Faculty

Robert Arnold
Associate Professor of Film

BFA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; MA, PhD, University of Iowa. Professor Arnold studied sculpture and Renaissance art history while playing semi-professional basketball in Italy before entering graduate school at the University of Iowa. After completing the MA in Sculpture in 1980, he entered the doctoral program in Film Studies there, with a concentration in film theory and production, completing the PhD in 1994. His teaching career began at Syracuse University in 1985 and he has since taught at Ithaca College, the University of Toledo, Florida Atlantic University, and as a visiting professor at the Poznan Academy of Fine Arts in Poland. He has produced several award-winning short films and videos which have appeared in festivals around the world and has published articles in leading film journals.

BFA, University of the Arts. Professor Austin comes to the College of Communication from a career as an advertising and marketing professional. She has managed creative and brand development assignments, as well as produced award-winning work for clients like the Boston Globe, Revlon, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, and the Islands of the Bahamas. Her training came from working in some of Boston’s most demanding creative environments, including Humphrey, Browning, MacDougall (now Arnold Worldwide) and Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulous. In addition, she has taught advertising courses at Emerson College and Rhode Island School of Design.

BS, Boston University. Fred Bayles has spent the past three decades in daily journalism, including the last 20 years as a national correspondent for the Associated Press and USA Today. His work has taken him to 49 states and 10 foreign countries. Assignments have included the 1991 Gulf War, the 1994 Haiti incursion, the 1993 Branch-Davidian siege in Waco, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, and the O. J. Simpson investigation and trial. Bayles also covered the 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns, Hurricanes Andrew, Hugo, and Bonnie, the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, and various other natural and man-made disasters. In addition, Bayles has led several award-winning investigative projects, including 50-state looks at guardianship of the elderly, the child welfare system, and probes into major airline crashes, including TWA 800 and SwissAir 111. He also has an extensive portfolio in sports feature writing, including daily columns from Olympic games in Seoul, Albertville, Barcelona, and Lillehammer.

BFA, MA, University of Connecticut; PhD, Wayne State University. Dr. Berkovitz has worked since 1974 as a political media consultant on presidential, senatorial, congressional, and gubernatorial election campaigns. He specializes in media strategy and time buying, and works as a producer of political commercials. Berkovitz’s clients have included Senators John Glenn, Carl Levin, and Patrick Leahy, and Congressman John Tierney. Dr. Berkovitz appears frequently on television and in the press as a political and media analyst.

BA, University of Michigan; PhD, The University of Texas, Austin. Professor Bernstein has taught screenwriting, playwriting, and film theory at Duke University, Tel Aviv University, and the University of Copenhagen, and has conducted professional film seminars at the Munich Film School and the National Film School of Denmark. He has also worked as Director of Development, Film Consultant, Story Editor, and Dramaturge for major film companies and theaters. A number of his plays have won national prizes and been staged in a variety of theaters worldwide. His film A Scent of Paradise has won a number of international prizes. He has also written for German television and is the author of two books of poems. Professor Bernstein’s film, Turn Right By The Yellow Dog, starring Peter Gantzler (Italian for Beginners), premiered in September 2003.

BS, University of Vermont; MA, University of Connecticut. Professor Blau’s background is in linguistics, rhetoric, and American literature. She has over 30 years of experience in teaching writing and directing writing programs. She has published articles, conducted workshops, and presented papers at national conferences on teaching writing, writing across the curriculum, and writing center theory and practice. She was a national Endowment for the Humanities fellow.

BA, Kutztown University; MFA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Ms. Burak’s poetry and fiction have appeared in Fiction, The Gettysburg Review, Western Humanities Review, Missouri Review, and Seventeen, among other magazines and journals. She has taught composition, creative writing, literature, and technical communication at North Carolina State University and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

BA, St. Lawrence University; MS, EdD, Boston University. Professor Cakebread teaches Introduction to Advertising and Advertising Management, and coordinates the advertising internship program. He received his doctorate in May 2000 in Curriculum and Teaching at the School of Education at Boston University. His main research interests include corporate sponsorship in amateur and professional sports, the coaching of children in youth sports, and the influences of internships on advertising agencies and their employees. Cakebread has worked in account management and media planning at a number of New England-based agencies prior to his arrival at the College of Communication.

AB, Harvard College; PhD, Rutgers University. Professor Carney has previously taught at Stanford University, the University of Texas, and Middlebury College. He is the author of more than ten books, including Cassavetes on Cassavetes; The Films of Mike Leigh: Embracing the World; John Cassavetes: The Adventure of Insecurity; American Vision: The Films of Frank Capra; Speaking the Language of Desire: The Films of Carl Dreyer; The Films of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies; and the monograph on Shadows in the BFI Film Classics series. He is General Editor of the Cambridge Film Classics, published by Cambridge University Press. He curated the Beat Culture and the New America show for the Whitney Museum of American Art, and is regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on independent film and American literature, painting, and pragmatic philosophy, having edited or contributed to many volumes on the subject, including Morris Dickstein’s The Revival of Pragmatism and Townsend Ludington’s A Modern Mosaic. He is a frequent speaker at film festivals and scholarly events around the world, a contributor to national and international magazines and scholarly journals, and maintains a personal website devoted to film and other art at www.Cassavetes.com.

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AB (hon.), Xavier University. Professor Carroll is a veteran of both the advertising and journalism worlds. For five years he was executive producer of news programs at WGBH-TV in Boston, where he continues as producer/panelist on the weekly program Beat the Press. Over the past 20 years he has also written extensively on advertising and the media as a regular columnist for the Boston Globe and Adweek magazine, and as a commentator on WBUR-FM and National Public Radio. Carroll has won numerous national and regional journalism awards, including the RTNDA’s Edward R. Murrow award for writing, the National Press Club’s Arthur Rowse award for press criticism, and multiple New England Emmys for commentary and news writing. In addition, he spent almost two decades as a creative director and consultant in the advertising industry.

BA, Yale University; MS, Boston University; JD, University of Pennsylvania. Former head of the Law Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication as well as of the Law and Policy Division of the Broadcast Education Association, Professor Carter is a practicing attorney specializing in communication law. He also coordinates the JD/MS in Mass Communication dual degree program and teaches a communication law course at Boston University School of Law. In addition to communication law, Professor Carter is interested in telecommunication policy and new communication technology. He has coauthored three textbooks—The First Amendment and the Fourth Estate, The First Amendment and the Fifth Estate, and Mass Communication Law in a Nutshell—and has written articles and book chapters on libel, media access, free press/fair trial, obscenity, regulation of new communication technologies, the Patriot Act, and rights protection for computer software.

BS, Boston University. Mr. Cavalieri is Director of the Institute for Television, Film & Radio Production, a summer program for high school students operated by the College of Communication. He is also an award-winning broadcaster with producing, directing, and production management experience at WGBH-TV, WFXT-TV, and WCVB-TV. Currently, he manages the Lifestyle Unit at WGBH, which produces two national PBS series: The Victory Garden and Simply Ming. He is also recognized for his documentary work in the music industry. A faculty member of the College since 1990, Mr. Cavalieri is the faculty advisor to buTV, COM’s student production organization.

BS, Montclair State University; MS, Pennsylvania State University. Professor Clark has had more than 26 years of professional experience in the advertising industry. She has held senior positions in agency management at several major advertising agencies and directed their strategic and account planning functions. For the past five years, she has managed an independent consulting practice, offering strategic counsel to advertising agencies and corporations. She has been involved in the brand positioning strategies and advertising programs across a range of consumer and business to business industries, including financial services, technology, retailing, newspapers, sporting goods, athletic footwear, health care, consumer packaged goods, and e-commerce. Professor Clark teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in advertising.

BA, MS, Boston University. Professor Clark’s background is in communications writing, and she began by working as a retail advertising manager/copywriter, then served as a public relations manager. For over a decade she owned Media Wise, a promotional writing service, where she wrote videos, multi-image shows, features, press kits, brochures, newsletters, print, and broadcast ads. In addition to her teaching duties, she is writing and publishing short stories.

AB (hon.), Harvard University; MA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Professor Daly is the former New England correspondent for the Washington Post and works as a freelance writer for publications such as the Atlantic Monthly, Washington Post, and the Boston Globe. He has also served as Statehouse Bureau Chief for the Associated Press. He is coauthor of Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (1987, University of North Carolina Press).

