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An independent film producer, director and editor, her professional credits include award-winning and Emmy-nominated videos, which have been shown on public television and in national and international film festivals. Her most recent work, the short drama "Herbert III," won the Best of Festival award in the Broadcast Educators Association 2003 Faculty Video Competition.
Abbott majored in visual studies at Dartmouth College, received an MFA in filmmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MA in American studies from Yale University. She worked at Bennington College in Vermont and Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn., before coming to Quinnipiac in 1999.
To reach Abbott, call 203-582-8313 or e-mail her at rebecca.abbott@quinnipiac.edu
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A graduate of SUNY/Fredonia, Adler holds a master's degree in speech and theater from Purdue University and has taught classes in radio news writing at Fordham University.
Familiar to audiences as anchor of morning news radio shows on WCBS and WOR, New York, Adler was associated with WCBS Radio for over 20 years and named director of news operations and programs in 1971. Under his guidance, news bureaus were established in the tri-state area and a new format was designed and executed, introducing a rapid on-air delivery of breaking news and feature reports. In addition to his management responsibilities at WCBS, Adler anchored the morning news. When he left WCBS, the station was preeminent in radio news throughout the nation.
Joining WOR Radio in 1981 as vice president and news director, he supervised all news and public affairs programming and anchored the morning news program.
In addition to his current responsibilities at Quinnipiac, Adler is president of Eagle Media Productions Ltd., an independent company that produces two 90-second informational programs for radio stations nationwide: one on medicine and the other on law. His company also produces features on health and parenting for distribution to affiliated stations on the CBS Radio Network. He has also been a consultant for United Press International, WCNN Radio in Atlanta, Transworld Communications in Washington, D.C., and Radio New Zealand.
To reach Adler, call 203-582-8939 or e-mail him at lou.adler@quinnipiac.edu.
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Edward Alwood, associate professor of journalism, is available to comment on gays and lesbians in the news media and issues surrounding journalism in the Cold War and McCarthy era.
He is the author of "Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at the Press" and "Straight News: Gays, Lesbians, and the News Media," which was selected by The New York Times as a "Notable Book of the Year."
He was a Washington correspondent from CNN and an on-air reporter in Washington, D.C.; Orlando, Fla.; and Richmond, Va.
He received a BA in journalism and political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MA in public communications from American University and a PhD in journalism/mass communications from the University of North Carolina.
To reach Alwood, call him at 203-582-8441 or e-mail him at edward.alwood@quinnipiac.edu.
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She is a retired FBI agent who, for the last seven years of her career, served as the spokeswoman for the FBI in Connecticut. Through her federal law enforcement career, she investigated political corruption, white-collar crime, violent crime, sexual exploitation of children, terrorism and foreign counterintelligence matters. As spokeswoman, she responded to media inquiries in some of the state's high-profile investigations, including the 2001 anthrax-related death of a Connecticut woman and the bombing of the Yale Law School. Prior to her law enforcement career, Bull was a reporter for six years with the New Haven Register.
She obtained a BA in American history from Westfield State College and plans to begin work on a master's degree in January. She may be contacted at 203-306-7970 or via e-mail at lisa.bull-dilullo@quinnipiac.edu.
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She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degree from Duquesne University and a PhD from the University of Maryland-College Park.
Burns worked as a reporter, producer and radio news anchor in Pittsburgh. She has written extensively about first ladies.
Burns teaches media history, political communication and a seminar on sports, media and culture. She has also offered media training for retired professional athletes as part of Quinnipiac’s Professional Athlete Transition Institute.
To reach Burns, call 203-582-8548 or e-mail her at lisa.burns@quinnipiac.edu.
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She is a graduate of the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras and of the New School for Social Research in New York.
A resident of New Haven, Diaz worked for six years as an editor at the New York Daily News, where she covered television, film, music and the occasional celebrity scandal. She is a contributing writer to Viva New York, the Daily News’ Hispanic affairs monthly magazine, for which she often writes about Hispanics in the United States and about the Puerto Rican island of Vieques and its controversial relationship with the United States Navy.
At Quinnipiac, Diaz teaches news writing, magazine writing, editing and layout and a seminar on film.
To reach Diaz, call 203-582-8785 or e-mail her at margarita.diaz@quinnipiac.edu.
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Kathy Fitzpatrick is a professor of public relations. She has been teaching, writing and counseling on matters related to public diplomacy, public relations and communication law and ethics for more than 20 years.
Fitzpatrick has published extensively in leading scholarly and professional journals, frequently speaks at scholarly and industry forums and serves on the editorial review boards of Journal of Public Relations Research, Public Relations Review and the Journal of Mass Media Ethics. A recent work, "Advancing the New Public Diplomacy: A Public Relations Perspective" appeared in The Hague Journal of Diplomacy in 2007.
Her most recent book, "Ethics in Public Relations: Responsible Advocacy," was published by Sage in 2006. She received her juris doctor degree from Southern Methodist University and master's and bachelor's degrees in journalism from West Virginia University.
