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academic experience

1993 - present
Communication Faculty (Assistant Chair, 1995-1998)
Boston College, Boston, MA

1992--93
Visiting Professor of Communication
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI

1992--93
Chair of Education
Museum of Broadcast Communications
Chicago, IL

1990--92
Visiting Professor of Communication
The George Washington University, Washington, DC

1978--90
Associate Professor of Communication
and Director of Radio and Television
(Interim Chairperson of English, Foreign Language, and Communication Department 1988--89)
Dean College, Franklin, MA

1989--90
Adjunct Professor of Communication
Emerson College, Boston, MA

1977--78
Adjunct Professor of Communication
Roger Williams University, Bristol, R.I.

 

professional experience

1966--1984
Employed by a dozen broadcast stations
(WINZ, WRCH, WLKW, WSRS. . .)
in positions ranging from manager, account executive, news reporter, announcer, production director, copywriter, and promotion director.
(Further information and documentation provided upon request)

 

books published and in progress

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articles and chapters published

"He Flew Through the Air: The 'One World Flight' of Norman Corwin" Part 2, Journal of Radio and Audio Media (2009)

"He Flew Through the Air: The 'One World Flight' of Norman Corwin" Part 1, Journal of Radio and Audio Media (2008)

“The Long Road to Radio Studies,” Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, (2008)

"Where Have all the Historians Gone?" Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media (2006)

"Survey of Cultural Studies in Radio," Methods of Historical Analysis in Electronic Media (2006)

"Christopher H. Sterling: A Protean and Prolific Presence," Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media (2005)

"Privatizing Russian Radio: A Post Perestroika Perspective," The Radio Journal (2005)

"From Broadcast to Satellite: an Interview with Lee Abrams," Journal of Radio Studies (2005)

"Russian Radio in the Age of Perestrioka," Journal Radio Studies 11:1 (2004).

"Newton Minow: In the Public's Interest," Journal Radio Studies 10:1 (2003).

"Casey Kasem: Reaching for the Stars," Journal of Radio Studies 9:2 (2002).

"Studs Terkel: Vox Humana," Journal of Radio Studies 9:1 (2002).

"Radio Hate in a Cyberspace Age," Congress Monthly (June 2001).

"Tune In –Turn On," Radio Reader (October 2001).

"Ed Bliss: Words on Murrow," Journal of Radio Studies 8:2 (2001).

"Hate.Com," Media Ethics Journal (December 1999).

"JRS Forum," Journal of Radio Studies 6:1 (February 1999).

Foreword to Electronic Media Sales by Ed Shane, Boston: Focal Press (1999).
Prepared study guides for same publication.

"Norman Corwin: "Words In Flight--An Interview," Journal of Radio Studies 5:2: 56--65 (August 1998).

"JRS Forum," Journal of Radio Studies 5:1: 1--8 (February 1998).

Entries (2) Historical Dictionary of American Radio, edited by Donald G. Godfrey and Frederic A. Leigh. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. "Native American Broadcasting" and "Underground Radio".

Foreword to Volume 3, Journal Of Radio Studies (1995).

Entry in Focal Guide to Electronic Media, edited by Christopher H. Sterling. Boston: Focal Press, 1997. "Radio broadcasting".

"AM Radio: Status and Struggle," Journal of Radio Studies 2:1: 1--49 (1994). Symposium author and editor.

"Whither (Or Wither?) AM Radio?" Freedom Forum's Media Studies Journal 7:3: 105-- 112 (Summer 1993).

Article anthologized in book, Radio: The Forgotten Medium. New Jersey: Transaction Press, 1995.

Industry Publications

"All Talk, No Action: It Doesn't Have To Be That Way," Radio Ink, March 1993.

"Monday Memo" (Commentary), Broadcasting and Cable, October 12, 1992.

"Religious Radio: Two Alternatives" Radioactive, March 1983.

"Hyperspecialization in Programming" Radio Waves, August 1979.

Other

"Radio Hall of Fame," Blast From the Past. Boca Raton, FL: Streamline Press, (1996).

"Multitracking in 'Real' Time," Educator's Electronic Media Exchange, July 1990.

"Moving the Classroom into the Future," Feedback, November 1981.

"Tuning the Radio Revival," Journal Magazine, March 1981.

"College Radio--the 'Alternative'?" Signals, 1980.

"Radio Suds Are Back," Rhode Island Magazine, June 1980.

"Demystifying Underwriting," Journal of College Radio, April 1980.

Reviews

Television Quarterly and Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media

Several book reviews written for Communication Booknotes Quarterly, Journal of Radio Studies, Television Quarterly, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, etc.

 

editorial positions

Books

CONSULTING EDITOR, Radio Encyclopedia, Chicago: Museum of Broadcast Communications.

RADIO EDITOR, World Book Encyclopedia, Chicago.

Journals

FEATURES AND "FORUM" EDITOR, Journal of Radio Studies.

RADIO EDITOR, Communication Booknotes Quarterly.

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD, The Radio Journal (UK).

Reviewer/reader

Iowa State University Press.

Focal Press, Praeger Publishing, and M.E. Sharpe Publishing.

 

honors/citations/activities

Broadcast Education Association 2008 Distinguished Scholar Award.

Special Broadcast Education Association conference recognition session, 2007

Stanton Fellow Award recipient (2005)

Host/guest author McKinney Writing Competition (RPI)

2004 Achievement Award in the Humanities (Univ. Rhode Island).

IBS College Radio Recognition Award (2004).