Debbie Danielpour
Assistant Professor of Film

AB, Harvard College; MA, San Francisco State University; MFA in fiction and literature from the Bennington Writing Seminars (2001). Debbie has been teaching film and fiction writing for over twenty years—at San Francisco State University, Emerson College where she created the Screenwriting Certificate Program, Harvard University Extension, and in a variety of workshops and seminars in the U.S., Europe, and South America. She has written feature and television scripts (Stand Accused, 2001, Sony Pictures, Star Trek: TNG and DS9), published short fiction and essays, and works as a freelance consultant for film production companies and individuals. She recently completed her sixth motion picture screenplay, Between a Rock and a Romance, and her first novel, Fugitive Colors.

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Ellen Davis
Preceptor in the Writing Program

BA, Amherst College; MAT, Simmons College; MA, Dartmouth College; MFA, Emerson College. Ellen Davis’s essays, poems, profiles, and reviews have been published widely, including in such magazines as AGNI, Bostonia, California Quarterly, and The Emily Dickinson Journal. She has been a regular contributor to Harvard Review since 1990. She won the 1998–1999 Sproat Lecturers Award from the Boston University English Department for excellence in teaching.

BA, Bowdoin College; MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Doherty has prior teaching experience at the Boston Film Foundation and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is also an award-winning freelance editor, director, and cinematographer. Doherty teaches a variety of film production courses. Her video “Make It Just Right,” featuring former Vice President Al Gore, is an exploration of the effects of dual-career households on children. She recently completed her feature-length documentary “Oh My God” and just returned from directing and shooting a short film in The People’s Republic of China. This short film, sponsored by NASA, is the progenitor of eight similar pieces on land use change in river deltas around the world.

BA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; MS, Boston University; MA, Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Professor Donohue is an award-winning public radio producer and editor. She was the special projects editor at Monitor Radio for five years, and has also been a contributor to NPR, the BBC, WGBH, and Public Radio International programs. In 1999 she won the prestigious duPont-Columbia Award for The DNA Files on NPR. She has a special interest in international news, politics, and health. She has done reporting from Egypt, Japan, and Indonesia, as well as many of the fifty states. She has won numerous journalism awards for productions on women and AIDS, population and women’s reproductive health, and treatment of women and girls in the developing world. Prior to her work in public radio, Ms. Donohue was a writer and producer in commercial television news at ABC News in Washington and the CBS affiliate in Boston (now WBZ).

BA, St. Bonaventure University; MPA, George Mason University; PhD, Syracuse University. Dr. Downes, prior to joining academia full-time, worked professionally for ten years for communications programs throughout metropolitan Washington, D.C. He held positions as a marketing representative, personnel specialist, campaign organizer, special events producer and performer, resource development manager, research associate, and public relations director. He worked for CapitalCare (a subsidiary of Blue Cross/Shield), the United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Organization (an international trade association), the Wonder Company (a special events firm), the Child Welfare League of America (a national advocacy organization), D&S Whyte (a marketing firm), and the United States Congress (in the offices of Congressman George Wortley and the Clerk of the House). In the last year his peer-reviewed work has been accepted for publication in The Encyclopedia of Social Interaction Technologies, the Journal of Mental Health Counseling, and Government Public Relations: A Reader. He is continuing study of Capitol Hill’s press secretaries, the topic of his doctoral dissertation, and is writing a book with the working title, Messages from the Hill: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Congressional Press Secretary. Additionally he is exploring communication between the Massachusetts Legislature and the state’s media outlets; the relationship between ecoterrorism and public relations; and “power” and its influence on mediated, organizational, and interpersonal communications. He serves as a speaker and workshop presenter where he discusses public relations in the private, nonprofit, and governmental sectors, and has authored/co-authored several peer-reviewed articles and papers. Dr. Downes was the recipient of the College of Communication’s 2005 “Lyndon Baines Johnson Advisor of the Year” award.

Michael G. Elasmar
Associate Professor of Communication; Director, Communication Research Center

BA, MA, Southern Illinois University; PhD, Michigan State University. Dr. Elasmar’s academic career was driven by his observations about audience behaviors during his years of work in radio. He now teaches courses in communication theory and research methods that examine the audiences and users of communication technologies. His specialty is in the application of psychometric and other mathematical models for solving practical problems in the field of communication. He serves as a consultant to telecommunications, public relations, and marketing firms on matters of research methodology and statistics. Dr. Elasmar’s personal areas of research include the viability, use, and impact of new communication technologies and the influence of mediated cross-border messages.

Thomas Fauls
Associate Professor of Advertising

BA, University of Notre Dame; MS, University of Illinois; Web Commerce program graduate, DePaul University Institute for Professional Development. Professor Fauls is a marketing communications consultant who has been an advertising manager for a Fortune 500 company, a principal in his own integrated marketing agency, and an advertising agency executive. He began his agency career as a copywriter, rising to creative director and executive creative director. He has worked at NW Ayer, Leo Burnett, J. Walter Thompson, Foote Cone & Belding, and Cramer-Krasselt. His experience includes work on many well-known brands, including United Airlines, Kraft, Sears, Kemper, GM, MCI, GE Capital, Frito-Lay, P&G, and many others, in print, outdoor, broadcast, direct marketing, and new media.

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Roy Grundmann
Director, Film Studies Program; Associate Professor of Film

MA, New York University; PhD, New York University. Before coming to the United States, Professor Grundmann studied English and American literature and film at the University of Muenster, Germany, Exeter University, England, and the University of Frankfurt, Germany. He has taught film at New York University and at The College of Staten Island, City University of New York. For the past ten years, Dr. Grundmann served as one of the editors of Cineaste magazine, for which he is now a contributing editor. His dissertation focuses on the films of Andy Warhol.

John Hall
Preceptor in the Writing Program

BS, University of Minnesota; MS, Boston University. Mr. Hall teaches communication writing and is the Assistant Director of the COM Writing Center. He has also taught film studies courses at several Boston schools, including the Massachusetts College of Art; University of Massachusetts, Boston; and MIT. Hall has published film essays and reviews in Hope Magazine, Bright Lights Film Journal, and the Boston Phoenix, among others.

BA (hon.), Tufts University; MA, University of Missouri. Ms. Kahn has received numerous awards for her work as Senior Producer and Investigative & Series Producer at WHDH-TV (NBC-Boston). Her projects there include coverage of Sail Boston, the Boston Marathon, and a documentary on Pope John Paul II.

BA, University of Pennsylvania; MS, Boston University. Professor Kauffmann is an accomplished filmmaker who is skilled in all areas of production. He has won national awards as a documentary filmmaker, writer, animator, commercial director, and film editor. He has filmed in Africa, Central America, and arctic regions of Canada. He has numerous credits as a cinematographer and videographer as well. His work has been screened at the Museum of Modern Art and aired on network television, PBS, and local stations and cable outlets throughout America. His most recent book is entitled Avid Editing: A Guide for Beginning and Intermediate Users.

John Robert Kelly
Associate Professor of Film

BA, State University of New York, New Paltz; MA, Syracuse University; USC/Universal Studio Graduate Program; PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Professor Kelly has taught film and television at the University of Michigan. In Boston, he has been the host of a media talk show on radio, a consultant for film and video production, and President of the Board of Trustees of the University Film Studies Center at MIT for the last several years, as well as lecturing at the Institute for Media Arts. Professor Kelly has published film and video criticism for books and periodicals in the United States and Great Britain, and has worked internationally on video training projects.

Linda Killian
Director, Journalism Program, Boston University Washington Center; Professor of Journalism

BA, Boston University (hon.); MA, Harvard University. Ms. Killian is a Washington journalist and author of The Freshmen: What Happened to the Republican Revolution?, a book that was praised as a colorful, well-written, and insightful analysis of what happened to the congressional Republicans of 1994. A contributing reporter to People magazine and a political book reviewer for Amazon.com, she has written about politics for the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New Republic, the Weekly Standard, the American Spectator, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Boston Globe. Her television appearances include CNN’s Inside Politics, CNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, and C-SPAN’s Washington Journal. From 1993 to 1995 she was the senior editor of National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” where she was responsible for the editorial content of NPR’s national evening news program. Prior to that she was a reporter at Forbes magazine in New York. She has served as an instructor for the JFK School of Government’s public administration program at Harvard University.

