Media and Communication

School of Marketing and Media

Media and Communication

megan short piercy

Meg (Short) Piercy

Program Head - Brand Communication, Master Lecturer

Megan Piercy is a Master Lecturer in Advertising and Public Relations with over 10 years teaching experience. She is pursuing a PhD in Strategic Communication from Liberty University. Piercy is coordinator of the internship program, adviser of the Strategic Media Club, instructor in Photoshop in the Adobe Certified Associate course, serves on the AAF Northeast Tennessee Board, and regularly co-leads the AAF National Student Advertising Competition. The NSAC team has won District 7 four times (2023, 2022, 2020, and 2018) and placed in the Top 8 Nationally twice (2022, 2020, and 2018). Piercy specializes in small business brand communication strategy and her research interests are in media bias and Appalachian media culture and digital literacy.