Andrew C. Billings, Ph.D.
Indiana University, 1999
Co-Director, Beyond Sports Initiative
Dr. Andrew C. Billings serves as co-director of the Beyond Sport Initiative, the Ronald Reagan Chair of Broadcasting, and the Associate Dean for Faculty in the College of Communication & Information Sciences at the University of Alabama. Having authored 27 books and over 260 journal articles and book chapters, Andy is the most published sports media scholar in the world. His work has been cited over 11,000 times, largely focusing on issues triangulating sport, media, and issues of identity. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the prominent academic journal Communication & Sport and has been interviewed over 700 times by news outlets including The New York Times, Associated Press and ESPN.
Dr. Billings has studied sports media phenomena in over 20 nations, earning over 60 awards from the International Communication Association, National Communication Association, Broadcast Education Association, and Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication. He is a former Visiting Chair of Olympism at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and is a past Research Symposium Chair for the Broadcast Education Association.