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Fresh Perspectives
MTSU’s College of Media and Entertainment recently installed new chairs to lead two of its three award-winning departments.
Katie Foss, whose book Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory put her in the spotlight, was named director of the School of Journalism and Strategic Media. Since joining the MTSU faculty in 2008, Foss has carved out a scholarly niche at the intersection of media and medicine in the U.S. Author of three books and editor of three more, she has written extensively about how news and entertainment media shape Americans’ understanding of public health issues. During COVID-19, Foss published many epidemic-themed articles in popular media, from Smithsonian Magazine to the Washington Post she was honored with a National Women’s History Month Trailblazer Award at MTSU.
New Recording Industry Department chair Michelle Conceison brings a strong mix of real-world experience and heart of a teacher to lead an innovative department celebrating a half-century of existence. Conceison is a business owner and artist manager who has had artists sell out world tours. She’s also had artists have top albums and radio singles. Conceison, who owns Nashville-based management and marketing company MMGT, started her career in advertising, but she’s always been an educator at heart. She came from a family of educators. Her dad spent almost four decades teaching in the public school system in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
