department of communication
professor of communication
steve carr
Meet Steve Carr
Professor of Communication
Steven Alan Carr is a film and media historian and director of the Purdue University Fort Wayne Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC and a Loewenstein-Wiener Marcus Research Fellow at the American Jewish Archives. He is the author of The Holocaust and Hollywood Studios at Home and Abroad (2026), Hollywood and Anti-Semitism: A Cultural History Up to World War II (2001), co-author with Jennifer Frost of Teaching History with Message Movies (2018), and has written many other published essays. He has taught many courses in film and media studies.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Radio-TV-Film, The University of Texas-Austin
M.A., Radio-TV-Film, Northwestern University
B.A., Radio, Television and Motion Pictures, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
COURSES TAUGHT AT PURDUE FORT WAYNE
Undergraduate
COM 24800: Introduction to Mass Media Criticism and Analysis
COM 25000: Mass Communication and Society
COM 25100: Introduction to Electronic Mass Media
COM 30300: Intercultural Communication
COM 33000: Theories of Mass Communication
COM 33800: Documentary or Experimental Film and Video
COM 42100: Media Genres
INTL 20000: Introduction to International Studies (Media and Globalization Section)
WOST 22500 Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Popular Culture
Graduate
COM 50000: Introduction to Grad Studies in Communication
COM 50700: Introduction to Semiotics
COM 53100: Special Topics in Mass Communication - Hollywood and Nazism Before World War II
COM 55900: Current Trends in Mass Communication Research
COM 58400: Historical/Critical Research in Communication