Institutional Leadership
Building structures that support faculty growth, collaboration, and meaningful participation across a complex university.
About Charlton
Leadership is a way of seeing.
Seeing the systems beneath the surface—and bringing people together to build what institutions and organizations need next.
Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication · NYU
A Connected Practice
Ideas matter when they change what is possible.
Charlton D. McIlwain works across executive leadership, scholarship, and public life.
At New York University, he leads work that advances faculty opportunity, engagement, and institutional development. As a scholar, he studies the intersections of race, digital media, technology, and racial justice activism.
Across both arenas, the through line is the same: understand how systems distribute power, then use that knowledge to help institutions act with greater clarity, inclusion, and democratic purpose.
View the CVTechnology & Power
Tracing the histories and systems that determine who shapes technology—and who is shaped by it.
Public Consequence
Moving research beyond the academy through books, media, policy conversations, and public engagement.
Selected Leadership
A career built across boundaries.
Vice Provost for Faculty Engagement and Development
New York University · University-wide faculty advancement, engagement, and leadership development.
Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication
Research on race, digital media, political communication, racial justice activism, and artificial intelligence.
Center for Critical Race + Digital Studies
Founder of an interdisciplinary center connecting critical race scholarship to digital technologies and public life.
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