Jonathan M. Klarfeld
Director of Journalism Program; Associate Professor of Journalism

AB, Colgate University. Former bureau chief at UPI and former assistant city editor at the Boston Globe, Professor Klarfeld is a veteran reporter and freelance magazine writer. In addition to his journalistic experience, he was a political press secretary and worked briefly in public relations. He has served as an expert witness in court cases concerning First Amendment rights and is an editorial consultant and a writing coach for several publications.

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Hyun-Yeul Lee
Assistant Professor of Communication

BFA, BID, Rhode Island School of Design; MDES, Carnegie Mellon University; SM, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hyun-Yeul Lee sees a future world where humans will partner with artifacts to better witness, understand, and testify their every day. Her research focuses on storiedness, design thinking, and design innovation as it relates to media technology. She designs new forms of communication artifacts (objects, devices, and services) that explore how artifacts, spaces, individuals, and communities can manage the exchange of story. Lee explores the notion of time and history in context of computational narratives; how events are archived, retrieved, and expressed. She develops experiences that braid the virtual and the physical every day using motion, which she calls “event weaving.” Prior to joining the College of Communication, she was a visiting scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory Media Fabrics group (formerly Interactive Cinema Group). Her work has been exhibited, published, and catalogued at venues including the ACM, IEEE, OSU, and, New York galleries, The Kitchen and Artists Space.

BA, Harvard College; JD, University of Connecticut School of Law; John S. Knight Journalism Fellow, Stanford University. Mr. Lehr is a veteran journalist and author who worked at the Boston Globe for nearly two decades, where he was primarily an investigative reporter but also served as a magazine, legal affairs, and feature writer. He has won numerous national and regional journalism awards, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in investigative reporting. He is co-author of Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders; and the author of Black Mass: The Irish Mob, The FBI and a Devil’s Deal, and The Underboss: the Rise and Fall of a Mafia Family.

BA, University of California; MFA, University of Southern California. Professor Linsman has produced and directed hundreds of commercials and longer-format sales and promotional films in a 30-year career for such clients as American Express, McDonald’s, Procter & Gamble, and Honda Automobiles. He lived and worked in London for two years, and has filmed in cities across the globe, directing celebrities such as Nick Nolte, Lloyd Bridges, Larry Hagman, Anne Meara, and Lee Trevino. Linsman lectured in many countries and taught film and video production at NYU, the New York Film Academy, and the International Film & Television Workshops in Rockport, Maine. Professor Linsman is based full-time in Los Angeles, where he directs BU’s Los Angeles Internship Program.

BS, New York University. Professor Michael Loman has spent 30 years writing and producing for some of America’s most famous and groundbreaking television shows. He wrote for All in the Family, Happy Days, One Day at a Time, and Alice, and wrote and produced The Cosby Show, Newhart, and The Hogan Family. Loman is also a formidable presence in the field of children’s television, having served as Executive Producer of Sesame Street for 10 years. He received his bachelor’s degree from New York University’s School of Education. In recent years, he has returned to his roots in education, teaching courses on television at Yale and NYU. Michael has won 11 Emmy awards, a Humanitas Prize Certificate, and received citations from the NAACP Image Awards and La Raza Latino Bravo Awards.

BS, University of Pittsburgh; MFA, Boston University College of Fine Arts. Professor Macario has taught design and multimedia courses at the Boston University College of Fine Arts and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She established the Computer Graphic Design Program and the Middle School Art Program at Boston University Academy. She has worked in all areas of graphic design, designing websites, animations, advertisements, books, logos, and corporate identity systems for clients including L.L. Bean, Houghton Mifflin, Bayer, and WPP Group. Professor Macario’s designs have been featured in publications, exhibitions, and corporate art collections.

Undergraduate study, Münster, Innsbruck, and Bonn Universities (Germany); PhD, McGill University (Canada). Professor Maître has served as professor and acting chair of the German department at McGill University, and has also taught at the University of Nigeria. He is a well-known journalist, particularly for his in-depth studies of current defense and political issues, and has served as senior editor for Axel Springer Publishing Company and managing director for Ullstein Publishing Company. Maître has been a national fellow at the Hoover Institution (Stanford University) and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow.

BA, Haverford College; MCP, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Manoff has been managing editor of Harper’s Magazine and editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, among other editorial positions he has held. He has published on the media and international and ethnic conflict; the media and international security; and media and politics in the New York Times Magazine and op-ed page, Harper’s, the International Herald Tribune, the Journal of Communication, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Nation, Journalism Quarterly, and ETC—The Journal of General Semantics, among other publications. Professor Manoff co-edited and contributed to Reading the News (Pantheon), which in 1995 was named one of the 20 outstanding books on the media during the previous decade by the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center. He has taught at MIT, Brown, Columbia, and NYU, where he also co-founded and directed the Center for War, Peace, and the News Media. He has won or participated in a number of awards, including the Joel R. Seldin prize for writing on the psychology of war and peace; the Overseas Press Club Award for the best foreign reporting (as editor of  V. S. Naipaul); and the Olive Branch Award, for writing on nuclear issues, for which he was also honored by the Japanese Newspaper Publishers Association and the Mellett Award for improving journalism through criticism. He serves on the editorial board of Journalism: Theory, Practice, and Criticism.

BA, MJ, University of California, Berkeley. As a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, Elizabeth Mehren wrote news, feature, and magazine stories about events ranging from presidential politics to the Roman Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal to the Olympic Games and the Academy Awards. Mehren worked for the paper in California, covering state and regional news. As a member of the paper’s Washington bureau, she wrote about politics and the White House. In New York, she pioneered the paper’s publishing beat and also produced feature and hard-news stories. For 15 years she served as New England bureau chief, reporting from a six-state region. Mehren previously served as a reporter and news editor at The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Oakland Tribune, and the Hayward (California) Daily Review. She has written for many national magazines. Mehren is the author of After the Darkest Hour (Simon & Schuster) and Born Too Soon (Doubleday/Kensington Books), which was made into a television movie. She is the co-author of Overcoming Infertility. Professor Mehren also has had extensive experience in radio and television, appearing on The Today Show, Fox News, CNN, and elsewhere. She was won several national awards and was a fellow at the University of Maryland’s Casey Journalism Center, as well as a visiting scholar at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism.

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BA (hon.), Williams College; MFA, University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. Professor Merzbacher has taught film producing, directing, screenwriting, and basic cinematography at the Film & Television Workshops in Rockport, Maine, and has served as Executive Vice President of Altar Rock Films, Inc. He is a highly successful filmmaker whose films have been honored at the Chicago International Film Festival, Sundance, the USA Film Festival, the Columbus International Film Festival, and the National Educational Film & Video Festival. His first feature film, Jane Street, premiered at the British Film Institute in March 1997.

BS, Boston University. An award-winning news broadcaster, Professor Mills has extensive experience as a radio news reporter, anchor, and news director. He served in the Peace Corps’ Columbia Educational TV project, and commanded a U.S. Army combat photo team in Vietnam. He has worked as a media trainer and consultant all over the world, and is author of Combat Photographer (Time-Life Books).

BS, Boston University College of Communication. Professor Morrissey has extensive experience in public relations, reputation management, and brand marketing. He founded Morrissey & Company, a Boston-based reputation management and public relations firm in February 1999 after a 20-year career as a public relations agency CEO and publisher. He has served as strategic counsel to many CEOs and highly visible corporate executives, boards of directors of major organizations and Fortune 500 companies, including IBM, Johnson & Johnson, and Nike. He provided counsel and crisis services to Johnson & Johnson’s McNeil Pharmaceutical during the Tylenol capsule poisoning episode, which has come to be recognized as the model for successful crisis communication. He has been recognized as one of the leading crisis communications experts in the country. Professor Morrissey serves on the Executive Board of Pinnacle Worldwide, an international consortium of independent public relations agencies. He is an accredited member of the Public Relations Society of America. Active in the business community, he serves on the board of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, is a Chairman of Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries in Boston and on the Board of Governors of the Boston Athletic Association (The B.A.A. Boston Marathon). He lectures and writes extensively on the topic of reputation.

BA, Wellesley College; MS, Boston University. Professor Norkin is an Internet and television consultant for companies such as Palm Computing and Hearst Argyle Television. She was executive producer of news, specials, and production at WHDH-TV as well as executive producer at WCVB-TV, where she was in charge of the daily newscasts. She has coordinated coverage of special events such as elections, the Boston Marathon, and visits of First Ladies, Nelson Mandela, and the like. Professor Norkin teaches a wide range of broadcast journalism and multimedia courses.

