Katie Blevins received her Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University. Prior to arriving at the University of Idaho she spent four years as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Communications at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Her teaching focuses on media law, issues of gender and representation, new technology, and global media. Her research looks at government transparency, the regulation of new technology, and social media activism through the lens of representation.

• Media law
• Freedom of information access
• Women’s studies
• Media representation issues
• Social media

• Katie Blevins, “#TakeaKnee and the Intersection of Toxic-Masculinity & Race” in Misogyny & Media in the Age of Trump, ed. Dr. Maria Marron (Lexington Books, 2020), 267-282
• Katie Blevins & Kearston Wesner, “Access to Government Officials in the Age of Social Media,” in The Journal of Civic Information, Vol. 1, Issue 1 (August, 2019), 32-60.
• Katie Blevins, “bell hooks and Consciousness-Raising: Argument for a Fourth Wave of Feminism,” in Mediating Misogyny: Technology, Gender, & Harassment, ed. Dr. Jacqueline Ryan Vickery & Dr. Tracy Everbach (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018), 91-108
• Katie Blevins, “Broadcast and Telecommunications,” in Mass Communication Law in Idaho, ed. Dr. Rebecca Tallent & Robert J. Taylor, 3rd ed. (Oklahoma: New Forums Press, 2017), 119-138
• Rebecca Tallent & Katie Blevins, “Newsroom Searches and Court Access by Media,” in Mass Communication Law in Idaho, ed. Dr. Rebecca Tallent & Robert J. Taylor, 3rd ed. (Oklahoma: New Forums Press, 2017), 139-152