Courses in the online program are taught by experienced full-time faculty and a part-time faculty drawn from the profession for their specific expertise and ability to teach. Both full-time and part-time faculty are readily accessible to students.
Full-Time Faculty
Ewa Callahan is an assistant professor of communications, holds a doctorate in Information Science from Indiana University and a master's in history from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Callahan's teaching and research interests relate mainly to the areas of international and intercultural communication, social informatics, children and media, scholarly communication and human-computer interaction. She has published articles in journals such as Annual Review of Information Science and Technology and Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication and actively presents at national and international conferences. Before coming to Quinnipiac, she worked as a systems analyst at Technology Service Corporation and as a researcher at the German National Center for Information Technology.
Alex Halavais an assistant professor of communications, is a social architect, interested in ways of helping form a culture of creativity, freedom and justice. He formerly directed a masters program in informatics at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), and was research director for the New Media Research Lab at the University of Washington. He has worked in marketing for a large financial services firm, designed simulations for NASA, worked as a public school teacher in Japan, and in city government as a budget analyst and planner. Halavais has published articles and book chapters on the role of computing in social change, particularly in journalism, politics, education, and geography. He received a BA in political science from the University of California at Irvine, and a MA and PhD in communication from the University of Washington.
Rich Hanley is an assistant professor of journalism and the graduate program director in the School of Communications. Hanley joined Quinnipiac in 2001 after a long career as a reporter. One of the first online journalists, Hanley contributed articles for Prodigy Information Services in the early 1990s and authored the popular Background on the News module for AOL and CompuServe. As a content producer for Grolier in the 1990s, Hanley spearheaded the shift from publishing the company's encyclopedias on CD-ROM to online. He created and served as the first editor of Brain Jam, the innovative interface for the Academic American Encyclopedia online. He also served as a senior producer with Time magazine's Web site. Hanley has won numerous awards for his online work and earned several Emmy nominations for his documentary films.
Sharon Kleinman is a professor of communications. Her book "Displacing Place: Mobile Communication in the Twenty-first Century" was published in 2007. She is working on a new book titled "The Culture of Efficiency." Her essays about the social implications and history of communication technologies, online communities and online education have been published in books such as "Online Social Research: Methods, Issues, & Ethics" and "The Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications," and in scholarly journals, including the Iowa Journal of Communication and the Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering. She is the recipient of numerous academic awards, including Quinnipiac's Outstanding Faculty Scholar Award and the Anson Rowe Prize from Cornell University.
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