Professor Brian Carroll is Chair of Communication at Berry College in Mount Berry, Georgia. His 1st book, When to Stop the Cheering? The Black Press, the Black Community and the Integration of Professional Baseball, was published by Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis, in 2007 and was named a finalist for SABR’s Seymour Medal. It was also named Book-of-the-Year by the Negro Leagues Committee of the Society of American Baseball Research. Carroll’s 2nd book, Writing for Digital Media, was published by Routledge in March 2010, a book revised and expanded into Writing & Editing for Digital Media in 2014. In 2015, The Black Press and Black Baseball: A Devil’s Bargain came out, also from Routledge.

Dr. Carroll earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication. Before earning his Ph.D., he was a photographer, reporter, and editor for several publications, including the Greensboro News & Record, PC Gamer, and several magazines and trade newspapers.