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An independent film producer, director and editor, her professional credits include award-winning videos, which have been shown on public television and in national and international film festivals. Her most recent works include the regional Emmy award-winning documentary "Albert Schweitzer: My Life is My Argument," which explores the life of doctor and Nobel peace prize winner Albert Schweitzer; and the feature-length documentary "No Unwounded Soldiers," which explores the lasting impact of war on veterans, families and communities, and the roles that drama and other arts play in healing.
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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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 for 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 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. Her new book, "First Ladies and the Fourth Estate," was published in August 2008.
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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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, "The Future of U.S. Public Diplomacy: An Uncertain Fate," was published in 2009. 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."
Foery is also interested in European cinema, especially that of the French. He has edited an arts journal ("The Downtown Review") devoted to independent cinema and related art forms. He is an associate fellow of Trumbull College at Yale and a panel chair at the annual meetings of the Popular Culture Association. He is currently developing a scholarly study of the work of Spike Lee.
To reach Foery, e-mail raymond.foery@quinnipiac.edu.
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Golden's background includes technical support and systems administration, as well as custom audio/video design and programming. He holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Quinnipiac and a master's in educational technology from the University of Connecticut. Golden studied digital video at Yale University and holds certifications from Microsoft and Crestron. Golden also teaches Web design, animation and digital video at Yale University's Digital Media Center for the Arts.
To reach Golden, e-mail him at kent.golden@quinnipiac.edu.
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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 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 politics, journalism, education and geography. He has also edited an anthology of writings on cyberpornography and society, and his most recent book is "Search Engine Society," published by Polity Press in 2008.
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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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 has appeared on "The O'Reilly Report" and MSNBC.com to discuss 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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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). She is working on a new book, "The Culture of Efficiency," which will also be published by Peter Lang (www.cultureofefficiency.org). This volume examines what it means to live in a culture that emphasizes multitasking, mobility and efficiency, and what it means to live during an era in which we quantify activities down to the nanosecond--a billionth of a second.
Kleinman earned a BA from Brandeis University and an MS and a PhD from Cornell University.
To reach Kleinman, e-mail her at sharon.kleinman@quinnipiac.edu.
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Before earning his PhD from the University of Florida, Laskin worked in international investor relations for a Russian corporation. He also holds a master's degree in international business from the University of Florida and a master's degree in communication studies from the University of Northern Iowa.
Laskin's two most recent research projects focus on reporting of intangibles assets by U.S. corporations and the American students' attitudes toward the Russian Federation.
To reach Laskin, call 203-582-8470 or e-mail alexander.laskin@quinnipiac.edu
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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 203-582-8211 or e-mail her at grace.levine@quinnipiac.edu.
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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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His professional credits include Emmy and other award-winning documentaries that have been shown on public television, in national and international film festivals and broadcast internationally. His research interests include: theatrical feature film, television and interactive media production in Ireland, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States; propaganda and disinformation during wartime and natural history and adventure documentary filmmaking. He has worked as a director and/or producer for Discovery Communications, Turner Broadcasting, National Wildlife Productions, Audubon Productions and CBS News and has served in a variety of production capacities on over a dozen feature films.
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.
To reach O'Brien, call 203-582-8438 or e-mail him at lobrien@quinnipiac.edu.
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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, an MS from Northwestern University and an MALS degree from Wesleyan University.
To reach Schwanbeck, call 203-582-5391 or e-mail karin.schwanbeck@quinnipiac.edu
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Simon has been creating productions using interactive media and the Internet for almost 20 years. He specializes in user interface design and information architecture for Web sites including the use of film and video. He has spoken at national conferences on health science communications and Web-based learning.
Simon spent 22 years at Yale University working as a video producer, managing editor of the Center for Advanced Instructional Media, director of the Department of Biomedical Communications, and director of operations for Web design and development at the Yale School of Medicine.
He has also worked as a freelance video producer, photographer and computer graphics designer.
Simon holds a bachelor's degree in printmaking from the University of the Arts in Philiadelphia, Penn., and a master's degree in liberal studies from Wesleyan University.
To reach Simon, call 203-582-8274 or e-mail him at phillip.simon@quinnipiac.edu.
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Sisco earned her bachelor's degree from Virginia Tech, a master's degree from Radford University and a PhD from the University of South Carolina. Prior to Quinnipiac, she worked in nonprofit and higher education public relations.
To reach Sisco, call 203-582-3682 or e-mail her at hilary.fussellsisco@quinnipiac.edu.
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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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Vanc has worked in Romanian presidential and parliamentary electoral campaigns, as well as in the sports public relations field. Her research interests include public diplomacy and international public relations. Her recent research projects focus on U.S. public diplomacy in former Eastern Europe communist countries, and on the influence of societal culture on public relations practices in Romania.
Vanc received her MS from Jackson State University and a BA from Banatul University. She is presently completing doctoral studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
To reach Vanc, call 203-582-3836 or e-mail her at antoneta.vanc@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, Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, and Health Marketing Quarterly. 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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She teaches courses such as media and society, diversity in the media, media audiences, cross-cultural media analysis, and mass-mediated crime. Worthington's recent studies examine news about rape in the U.S. and South Africa. 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.