To reach Fitzpatrick, call 203-582-3808 or e-mail kathy.fitzpatrick@quinnipiac.edu.
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Foery received his MA, MFA and PhD from Columbia University in New York and his BA from the University of Notre Dame. He teaches undergraduate courses in media history and seminars on specific film directors (this year Hitchcock and Coppola, for example). He is working on a book on Hitchcock's penultimate film, "Frenzy."
To reach Foery, e-mail raymond.foery@quinnipiac.edu.
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John Macleod Gourlie, a professor of communications and English, is available to discuss film, popular culture, history of the media and ecology. Most recent of his publications are two essays in "Sam Peckinpah’s West." He regularly presents papers at the Western Literary Association and the Popular Culture Association meetings.
Gourlie earned his BA from Yale University and both an MA and PhD from New York University.
To reach Gourlie, call 203-582-8713 or e-mail him at john.gourlie@quinnipiac.edu.
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Halavais was formerly research director for the New Media Research Lab at the University of Washington and directed the master’s program in informatics at the University at Buffalo before joining the Quinnipiac faculty in 2006. He has published articles and book chapters on the role of computing in social change, particularly in politics, journalism, education and geography. He has also edited an anthology of writings on cyberpornography and society.
He received a PhD in communications from the University of Washington and a BA in political science from the University of California at Irvine.
He maintains a blog at http://alex.halavais.net.
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Originally from Uniondale, N.Y., Hancock was chief political reporter host of the Sunday morning political affairs show "Beyond the Headlines" at WTIC-TV Fox 61 in Hartford.
Hancock covered the 2000 Presidential election. He traveled extensively with US Senator Joe Lieberman in his historic bid to become the country's first Jewish Vice President. Hancock also interviewed President Clinton while on a walking tour of a middle-class neighborhood in Washington, D.C., just after he was elected in 1992.
Hancock was the lead reporter for two regional team Emmy awards at Fox 61: coverage of the death of six firefighters in Worcester, Mass., and coverage of OpSail 2000, a sailboat exhibition in New London.
He was deputy communications director for Washington, D.C., from 1988 to 1990 and communications director from 1990 to 1991, all under Mayor Marion Barry.
Hancock earned a master's degree in e-media from Quinnipiac and a bachelor's degree in political science and communications from Howard University in Washington, D.C., in 1985.
To reach Hancock, call 203-582-8501 or e-mail him at Rick.Hancock@quinnipiac.edu.
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Rich Hanley is an assistant professor of interactive communications and graduate program director in the School of Communications. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Journalism and graduate courses in Interactive Communications. Hanley is a pop-culture expert who teaches courses in interactive writing for news, entertainment and strategic communications.
Hanley received his MA from Wesleyan University and his BA from the University of New Haven. He is presently completing doctoral studies at the University of Rhode Island. Hanley is a frequent contributor to "The O'Reilly Report" and MSNBC.com on the media, the Internet and related topics. He has earned several Emmy nominations for his documentary films.
To reach Hanley, call 203-582-8439 or e-mail him at rich.hanley@quinnipiac.edu
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Janensch earned his bachelor's degree in philosophy from Georgetown University and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. At Quinnipiac, he teaches graduate and undergraduate journalism. He was a news professional for 30 years and served as the top editor of The Louisville Courier-Journal, The Journal-News in Nyack, N.Y., and The Worcester (Mass.) Telegram & Gazette. He worked as a newspaper consultant in Russia and has visited China four times. He writes the "Professor News" column for The Connecticut Post of Bridgeport and comments weekly about the news media on the five stations of WNPR Connecticut Public Radio. Janensch has been interviewed frequently by regional and national media.
To reach Janensch, call 203-582-8932 or e-mail him at paul.janensch@quinnipiac.edu
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Sharon S. Kleinman is professor of communications. She is available to discuss the social implications and history of communication technologies, online education and mobile communication technologies.
Her scholarly writing on these subjects has been published in edited books, such as Online Social Research: Methods, Issues, & Ethics (Peter Lang Publishing, 2004) and the Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications (Academic Press, 2003), and in academic journals, such as the Iowa Journal of Communication and the Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering. Her book Displacing Place: Mobile Communication in the Twenty-first Century was published by Peter Lang Publishing in 2007 (www.displacingplace.org).
Kleinman earned a BA from Brandeis University and an MS and PhD from Cornell University.
To reach Kleinman e-mail her at sharon.kleinman@quinnipiac.edu
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Grace Ferrari Levine, a professor of communications and director of the Communications Internship Program, can address issues relating to educational television, where she has worked as a producer/director, the value and purpose of internships in communications, as well as principles of media law and ethics, communication theory and media research.
Her work has been published in the Journal of Communication, Journalism Quarterly and The Journal of Mass Media Ethics, and she has made presentations at national and international communications conferences.
Levine earned an MA from Pennsylvania State University and a PhD from the University of Massachusetts.
To reach Levine, call 203-582-8470 or e-mail her at grace.levine@quinnipiac.edu.
