Cassandra Hayes

Assistant Professor
Journalism
MOUS 202

cassandra.hayes@tcu.edu | 817-257-7000

Education

Ph.D., Texas Tech University
M.F.A., University of Central Arkansas
B.A., University of Texas at Arlington

Courses Taught

JOUR 10103 - Sports, Media and Society
JOUR 10203 - Introduction to Journalism

Areas of Focus

Infrastructure communication, storytelling and sense making, speculative media. I especially focus on cyberinfrastructure, journalism as infrastructure, and how sports and media intersect with infrastructure issues.

  • Hayes, C. (2024). Reinventing scaffolded selves: Visual media representations of queer infrastructures, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Hayes, C. (2024). “A Choice to Play the Game”: Successfully Deviant Careers of Women Sports Journalists, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Hayes, C., Kulkarni, C., & Kee, K. F. (2023). The situational window for boundary-spanning infrastructure professions: Making sense of cyberinfrastructure emergence, Journal of Professions and Organizations.
  • Kee, K. F., Hayes, C., Gesing, S., Meyers, N. K., Rugg, A., Johnson, R. Bradley, S., Brandt, S. R., & Dombrowski, Q. (2023). Science Gateways and the Humanities: An Exploratory Study of their Rare Partnership, Computing Science and Engineering.
  • Olshansky, A., Hayes, C., Kee, K. F. (2023). The Characteristics of Influencers and Opinion Leaders of Science Gateways and Cyberinfrastructure for Innovation Diffusion, Computing Science and Engineering.
  • Assistant Professor of Broadcast Journalism at Stephen F. Austin State University (2022-2024)
  • Editorial roles at a variety of publications and presses, including: Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Texas Tech University Press, Arkana Magazine, Sundress Publications, the Oxford American
  • 2024 Top Paper Award in LGBTQ Interest Group at AEJMC
  • 2024 SFA College of Liberal and Applied Arts Teaching Excellence Award
  • SFA 2023/2024 Course of Innovation Award (for Media Writing)
  • 2021 Cision Insights Fellowship Award
  • National Communication Association
  • Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
  • Society of Professional Journalists