David Stamps

• Assistant Professor, Experience Design
• Ph.D. University of California Santa Barbara
• M.A. California State University, Northridge
• B.A. Columbia College Chicago

• Office: Morison Hall - 293 | .. | dstamps@bentley.edu
• Department Phone: 781.891.2151

Teaching Interests

I teach courses in Public Relations. However, and more importantly, I bring all of my experiences into the classroom including my background as a public relations and media practitioner and my various intersecting identities. I use my narrative to encourage students to develop a sense of historical empathy, to make connections with class material, and to understand that strategic communication is more than just the study of the exchange of information, ideas, and societal practices. I expect students to critically engage and ask how certain interactions happen and how people understand, explain, and live with what takes place in various communicative engagements.

Research Interests

My research agenda examines the role of media’s presentation of racialized and gendered stereotypes and how these depictions affect various groups in terms of affect, behavioral, and cognitive. My research program is two-fold, to analyze media depictions and interpersonal interactions of marginalized groups and examine how those experiences may affect individuals from an intergroup and intragroup perspective. I seek to understand how social groups, especially historically oppressed groups, realize, protect, and affirm their identity in various social and mediated contexts. My work bridges critical race, feminist, and social scientific intellectual traditions and utilizes thematic and data analyses to uncover nuanced communication experiences among audiences.

Consulting/Practice Interests

Of late, I have become a consultant on DEI efforts within organizations, including schools, professional settings, and among social spaces (e.g., churches, communal groups). In this role I clarify and interrogate how we may better engage with DEI efforts BUT I also lay out an action plan and prepare individuals to go out in the world and simple DO BETTER. To date, I have worked alongside The Stuart Hall School (New Orleans, LA), Canvas8 (London, UK), and the US Veterans Affairs Center (Martinsburg, VA), to name a few.