Appeared in film documentaries “Dirty Country” and “Hippie Radio.”

Memoir selected as 'Book of the Month' by Boston Magazine.

Book (Waves of Rancor) offical entry in National Jesuit Book Award competition.

Plenary Speaker at the International Conference of Communications in Pamplona, Spain

Elected First Chair of BEA's Broadcast and Internet Radio Division.

Distinguished Research Award nominee at Boston College.

Distinguished Lecturer Series speaker at Newbury College (1999).

Book cited by President Clinton as a title on his official reading list (Waves of Rancor, 1999).

Convocation speaker at Mount Union College on subject of Multiculturalism in Electronic Media (1999).

Marquette University Distinguished Scholar Honoree (1992). Recognition by The Graduate School, the Committee of Research, and the Office of Research Support for "outstanding scholarly achievement."

Cited in book, Blast From the Past: Radio's First 75 Years, as teacher who has "trained more [broadcast] professionals than any other single person."

Selected for citation in Marquis' Who's Who In Communication, 1998.

Invited to lead symposium on AM radio in Journal of Radio Studies (Volume 2, 1993).

Interviewed by Washington Post, Denver Post, Broadcasting Magazine, Public Broadcasting's Currents, Village Voice, "CBS Evening News," Washington Times, Christian Science Monitor, The Gavin, Sacremento Bee, National Public Radio, The History Channel, WRKO-AM, WZLX-FM, Boston channels 5, 7, and 38., etc.

Profiled in Chicago Tribune (December 1992), Radio Ink magazine (November 1992 and in 1994), Sun Chronicle (September 1994).

Selected NAB Crystal Awards judge.

Steering Committee appointee for RADIO HALL OF FAME Awards.

Featured in television documentary--"History of Chicago Broadcasting."

Bio/Bibliographical listing in Contemporary Authors.

Underwritten to IRTS Faculty/Industry Seminar February 1994.

Voted to the executive board of the Armstrong Memorial Research Foundation.

Contracted by US State Department (USIA) to conduct media workshops for various women's groups (NGOs) in Tanzania, East Africa in 1997.

Academic Advisory Board Member/Library of American Broadcasting

International Advisary Board member, The Radio Journal (UK).

 

presentations

PANELIST--Popular Culture Association (2008). Topic: Norman Corwin’s Found Manuscript.

MODERATOR—MIT Enterprise Forum (2007). Topic: Digital Radio.

INVITED SPEAKER—JFK Library Summer Institute (2007). Topic: History of radio news.

INAUGURAL ADDRESS -- Columbia College "Scholarship in Radio" series (2007)

PANELIST -- Popular Culture Association. All Night Radio (2006)

INVITED SPEAKER-- Invited speaker at Moscow State University College of Journalism (2004)

PANELIST-- Broadcast Education Association, 2004. Panel on Radio in Culture.

SYMPOSIUM LEADER --Transnational Radio Forum, UW-Madison, 2003. Topic: Radio in Society and Culture.

PANELIST--Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, 2003. Topic: Obscenity in American Radio.

PANEL LEADER--Intercollegiate Broadcasting System, New York, 2002. Topic: Survey of radio studies resources.

PANEL MODERATOR--Broadcast Education Association Division Paper Competition, 2001.

PANEL MODERATOR--Broadcast Education Association national conference, 2000. Panel on internet radio.

PANELLIST--Broadcast Education Association national conference, 1999. Panel on Journal Publications.

PANEL MODERATOR--Broadcast Education Association national conference, 1998. Follow-up presentation to JRS "Forum" publication.

GUEST LECTURER--University of Rhode Island's Honors Colloquium on Global News, 1998. Paper on news ethics co-presented with NPR's Corey Flintoff.

PAPER PRESENTATION--Popular Culture Association national conference, 1997. Paper on 1960's counterculture media.

PAPER PRESENTATION--Broadcast Education Association's national conference, 1996. Paper on 1960's counterculture media.

PAPER PRESENTATION--Popular Culture Association national conference, 1995. Paper on Native American broadcasting.

SESSION CREATOR AND PANELIST--AM Radio Symposium, Museum of Broadcast Communications, 1993. Presented research on decline of AM broadcasting.

PANEL MODERATOR--Broadcast Education Association national conference, 1991.

(Served as panelist/moderator at many other national communication conferences between 1978-1998)

 

education

Ph.D.--University of Rhode Island
Dissertation title: Commercial Underground Radio and the Sixties: An Oral History and Narrative

M.A. and B.A.--University of Rhode Island (highest honors)
Thesis title: The Obsessed Characters in the Novels of Muriel Spark

(Participated in several professional certificate courses and workshops in various media areas.)

 

courses taught

Soundcasting Media, History of American Electronic Media, Scriptwriting, Electronic Media Management, English Composition, Comparative Systems, Television and Radio Programming, Broadcast Voice Performance, Audio Production, Electronic Media Sales and Promotion, Broadcast Journalism, Survey of Mass Media, Introduction to Broadcasting, Public Speaking, Radio Drama, Introduction to Communication, Internship Workshops, Etcetera.

 

military service

Honorable discharge from the US. Army--"Vietnam era veteran" (Korea and stateside service), enlisted rank.

(Additional information pertaining to vita entries and references provided upon request)