Department of Cinema-Photography
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin, 2005
Interests: Documentary theory and social change, critical/cultural studies, video production.
Associate Professor
M.F.A. Northwestern University, 1980
Interests: Cinema production, digital post-production sound, editing, documentary and experimental film
Associate Professor
M.F.A. San Francisco State University, 2002
Interests: Cinema
Associate Professor, Cinema Studies and Women's Studies
Ph.D. City University of New York Graduate Center, 1993
Interests: History and theory of film in relation to art, classical and contemporary Hollywood cinema, European "art" film, surrealism, psychoanalytic and feminist theory.
Associate Professor, Cross-appointed with sociology
Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1998
Interests: Feminist and Marxist analysis of media, globalization, children's film and consumer culture, documentary and ethnographic film, the German and Japanese new wave and Indian cinema.
Dean, Professor
M.F.A. Ohio University, 1977
Interests: Photography and digital arts.
Assistant Professor
M.F.A. East Carolina University, 2005
Interests: Digital imaging, alternative printing processes, multimedia installation, class and racial identity.
Cinema-Photography Chair, Professor
Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin, 1996
Interests: Contemporary film and television criticism and theory, literature and film, science and film, post-war American culture.
Professor
M.F.A. Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 1983
Interests: Photography
Associate Professor, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies
M.F.A. University of Illinois, 1987
Interests: Photo/digital production, media arts, image and word, art and politics, art and spirituality, race, class, gender and sexuality issues in media, rural U.S. & Ozark culture.
Associate Professor
M.F.A. University of Iowa, 1974
Interests: Foundational digital and analog film production and post-production techniques, experimental filmmaking, observational documentary, intermedia arts.
Assistant Professor
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) Parsons School of Design, New York City, 1991
Interests: Computational art, generative & procedural art processes, genetic algorithms,
free/open source software, free culture, time-based media and live art
Assistant Professor, Film Alternatives and Big Muddy Film Festival
Ph.D. University of Southern California, 2008
Interests: Silent Cinema, Russian and East European Cinema, Female Industrial Practice, Animation, Film History and Theory, Independent Cinema, Film Festivals.
Associate Dean, Director of the NMC, Associate Professor
Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1992
Interests: British cinema, Australian cinema, War and Cinema, Digital Cinema, Sports, Documentary.
Associate Professor, Cross-listed faculty, Women's Studies
M.F.A. University of Iowa, 1998
Interests: Screenwriting
Assistant Professor
M.F.A. York University, Toronto Canada, 2000
Interests: Film and video production, cinematography, Chinese Cinema, Surrealist Cinema
School of Journalism
Professor
Ph.D. Southern Illinois University, 1979
Interests: Media Ethics, Public Policy Reporting
Assistant Professor
M.A. CUNY, Hunter College, 2007
Interests: Advertising, Creativity in Advertising.
Assistant Professor
M.A. Syracuse University, 1995
Interests: Visual and Interactive Communications, Photojournalism.
University Professor, Director, School of Journalism
J.D. Washington University (St. Louis), 2001
Interests: Journalism, Media Law, Public Affairs & Policy
Professor
Doctorate in Education (Ed.D.) University of Massachusetts, 1985
Interests: International advertising, Copywriting, Advertising and Society
Photojournalist-in Residence
Assistant Professor
J.D. University of Texas, Austin, 1985
Interests: Libel, open meetings/open records acts, copyrights, twenty-first-century news writing and reporting, pedogogical constructivism.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Indiana University Bloomington, 2006
Interests: Advertising and social impact of new media.
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of London, 1994
Lecturer
M.S., Mass Communications Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 2006
Interests: Issues of bias and accuracy in news writing; media literacy and history; media industries.
Professor
Ph.D. University of Iowa, 1972
Interests: Social issues in advertising, communication research methods, content analysis.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Missouri Columbia, 2008
Interests: Political Communication, News Editorial
Senior Lecturer, Journalist-in-Residence
Interests: Investigative Reporting, News Editorial, News Gathering, Professional Development
Continuing Assistant Professor
M.F.A. Syracuse University, 1995
Interests: Web production and Content Management Systems, multimedia, revenue models for journalism.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Maryland, 2009
Director, Paul Simon Public Policy Institute
Department of Radio-Television
Associate Professor cross-appointed with Women's Studies
Ph.D. Ohio University, 2003
Interests: Media and globalization, gender, alternative media, social movements, political communication, interpretive/critical research methods, ethnography.
Associate Professor, Animation Media Arts
M.F.A. Parsons School of Design, New York City, 2001
Interests: 3D computer animation; media arts theory; technology, culture, and society; memory and post-memory.
Emeritus Faculty
Ph.D. London School of Economics and Political Science, 1974
Interests: International communication; alternative media and social movements; racism; ethnicity, and media; media and cultural history.
Senior Lecturer
M.S. Ed Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2004
Interests: Broadcast Journalism, Digital Technologies, Emerging New Media, Distance Education, International (particularly Arab) Broadcasting, Media Access for those with Disabilities.
Senior Lecturer
Master of Legal Studies SIU School of Law, 2009
Interests: Audio Engineering, MIDI Production, Music Producing and Music Business.
Professor
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1986
Interests: Community radio, global media, media studies pedagogy, media history, spirituality and education, popular music.
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2003
Interests: Sound and radio culture, virtual worlds, gender & diversity, media literacy, acoustic ecology, instructional design & technology.
Assistant Professor
M.F.A. Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, 2006
Interests: Independent filmmaking, broadcast television production, media studies.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Kansas, 2004
Interests: African American representations in film and television, Japanese animation, Hindi cinema, film history, genre theory.
Professor and Chair
Ph.D. Ohio State University, 1982
Interests: Children and media; gender representations and identity construction; media literacy; qualitative methodologies.
Assistant Professor
M.F.A. University of California, San Diego, 2007
Interests: Video, social movements, environmental media, installation, live art and performance.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2009
Interests: Black representation in media; children and media; teaching as a performance art; educational media; instructional design/technology; instructional media; race, gender, class in media; alternative media.
Professor
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1983
Interests: Political economy of the media, cultural studies, mass communications history, critical communications research
Assistant Professor
M.F.A. Northwestern University, 1990
Interests: TV and Film Writing, Narrative TV and Film Production, Media Representation of Men and the Male Body, Gay Representation in Media, Storytelling in the 21st Century, Experimental Media.
Associate Professor
M.F.A. California Institute of the Arts, 1989
Interests: Sound and radio art, sound and moving image, documentary radio, electro-acoustic composition and performance, media theory, acoustic ecology, sustainability and the history of science and technology.
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Colorado at Boulder, 1999
Interests: Comparative and international media policy studies, social movements and the media, public service media, International communication.
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Ohio University, 2001
Interests: Media studies, oral history, cultural studies, Appalachian studies, media history.
Digital Media Systems Specialist, Instructor for specialized courses
M.A. Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2005
Interests: Video documentary production, music composition, production and performance.
Associate Professor
M.G.S. Roosevelt University, 1988
Interests: Video production, documentary and sports production.
News Director River Region Evening Edition
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts, 2005
Interests: Media Industries, including entertainment industry structures, technologies, and management; emerging media business models; global media distribution; media regulation and policy.
Senior Lecturer
B.A. San Francisco State University, 1983
Interests: Investigative journalism, local TV news I-Teams
Senior Lecturer
M.A. Southern Illinois University, 2004
Dafna Lemish
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