Sloane M. Signal is her first year of doctoral studies at the Freeman School of Business. Before enrolling in the Freeman School, Sloane served as sequence coordinator for Advertising and Public Relations at the Howard University John H. Johnson School of Communications. In her role as faculty, Ms. Signal taught a variety of courses in the Advertising/PR curriculum, including Advertising Marketing Research, Advanced PR, Introduction to Advertising, Media Planning and Buying, and Advertising Campaigns. Her research interests include communicating across cultures both inside and outside of the United States; the analysis of racial ambiguity in the mass media; and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

From 2001-2005, Sloane was a member of the Journalism faculty at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, participating in numerous panel presentations and authored a conference paper. In 2005, Ms. Signal and her research partner had their article, The Peer Review of Teaching Portfolio Project as Scholarship Assessment in Higher Education: An Advertising Curriculum Example, published in the International Journal of Learning. Prior to joining the University of Nebraska Lincoln, she worked for the Chicago Cubs in the marketing department. Sloane hails from New Orleans, Louisiana, and completed both her B. A. (Newcomb '93) and M. B. A. (Business '00) at Tulane University.

Sloane is currently working on projects with Dr. Adrienne Colella and Dr. Michael Burke.