Dr. Troy Elias
Dr. Troy Elias
Associate Professor
University of Oregon
Dr. Troy Elias (Ph.D., The Ohio State University) is an Associate Professor in the advertising sequence in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. His research interests focus on diversity and equity, media effects, and attitudes related to climate change. Dr. Elias’ work aims to highlight the value of inclusion, specifically as it relates to communicating with communities of color in climate change discourse. From 2000-2004 he attended Claflin University, a historically Black college and university (HBCU) located in Orangeburg, South Carolina, where he majored in Computer Science. From 2004-2009, he attended The Ohio State University for his M.A. and Ph.D. in Strategic Communication.

He subsequently worked as an assistant professor at the University of Florida and in 2014 was awarded Teacher of the Year, in the College of Journalism & Communications at UF. At the University of Oregon, Dr. Elias has received a Best Faculty Award by UO’s Student-Athlete Committee, and a mentorship award from the UO Black Women of Achievement student group. He is the faculty advisor for the UO student chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ). In 2014 and 2018 he earned Top Faculty Papers in AEJMC’s Minorities & Communication Division, and has published in the Journal of Advertising Research, International Journal of Communication, Environmental Values, Howard Journal of Communications, Journal of Interactive Advertising, Journal of Social Media in Society, and Online Information Review.