Profiles of Selected Alumni

Boatema Boateng (2002) is assistant professor in the Department of Communications at the University of California, San Diego. Her dissertation, "African Culture in the Global Marketplace: The case of folklore and intellectual property in Ghana," addresses the economic, political, and cultural implications of the treatment of folklore as intellectual property. Professor Boateng's research interests include the politics of knowledge production, the politics of global cultural flows, international communications and information policy, the history of African communications policymaking, popular uses of media technology in Africa, globalization and culture in feminist politics, theory in grassroots feminism, and women in African film. She has chapters in the Blackwell Companion to Media Studies (Blackwell, 2002) and in Fashioning Nations: Clothing, Politics and African Identities in the 20th Century (Indiana University Press, forthcoming, 2003).

James W. Carey (1963) is the CBS Professor of International Journalism at the Columbia University School of Journalism. He is a leading figure in American Cultural Studies. He has served as Director, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC); Dean, College of Communications, UIUC; George H. Gallup Professor, University of Iowa; President, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and President, American Association of Schools and Departments of Journalism. He has been a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow; a Gannett Center for Media Studies fellow; a member of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies advisory board; a member of the board of directors for the Public Broadcasting System; and a board member for the Peabody Awards for Broadcasting. His publications include Television and the Press, Communication as Culture, and James Carey: A Critical Reader. He teaches journalism ethics at Columbia University.

Mark Fackler (1982) is a Professor of Communication at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the author of Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning, 6th ed. (with Clifford Christians, Kim B. Rotzoll and Kathy McKee, 2001); Popular Religious Magazines of the United States, (with Charles Lippy, eds. 1995); and Good News: Social Ethics and the Press (with Clifford Christians and John Ferre, Oxford, 1993). Professor Fackler is on the editorial advisory board of Christian History magazine, the Journal of Mass Media Ethics, the Journal of Media and Religion, and the Journal of Media and Communication.

Lawrence Grossberg (1976) is the Morris Davis Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Chair of the Executive Committee of the University Program in Cultural Studies. He was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and attended Stuyvesant High School. He graduated in 1968 with a BA (summa cum laude) in philosophy and history from the University of Rochester, did postgraduate work with Stuart Hall at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham (England), and traveled with a theater group in Europe for two years, then entered doctoral studies at the ICR with James Carey. He joined the UIUC faculty in the Department of Speech Communication and the ICR and helped found the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. He has received the B. Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award from the International Communication Association and the National Communication Association's Distinguished Scholar Award and is a Fellow of the International Communication Association. He is known nationally and internationally for his research in cultural studies, popular culture, popular music and youth culture, the philosophy of culture and communication, postmodernism, media studies, disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity, and cultural interpretation and politics. His current work focuses on neoconservatism, economics and globalization on the one hand, and the modernist foundations of communication and cultural theory on the other. His books include: It's a Sin: Essays on Postmodernism, Politics and Culture (1988); We Gotta Get Out Of This Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture (1992); Dancing in Spite of Myself: Essays in Popular Culture (1997); Bringing It All Back Home: Essays in Cultural Studies; and MediaMaking (with Ellen Wartella and D. Charles Whitney, 1998). He has co-edited nine books, including Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture with Cary Nelson (1988), Cultural Studies with Cary Nelson and Paula Treichler (1991), Sound and Vision (1993), and The Audience and its Landscapes (1996). He is currently co-editing The Sound Culture Reader. He has been international co-editor of the journal Cultural Studies for the past decade and serves on the editorial/advisory boards of numerous national and international journals.

Katharine E. Heintz-Knowles (1992) is a media analyst and researcher specializing in the impact of electronic media on children and families; she is President of Children's Media Research and Consulting, a firm which works with non-profit organizations interested in children and media. Her research has been featured in over a hundred newspapers nationwide, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and U.S.A. Today as well as national magazines such as Parents Magazine, Parenting, and TV Guide. She has appeared on local Seattle television and radio programs as well as the National Public Radio programs "On the Media" and "Media Maters." She served as an Assistant Professor in the School of Communications at the University of Washington from 1991-1998.

Donald Hurwitz (1983) is the Director of Marketing and Strategic Development at Facing History and Ourselves, a twenty-five year old national foundation based in Boston dedicated to educational transformation and the practice of democratic citizenship. Dr. Hurwitz has served as Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Strategy at Pamet River Partners, as Senior Vice President and Management Supervisor at Ingalls, Quinn, and Johnson, and as Vice President and Account Supervisor at Rizzo, Simons, and Cohn. He is the author of Broadcast Ratings: The Rise and Development of Commercial Audience Research and Measurement in American Broadcasting (1983).

