Madeleine Liseblad, Middle Tennessee State University, Membership Co-Chair, Madeleine.Liseblad@mtsu.edu
Mark Arbuckle
Where you work: I’m a Professor in the Department of Communication at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas.
Where you got your Ph.D.: I earned my Ph.D. (2001) from the School of Journalism at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
Current favorite class: A tie between History of Mass Communication and Law of Mass Communication. I also greatly enjoy teaching my Free Speech graduate seminar class.
Current research project: I have a manuscript under review at a law journal that chronicles the numerous warnings from lawmakers, FCC commissioners, and the courts, over the decades, against excessive media ownership consolidation. The manuscript concludes that current-day regulators should heed the warnings from the past and return to a regulatory philosophy that promotes ownership diversity and, thus, protects the public interest, journalism and democracy.
Fun fact about yourself: I was a Maytag repairman for 10 years in my parents’ appliance business before going back to school to complete my B.S. in journalism at the University of Central Missouri. I’m also a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist and have been writing and recording songs in my home studio, playing all the instruments myself, for 35 years.
Dale Cressman
Where you work: Brigham Young University, School of Communications.
Where you got your Ph.D.: University of Utah, 2003
Current favorite class: History of media coverage of the civil rights movement
Current research project: Biography of Elmer Lower
Fun fact about yourself: From Canada, former collegiate swimmer and current cycling enthusiast
Michael Fuhlhage
Where you work: Wayne State University, Department of Communication
Where you got your Ph.D.: School of Media and Journalism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Current favorite class: At the graduate level, Seminar in Media History and Historiography. At the undergraduate level, History and Law of American Journalism. Among skills courses, News Editing tops the list.
Current research project: I just wrapped up my first book, Yankee Reporters and Southern Secrets: Journalism, Open Source Intelligence, and the Coming of the Civil War, which is being published by Peter Lang. It tells how Unionist editors sent correspondents to cover the secession movement, how reporters did their jobs in a sometimes-perilous environment, and how civil and military leaders used open source information from the press to inform their response to the threat of disunion.
Fun fact about yourself: I’ve been to 47 states and have run at least one mile at a stretch in 23 of them.
Tracy Gottlieb
Where you work: I am a professor, on sabbatical for the 2019-20 academic year, in the College of Communication and the Arts, at Seton Hall University. For the past 18 years, I have been a college administrator, most recently the Vice President of Student Services. I stepped down from that position in July and am looking forward to a year’s sabbatical to update my teaching skills and revive my journalism research agenda.
Where you got your Ph.D.: I received my doctorate in Public Communication at the University of Maryland in 1992 under the guidance of Dr. Maurine Beasley.
Current favorite class: While I very much enjoy teaching journalism history, my favorite classes to teach are skills courses — news reporting, magazine writing, advanced news reporting — where I can actually nudge students along to becoming better writers.
Current research project: For the past two decades, in keeping with my positions at the university, my research agenda has focused on student success and retention. Prior to that, I wrote extensively on the role of women in journalism at the turn of the twentieth century. I am interested in exploring further the evolution of the women’s pages of newspapers and how newspapers are trying to attract women as readers.
Fun fact about yourself: I am an avid hiker. My husband and I have hiked the 160-mile NY/NJ section of the Appalachian Trail. We have done day hikes on the AT in 11 of the 14 states it runs through.