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News Bureau - Beth Christian
Elizabeth Barfoot Christian is an acting assistant professor and a member of the News Bureau staff. She joined the Louisiana Tech faculty in July 2007. She is ABD in the mass communication doctoral program from the University of Southern Mississippi. She has earned her M.S. in political science and B.S. in journalism and political science from Southern Miss.
Most recently she has taught courses in news writing and American government at the University of Southern Mississippi and speech communication for Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. She has been a reporter for the Journal of South Mississippi Business, the Sun Herald and At the Casinos magazine, all in Biloxi.
Christian served as the director of public relations for the City of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, from 2001 to 2005, during which time she coordinated the award-winning Mayor's Financial Education Initiative and the city's All America City program, which earned Hattiesburg a finalist position. She has received several awards, including a Public Relations Association of Mississippi PRISM award and a DSMA award.
She was a full-time reporter and copy editor for Lamar County News and the Advertiser News and earned a first-place and two second-place awards from the Mississippi Press Association.
Christian's professional research interests include literary journalism, popular culture and journalism history. She is currently writing a dissertation on Willie Morris, the youngest editor ever of Harper's magazine and a book chapter "The Pedophile Next Door," about the proliferation of child sex offenders since the advent of the Internet. She has presented research at conferences on P.D. East, editor of the Petal Paper during the civil rights era in Mississippi; the influence of blogging on the media and politics; and the integrated marketing communication of the heavy metal band, KISS.
She and her husband, Lance, live in Ruston and have five children.
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