Dr. Kathy Brittain Richardson, professor of
communication, was named provost in February 2013.
Dr. Richardson joined the Berry faculty in
1986 and has taught courses in media law, media ethics, journalism and public
relations in the communication department. She served as associate provost and
dean of academic services at Berry from 1999-2007 and was interim provost in
2007-2008 before returning full time to the classroom in 2009. She has
been awarded the Carden Award, the Garrett Award, the Teaching Excellence
Award, and the Martindale Award from Berry.
She is a co-author of Media Ethics:
Cases and Moral Reasoning, which is in press for its 10th edition, and the
author of Applied Public Relations: Cases in Stakeholder Management, now
in press for its 3rd edition. Dr. Richardson has been editor
of Journalism and Communication Monographs and is the current co-editor
of the National Forensic Journal. She is a member of the editorial board
of Mass Communication & Society and the Journal of Mass Media
Ethics. Dr. Richardson has published journal articles and book chapters in
media ethics, product promotion, visual imagery, communication pedagogy and
student-press regulation.
Dr. Richardson is an active member of the
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and has served
as head of the Mass Communication and Society Division. In 2012, she
received the Professor of the Year award from the Small Programs Division of
AEJMC.
Dr.
Richardson earned a bachelor of arts degree in communication and
religion/philosophy, summa cum laude, from Shorter College and a master’s in
journalism and a doctorate in mass communication from the Grady College of
Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. She completed
additional graduate coursework in communication at the University of Oklahoma.
Dr.
Kathy Brittain Richardson
Provost
Telephone: (706) 236-2216
E-mail: krichardson@berry.edu