BA, Ohio State University; MS, Boston University. Ms. Doherty was formerly the Director of Public Relations at the Boston Garden and the Fleet Center, handling all the media details of the arenas’ closing and opening ceremonies, respectively. She then became the Director of Advertising, Special Events and Publicity for the Boston Celtics, after which she became the Director of Marketing and Public Relations for the Wang Center for the Performing Arts. Following that, she was named the Director of Marketing and Public Relations for WZLX-FM in Boston.

BA, University of Nebraska at Kearney; MA, University of Maine; PhD, University of Alabama. Dr. Patrice Oppliger teaches mass communication theory and research methods. She is particularly interested in persuasion theories and mass media effects theories. Dr. Oppliger’s research focuses on the influence of the media and popular culture on adolescents’ development using a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods. She has published two books: Wrestling and Hypermasculinity (McFarland, 2004) and Girls Gone Skank: The Sexualization of Girls in American Culture (McFarland, 2008). She has also published articles and book chapters on humor and is an active member of The International Society for Humor Studies.

BA, MA, University of Detroit. Professor Parenio brings invaluable current advertising agency practices to her classes, having most recently held the position of senior vice president and associate creative director with Young & Rubicam and Ogilvy & Mather in New York. She has over twenty years’ experience in the creation of award-winning campaigns for a variety of blue-chip clients such as Maxwell House Coffee, Avon, Hallmark, and Jell-O.

BA, Simmons College; MS, Boston University. Professor Perron has had many years of broadcast management experience as a television program executive for network affiliates in major markets. She has served as a programming consultant for independent television stations in several markets, for both PBS and a national cable network. She has also consulted in the area of new media and its applications for radio and television. Professor Perron is the recipient of a George Foster Peabody Award, a national Emmy Award, and many others.

BS, State University of New York; MS, PhD, Syracuse University. Dr. Poister has worked in the television and film industry for the last twelve years on nationally broadcast documentaries for the PBS series Nova and numerous independent projects. His most recent documentary, The Spirit of Hiroshima, received the Classic Telly Award and was broadcast on PBS stations and featured in international documentary festivals in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He has developed documentary programs for PBS, McGraw-Hill and has produced eight programs for a documentary series aired on Public Television in New England. In 1995, he started Intercultural Films to produce programs on cultural issues. He is currently completing several new documentary projects, one of which will profile young, emerging jazz musicians in New Orleans. He also works as a producer, writer, and cinematographer. Before entering the film and television industry, Poister studied jazz at Berklee College of Music and released two albums of original compositions.

BA, University of Massachusetts; MEd, Boston University. Professor Quigley is a public relations consultant whose work is concentrated in the areas of media relations, community relations, and crisis communication. Prior to opening his own agency, he was a partner for ten years with the Boston public relations firm of Schneider & Associates. He has provided strategic counsel and created public relations campaigns for a broad range of national and international clients. Professor Quigley is an APR, a member of the Board of Directors of the Boston Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America, and a Delegate to the National PRSA Assembly. He is a frequent speaker at professional and industry conferences and seminars, and his writing and opinions have appeared in various business, trade, and legal publications.

BFA, MFA, Graphic Design major, Boston University College of Fine Arts; Dean’s Scholar. Professor Rafeizadeh was assistant professor of art at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts for seven years before joining the COM faculty. She has also taught visual arts, graphic design, typography, design history, and computer graphics courses at universities and colleges in and around Boston. Professor Rafeizadeh freelances at Chapar Graphic Design Studio. She has also worked as Art Director and Senior Art Director in Boston area design firms. Her independent/artistic work has been exhibited in galleries in Boston and in Los Angeles. She is an active member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA).

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MA, Johns Hopkins University. Peter Rand is the author of four published works of fiction, including the novels Firestorm and The Private Rich. He is also the author of China Hands, a non-fiction account of American writers and journalists who covered the revolution and civil war in China during the first half of the 20th century. He has contributed articles to a variety of journals, and is the co-editor and co-translator of works by current Chinese writers. For fifteen years, Professor Rand taught in the writing program at Columbia University’s School of General Studies.

AB, Trinity College; MS, Columbia University. Professor Rivers is the author of many books, including Slick Spins and Fractured Facts: How Cultural Myths Distort the News; Indecent Behavior; a collaboration with Rosalind Barnett on She Works, He Works: How Two Income Families are Happy, Healthy and Thriving, and her latest book, Camelot, a novel set in the Kennedy administration. Her television drama A Matter of Principal won a Gabriel Award as one of the best television dramas of the year. Professor Rivers contributes regularly to the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsday, and other major U.S. newspapers. She is a frequent public affairs panelist on Boston television stations and is considered an expert on the Kennedy family.

BA, University of Montana; MA, PhD, University of Oxford (England). An award-winning journalist, Professor Schulz has extensive experience as a foreign correspondent and senior news executive at Voice of America and also worked with the BBC and for UPI. He was bureau chief for various periods in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Saigon, Bangkok, London, Islamabad, and New Delhi. For three years he was editor of Arms Control Today magazine. He taught two years at the National War College in Washington, and as an adjunct and visiting professor at Randolph-Macon College in Virginia. His areas of expertise and interest include international reporting, strategic studies, arms control issues and deterrence theory, China, Afghanistan, East and South Asian regional affairs, government policy formation, transnational communication, terrorism and insurgency.

BA, Stanford University; MFA, Columbia University; MFA, The American Film Institute. Mr. Schneider has been a director and producer of television, film, and theater. He has directed over thirty movies for television and numerous television episodes. His work has been broadcast on CBS, ABC, NBC, the Fox network, the Disney Channel, PBS, and the Animal Planet Channel. Episodic work includes JAG, Beverly Hills 90210, and Baywatch as well as episodes of various daytime serials. His theater work includes productions for the New York Shakespeare Festival under Joseph Papp, the Manhattan Theater Club, and Playwrights Horizons.

BA, University of Rochester. A writer with a special interest in public health and the politics of medicine, Professor Ruppel Shell is the author of A Child’s Place (Little, Brown, 1992) and The Hungry Gene. A correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly magazine, she contributes regularly to a number of national publications, including the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, Discover Magazine, and the Smithsonian. She has been a senior editor at several science publications, and a science editor for the PBS series Bodywatch, and for the WNET series Innovation. Winner of several awards for her writing, Ruppel Shell was a Vannevar Bush Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

BS, MS, Boston University. The founder and director of the Sports Institute at Boston University, Mr. Shorr has more than thirty years of sports broadcast experience. In his tenure as the Executive Producer at Channel 7 in Boston, he produced, covered, and attended the Olympics, Super Bowl, World Series, NBA and Stanley Cup finals, and Boston Marathon. An eight-time New England Emmy Winner, Mr. Shorr is also active in the local RTNDA chapter.

BS, Boston University. Professor Smith is a veteran photojournalist who has taught with distinction as a part-time faculty member for the past several years. At the start of his 20-year photographic career, his technical skills and appreciation for lighting were honed at an advertising photography studio. Smith served as the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune staff photographer and as a freelancer shooting editorial photographs for U.S. and foreign news magazines. Throughout the 1990s, Smith worked for travel and corporate publications from his studio in Boston. His corporate photography includes newsletters, annual reports, brochures, and magazine photography for several clients including Hasbro, Unisys, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ronn Campesi Design, Federal Reserve Bank, Sony, The Pilot, Boston’s Catholic newspaper, and Smith College’s Alumni Magazine.

BA, Harvard College. Mr. Southwick entered professional journalism at The Real Paper, an alternative weekly in Cambridge. He next embarked on a freelance career that included work for a variety of publications including Newsweek, Time, and Boston Magazine. He joined the photography staff of the Boston Herald-American in 1978, and covered such stories as the visit of Pope John Paul II, the parade of Tall Ships, and the 1980 presidential campaign. In late 1980, he accepted a staff photographer position in the Boston bureau of the Associated Press, where he worked for nearly ten years and received numerous national and regional awards for his photography. He moved back to the newspaper world as photo editor at the Boston Globe, and after two years was promoted to Director of Photography. He has served as judge of the Hearst Foundation national college photojournalism competition, and participated in programs of the Poynter Institute, the Eddie Adams Workshop, and the Stan Kalish picture-editing workshop.

