Education

Ph.D., Social & Political Science, University of Amsterdam, 1997.

M.A. with honors, Mass Communications, Brigham Young University, 1979.

B.A. summa cum laude, Latin American Studies, Brigham Young University, 1975.

Experience

University of Illinois, Chicago

Professor, Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2004 – present. Department Head, 2002 – 2008. Tenured Associate Professor, 1998 – 2004. Programs include 120 B.A. majors, 24 M.A. and 6 Ph.D. students; 11 faculty; 3 full-time staff, and $.9 million budget.

Member, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Search Committee, 2007 – 2008.

Core Faculty Member, International Center on Responses to Catastrophes, 2002 – present.

Co-chair, Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of LGBT Issues, 2002 – 2004.

Member, Executive Committee, Office of Social Science Research, 1999 – 2008.

Chair, Department Search Committee, 1998 – 1999, member, 1999 – 2000; and Chair, Tenure & Promotion Committee, 2000, member, 1998 – 2002.

Member, Department Curriculum Committee, 1999 – 2002; Human Subjects Review Committee, 1999 – 2001; and Doctoral Program Committee, 1998 – 2000.

Syracuse University, New York

Associate Professor, School of Public Communications, 1991 – 1998, tenured 1994. Coordinator, graphics programs & curricula; planned and directed renovation of facilities; recruited and supervised adjunct faculty, and chaired search for full-time faculty.

Member, Chancellor’s Advisory Group on the Valuing Diversity Initiative, 1997. Developed campus policy on minorities. Member, Ad Hoc Advisory Panel on Domestic Partner Benefits, 1994.

Member, Chancellor’s Task Force on Principles Guiding the Long-term Budget, 1994. Reviewed all budgetary activities, recommended limits and policies for long-term planning.

Chair, School Committee on Academic Resources, 1993 – 1994, member, 1992 – 1995. Supervised allocation of $1.5 million in funds for technology and computer training.

Chair, Teaching Standards Committee, 1997; and member, Development Committee, 1993 – 1994.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Assistant Professor, College of Communications, 1986 – 1991. Coordinator, graphics program and lab. Planned new typography facility incorporating computer technology. Oversaw installation, managed operations, and supervised two graduate assistants.

Member, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory; and Graduate Faculty.

Member, College Committees on Media Studies, 1990 – 1991, Curriculum, 1988 – 1989, and Awards, 1986 – 1988.

Member, Department Faculty Search Committee, 1988 – 1989.

Keene State College, New Hampshire

Instructor promoted to Assistant Professor, Division of Arts and Humanities, 1982 – 1986, and Adjunct Professor, Summer 1990. Director, Publication Specialist Certificate program, 1984 – 1986. Graphics Sequence Coordinator, 1982 – 1986. Recruited and supervised adjunct faculty, 1984 – 1986. Manager, production studio, 1983 – 1986. Purchased equipment and supplies, planned and supervised installation, trained and directed lab staff.

Member, Advisory Board, University System College for Lifelong Learning, 1985 – 1986.

Chair, Senate Committees on Continuing Studies and on Campus Parking, 1984 – 1985.

Other Experience

Publication Director, Agriculture and Food Institute, Provo, Utah, 1979—1982. Planned, edited, and produced newsletters and brochures in three languages.

Communications Consultant, Washington, D.C., 1978—1979. Provided editorial and design services to clients including Dialogue Corporation, District of Columbia, Arlington Hospital, others.

Research Associate, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C., 1976. Analyzed impacts of trade preferences on developing nations, working with a staff of three.

Program Analyst, Foreign Agriculture Service, 1975. Researched U.S. policy on trade for the Geneva Round of GATT negotiations. Won a Certificate of Merit for professional writing.

Publications Summary

Author of seven award-winning books and monographs, including The New Long Journalism (manuscript in progress, http://www.uic.edu/~kgbcomm/longnews); Media Queered: Visibility and its Discontents (New York: Peter Lang, 2007); The Form of News, A History, with John Nerone (New York: Guilford Press, 2002); and Seeing the Newspaper (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994).

Published more than ninety communication research articles, essays, book chapters, reviews, and commentaries in leading academic journals, including Media, Culture & Society, Journal of Communication, Political Communication, Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Design Issues, Multilingua, Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, New Media & Society, Journalism Studies, Journalism, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, and others.

Invited colloquium or keynote speaker at more than forty universities, including Columbia, Emory, Harvard, and Rutgers Universities, the Universities of Chicago, Michigan, Texas at Austin, and Wisconsin, Madison, and the Five College Seminar, Amherst, Massachusetts, as well as universities in Brazil, México, and Perú; Canada; and Czechia, Denmark, France, Holland, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

Delivered more than fifty research papers at scholarly conferences and conventions in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Canada.

Wrote op-ed pieces and commentaries on current issues in the Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, Houston Post, Commentary, and American Scholar.

Reviews & Media

Reviews of my books published in Journal of Communication, Public Opinion Quarterly, Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, Technology & Culture, Visual Communication, Visual Sociology, Visual Studies, Visual Communication Quarterly, Design Issues, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Journalism Studies, JHistory, Media Ethics, Columbia Journalism Review, Nieman Reports, Editor & Publisher, Quill & Scroll, Sharp News, Bookwatch, Choice, and others.

Results from my research covered in Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Dallas Morning News, Spectra, Editor & Publisher, Design, The Quill, Richmond Times Dispatch, News Inc., others.

