Dr. Byron Craig
Assistant Professor
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Research Interests & Areas
My current research includes the public controversy surrounding rap music and hip hop culture as they intersect with race and anti-blackness in the late 20th to early 21st century. Additionally, my research includes bio-politics and the black/brown body and post-racial representations in film and television specifically since and as a response to, the Black Lives Matter Movement.
PhD Race and Rhetoric
Indiana University Bloomington
Bloomington, Indiana
MA Queerness and Race
Indiana University Bloomington
Bloomington, Indiana
University Service Award
Illinois State University
2023
CAS Teaching Award Tenure-Track Faculty
College of Arts and Science
2023
Grants and Contracts
Instructional Innovation Grant: SOC Book Club
Lindsey Thomas, Lauren Bratslavsky, Phillip Chidester, Byron Craig, Ashley Hall, K. Megan Hopper.
Illinois State University, Center for Teaching, Learning, & Technology. July 2022 - August 2022
University Teaching Grant: SOC EDI Learning Community Pilot
Byron Craig, Lindsey Thomas, Lauren Bratslavsky, Phillip Chidester, Ashley Hall, K. Megan Hopper.
Illinois State University, Center for Teaching, Learning, & Technology. July 2022 - June 2023
Can America Be Redeemed: "Looking Up" At America's Past Through the National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Byron B Craig.
African American Studies Program. 2021 - 2021
Rupturing Post-Racial Fantasies: The Rhetorical Politics of Race and American Popular Culture Since the Ferguson Uprisings
Byron Craig.
University Press of Mississippi. 2020 - 2022
Book, Chapter
(Re) Summoning Candyman for a Post-Racial Era
Byron Craig, Steve Rahko.
(2024)
Excavating the Ruins of Tulsa's Greenwood District
Byron Craig, Steve Rahko, J Scott Scott Jordan.
(2024)
From Noose to Nuse: The Green Book, Woke Whiteness and the Post Racial Buddy Film
Steve Rahko, Byron Craig.
(2024)
From Say Her Name to See Her Dance: Oppositional Optics and Black Feminism in Beyonce's Formation
Byron B Craig, Stephen E. Rahko.
(2022), Chapter in a book, Wesleyan University Press
"Silicon Valley Socialism? Uber, Universal Basic Income, and the Emerging Rhetoric of 'Post-Freelancing."
Byron B Craig, Stephen E. Rahko.
Yes
Book, Edited
Politics of Race and American Popular Culture
Byron Craig, Steve Rahko.
(2024)
Rupturing Post-Racial Fantasiies
Byron Craig, Steve Rahko.
(2024)
Creative Works/Broadcast Media
Election night live: An extending empathy project event
Scott Jordan, Byron Craig, Steve Rahko, Nathan Carpenter, Stephen Hunt.
(2022)
Other
The divide: QAnon part two
Scott Jordan, Byron Craig, Steve Rhako, Nathan Carpenter, Stephen Hunt.
(2022)
The Divide: THEM Part One
J Scott Jordan, Byron Craig, Steve Rhako, Nathan Carpenter, Steve Hunt.
Dark Loops Podcast, (2021)
The Divide: THEM Part Two
J Scott Scott Jordan, Byron Craig, Steve Rhako, Nathan Carpenter, Stephen Hunt.
Dark Loops Podcast, (2021)
The divide: QAnon part one
Scott Jordan, Byron Craig, Steve Rhako, Nathan Carpenter, Stephen Hunt.
(2021)
Presentations
Digital History Makers
Byron Craig.
National Communication Association Conference 2023, Washington, D.C., November, 2023
Extending empathy and trust: Who to let in, who to keep out?
Stephen K. Hunt, J Scott Scott Jordan, Byron Craig, Steve Rahko.
Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement, Boston, MA, May 31, 2023
State of Illinois spotlight: Well-Being: Taking care of community
Lindsey Thomas, Byron Craig, Kathleen Craven, Stephen Hunt.
Central States Communication Association Convention, Madison, WI, April, 2022
Well-being: Taking care of the community in-person
Lindsey Thomas, Nathan Carpenter, Byron Craig, Kathleen Craven, Lee Anne Hale, Stephen K Hunt.
Illinois Communication & Theatre Association, East Peoria, IL, September 25, 2021
Memory Through Media: The Rhetoric of a "City too Busy to Hate" and Anti-Blackness in the Atlanta Missing and Murdered Children Case
Byron B Craig.
National Communication Association, Indianapolis, Indiana, November 21, 2020
The Trauma Presidency: Fear and Loathing in Donald Trump's America
Byron B Craig.
National Communication Association, Online, November 19, 2020
Who watches the Watchmen?: Utilizing Twitter as a cultural space for collectively writing history
J Scott Scott Jordan, Nathan Carpenter, Byron Craig, Stephen Hunt.
WaynePop2020, Detroit, MI, September, 2020
What Should Empathy Be in This Historical Moment of Reckoning? Reconciling Black Trauma, Whiteness, and the Historical Structures of Racism Since 1619
Byron B Craig.
Extending Empathy Project, Normal, Illinois, June, 2020
Embodied realities: Strategies to improve a climate of diversity and respect.
Byron Craig, Ashley Hall, Lindsey Thomas, Joseph Zompetti, K. Megan Hopper.
Culturally Responsive Campus Community Conference, Normal, IL, November, 2019
They're Not Playing Around in Wakanda: Rhetorical Strategies For Resisting the 'post-Racial Mystique"
Byron B Craig.
NCA, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 18, 2018
Citizen Cadillac: Corporate Articulation of Civility in the Era of Trump
Byron B Craig.
NCA, Dallas, Texas, November 18, 2017
White Politics/Black Bodies on the Slave Black: Race, Class, Sexuality and Gender in Jordan Peele's Get Out
Byron B Craig.
NCA, Dallas, Texas, November 18, 2017
From Say Her Name, To See Her Dance: Oppostional Optics and Black Feminist Rhetoric in Beyonce's Formation
Byron B Craig, Stephen E. Rahko.
NCA, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 18, 2016
Is Seeing Really Believing? Legal (Pan) Optics and the Murder of Eric Garger
Byron B Craig, Stephen E. Rahko.
RSA, Atlanta, Georgia, May 30, 2016