AB, Rutgers University; MS, Boston University. Professor Starr is the author of BLOOD: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce, which won the 1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was named to the “Best Books of 1998” lists of Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal. A veteran science, medical, and environmental reporter, he has contributed to many national publications, including Smithsonian, Audubon, National Wildlife, Sports Illustrated, the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and Time. He has served as a science editor for PBS-TV.

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BA, MFA, University of Southern California. Scott J. Thompson began teaching screenwriting in Los Angeles, while working as a development executive and story consultant for various production companies, including New Line Cinema, MTM Enterprises, and the Fred Silverman Company. He has taught for fourteen years, directed Emerson College’s Screenwriting Certificate Program for eight years, and conducted seminars for the New York Film Academy, the Cape Cod Writer’s Conference, and the Plymouth Independent Film Festival. His screenwriting has been recognized by several national competitions, including the Austin Film Festival, the Chesterfield Screenwriting Fellowship, and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences’ Nicholl Fellowship. His feature-length comedy, Foreign Exchange, was optioned in 2006 and is slated for principle photography in the coming months. He is currently under contract with Los Angeles-based West Coast Pictures to draft a period-drama set in the 1700’s. As a visiting professor at Boston University, he is the recipient of the 2007 Lyndon Baines Johnson Faculty Advisor of the Year Award.

BA, University of New Hampshire. Mr. Ureneck has broad experience as a print and online journalist. He was the deputy managing editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, in charge of the Inquirer’s front page and nightly news operation. Before joining the Inquirer, he was the editor and vice president of  The Portland (Maine) Press Herald, which, under his leadership, developed into one of the best medium-size newspapers in the country. He was editor-in-residence at the Neiman Foundation at Harvard University. Ureneck’s work includes the development of two websites that were named among the best in the nation and a book titled Backcast, winner of a 2007 National Outdoor Book Award.

BS, Michigan State University. Professor Vallance brings 30 years of national and international media experience in multiple media — online, print, public and international radio, and U.S. and international television — to her teaching at Boston University. She served as managing editor, electronic publishing for The Christian Science Monitor in Boston during the eight years of the award-winning website csmonitor.com’s greatest growth. Before moving to the world of online, she was executive producer & managing editor of Monitor Radio, the Monitor’s highly acclaimed public radio programming. Vallance wrote, edited, and produced television news programming for CNN and CNN International in Atlanta, from the year of the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989), through the Gulf War, the end of the Soviet Union, the genocide in Rwanda, and the war in the Balkans. Her first full-time professional job was covering the suburbs for the Chicago Tribune/Suburban Trib, but she started her career at 13, writing for her hometown Champaign-Urbana (Ill.) News-Gazette. Her study abroad experience includes a sophomore-year circumnavigation of the globe on Semester at Sea.

BA, St. Michael’s College. Professor Verret has thirty years of marketing communications experience, specializing in the areas of consumer product and services. He also has extensive experience in agency management having held the positions of Vice Chairman, President CEO, and Executive Vice President COO, for Arnold Communications, where he was a partner and co-owner until he sold his interest in 1996. He was responsible for agency operations and employee training as well as managing client relationships and new business. Adweek Magazine named Verret Executive of the Year in 1990. In 1996  Verret founded Verret & Associates, a firm that specializes in teaching communications skills to executives. He is active in civic and community affairs.

BA, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota; MA, University of Kansas; PhD, University of Kansas. Dr. Vigil received her PhD from the University of Kansas in 2000. Her varied research interests include political communication, media and popular culture, communication theory, and research methods. Her most recent projects focus on media influence on public opinion and action, and two years of teaching courses in persuasion, argumentation, public address, and political communication at State University of New York College at Oneonta.

BA, Brown University. Susan Walker is a veteran television producer, currently helping corporate clients from Nokia group to Agilent Technologies use video and the Internet to communicate. Professor Walker worked as a TV newscast and series producer for more than 25 years, winning several national awards. She’s also produced corporate videos, Web video clips, and two children’s pilots designed for the Internet and television. Ms. Walker teaches BU students how to set up, shoot, write, and edit television news packages as well as produce newscasts and news websites.

BS, University of Virginia; MS, Boston University. As a special projects producer, Professor Waller produced over 10 documentaries and specials for WBZ-TV in Boston. She is an expert in the field of children’s programming, having produced an award-winning series as well as specials which earned her several Action for Children’s Television Awards. In addition, she has won numerous awards for her documentaries, including five New England Emmys, an Iris, and the Grand Prize at the Film and Television Festival of New York. She produced the 26-part series, Your Child 6 –12, as well as two Intimate Portraits for Lifetime Television. Pink Bubble Productions, her production company, produces children’s videos and books. Professor Waller teaches a course on children’s television, Producing for Television, and is the creator of Hothouse Productions, a student-run production company.

BA, Washington State University; MA, California State University; PhD, University of Minneapolis. Professor Wright is an internationally known professor, author, speaker, researcher, advisor, and corporate communications consultant. In addition to teaching, conducting scholarly and applied research, and lecturing in 28 countries on five continents, he has worked full-time in corporate, agency, and university public relations, and has been a corporate communications consultant for three decades. He also has been a daily newspaper reporter, weekly newspaper editor, and a broadcast journalist. Dr. Wright has taught public relations and communications for more than 30 years including faculty appointments at the University of Texas (Austin) and the University of Georgia. In 2000, PR Week magazine ranked him as one of the Top 10 public relations educators in the United States.

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BA, National Taiwan University; MA, University of Pennsylvania; PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Denis Wu came to Boston University in 2007 after a nine-year tenure at Louisiana State University. His research focuses on international communication, media effects, and political communication. He has professional experience in advertising, publishing, and polling. He was the head of mass communication and society division of AEJMC in 2004–05 and also served in the international communication division. He is currently on the editorial boards of Mass Communication and Society and Journal of Political Marketing. He has won several top paper awards from AEJMC, received multiple research grants, and published more than 20 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited books. His book, Media, Politics, and Asian Americans, co-authored with Dr. Tien-Tsung Lee of the University of Kansas, is due out in the spring of 2008.

BS, Cornell University; LLB, University of Virginia Law School. During his twenty-one years with ABC News, Mr. Zelnick covered political and congressional affairs primarily for ABC Morning News, World News Tonight Saturday/Sunday, and This Week. Mr. Zelnick served as the ABC News Pentagon correspondent from 1986 to 1994, as ABC’s Tel Aviv correspondent from 1984 to 1986, and as Moscow correspondent from 1982 to 1984. He has won two Emmy Awards and two Gavel Awards for his work. He is widely published in numerous newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals, and is the author of Gore: A Political Life, a biography of  Vice President Al Gore, and Backfire, A Reporter’s Look at Affirmative Action.

BA, University of Rhode Island; MA University of Missouri. Zuckoff was an award-winning special projects reporter at the Boston Globe and a Pulitzer Prize finalist for investigative reporting. Zuckoff was the winner of the 2000 Distinguished Writing Award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Livingston Award for International Reporting, the Heywood Broun Award, and the Associated Press Managing Editors’ Public Service Award. He authored Choosing Naia: A Family’s Journey, which received the Christopher Award and was named a Massachusetts Honor Book. He co-authored Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders.

Emeriti

Brent Baker
Dean Emeritus; Professor of Communication. BS, Northwestern University; MA, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Lewis Barlow
Professor Emeritus of Film and Television. BA, New York University; MA, University of Pennsylvania.

Michael Berlin
Associate Professor Emeritus of Journalism. BA, MS, Columbia University.

George Bluestone
Professor Emeritus of Film. AB, Harvard College; MFA, University of Iowa; PhD, Johns Hopkins University.

James W. Bran
Professor Emeritus of Journalism. BA, Pennsylvania State University.

Carol L. Hills
Professor Emerita of Public Relations. AB, Tufts University; MS, Boston University.

Otto Lerbinger
Professor Emeritus of Public Relations. BA, City University of New York, Brooklyn College; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Walter Lubars
Professor Emeritus of Communication. BS, City University of New York, City College; MA, Rutgers University.

Lawrence M. Martin
Professor Emeritus of Journalism. MA, JD, Universita Karlova (Czech Republic).

Robert H. Montgomer
Professor Emeritus of Communication. BA, Baldwin-Wallace College; MA, Case Western Reserve University; Cert., ME, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn; DScC, Applied Research Institute, University of London (England).

