AngieÌýChuang

  • Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies
  • Associate Professor
  • JOURNALISM
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Angie Chuang is an associate professor of journalism whose research and teachingÌýfocus on race,Ìýidentity and representations of Otherness. Her book, American Otherness in Journalism: News Media Constructions of Identity and Belonging (Routledge, 2025) won the Kappa Tau Alpha Frank Luther Mott Journalism & Mass Communication Research Award. Her scholarly work has been published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly; Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism; ²¹²Ô»å Communication, Culture and Critique. She came to academia after 13 years as a national and regional award-winning newspaper reporter at The Oregonian, The HartfordÌýCourant and the Los Angeles Times. A³Ù The Oregonian, she launched one of the first regionalÌýnewspaper beats on race and ethnicity issues, and traveled to Afghanistan,ÌýVietnam and the post-Katrina Gulf Coast to cover stories.  Ìý

Her reporting in Afghanistan became the backbone of her literary journalism-memoir book, The Four Words for Home (Aquarius Press-Willow Books, 2014), which won an Independent Publishers Book Award Bronze Medal. Her media commentary has appeared in The Washington Post, The Conversation, Huffington Post, The Root, Poynter Online, The SeattleÌýTimes ²¹²Ô»å The Oregonian.Ìý

In her first academic appointment at American University’s School of Communication in Washington, D.C., Chuang was awarded the Ann S. Ferren Curriculum Design Award for creating the pilot of a first-year course on race and social identity. She has also served as a consultant and trainer to National Public Radio, Atlantic Media, Bloomberg Industry Group, and the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceÌý

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