Perpignan Faculty

Michael Dorsher Ph.D. (Reporting) is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and president of the Fulbright Association-Minnesota Chapter. He was a Fulbright Scholar at McGill University in Montréal in 2008-09. Conversant in French and Spanish, he’s leading a team of journalism students on a multimedia, bilingual reporting trip to Peru in January 2012, and he taught Web design at Harlaxton College in the U.K. in 2008. Before earning a doctorate from the University of Maryland in 1999 and joining the UW-Eau Claire faculty in 2000, he was an award-winning journalist for 20 years, capped by four years as a founding editor of washingtonpost.com. He is the co-author of “Controversies in Media Ethics” (2011, Routledge), its website, “The Encyclopedia of Journalism” (2009, Sage) and dozens of websites with his students.

Ron Hollander (Reporting) has a career divided between teaching and practicing journalism. He has directed and is a professor in the journalism program at Montclair State University (NJ) where he twice won best newspaper adviser from College Media Advisers. Ron had a Fulbright for two years in Beijing where he taught, and wrote for China Daily. He also directs Jewish American Studies, and teaches on the Holocaust and the Press. He won awards reporting for Cablevision TV, and wrote for “CBS This Morning” news anchors including Charles Osgood, Charlie Rose, Bob Schieffer, and Diane Sawyer. He’s been staff reporter on papers from Alaska to Mississippi, including Newsday and NY Post, and had a Knight Fellowship at the Baltimore Sun. Ron was contributing editor at Town & Country, and a travel writer for the NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times and SF Chronicle, among others. His book, “All Aboard!” (Workman) was #61 on Amazon, and he’s appeared with Oprah and Tom Snyder.

Courtney O’Brien-Brown (Video) has been working in the film/video industry for the past six years. She has worked across genres, from feature films to animation, in a variety of editing, production and post production positions. She recently edited a short film, which won the “Today Award” at the Berlin International Film Festival. Born in Australia, she migrates for six months every year to Perpignan, in time for the European summer. During her stays, she has immersed herself in the culture & history of the region. She worked with The Perpignan Project in 2010 and returned in 2011.