2020s
Bob Christy, BS ’95, MA ’22, Green, OH, longtime Kent State University photographer, walked the stage to receive a Master of Arts in media and journalism with a concentration in journalism education at Kent State’s advanced degrees commencement ceremony on May 11, 2023. He had “officially” graduated in December 2022 but was ill on the day of the fall commencement ceremony and unable to attend. So he and his family and friends shared the spring ceremony with the Class of 2023.
Christy is the senior photography coordinator in Kent State’s Division of University Communications and Marketing (UCM). In his 23 years with the university, it seems as if he has met nearly everyone in Kent State’s eight-campus system. He has taken many of the photos that appear in Kent State Magazine and Kent State Today, as well as other university publications and online outlets.
He also has been a mentor to UCM photography interns and Kent State photography students in Ohio and abroad. He visited the American Academy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Parana in Curitiba, Brazil, in March. Most recently, he was in Rwanda with a team from Kent State attending the Peace Education in an Era of Crisis conference in July. He is teaching Flashes 101 through University College and Preproduction in Media and Digital Communication at the School of Media and Journalism in the College of Communication and Information this fall.
Christy graduated from Kent State with a bachelor’s degree in photojournalism in 1995 after serving in the US Air Force. He covered the 1996 New Hampshire Primary for UPI and then returned to Ohio to work for the New Philadelphia Times-Reporter before joining UCM in 2000. His work has appeared in newspapers across the country and Northeast Ohio and received honors from the Ohio News Photographer’s Association and the University Photographers of America Association.