Member News: Lisa Burns, Dane S. Claussen, W. Joseph Campbell

*Lisa Burns, Professor of Media Studies in the Center for Communications and Engineering at Quinnipiac University.*

Dr. Lisa Burns (Quinnipiac University) was named this year’s Outstanding Faculty Scholar for the School of Communications. The award recognizes her research on first ladies and the media, candidate branding and messaging strategies, and journalism’s impact on collective memory. She was also recently elected to AEJMC’s Standing Committee on Teaching.

*Dr. Dane S. Claussen, Director of Research, Publications, and Professional Advancement at the National Communication Association.*

Dr. Dane S. Claussen in February became Director of Research, Publications, and Professional Advancement at the National Communication Association, Washington, D.C. His responsibilities include assisting NCA’s 11 journal editors, Publications Council, Research Council, and Teaching & Learning Council; writing research reports; promoting NCA members’ research; monitoring government policies on research; lobbying; grant writing; and daily oversight of NCA’s strategic plan.

*W. Joseph Campbell, Professor, American University’s School of Communication*.

Former History Division chair and Clio editor W. Joseph Campbell has announced his retirement from American University’s School of Communication where he has been a tenure-line faculty member 1997. In that time, Joe has written seven solo-authored books including the award-winning Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism and Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths, Defining the Legacies.

At American, Joe taught a variety of popular media history courses. His in-class presentations on Watergate, yellow journalism, the mythical Cronkite Moment, and polling failure in presidential elections were taped and aired on C-SPAN’s “Lectures in History” series and on C-SPAN radio. He has further shared his research in numerous essays written for the “Conversation,” “The Hill,” and the Baltimore Sun.

Before entering the academy, Joe was a professional journalist for 20 years; his reporting career took him across North America, to Europe, West Africa, and parts of Asia. He earned his PhD in mass communication in 1997 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in an accelerated program funded by the Freedom Forum foundation.

He will assume professor emeritus status on December 31.