith's scholarship has been published in several peer-reviewed journals. News outlets including Business Week, KTLA TV Channel 5, The Washington Post, NPR, the BBC, CBC-Radio Canada, and Reuters have sought Smith's commentary on a number of signal media events, including The 2009 Presidential Inauguration and the global financial and economic crisis. He has also written extensively about entertainment for mainstream publications and Web sites such as AOL.com, Elle, Interview, BlackEnterprise.com, The Source, XXL, and Vibe. Before joining the faculty at Annenberg, Dr. Smith served as the Director of Primary Research for the Intelligence Group at Ruder Finn Public Relations in New York City.
Bling Was a Bubble (International Journal of Communication, 2009)
Read a chapter by Smith from a soon-to-be-published volume edited for Praeger Publishers.
back to top |