Clark Callahan

From College of Fine Arts and Communications

Clark Callahan grew up in a small LDS community in the marshy regions of east Texas. He’s developed an easy-going approach to life and speaks of his travels through the Boundary Waters regions of northern Minnesota and picking bluegrass tunes on his guitar.

Callahan earned a bachelor’s degree in Communications Studies from BYU]. He went on to Canyon, Texas, to earn a master’s degree at West Texas State — now West Texas A&M — and then to Norman, Oklahoma, to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma.

Joining BYU’s Department of Communications faculty in 2008 has provided Callahan with many resources previously unavailable to him at the University of South Dakota, where he spent four years working with a faculty of four.

Now, as director of the International Media Studies program, Callahan hopes to use the department’s resources to make the program more interactive among students and alumni, and to encourage alumni with international experience to contact him and get involved.

Callahan and his wife, Rebecca, are the parents of three boys and one girl. The move to Utah brought them closer to extended family.

While Callahan is still a big fan of the Sooners, he is proud to again be called a Cougar.