Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Arizona State University
Arizona State University
Associate Professor Sharon Bramlett-Solomon
Sharon Bramlett-Solomon is an associate professor in the Cronkite School who joined ASU in 1986. Her professional background includes seven years in newspaper reporting, public relations and radio advertising sales. She formerly worked as a reporter for the Memphis Commercial Appeal and Louisville Courier Journal newspapers. She also served as public information director for the Memphis Urban League and worked as an account executive at WDIA radio station in Memphis. She was a graduate fellow at Indiana University, where she taught news reporting and received her doctorate in 1987. Her published articles have appeared in a number of newspapers and popular magazines, including The Arizona Republic, The Mesa Tribune, The Arizona Informant, Louisville’s City Magazine, Focus magazine, Essence magazine and Today’s Arizona Woman. Besides a number of published book chapters, her scholarly articles have been published in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Newspaper Research Journal, Mass Media & Society, Southwestern Mass Communication Journal, The Howard Journal of Communication and Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. Her research focuses on media construction and depiction of race images and issues. Bramlett-Solomon is faculty adviser for the Cronkite School’s Association of Multicultural Journalists (AMJ) and AMJ BLAZE Radio News Reporting Team. As an active member of the national Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication for many years, she has held a number of AEJMC positions. She headed the AEJMC minorities and communication division, headed the AEJMC commission on the status of minorities, served for three years on the AEJMC professional freedom and responsibility committee, served four years on the AEJMC task force on diversity and served three years on the AEJMC executive committee. Since 2004, she has served on the AEJMC Journalism Leadership Institute for Diversity. During her ASU tenure, Bramlett-Solomon has received three Cronkite School awards for teaching, research and service. In 1994, the National Conference of Editorial Writers Foundation awarded her the Barry Bingham Fellowship for advancing diversity in U.S. journalism and college journalism education. She is recipient of the Arizona Black Board of Directors Project Community Service Award. In 2002, the Arizona Black Women’s Task Force honored her as Woman of the Year for long time community service in Arizona college education. |