Norman Moyes
Professor Emeritus of Journalism. AB, West Liberty State; AM, West Virginia University; PhD, Syracuse University.

Gerald Powers
Professor Emeritus of Public Relations. AB, Harvard University; MS, Boston University.

Bernard S. Redmont
Dean Emeritus, College of Communication. AB, College of the City of New York; MS, Columbia University; DHL (hon.), Florida International University.

Harris Smith
Professor Emeritus of Journalism. BS, MS, University of Illinois.

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Lecturers

Christopher Anderson

Lecturer in Film. Berklee College of Music. Mr. Anderson is a sound engineer and sound mixer for Sound Techniques, Inc., Boston’s premiere sound studio. He has worked on productions for NBC, PBS, Disney, the Discovery Channel, and many others. He has taught in the music technology division of the Berklee College of Music.

Cynthia Anderson

Lecturer in the Writing Program. BA, Cornell University; MS, Boston University. Ms. Anderson’s stories and essays have appeared in many publications including the North American Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, House Beautiful, Exquisite Corpse, Yankee, and an anthology, The Writer’s Compass. Anderson has been a non-fiction scholar at the Breadloaf Writers Conference and a Fellow at the Hedgebrook Colony in Puget Sound. She was the 2000 AWP/Prague Summer Seminars fiction fellow.

David Armstrong

Lecturer in Journalism. BS, Syracuse University. Mr. Armstrong is an award-winning investigative reporter for the Boston Globe. He specializes in computer-assisted reporting.

George Bachrach

Lecturer in Journalism. BA, Trinity College; JD, Boston University. Former Massachusetts State Senator George Bachrach teaches a course entitled Presidency and the Media. A frequent commentator on radio and television, Professor Bachrach is considered an expert on both national and local politics.

Douglas Bailey

Lecturer in Communication. BS, University of Maine. Mr. Bailey is currently serving as Senior Vice President with the Rasky/Baerlin Group Inc., where he oversees the Sports, Media and Entertainment Group. He worked as an award-winning business and financial journalist for the Boston Globe and New England Business Magazine for 20 years.

Douglas Banks

Lecturer in the Writing Program. BA/BA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; MFA, University of Pittsburgh. While teaching at the University of Pittsburgh, Mr. Banks received the “1998 Distinguished Teaching Award,” and has also taught at three colleges in Massachusetts. He has spent many years writing and editing for daily newspapers and magazines, including the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Fast Company, and the Boston Business Journal. Mr. Banks has written for many publications, including the Boston Globe, the National Law Journal, PittMED Magazine, the Daily Hampshire Gazette, and Street & Smith’s SportsBusiness Journal.

Edward Barron

Lecturer in Film. BA, Syracuse University; MS, Boston University. Ted Barron is the Assistant Curator of the Harvard Film Archive at Harvard University. He previously served as the Director of Programming for the Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation in Brookline. He has published articles in International Documentary Magazine and Imagine Magazine. He has previously taught courses in film history and British cinema at Tufts University and University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is currently researching a dissertation project in the Program in Visual Studies at University of California, Irvine, which examines strategies of performance in nonfiction film.

Julie Beck

Lecturer in Communication. BS, Villanova University; MS, Boston University. Ms. Beck currently works as the account director for AMP Agency where she is responsible for planning, development, and execution of integrated marketing and public relations programs for clients in various industries.

Jennifer Blum

Lecturer in the Writing Program. BA, Kenyon College; MA, Boston University. Ms. Blum served as the Associate Fiction Editor for AGNI literary magazine. Currently, she is a writing instructor for Grub Street Writers, a manuscript consultant, and an interviewer for Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Foundation. Ms. Blum has been published in Seventeen, Explorations, Pine Grove Press, HIKA, and Forward. She was awarded first prize (1986) and third prize (1985) in Seventeen’s National Fiction Contest and Third Place in the 1998 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Contest, and she received the Charles Monroe Coffin Prize for Short Fiction by The Kenyon Review.

Christopher J. Bowen

Lecturer in Film. BA, Brandeis University; MS, Boston University. Mr. Bowen has worked with local and international production companies in the creation of feature and short films, commercials, and PSA’s. He currently works in-house at Avid Technologies, Inc. where he is a technical advisor on film and video non-linear digital editing. Mr. Bowen photographed Wish For, the 1st place winner of the 1999 Redstone Film Festival.

James R. Buckley

Lecturer in Communication. BA, Marquette University; MBA, Boston College. Mr. Buckley is currently the Executive Vice President of Sharon Merrill Associates, New England’s leading corporate communications consultancy. He has been with Sharon Merrill Associates since 1993.

Victor Burg

Lecturer in the Writing Program. BA/BA, MFA, Carnegie Mellon University. Mr. Burg has extensive teaching experience at institutions such as Harvard University, MIT, and several colleges here at Boston University. He has written plays, screenplays, and a novel for children, as well as book, theater, and film reviews. Mr. Burg has been published in the New York Times Book Review, the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor,  and many others.

Glenn Byrne

Lecturer in Communication. BA, MDiv, St. Mary’s Seminary College; ThM, Weston School of Theology/Harvard Divinity School; ThD candidate, Boston University. After being involved in public speaking for over twenty years, Mr. Byrne has now returned to academics full time. He has published several articles and conducts public speaking workshops for professionals.

Larry Carpman

Lecturer in Communication. BS, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Building on the foundation of his 15 years of experience in strategic communication, Mr. Carpman now manages Carpman Communications, a public relations strategy and management firm serving a wide range of clients. He has achieved media placements in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, national broadcast and cable networks, as well as all Boston media.

Judy Carter

Lecturer in Communication. BFA, Massachusetts College of Art. Ms. Carter is currently the Art Director for Dickinson Associates as well as serves as Principal of Judy Carter Design.

Joanne Ciccarello

Lecturer in Journalism. BS, Emerson College. A consulting editor at The Christian Science Monitor who formerly worked as an editor with The Providence Journal, she currently coordinates and instructs the photojournalism program at The New England School of Photography. Her work has appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, The Providence Journal, The Boston Business Journal, and various news organs for public and private institutions. A primary organizer for the group photo documentary Families Receiving Welfare: Untold Stories, Ms. Ciccarello won a Sante Fe Center for Visual Arts award for an image of a mother on welfare struggling with her son’s leukemia. Having recently returned from Cambodia, Joanne is developing a documentary on a Boston refugee family’s return to their native land. She is a member of the National Press Photographers Association, New England Women in Photography, and the Society for Photo Educators.

Leigh Chodos

Lecturer in Communication. BS, Boston University. Mr. Chodos is the founder and CEO of Seven Oaks Productions, a professional Web consulting and design company. The company develops websites for a wide range of businesses both locally and nationally. Professor Chodos specializes in graphical user interface design, Web marketing, and new communication technology.

Terence M. Clarke

Lecturer in Communication. BS, MS, Boston University. Mr. Clarke is currently the Chairman, President, and CEO of the Clarke Communication Group, Inc. Previously, he was the Chairman and CEO of Clarke Goward Advertising/Clarke & Company Public Relations/RED 98 Interactive. Mr. Clarke also served as an associate professor at Boston University from 1976–1977.

David M. Costello

Lecturer in Communication. BA, Harvard University; MBA, Northeastern University; MS, Boston University. Mr. Costello is the founder and managing director for the IT Media Group, Inc. He is also the director of corporate public relations for the Digital Consulting Institute.

Anne Danehy

Lecturer in Communication. BA, Smith College; MA, University of Connecticut, Storrs. After spending more than eight years designing, managing, and executing successful survey research projects, Ms. Danehy is currently the director of survey research for The Rendon Group (TRG). She has also been a guest speaker at Assumption College and Emerson College.

Lawrence DeLamarter

Lecturer in Advertising. BA, University of Colorado; MA, Universidad de las Américas (Mexico). Mr. DeLamarter owns the advertising agency DeLamarter Associates in Concord, MA. Previous to founding his own agency, he was a copywriter and later creative director at several major New England advertising agencies where he worked for clients such as Sheraton Hotels and Gillette. His creative awards include Clio, Hatch, and Boston Art Directors Club. Before entering the field of advertising, he taught Spanish and English at prep schools in Hawaii and Australia and traveled to over 100 countries.

Gino Del Guercio

Lecturer in Journalism. BA, Brown University. Mr. Del Guercio is currently an independent television producer. He has previously worked as a broadcast journalist for WGBH-TV,  World Monitor Television, and the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour.

