By Perry Parks, Michigan
State University, Membership Co-Chair, parksp@msu.edu
Teresa Mastin
Where you work:Michigan State University, Department of Advertising
and Public Relations , Professor and Chairperson
Where you got your Ph.D.:Michigan State University, 1998
Current favorite class:All classes that allow myself and the students to
connect by way of our past, present, and future, which is essentially every
class I teach. I appreciate that infusing these concepts into each course helps
us to think well beyond those of us in the room.I am currently teaching Contemporary Issues
in Advertising (and Public Relations)
Current research project:The one that is most timely is revisiting two
articles that myself and colleagues published in 2004 and 2005 that explored
slavery reparation.
Fun fact about yourself: I am double middle child, that is, the fourth child of eight and the middle of the the girls. I am a classic middle child.
By Rachel Grant, University of Florida, Membership Co-Chair, rgrant@jou.ufl.edu
Erin Coyle
Erin Coyle (Louisiana State University) published an article in Communication Law & Policy with Stephanie L. Whitenack. The article uses legal analysis to explore how states assess relational privacy rights and public rights to access 911 recordings involving death. The article is now available online via Taylor & Francis. Here is the citation and link to the abstract: Erin K. Coyle & Stephanie L. Whitenack (2019) Access to 911 Recordings: Balancing Privacy Interests and the Public’s Right to Know about Deaths, Communication Law and Policy, 24:3, 307-345, DOI: 10.1080/10811680.2019.1627796.
Kristin Gustafson
Kristin Gustafson (University of Washington-Bothell) and Amy Lambertwere awarded one of the top three out of about 60 posters presented at the University of Washington’s 15th Annual Teaching & Learning Symposium in Seattle. The Gustafson-Lambert poster, “Team Teaching Models for Professional Development and Peer Learning,” was judged one of three winners based on appearance, content and presentation. The poster shared two outcomes of their team-teaching experience with first-year students. They identified how the experience functioned as faculty development, and shared a new peer-observation model that builds on the expertise and insight gained through team teaching.
Nick Hirshon
Nick Hirshon (William Paterson University) was selected for one of the highest honors that can be afforded to a journalism educator in the United States, the 2019 David Eshelman Outstanding Campus Adviser Award as the nation’s top adviser of a campus chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Hirshon’s students nominated him for the award. In its 41-year history, the award has almost exclusively been granted to advisers at universities with enrollments at least double William Paterson’s, and largely to the nation’s most prestigious journalism programs, such as Columbia University, the University of Missouri, Ohio University, the University of Maryland, the University of Central Florida, and the University of Iowa. No educator from the New York metropolitan area has received the award since a professor at Columbia University in 1998. The award will be presented at SPJ’s annual Excellence in Journalism conference in September in San Antonio, Texas.
Will Mari
Will Mari (Louisiana State University) has signed a contract with Routledge for a sequel to “A Short History of Disruptive Journalism Technologies 1960-1990,” part of Routledge’s “Disruptions” series. The follow-up project will be titled, “Newsrooms and the Disruption of the Internet,” covering the period from c. 1990-2010, with an expected release date in late 2021 or early 2022.
Cayce Myers
Cayce Myers (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor at Virginia Tech’s Department of Communication.
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.
Chris Daly (Boston University) participated in a screening and panel discussion of the new documentary “Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People” at the 2019 Power of Narrative Conference. The film will air nationwide at 9 p.m. April 12 PBS’s “American Masters” series.
Teri Finneman (University of Kansas) started an online news site this semester for a Kansas community that no longer had a newspaper. Students in her reporting and social media classes provided content for the site.
Rachel Grant (Xavier University of Louisiana) will be joining the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida as an assistant professor of journalism for underserved communities in fall 2019.
