With more than 20 years of experience in journalism education and student media advising, Chris serves as director of Rice University Student Media, home of The Rice Thresher newspaper, the low-power (and intentionally lowercased) ktru-FM and The Campanile yearbook.

Before coming to Rice, Chris taught journalism and all its related things as a tenure-track assistant professor of journalism at Howard University, the nation’s premier Historically Black University, in Washington, D.C.

Chris’ courses have included multimedia storytelling, audio production, journalism research methods, and news writing. He also served as editorial director of the student-powered Howard University News Service, an award-winning online outlet that covers news for and about the African-American community, and created the Illinois Student Newsroom, which successfully trained student audio journalists to produce work for the local NPR affiliate, Illinois Public Media.

He earned his Ph.D. in English in 2023. It was a creative dissertation, which means a novel, which means he’s at the moment you read this supposed to be revising his chapters so he can send it out to agents. He’s not actually doing that, but he knows he should be.