Andrew C. Billings
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Andrew C. Billings is a professor and the Ronald Reagan Chair of Broadcasting in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at The University of Alabama. He is the Editor-in-Chief for the journal Communication & Sport and current co-director of the Alabama Beyond Sports Initiative. His research primarily focuses on the study of Sport Communication.[1] He was the founding chair of both the Communication and Sport Division of the National Communication Association and the Sport Communication Interest Group of the International Communication Association. A former Visiting Chair of Olympism at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Billings won the Broadcast Education Association's Lifetime Achievement in Scholarship Award in 2025.
His research often focuses on the intersection of sport, mass media, and how people interpret identity issues within sport when consuming sport content.[2] He also focuses on elements surrounding spots contents, such as fantasy sport.[3] Billings has won over 60 awards for his scholarship, including national and international awards from the National Communication Association, International Communication Association, Broadcast Education Association, and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and many book awards, which provides academic perspective to journalists on matters related to sport communication.[4][5]
A graduate of Lakeland High School in Lagrange, Indiana, Billings received his PhD in Communication & Culture from Indiana University Bloomington in 1999.