Brad Yates is 教授 和 迪安 of the School of Communication, 电影, 和 媒体 at the University of West Georgia, where he has been on faculty since 2000. 他教媒体法, media programming 和 management, 和 all levels of television/video 和 radio production. Yates' administrative appointments include serving as the Digital 媒体 & Telecommunication Concentration Head (2014-2017), Interim Chair of the Department of Criminology (2017-2018), Interim Chair of the Department of Mass Communications (2018-2019), 和 Chair of the Department of Mass Communications (2019-2021). He was selected to participate in the 2017 Governors Teaching Fellows Summer Symposium, offered through the Institute of Higher Education. Yates has also been selected for competitive fellowships/seminars with the International Radio 和 Television Society, the NATPE Educational Foundation, the Radio-Television 在线博彩 Directors Foundation's Excellence in Journalism Education Project, 和 the Television Academy Foundation. He earned the Professional Association of Academic Advisors' 教师 Mentor of the Year (2022) award 和 the College of Social Sciences Outst和ing Teaching (2015), Outst和ing Service (2014), 和 Outst和ing Mentor (2012, 2018)奖. Yates is the founder of 在线博彩s WOLF Radio 和 is the faculty advisor of the 在线博彩 Chapter of NBS-AERho, the National Electronic 媒体 Association. He served the NBS-AERho Board of Governors for three years 和 was named NBS-AERho Advisor of the Year in 2013 和 2017. He earned the campus student organization Advisor of the Year in 2014. He is a member of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication (AEJMC), the Broadcast Education Association (BEA), 和 the National Association for 媒体 Literacy Education (NAMLE). He currently serves on AEJMC's Emerging Scholars Committee 和 is the former chair of the Entertainment Studies Interest Group within AEJMC. His research interests include media literacy, mass communication education, 流行音乐, 还有布鲁斯·斯普林斯汀. His research has been presented at national 和 international conferences 和 published in refereed journals including the Atlantic Journal of Communication, International Journal of Instructional 媒体, The Internet 和 Higher Education, Journal of Communication 和 媒体 Research, Journal of Health Education, Journal of 受欢迎的 Music Studies, Journal of Public Relations Education, 无线电杂志 & Audio 媒体, Learning, 媒体 & 技术, 和 传媒研究 & 信息 Literacy Education (SIMILE). Yates' professional experience is in television/video production, 和 he holds a B.A. in Communication Studies 和 an M.Ed. 在课程 & Instruction from Lynchburg College (now the University of Lynchburg) in Virginia. 他得了个M.S. in TV-Radio from the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University 和 a Ph.D. from the College of Journalism 和 Communications at the University of Florida. He has seen Bruce Springsteen in concert 47 times.