Steve Jones (1987) is a social historian of communication technology and Professor and Head of the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has authored six books, including Doing Internet Research, CyberSociety, Virtual Culture, and Pop Music and the Press. His first book, Rock Formation: Technology, Music and Mass Communication was nominated for the BMI/Rolling Stone Gleason Award and the Association for Recorded Sound Collections Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research Award. Professor Jones is editor-in-chief of The Encyclopedia of New Media, editor of Digital Formations, a series of books on digital culture and cyberculture for Peter Lang Publishing, and editor of New Media Cultures, a series on culture and technology for Sage Publications. He serves as co-editor of New Media & Society, an international journal of research on new media, technology, and culture. He is a Senior Research Fellow for the Pew Internet & American Life Project and co-founder of the Association of Internet Researchers, serving as its president from 1999 to 2003. As a public intellectual, Professor Jones is regularly interviewed by Time, the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsweek, NPR's "Talk of the Nation," NPR's "Sounds Like Science," and numerous other newspapers, magazines, and electronic media magazines.

Donald W. Jugenheimer (1972) is Professor and Director of the School of Journalism at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. His teaching specialties are media management and advertising media. Since earning his PhD in Communications (with specialization in advertising and a minor in marketing), Professor Jugenheimer has served on the faculties of the University of Kansas, Louisiana State University (where he was the first person to hold the Manship Distinguished Professorship in Journalism), Fairleigh Dickinson University and now Southern Illinois University. He is also on the faculty of the Executive Media MBA program for the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration in Finland. His bachelor's degree was in advertising with a minor in economics and his master's degree was also in advertising with a minor in marketing, and all three degrees are from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Author or co-author of twelve books and many articles and papers, Professor Jugenheimer has lectured widely before a variety of national and international academic and professional organizations and has held a Kellogg National Fellowship. He served as President of the American Academy of Advertising and as Advertising Division Head of the AEJMC. He helped found and was also Business Manager for the Journal of Advertising. He has served as a consultant to American Airlines, IBM, Century 21 Real Estate, Aetna Insurance, Pacific Telesis, and the U.S. Army Recruiting Command. He has also conducted research for a variety of enterprises, including for the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the International Association of Business Communicators, and National Liberty Life Insurance. He has lectured and conducted workshops in the US and abroad.

Helen Katz (1988) is Vice-President and Media Research Manager at DDB Needham Worldwide in Chicago. She holds an MS in advertising from UIUC and a BA in English from the University of London. She is the author of Strategic Media Planning (with Kent Lancaster, 1988), The Media Handbook (1995), and Advertising Principles: Choice, Challenge, and Change (with Bruce Vanden Bergh, 1999). Dr. Katz has served as the President of the American Academy of Advertising. She is also a member of the Advertising Research Foundation, and serves on its Video Electronic Media Council and Ethnic Ratings Committee. In 1997-1998, she was President of the Media Research Club of Chicago, an industry non-profit organization.


Klaus Krippendorff (1967) is Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Krippendorff is the President of the Council of the International Federation of Communication Associations, and has served as the President of the International Communication Association. His books include Content Analysis: An Introduction to its Methodology (1980); A Dictionary of Cybernetics (1986); and Information Theory: Structural Models for Qualitative Research (1986). His works have been translated into Spanish, Italian, Hungarian and Japanese. He served for several years on the National Advisory Council for ICR.

Carolyn Marvin (1979) is on faculty of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century (1988). Professor Marvin teaches courses in freedom of speech, taboo, ritual forms and practices, literacy practice, and the social impact of technology. Her area of theoretical inquiry involves understanding borders and their implications —- in particular social borders that give a shape to culture, determine belonging, values, and rules of socially appropriate action. She conceptualizes gender, race and class as borders. Her current research focus is on national symbols and patriotic practices as they constitute group borders that are implicated in matters of life and death. Her work aims to produce understandings of how national symbols acquire power, how that power is replenished, and how it is lost.

Daniel McGee (2003) holds MD and PhD degrees from the University of Illinois through the Medical Scholars Program. He is currently in a medical residency program in emergency medicine at the University of Chicago, and is the Weapons of Mass Destruction Preparedness Fellow at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Argonne National Laboratory. He has helped the University of Chicago Hospitals develop and improve their Bio-Outbreak Emergency Response Plan, and worked with different departments to better integrate disaster planning so that all the different components of the hospital system function in a coordinated manner in a disaster situation. When he finishes his residency, he plans to practice and teach Emergency Medicine in an urban university hospital setting, and to continue to work in disaster medicine planning and research as his subspeciality. Dr. McGee's dissertation examines media coverage of emerging infectious diseases (EID's) such as Ebola virus, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or "mad cow disease"), hantavirus, West Nile Fever, and HIV/AIDS. His primary sources include news coverage through the 1990's as well as public health policy documents and key scientific position papers produced by the Institute of Medicine and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). He also examines media coverage of bioterrorism, and shows how an early focus on emerging infectious diseases shaped our subsequent understandings of and responses to bioterrorism.

