Kevin G. Barnhurst

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.

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

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

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 computer typography facility. Managed operations and supervised two assistants.

Member, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. Member, 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 to Assistant Professor, Division of Arts and Humanities, 1982–1986, and Adjunct, 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 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 one hundred communication research articles, essays, book chapters, reviews, and commentaries in leading academic journals, including Media, Culture & Society, Journal of Communication, Political Communication, 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 or keynote speaker at more than fifty 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 United Kingdom.

Delivered more than seventy 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, International Journal of Communication, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Public Opinion Quarterly, International Journal of Press/Politics, Technology & Culture, Visual Communication, Visual Sociology, Visual Studies, Visual Communication Quarterly, Design Issues, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism History, Journalism Studies, Media Ethics, Columbia Journalism Review, Nieman Reports, Editor & Publisher, Quill & Scroll, Sharp News, Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, 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 Time magazine, 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, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Popular Communication, Communication, Culture & Critique, Journalism, Journalism Studies, and Visual Communication Quarterly; Comunicazione Politica, Italy; Brazilian Journalism Research; Latina and Ámbitos, Spain; and others.

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

Category Editor, International Encyclopedia of Political Science (CQ Press), 2005 – present.

Associate Editor, Visual Studies (IVSA), 2001–2008.

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, Arizona State, and Washington State; others.

Grant referee, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada; American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship Program; UN Foundation ICA awards and grants; others.

Editorial consultant for Cambridge, Chicago, and Oxford university presses and trade book 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 170 articles in thirty three peer-reviewed journals, including Communication Theory, International Journal of Communication, Science Communication, Communication, New Media & Society, Convergence, Information Society, International Journal of Press/Politics, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Political Science & Society, Political Communication, Journal of Gay and Lesbian Politics, Journalism Practice, Journalism & Communication Monographs, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, Journal of Advertising, Visual Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Sociological Quarterly, Journal of Australian Studies, 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 and Committee Member for dissertations, UIC; and External Reader for dissertations at other universities: Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, and Navarra, Pamplona, Spain; Sydney, Australia; Syracuse, UIUC, and others.

Curriculum & Instructional Grants, Council for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CETL), 2007; 2009.

National Teaching Award, 1985.

Memberships

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

Conference Service

Co-Chair, Local Host Committee, ICA Convention, Chicago, 2008–2009.

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, Organizing Committee, for Budapest, 2009; La Laguna, Spain, 2009, Puebla, México, 2001.

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

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

Program Planner, Visual Communication Interest Group, ICA Sydney, 1993, and Albuquerque, 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, Logo Redesign Committee, ICA, 2009–2010.

Chair, Political Communication Division, ICA, 2008–2010.

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

Board Member, Center for the Study of Media & Society, GLAAD, 1999–2004.

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

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

Founding Chair, Visual Communication Interest Group, 1993–1994.

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, and U.S. Departments of State and HUD.

Fellowships

Visiting Scholar, University of Tampere, Finland, Fall 2009.

Visiting Scholar, University of Perugia, Italy, April 2009.

Guest Professor, University of Copenhagen, Spring 2009.

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.