Carmen Coustaut serves as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Institutional Diversity and Education.  She reports both to the Provost and to the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs.  Her responsibilities include collaborating with campus units to develop and implement strategies to enhance diversity and inclusive excellence on campus, particularly in Academic Affairs and in Student Affairs.  Prof. Coustaut also holds a tenured faculty appointment as associate professor in the Department of Journalism.

Prior to joining the University of Arkansas in January 2005, Prof. Coustaut was a tenured, associate professor at the University of Maryland, College Park where she taught film studies.  Her areas of expertise include the history of the image of African Americans in film, film directing, and screenwriting.  She taught similar courses at Howard University in the Department of Radio, Television, and Film.  She was also a member of the faculty in the English Department at Howard University, and she began her career in education teaching high school English in South Central Los Angeles.

Additionally, Prof. Coustaut is an independent filmmaker, and she has received numerous grants and awards for her work in film.  She was a Rockefeller Scholar-in-Residence at Brown University, and she was a Fulbright Scholar in Mali and Senegal in West Africa.  She received a Master of Fine Arts in Cinema Production from the University of Southern California, a Master of Education from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from UCLA.

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