Anthony Dolan

Lecturer in Film and Television. BA, North Adams State College. An expert in digital media technologies, Mr. Dolan has worked locally and internationally in the production of programming for broadcast and corporate clients for the last 15 years. Currently he is the senior editor at Parallax Productions in Newton, MA, editing nationally syndicated television shows, commercials, and PSAs, and working on new methods of bringing television content to the Internet.

Michael Dowding

Lecturer in Communication. BA, MS, Boston University; MBA, Suffolk University. Mr. Dowding is president of Wordscape Communications, which provides premium marketing and writing services to technology firms. He has fifteen years of software marketing, writing, and public relations experience.

Gary Duehr

Lecturer in the Writing Program. BA, Illinois State University; MFA, University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop. Mr. Duehr has taught at institutions including Tufts University and Lesley University. He has written three books, including the forthcoming Down Where the Ladders Start, and has contributed to publications including the Boston Herald, TAB, and Communication Arts. His stories and poems have been published in journals including AGNI, American Literary Review, and North American Review. Mr. Duehr’s awards include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and three grants from the LEF Foundation.

Thomas Dwyer

Lecturer in Communication. BA, Boston University; MBA, Northeastern University. After finishing a stint in the United States Air Force, Mr. Dwyer went on to have a successful career in management before beginning his teaching career. Since 1987, he has taught at various universities in New England. He is also the recipient of the Beta Gamma Sigma award for high achievement in university teaching. Mr. Dwyer has penned several books on management techniques, including Leadership Under Fire, Alliance Deadlock, Effective Presentations, and L-E-A-R-N to Negotiate.

Jan Egleson

Lecturer in Film and Television. MFA (Certificate), Yale School of Drama; Certificate Diploma, Bristol Old Vic (Bristol, England). Mr. Egleson is a director and actor who has worked in all areas of film and theater production. He has most recently directed Coyote Waits, based on the novel by Tony Hillerman, for the PBS Mystery! Series. Prior to that he directed and co-wrote The Blue Diner, a feature film starring Miriam Colon and Lisa Vidal. Produced in association with WGBH, this bilingual film has garnered awards around the world, including winning an ALMA Award for Best Feature, and was seen on HBO.

Lecturer in the Writing Program and Communication. BA, Boston University; MA, Northeastern University. Ms. Ellis is currently a freelance writer and editor with previous teaching experience at Wheelock College, UMass Boston, and the American Cooperative School in Liberia. She has served as a senior editor at the Houghton Mifflin Company.

John Falla

Lecturer in Journalism and Communication. BS, MS, Boston University. Professor Falla brings considerable professional expertise to his writing class. He has written more than 50 stories for Sports Illustrated as well as four books, including Sports Illustrated Hockey, and the recently published Home Ice: Reflections on Backyard Rinks and Frozen Ponds.

Stephani Finks

Lecturer in Communication. BA, New York University. Ms. Finks is presently Design Director, Harvard Business School Press. Previous to that she was Design Director of Pohly & Partners, Inc., a Boston-based customer communications company. Her work has appeared in several publications, including Mac User, P.O.V., Continental, and Sotheby’s. She is also the recipient of many design awards, including Communication Arts, Print, Apex, Ozzie, and Mercury.

Maureen Flynn

Lecturer in Communication. BA, Kansas State University; MS, Boston University. Ms. Sullivan is the Regional Vice President for the American Cancer Society and has been Vice President of Public Relations for the United Way of Massachusetts Bay.

John Gates

Lecturer in Film. BS, Emerson College. Mr. Gates is an Emmy-award-winning lighting director with over 20 years’ experience in film, television, theatre, and special-events lighting.

Rudi Golyn

Lecturer in Communication. BA, San Jose University; MA, San Francisco State College. Mr. Golyn currently works as a freelance consultant with companies such as Venture Capital Resources, Dental Health Plans International, and Sawyer Communications Services.

Amanda Good-Hennessey

Lecturer in Film and Television. BA, Wheaton College; MFA, New York University. Ms. Good-Hennessey is a teacher, actor, and playwright. She has acted on stage and, in films, commercials, industrials and voice-overs. Her recent projects include The Women with SpeakEasy Stage Company (winner of 5 awards from the Independent Reviewers of New England, including “Best Ensemble” and “Best Production”), The Child King (a feature film that premiered last October at the LA International Children’s Film Festival, which included a fun cameo of Lenny Clarke), the award-winning short film Opening Night Jitters (48 Hour Film Project — Boston), and being a bunny on an iParty commercial. Amanda is also Co-Artistic Director of Essayons Theatre Company and in addition to teaching at Boston University also teaches acting at the Huntington Theatre Company and privately with her husband. She has written a number of comedic plays and her play Internet Speed was a finalist for the Actors Theatre of Louisville National 10 Minute Play Competition. Amanda received her Acting MFA from the Actors Studio Drama School.

Ginna Hall

Lecturer in Communication. AB, Smith College; MA, Boston University. Since 2001, Ms. Hall has been working as a freelance communications consultant for high tech, financial services, and non-profit organizations.

Michelle Johnson

Lecturer in Journalism. BA,University of Maryland; MA,Columbia University. Michelle Johnson is a former editor for The Boston Globe. She held a variety of editing positions in her 13-year career at the Globe, including assistant business editor. As editorial manager of The Boston Globe Online, she was part of the team that launched boston.com, the Globe’s award-winning regional website. Johnson comes to BU from Emerson College, where she advised the journalism and communication departments in the construction of a new cross-media facility. She has run workshops on print and online journalism for a variety of professional organizations, including the National Association of Black Journalists, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.

Phyllis Karas

Lecturer in Journalism. BA (hon.), George Washington University. Ms. Karas is an experienced feature, magazine, and news writer. She is the author of A Life Worth Living, The Hate Crime, and The Onassis Women, a book about the wives, daughters, and girlfriends of Aristotle Onassis. She is also the author of four young adult novels. She is a frequent contributor to women’s magazines and People magazine. Her latest book, about Whitey Bulger, was published by Harper Collins in 2001.

Geoffrey L. Klapisch

Lecturer in Communication. BA, Hofstra University. Mr. Klapisch is currently the media director for Wickersham Hunt Schwantner, a division of Arnold Communications.Andrew KramerLecturer in Communication. BA, Boston College; MBA, Boston College. Mr. Kramer is Director of Investor Relations at Interactive Data Corporation and offers a decade of investor relations, public relations, and corporate communications experience.

Ida Lewis

Lecturer in Journalism. BS, Boston University. Throughout her forty-year career in journalism, Ms. Lewis has traveled to Africa, Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, and Central America. She has lectured on Third World Affairs at over 100 colleges and universities throughout the United States and abroad. Ms. Lewis is currently the editor-in-chief of The New Crisis Magazine, the oldest African-American journal. She is the first woman to serve in this capacity.

Joseph Lippincott

Lecturer in Photojournalism. BA, University of Iowa. Mr. Lippincott has been photo editor at the Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press and staff photographer at the Miami Herald. He has also managed photo operations at the Olympics and Goodwill Games.

Leita Luchetti

Lecturer in Television. BA, Boston University; MFA, University of California, Los Angeles. Ms. Luchetti is an independent video/filmmaker. Most recently she produced and directed Poetry Breaks, a WGBH series presenting internationally acclaimed poets reading their work. She has received awards from the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities for a film portrait of a folk/poet performer and a video documentary exploring the Japanese American experience on the East Coast.

Lecturer in Film. BS, University of Pittsburgh; MFA, Boston University. Ms. Malone is the New England field agent for 20th Century Fox, Miramax Films, and Fox Searchlight Pictures. In this capacity, she handles all regional publicity and promotions for these studios’ theatrical releases. She recently completed work as Unit Publicist for the USA Films release Session 9. Jennifer is an active member of Women in Film and Video, and is a Boston board member of the BigBam Foundation.

Jeffrey Mason

Lecturer in the Writing Program. BA, University of California, Berkeley; MFA, University of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop. Mr. Mason has taught in the Boston area and at the University of Iowa. He has published work in The Boston Book Review and elsewhere. His awards include a Maytag Fellowship as well as a James Michener-Paul Engle Fellowship from the University of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop.

George Matson

Lecturer in Communication. BA, Boston University; MA, Emerson College. Currently the Director of Speech Development for the Speech Improvement Company in Boston, Mr. Matson- coaches clients on many aspects of oral communication. His background includes substantial management experience in the fields of advertising, sales, and personnel. Mr. Matson has taught a wide range of courses at various colleges and universities in the northeastern United States.