Michelle Nelson (1997) is assistant professor in the Journalism Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a BS degree in English and an MA in journalism and mass communication from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before joining UW-Madison, Professor Nelson taught in the Department of Communication at Emerson College. Her dissertation, "Examining the Horizontal and Vertical Dimensions of Individualism Within the United States and Denmark: How Culture Affects Values, Moral Orientations, and Advertising Persuasion" included field work, interviews and surveys in the United States and Denmark. She teaches courses in strategic communication, including Promotional Campaigns and Mass Media and the Consumer. She also teaches qualitative research methods at the graduate level. Professor Nelson incorporates theory and practice and a dose of reality into her courses, often bringing in clients from the community for student projects. Her research has focused on persuasive communications and consumer behavior. She has tested creative approaches for understanding advertising effectiveness, including examinations of synesthetic metaphors (e.g., "Can't You Just Hear This Color"?); localized approaches to cross-cultural advertising; brand placements in computer/video games, and persuasion techniques for charities. In consumer behavior, she is interested in person perception processes, gender and consumer socialization, and rituals. Her current research uses qualitative and quantitative methods to study issues of bicultural identify, communication, and behaviors. Her work has appeared in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Advertising, and Advances in Consumer Research. She has co-authored several book chapters about attitudes and attitude functions in consumer and political contexts. Her professional experience prior to graduate school includes professional marketing experience in nonprofit, trade and high-tech organizations.

Lana Rakow (1987) is the author of dozens of articles and book chapters and the editor of three books with a fourth under contract. Her book Gender on the Line: Women, the Telephone, and Community Life received the Book of the Year Award from the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender. Dr. Rakow serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals, is a member of the Accrediting Council for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and has held offices in national communication associations. In a recent study she was identified as one of the top ten women scholars in the field of journalism and mass communication. Her primary research areas are gender and communication, history and philosophy of technology, and university administration and curriculum change. She is a graduate of the University of North Dakota, where she received her BA degree in journalism and humanities and an MA degree in English.

Gertrude J. Robinson (1968) is an emerita professor and past director of the Graduate Program in Communications (1974-1999) at McGill University, Montreal. Her most recent research includes studies of Eastern European media debates; French/English media approaches to Quebec politics; the history of media studies in the US and Canada; and a generational analysis of media portrayals of Canada's female politicians. She has just completed a book entitled Gender, Journalism & Equity: Canadian, US and European Experiences (Hampton Press, in press [2004]). Robinson has published nine books and more than fifty articles, including Constructing the Quebec Referendum: French and English Media Voices (University of Toronto Press, 1998). She has held visiting professorships in the United States, Germany, Switzerland and Yugoslavia and has been a frequent consultant on UNESCO's media initiatives on behalf of women. In 1980-81, she chaired the International Division of AEJMC. She is a former president of the Canadian Communication Association (1982) and edited the Canadian Journal of Communication (1990-96). She has served as Executive Committee member of the International Association for Media and Communications Research (IAMCR) and Treasurer (1992-99); she was a Senior Fellow in 1991 at the Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia University where she investigated Paul Lazarsfeld's WWII activities and contributions to communication studies; in 1992 she was a Senior Scholar at the Center for Research and Teaching on Women at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver); in 1996 she was invited as the Maqrie Jahoda Professor to Bochum University, Germany. Her honors and awards include Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Tau Alpha, Dodi Robb Ward (Media Watch); Canadian Who's Who (1998); Dictionary of International Biography (Cambridge 26th Ed.); and Montreal YWCA Women of the Year Award in Communication (2001). Robinson has held a series of major grants from the Social Science Research Council of Canada.

Maria V. Ruiz (2003), a student in the University of Illinois Medical Scholars Program, holds an MD degree and a PhD (expected December 2003). She is now an emergency medicine resident at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, where she will continue her research on borders, migrants, and health. She is the author of "Border Narratives, HIV/AIDS, and Latina/o Health in the United States: A Cultural Analysis" in Feminist Media Studies (2002) and "Migrating Pathogens: Imagining Health Risks in Relation to National Borders" in Virtual Mentor American Medical Association, June 2003 (http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/5150.html). Her dissertation is titled "Border Narratives, Latino Health, and US Media Representation: A Cultural Analysis."

