Meredith Clark

CTL-E-6370 · Person · scholar · 2014–present

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Meredith D. Clark is a scholar of race, media, and power whose research centres Black digital culture. A former journalist who describes herself as a recovering journalist, she earned her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2014, after bachelor's and master's degrees at Florida A&M University. She previously held faculty posts at the University of North Texas, the University of Virginia, and Northeastern University, where she was founding director of the Center for Communication, Media Innovation and Social Change. Effective July 1, 2024, she returned to UNC-Chapel Hill as associate professor of race and political communication in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media, and as a principal investigator with the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life. Her dissertation research on Black Twitter led to her naming to The Root 100 in 2015 and to her 2025 book on the subject.

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• Also known as: Meredith D. Clark

Notes

CURRENCY: UNC-Chapel Hill is Clark's current post (effective July 1, 2024); Northeastern is former. Oxford University Press's book-page author bio still listing Northeastern is pre-move publisher copy and is superseded — the dated UNC appointment resolves the sequence. GRADE BASIS: Verified — UNC Hussman (current institution) plus Harvard's Berkman Klein Center agree on the current post. BLOCKED EDGE: affiliated_with → University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Hussman School) — the university is not homed in the graph. PHOTO: HELD (see media). CURATOR'S JUDGMENT (DRAFT): Clark is the historian Black Twitter deserves — her record anchors CTL's claim that the platform's Black publics built a communications tradition, not a trend. (Draft judgment, not fact.)

Referenced by

• We Tried to Tell Y'all: Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives — authored by → this record

Sources

• “Meredith D. Clark, Ph.D. (she/her), is a recovering journalist and an associate professor of race and political communication in the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media. Her book, ‘We Tried to Tell Y'all: Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives,’ was released in 2025.” Accessed 2026-10-29. (primary source · build store)
• “The appointments became effective July 1, 2024… Clark comes to UNC Hussman from Northeastern University, where she was an associate professor and the founding director of the Center for Communication, Media Innovation & Social Change. She previously held faculty positions at the University of Virginia and University of North Texas… Clark, who earned her Ph.D. from UNC Hussman in 2014, focuses her research on race, media and power, with particular emphasis on Black digital culture.” Accessed 2026-10-29. (primary source · build store)
• “Meredith D. Clark… is an associate professor of race and political communication in the School of Journalism & Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill… In 2015, she was named to The Root 100 as one of the most influential African Americans in the country.” Accessed 2026-10-29. (build store)

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