James Matte

Lecturer in Journalism. BA, Fordham University; MS, Boston University. In addition to teaching newswriting and reporting at Boston University, Professor Matte is currently the Real Estate Editor for the Boston Herald. He has also served as an assistant sports editor, copy editor, and editorial assistant at the publication. Prior to joining the faculty at Boston University, Professor Matte taught news writing at Mount Ida College. He continues to teach introduction to journalism, and writing for print media at Curry College.

Thomas Mickey

Lecturer in Public Relations. BA, MA, Mount Carmel College; MS, Boston University; PhD, University of Iowa. Dr. Mickey is a columnist for the Portsmouth Herald and the Quincy Patriot Ledger and teaches public relations at Boston University and Bridgewater State College. He is the author of Sociodrama: An Interpretive Theory or the Practice of Public Relations, and has been published in Public Relations Review, the Journal of Communication, and several Catholic publications.

Allison Miracco

Lecturer in Communication. BS, James Madison University; MS, Boston University. Ms. Miracco is currently working as the publications coordinator of Boston University’s Design Center. Before joining Boston University, she worked as a design specialist for Arnold Worldwide’s Brand and Business Development Department.

Peter J. Nowak

Lecturer in Communication. BA, Eastern Kentucky University; MA, Catholic University. Mr. Nowak is currently the Dean of the Newbury College, School of Business and Management. He also previously served as the Director of Executive Programs at Suffolk University’s School of Management.

Gerard O’Neill

Lecturer in Journalism. AB, Stonehill College; MS, Boston University. Most of Mr. O’Neill’s career was spent at the Boston Globe, where he was a political and investigative reporter before retiring in 2001. He was editor of the investigative team for 25 years and co-author of two books on the Boston underworld—The Underboss: the Rise and Fall of a Mafia Family (1989) and Black Mass (2000).

Lecturer in the Writing Program. BA, Skidmore College; MS, Boston University. Ms. Raymond has taught English in Taipei and Keelung, Taiwan, and has worked as an editor and writer for several book publishers, including Penguin Putnam, Bantam, and St. Martin’s Press. She currently teaches creative nonfiction at Grub Street Writers, is an editor/consultant for an Internet research company, and is a staff writer at Bostonia magazine.

Lecturer in Communication. BS, Emerson College; MS, Boston University. Ms. Richards is currently the Features Writer and Editor for Imagine newsmagazine. She has also written several featured length scripts.

Daniel J. Robin

Lecturer in Communication. BS, Cornell University; MS, PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dr. Robin is also an instructor at Lasell College and has co-authored six books. He previously taught at Indiana University.

Jerome Sadow

Lecturer in Communication. BA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; MA, New York University; MS, Columbia University. Mr. Sadow has served as Public Affairs Specialist at the U.S. Department of Transportation’s national transportation systems center in Cambridge, Public Affairs Director at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Boston office, Director of Communications for a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, press secretary to a Massachusetts Attorney General, reporter for the Boston Globe, and news editor for a Boston TV station.

Rob Schadt

Lecturer in Communication. BA, SUNY, Cortland; MA, MEd, Boston College; EdD, Boston University. Dr. Schadt works as the Educational Technology Manager at the School of Public Health’s Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology. Through a program of teaching and technology workshops, the OTLT encourages collaboration between faculty, staff, and students, and disseminates information about innovative teaching and learning methods and tools. Schadt teaches Computers in Communication for the Department of Mass Communication, Public Relations, and Advertising.

David Schaefer

Lecturer in Communication. BA, Dartmouth College. During the past 30 years, Mr. Schaefer has held various creative management positions at several agencies, including Quinn & Johnson Advertising, Kenyon & Eckhardt Advertising, and McKinney New England Advertising. In 1983, he established Schaefer Advertising Services which acts as a supplement to advertising agency creative departments and also serves independent clients.

Robert H. Schmidt

Lecturer in Communication. BFA, Massachusetts College of Art; MFA, Rhode Island School of Design. Mr. Schmidt is currently serving as the principal of Blue Line Marketing Services in Rhode Island.

Andrew Schulman

Lecturer in Television. AB, Harvard College. Mr. Schulman has been writing and producing for television for more than 25 years. He began his career as Special Projects Producer at WNEV-TV, the Boston CBS affiliate, where he produced award-winning documentaries, and arts and children’s programming. After 10 years there, he became an independent producer and launched Downstream Media. Since that time, he has produced programming for HGTV, the Food Network, and WCVB-TV; and has produced numerous ads, marketing pieces and fundraising videos for corporate and nonprofit clients.

Anne Sears

Lecturer in Communication. MA, University of Connecticut; PhD, Ohio State University. Dr. Sears teaches Theory and Process of Communication at Boston University and Television Criticism at other area colleges. Her research interest is media literacy and media in education. She presents papers at the National Communication Association and Eastern Communication Association conventions.

Pam Wheaton Shorr

Lecturer in Television. BA, Hampshire College. Ms. Shorr has been producing and writing for television and the Internet for the past two decades, beginning her career as a programming executive at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. Currently, she produces news inserts for Parenting Magazine/CNN. Other national television credits include writing for Entertainment Tonight and Popular Mechanics, and producing for American Baby,  Your Baby and Child with Dr. Penelope Leach. Locally, she has been a writer and producer for Channel 7 news. Pam is a former senior vice president of editorial programming for the award-winning website FamilyEducation.com, and currently reports on education for the business website Office.com.

Steve Singer

Lecturer in Television. BA, State University of New York, Binghamton; MS, Syracuse University. Mr. Singer is founder and principal of Audioauthors, a company which provides editorial audio services to websites. Previously, he was Web Editor at CIO Communications and the creator of CIO Radio. He has produced interactive media for The Discovery Channel, Ziff-Davis, and Macmillan New Media. He has extensive experience in video and new media.

Brent Skinner

Lecturer in Communication. BA, University of New Hampshire; MS, Boston University. Brent Skinner is president of STETrevision, a communications consultancy that provides public relations, ghostwriting, editing, and other services. CNBC and others have televised his clients, who have also enjoyed coverage in the pages of numerous print media outlets. A freelance writer as well, Brent was recently published in a regional magazine. Brent received his master’s degree from the College of Communication in 1999.

Sue Sprecher

Lecturer in Television. IBA degree, University of  Wisconsin, Madison. Mrs. Sprecher is a media professional with over two decades of experience in the television industry, at the network level and in the cable and syndication markets. Her work has been recognized with four national Emmys and numerous other awards.

Marcia Stamell

Lecturer in Journalism. BA, Vassar College; MS, Columbia University. Ms. Stamell is a freelance writer for magazines including New York, Parade, Harper’s Bazaar, and Redbook among many others. She was previously the editor of the Albuquerque Journal.

Sheldon Toplitt

Lecturer in Journalism. BS, Boston University; JD (hon.), Suffolk University. Toplitt is an attorney and journalist who has written for newspapers and magazines. He writes about employment law issues for national publications. Toplitt teaches communication law at Emerson College and previously taught media law at Northeastern University. He has previously taught journalism at Mount Ida College and Dean College.

Taline Voskeritchian

Lecturer in the Writing Program. BA, Beirut College for Women; MA, American University of Beirut; PhD, University of Iowa. In addition to being a writer, Dr. Voskeritchian is an accomplished translator and editor. Her articles and translations have been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Armenian International Magazine, International Quarterly, Ararat, and Agni. She has also written performing arts reviews for South End News (Boston) and is a columnist and contributing writer for artsMedia: Boston’s Guide to the Visual Arts. She has taught at Pine Manor College, American University of Armenia, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University.

Charles Warren

Lecturer in Film. BA, Harvard University; MA, PhD, Princeton University. Dr. Warren is a distinguished teacher and scholar. He currently teaches film at Harvard and has taught at Tufts University and the New School for Social Research in New York. Dr. Warren has authored several books on film.

Joanna Weiss

Lecturer in Journalism. BA, Harvard University. Ms. Weiss is a reporter in the Boston Globe’s Living/Arts department. In a year and a half at the Globe, she has also worked in the Globe’s Statehouse bureau and Metro desk. She previously worked at the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, Louisiana. A 1994 graduate of Harvard University, she lives in Milton with her husband.

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