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Maccarella most recently was employed as a project manager at the New York Stock Exchange in the department of technology and Web communications, where he led company initiatives on metrics and analytics across all NYSE Web properties. Prior to NYSE, Maccarella was employed as a Web programmer, game developer and educational courseware producer.
A Connecticut native, Maccarella earned a BS from University of Connecticut and a terminal Masters Degree from New York University. He joined Quinnipiac after several years of teaching at City University of New York and Naugatuck Valley Community College. His research interests include interactive video, programmatic animation and human-computer interaction.
Maccarella can be reached at 203-598-8466 or david.maccarella@quinnipiac.edu
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Bill McLaughlin, associate professor of communications, is available to discuss media issues, international terrorism, French politics and the Middle East.
A native of New York City, McLaughlin is a graduate of Fordham University and has studied at the Sorbonne. He was a national and foreign television network news correspondent for more than a quarter century, covering virtually every major news event around the world. Prior to joining Quinnipiac as broadcast journalist in residence, McLaughlin was a foreign correspondent for CBS News in London, covering such stories as the unification of Germany; the Gulf War; Israeli politics and the intifada; and the bombing of Pan Am 103, a story he broke. Previously, he served as the CBS News State Department correspondent in Washington, D.C., where he reported the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut; the downing of KAL-007 (for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award); and the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon.
McLaughlin spent two years at NBC News as United Nations correspondent and wrote and co-produced documentaries, for which he received an Emmy nomination and won a Humanitas Prize and a George Foster Peabody Award.
He joined CBS News in 1966 as a correspondent in Paris. His major assignments ranged from the Six-Day War to the Vietnam/Paris peace talks. In 1968, he was named bureau chief in Bonn and later in Beirut. In 1974, he won the Overseas Press Club Award for the best foreign affairs documentary, "The Palestinians." Before returning to New York in 1977, he was a war correspondent in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. In New York, he specialized in extensive segments on foreign affairs for the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. His coverage of the attack on the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich earned him an Overseas Press Club Team Award.
To reach McLaughlin, call 203-582-8961 or e-mail him at william.mclaughlin@quinnipiac.edu.
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O'Brien recieved his MFA from The Art Institute of Chicago, a master's from the University of Rhode Island and a bachelor's from Fairfield University. He has worked in a variety of production positions at Universal and Orion and on 15 independent theatrical feature films made on four continents. He has written, directed and produced several documentaries for the Discovery Channel and TBS, among others.
To reach O'Brien, call 203-582-8438 or e-mail him at lobrien@quinnipiac.edu
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Karin Schwanbeck, assistant professor of journalism, is available to discuss print and broadcast journalism.
She oversees the weekly production of QNN (live TV newscast) and writes for national journalism trade magazines including News Photographer and Communicator. She is also the adviser for Quinnipiac's chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. She was a television reporter for 12 years prior to her teaching career.
She received her BA from Indiana University, Bloomington and an MS from Northwestern University.
To reach Schwanbeck, call 203-582-5391 or e-mail karin.schwanbeck@quinnipiac.edu
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Vicki Todd, assistant professor, is available to discuss public relations students' skill levels, attitudes and apprehension regarding their public relations writing abilities. She can also discuss public relations students' computer apprehension and skill levels.
Todd received both an MA and EdD from Texas Tech University. She has worked in the advertising, public relations and higher education fields for several years. She was a media buyer for the Lipscomb & Associates advertising agency in Lubbock, Texas, and she created promotions for the NightLife artists and speakers cultural events series at Texas Tech University. Todd taught advertising and public relations courses in the School of Mass Communications at Texas Tech University, including public relations media, advertising writing and advertising creative strategies. She presented a paper, "Writing Apprehension Among Mass Communications Majors," at the Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication Symposium. She currently teaches Principles of Public Relations and Nonprofit Public Relations.
To reach Todd, call 203-582-8330 or e-mail vicki.todd@quinnipiac.edu
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Prior to Quinnipiac, Wise taught public relations at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, the University of Florida in Gainesville, Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, and DePaul University in Chicago.
Wise has published in the Journal of Public Relations Research, Public Relations Review, Public Relations Quarterly and the Journal of Health and Human Services Administration. His most recent article will be published in Health Marketing Quarterly later this year. Wise has presented before various organizations including the Public Relations Society of America, the National Public Health Information Coalition, the National Public Health Leadership Institute, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and the International Communication Association.
To reach Wise, call 203-582-3808 or e-mail kurt.wise@quinnipiac.edu
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Nancy E. Worthington is professor of communications. Her area of interests are media’s relationship to identity and cross-cultural media analysis.
She teaches courses such as media and society, diversity in the media, media audiences and mass-mediated crime. Her research has appeared in the Journal of Communication Inquiry, Popular Communication and Women’s Studies in Communication. She routinely presents papers to national and international communications conferences.
Worthington was recently selected to be a delegate to the Oxford Round Table on Gender and Human Rights at Oxford University, England.
To reach Worthington, call 203-582-8059 or e-mail her at nancy.worthington@quinnipiac.edu