Amanda Nell Edgar

Amanda Nell Edgar studies issues of race and racism as they intersect with other identities, particularly gender and class. In 2021, she received the prestigious Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award from the National Communication Association, three years after receiving the Janice Hocker Rushing Early Career Research Award from the Southern States Communication Association. Her work has been published in most of the field’s top journals, and her two previous books both received awards from the National Communication Association.