Dean Carol Stabile 

Professor Carol Stabile is a scholar of media history. 

Her research focuses on government surveillance of media during the Cold War and the blacklist in broadcasting that resulted from this. She regularly collaborates and publishes with her CHC students, including an interview with Nobel prize winner Katalin Kariko and an article on the FBI’s investigation of radio and television.

She graduated from Mt. Holyoke College and holds both a Master’s and a PhD from Brown University in English. She has taught at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; the University of Pittsburgh; the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; and the University of Maryland. 

At the UO, she has served as director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society, divisional dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, and taught coursework in Journalism and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, along with classes in the Honors College. 

Carol was a first-generation student who grew up in an amusement park in New Jersey, and she is currently writing a book about her childhood. She is the award-winning author of three books: Feminism and the Technological Fix; White Victims, Black Villains: Gender, Race, and Crime News in U.S. Culture; and The Broadcast 41: Women and the Anti-Communist Blacklist. 

She lives in Eugene, Oregon, with her spouse and a pack of well-loved dogs. 

Contact the Dean's Office at chcdeansoffice@uoregon.edu