Carmen Coustaut serves as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Institutional Diversity and Education.  Carmen reports both to the Provost and to the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs.  In this new position, she is responsible for collaborating with campus units to develop and implement strategies and plans to enhance diversity and inclusion on campus.  Additionally, she is responsible for providing leadership to the Multicultural Center.  Carmen also holds a tenured appointment as associate professor in the Department of Journalism.

Prior to joining the University of Arkansas in January 2005, Carmen was a tenured, associate professor at the University of Maryland, College Park where she taught film studies from 1989-2004.  Her area of expertise includes the history of the image of African Americans in film, film directing, and screenwriting.  She taught similar courses at Howard University from 1985-89 in the Department of Radio, Television, and Film.  She was also a member of the faculty in the English Department at Howard University from 1977-79 and 1983-85, and she began her career in education teaching high school English in Los Angeles from 1973-77.

Additionally, Carmen is an independent filmmaker, and she has received numerous grants and several 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 in 1982, a Master of Education from Harvard University in 1972, and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from UCLA in 1971.

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