Faculty
Mildred Perreault
Assistant Professor
contact
Office: CIS 3101 Phone: (813) 396-2662
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. in Journalism (University of Missouri)
- M.A. in Communication, Culture and Technology (Georgetown University)
- B.A. in Journalism and Public Relations (Baylor University)
BIO
Assistant Professor Mimi Perreault has researched local journalists, public relations practitioners, and citizen scientists as both stakeholders and disaster communicators. Her premier interest is in science communication and journalism and journalistic interpretations of science.
She also has looked at identity as a key indicator of audience perception and interpretation. Perreault has been published in Mass Communication and Society, American Behavioral Scientist, Journalism Practice, Games and Culture, Disasters, Communication Studies, and Journalism Education. She is the co-editor of the forthcoming AEJMC Peter Lang Scholar Sourcing book, Crisis Communication Case Studies on COVID-19: Multidimensional perspectives and applications with Dr. Sarah Smith-Frigerio.
After working as a journalist and public relations professional in Washington, DC, and South Florida she sees the role of the local journalist during a natural disaster as one that can engage community response and build community resilience. Perreault is an Assistant Professor of Public Relations and Mass Communications at the Zimmerman School of Advertising and Mass Communications at the University of South Florida.
SPECIALTY AREAS
Crisis and Disaster Communication, health communication, media relations, Public Relations, Local Journalism, Magazine media, women in media, science communication, and environmental communication
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- Perreault, M. and Foss, K. (in press). “Parents’ News Consumption and COVID Sources in Their Decisions to Vaccinate.” Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk. https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/childrenatrisk/vol13/iss2/3
- Davis, J. and Perreault, M. (2023). “Perspectives on Teaching Environmental
Oral History in the Media and Communication Classroom.” Teaching Journalism and Mass Communication Journal. https://higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/AEJMC/cb51e04d-0bbc-407c-8982-aece895b3c6f/UploadedImages/TJMC_13_1__2023__Davis_Perrault_Oral_History_.pdf - Perreault, M. Walsh, J. Lincoln, L., Perreault, G. P and Moon, R. (2023). ““‘Everything Else is Public Relations’” How Rural Journalists Draw the Boundary Between Journalism and Public Relations in Rural Communities.” Mass Communication and Society. org/10.1080/15205436.2023.2243920
- Perreault, M. & Richards, M. (2023). “Mask Making on Social Media: Women’s Mask Making Practices and Advocacy During the Covid-19 Pandemic.” Qualitative Health Communication. https://tidsskrift.dk/qhc/article/view/130132
- Fargen Walsh, J. & Perreault, M.F. (2023). “What’s With the Water: The nature of reactionary reporting on the problem of nitrates in Nebraska.” Newspaper Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1177/07395329221143381
- Perreault, G.P. Moon, R., Fargen Walsh, J., and Perreault, M.F. (2022). ““It’s not hate but …”: Defining marginal categories in rural journalism.” Journalism Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2022.2075782
- Wehde, W. & Perreault, M. (2022). “Developing Survey Methods for Collecting Individual Policy Narratives: A case study of climate change narratives using an engaged convenience sample.” International Review on Public Policy. https://doi.org/10.4000/irpp.2480
- Perreault, M. (2021). Journalism Beyond the Command Post: Local journalists as strategic citizen stakeholders in natural disaster recovery. Journalism Studies. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2021.1950565
- Perreault, M. & Perreault, G. (2021). Journalists on COVID Journalism: Communication Media Ecology of Pandemic Reporting. American Behavioral Scientist. https://journals.sagepub.cm/doi/10.1177/0002764221992813
- Perreault, G.P. Perreault, M.F. & Maares, P. (2022) Metajournalistic discourse and field theory on journalistic practice in the COVID-19 pandemic. Journalism Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2021.1949630