Caroline E. Sawyer is an award-winning producer and an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at University of South Carolina Beaufort. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Memphis, her Master of Arts from Austin Peay State University, and her Bachelor of Business Administration from Baylor University. Dr. Sawyer's research interests include transmedia storytelling, broadcast media, gender and sports communication, sports and new media, corporate communication, popular culture, American culture and critical discourse studies.
She is the producer of By The River, a collaborative TV show between USCB & SCETV, which airs is distributed nationally to public television via American Public Television.