U.S. print interviews with Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, New York Newsday, Arizona Republic, San Jose Mercury News, Portland Oregonian, New Jersey On-line, Columbia Journalism Review, Associated Press, United Press International, and others.

Foreign interviews with Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Switzerland, Toronto Globe & Mail, Tokyo Asahi Shibun, WeekendAvisen Berlingske, Denmark, El Comercio, Lima, Perú, Bangkok Post, and others.

Broadcast interviews on NPR “Talk of the Nation,” CBC radio, Monitor Radio, NPR “On the Media,” Peru Public Radio, and local radio in New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Urbana, and New Hampshire. International radio or television interviews in Lima, Perú, and Madrid, Spain.

Professional Activities

Editing

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Communication (ICA), Critical Studies in Media Communication (NCA), Popular Communication (ICA), Communication, Culture & Critique (ICA), Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism (Sage), Journalism Studies (Taylor & Francis), Journal of Visual Literacy (IVLA), Visual Communication Quarterly (AEJMC), and Communication Yearbook (ICA); Brazilian Journalism Research (ABPJ, Brasília); Latina (La Laguna) and Ámbitos (Seville), Spain; and others.

Area Editor, Journalism, International Encyclopedia of Communication (Blackwell), 2005 – 2007.

Associate Editor, Visual Studies (IVSA), 2001 – present.

Editor, Political Communication Report, Summer 1999 – Winter 2002.

Editor, VisualSIGN 1.1 (Autumn 1994) – 7.2 (Spring 2001).

Guest editor, Visual Communication Teaching and Study. Journalism Educator 46 (Spring 1991).

Consulting

External tenure consultant for Universities of Idaho, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Washington; Clemson, Middle Tennessee State, NYU, Southern Illinois at Carbondale, Syracuse, Temple, Washington State Universities; others.

Editorial consultant for Cambridge and Oxford University Presses and the following tradebook publishers: Arnold, Hodder & Stoughton, Routledge, Sage, and Taylor & Francis, London; Haworth, Lang, and St. Martin’s, New York; Mayfield, Sage, and Wadsworth, California; Rowman & Littlefield, Colorado; Hampton, New Jersey; others.

Jury member for more than one hundred twenty articles in thirty peer-reviewed journals, including Communication, Communication Review, Communication Theory, Communication Yearbook, Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Journal of Advertising, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Journal of Gay & Lesbian Politics, Journalism & Communication Monographs, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism Studies, Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, New Media & Society, Political Communication, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Science Communication, Qualitative Sociology, and others.

Teaching

Instruction areas include Media studies theory; Political, Popular, Visual, and Intercultural communication; and Qualitative research methods.

Fellow, Honors College; Member, Graduate Faculty; and Graduate Advisor, Gender & Women’s Studies Program, 1998 – present.

Director and Committee Member for numerous master’s theses, External Reader, doctoral dissertations, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain; Syracuse University, and others.

National Teaching Award, 1985.

Memberships

International Communication Association (ICA), National Communication Association (NCA), American Political Science Association (APSA), American Sociological Association (ASA), International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA)

Conference Service

Program Planner, Political Communication Division, ICA, San Francisco, 2007, and Montreal, 2008.

Co-Chair and Planner, APSA Political Communication Pre-conference, Chicago, 2004, 2007.

Academic Chair, LGBT Media Studies Colloquia and Symposium, Spring 2004.

Member, Academic Organizing Committee, Globalización, Tecnologías y Culturas conference, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, México, 2001.

Regular paper referee, session chair, and scholarly respondent for academic conferences of ICA: Visual Studies Division (formerly Interest Group), 1993 – present; Political Communication Division, 1995 – present; LGBT Studies Interest Group, 1996 – present, Popular Communication Division, 1997 – present; and Theme Sessions, 2003 – present.

Occasional session planner or discussant, Midwest Political Science Association, Midwest Sociological Society, Canadian Qualitative Analysis Conference, and Culture Division, American Sociological Association, 1999 – present.

Chair and Program Planner, Visual Communication Interest Group, for ICA conferences in Sydney, Australia, 1993, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1994.

Paper and Special project judge for the AEJMC Visual Division, 1993 – 1994.

Paper judge for Media and the Environment conference, Reno, Nevada, January 1993.

Association Service

Chair, Research Awards Committee, ICA, 2004 – 2005.

Board Member, Center for the Study of Media & Society, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), 1999 – 2004.

Co-Chair, Best Book Award Committee, ICA, 2003 – 2004.

Chair, Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award Committee, Political Communication, APSA, 2002 – 2003.

Recognition

Average of six grant applications per year while at UIC, with 68 percent success rate, yielding on average $13,756. External funders include Harvard, Middle Tennessee, and St. Thomas Universities, GLAAD, the APSA and ICA, and SSRC of Canada, U.S. DoS and HUD..

Fellowships

Reilly Visiting Fellow, Manship School, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 2008.

Distinguished Fulbright Chair, University of Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy, 2006.

Shorenstein Fellow, J. F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2001.

Faculty Scholar, Great Cities Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1999–2000.

Visiting Professor, University of La Laguna, Tenerife, 1996; and Syracuse Madrid Center, 1997–1998.

Research Fellow, Media Studies Center, Columbia University, 1991–1992.

Senior Fulbright Award, Universities of Lima, Piura, and Cuzco, Perú, 1989.

Visiting Faculty Member, Poynter Institute for Media Studies, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1988–1989.