Paula Saukko (1999) has just finished a medical residency and holds a position in the Exeter Genomics Research Institute (EGRI); she is also a Lecturer in the School of Historical, Political and Sociological Studies at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom. She studies the interaction between intimate experiences of the self/body, institutional discourses and practices (medicine, the media), and wider social, political, and global contexts. Her new book, Qualitative Research in Cultural Studies (2003, Sage), discusses both classical and cutting-edge methodological approaches in cultural studies research and offers an innovative framework for combining different methodologies to make sense of the lived, discursive, and social/global dimensions of contemporary reality. Her current book on anorexia investigates the way in which psychiatric, popular, and theoretical discourses delineate a healthy female self in opposition to a disordered anorexic self. She links these discourses with historical shifts from Cold War and Sixties radicalism's fear of "mass society" to more recent fascination with "feminine" modes of being, governing and managing. She is on the editorial board of Cultural Studies <--> Critical Methodologies, and is co-editor of Sound Identities: Popular Music and the Cultural Politics of Education (1998) with Cameron McCarthy, Glen Hudak, and Shawn Miklaucic.

Wendell Shackelford (1969) joined Harcourt Brace as an editor and later became President of Harcourt's Guidance Associates (Educational file) and Deputy Director of Harcourt's Human Assessment and Development Group, which included the Psychological Corporation. Dr. Shackelford left Harcourt in 1978 to become Director of New Business for McGraw-Hill, later forming Media Matrix, Inc., a consulting and product development firm. In 1984, he became President of Public Media Inc (video for educational institutions and homes) where he founded Home Vision, Inc., and the Television Licensing Center. He has also served as the President of Coronet/MTI Film and Video, a subsidiary of Simon and Schuster. At the University of Illinois he held teaching assistantships under Joseph Cohen and Lloyd Humphreys, completed his MS in Industrial Social Psychology with Hjalmar Rosen and Harry Triandis, and entered the ICR PhD program where he assisted George Gerbner with his study of international film. He moved when Gerbner became the dean of Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania. His dissertation studied the social role and critical reasoning of public media reviewers. He earned his BA in Psychology from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, his hometown.

Jonathan Sterne (1999) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Program for Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Professor Sterne's groundbreaking book, The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction, was published in 2003 by Duke University Press. Professor Sterne co-edited, the Bad Subjects Anthology (1998); his essays have appeared in Communication Review, Journal of Medical Humanities, Cultural Studies, Media, Culture, and Society, and Ethnomusicology. Professor Sterne's areas of specialization include theory and history of the media, sound and music, communication technology, and cultural studies. His current research includes a cultural study of computer trash, a history of "missile mail," and an analysis of the intersection of digital media and the aesthetics of recorded music.

Percy Tanenbaum's (1953) doctoral research at the ICR with Charles Osgood and George Suci resulted in the development of the semantic differential, a technique now used worldwide that measures the connotative meaning of words and the congruity model of attitude consistency and change. Professor Tanenbaum became a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley in 1971. His books include The Measurement of Meaning (1957), Theories of Cognitive Consistency: A Sourcebook (1968), and The Entertainment Functions of Television (1980).

Janet Wasko (1980), professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon, is the author of dozens of articles, and the author, co-author, or editor of thirteen books, including, Dazzled by Disney? The Global Disney Audience Project (2001), Understanding Disney: The Manufacture of Fantasy (2000), Consuming Audiences? Production and Reception in Media Research (edited with Ingunn Hagen, 1999), Hollywood in the Information Age: Behind the Silver Screen (1994), Communication and Democracy (edited with Slavko Splichal, 1993), The Critical Communications Review (edited with Vincent Mosco, 1983, 1984, 1985) and Movies and Money: Financing the American Film Industry (1982). Wasko has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (1990, 1995), and is a Contributing Editor of the Oregon Sports News. Professor Wasko is listed in The World Who's Who of Women, and The International Who's Who of Professional and Business Women.

Marion Morse Wood's (1965) dissertation represents an early study of language and gender in interpersonal communication. An independent consultant, she has conducted research and design system studies in communication and management and designed and directed seminars in organizations on time management, interpersonal communication, management development, and changing gender roles. Her clients here included TRW, Inc., Lockheed, ARCO, Western Airlines, Security Pacific National Bank, and Bank of America. Dr. Wood served as interim Dean of the College of Business and Management at West Coast University in Los Angeles, and served as an assistant professor for ten years in the Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Southern California. She co-authored Women in Management (with L. Larwood, 1977) and has published many articles on women in the workplace.

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