Virginia Johnson

Virginia "Nia" Johnson is an Associate Professor in the Communication and Media department at Samford University's Howard College of Arts and Sciences. She has been teaching at Samford since 2014 and previously held adjunct and graduate teaching assistant roles at the University of Alabama's College of Communication & Information Sciences.

• PhD, Communication & Information Sciences, University of Alabama (2014)
• MA, Journalism & Mass Communication, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2010)
• BA & BS, Communication Studies & Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham (2006)

Johnson specializes in communication with research interests spanning public relations, advertising, sports media, health communication, crisis communication, political communication, and communication education.