Cagli Project Professors |
Kevin Atticks (2003)
Dr. Atticks has been
a member of the Communication faculty since 1999. After double-majoring
in journalism and music composition at Loyola, he traveled to Boulder,
Colorado, where he received a MA in environmental journalism. Dr.
Atticks teaches journalism and graphic design at Loyola and in
his spare time writes about wine. He received his DCD (doctorate
in communications design) from the University of Baltimore in 2002
where he studied Internet design and the effectiveness of e-advocacy.
While Dr. Atticks was on the faculty in Cagli last year, this year
he is working as an assistant to the director for training the
graduate assistants and preparing the various technology and software
required for the program.
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Michael Braden, S.J. (2002 - 2005)
Father
Braden came to Loyola in 1999 from Loyola University of New Orleans,
where he taught in The Broadcast Sequence and International Media
Issues. Since coming
to Loyola College in Maryland, he has developed the video component
of the Digital Media emphasis and has also set up the college’s
radio and TV studios to support the curriculum and to enable
students to develop their own programs for internal campus distribution.
Father Braden earned his doctorate in International Communications
at the
University of Illinois (Champaign). His creative endeavors focus
on the making of documentary films. Fr. Braden has been a member
of the Cagli faculty since its inception two years ago
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John Caputo (2003 - 2005)
Dr. Caputo
is Professor in the Department of Communication Arts at Gonzaga
Univerisity in Spokane, Washington, He earned his Ph.D. from the
Claremont Graduate School and University Center. He has been teaching
communication courses for more than 30 years. His areas of expertise
include media and social values, communication theory, intercultural
and interpersonal communication. He is the author of four books:
Dimensions of Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Communicating
Effectively: Linking Thought and Expression; and McDonaldization
Revisited: Critical Essays on Consumer Culture. Dr. Caputo has
been honored as a Visiting Scholar In-Residence at the University
of Kent at Canterbury, England and the Masters Program
in Media and Communication at the Universita de Firenze, Italy.
He is a returning faculty member from last year’s Cagli program.
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Andrew Ciofalo (2002-2005)
Prof.
Ciofalo, director and founder of the Cagli Program, has been teaching
journalism at Loyola College since the inception of the Communication
Department 20 years ago. Since earning his Master’s in Journalism from
Columbia University, he has had a varied career in media, including
publications and higher education. He has become known for his
op-ed writing and has published several academic articles on the
topic. His most recent publication is his essay, “The Muse
in the News,” which explores
the relationship between journalism and poetry. Prof. Ciofalo teaches
Loyola’s popular on-line travel writing course. Known for
his emphasis on experiential learning, students in his class regularly
create books and magazines.
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Joel Davies (2004 - 2005)
A native of Omaha,
Nebraska, Joel Davies is the Director of the Graphic Design Program
at Creighton
University.
Joel earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Drawing from Creighton
and Master of Fine Arts in Multimedia Design from Indiana State
University. Since returning to Creighton after graduate school,
he developed
the curriculum for the interdisciplinary Graphic Design major,
and was given the Father William Kelley, S.J. Outstanding Teaching
Achievement
Award in 2000. Joel’s research interests include design ethics
and professional advocacy, and recently retired as
a chapter president of the American Institute of Graphic Arts.
He has been a visiting artist and lecturer at several schools,
studios and
design
conferences.
Joel
is also
an active freelance designer, working for local and international
clients on print, interactive and identity design.
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Judith Dobler (2002, 2004, 2005)
Dr.
Dobler (Ciofalo) has also been on the Communication Department
faculty since its inception. Immediately after earning her doctorate
at the University of Iowa, she came to Loyola to play a significant
role in the college’s
groundbreaking Writing-Across-the-Curriculum program, which was
funded by a major national grant. In addition to specializing in
the teaching of essay writing, she heads the department’s
Empirical Rhetoric program, which gives qualified entering freshmen
opportunities to do more advanced writing. Dr. Dobler also chairs
the college’s Gender Studies Program. Her academic research
agenda focuses on the development and use of metaphor in early
scientific writing, an interest that is expressed in one of her
courses, “Translating the Secrets of Science.” Dr.
Dobler was instrumental in shaping the Cagli program during her
stint on the faculty in Cagli during its inaugural year.
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Luciana Guerriero (2004)
Prof.
Guerriero is a writing instructor at Loyola College with a strong
Italian focus in her academic career.. She holds an M.A. in English
from Arizona State, where she specialized in linguistics and wrote
her thesis on”Southern Italian Immigrant Women in Conversation:
Bella Figura in Italian Dialect Speech.” Her undergraduate
major at Salem State College combined public relations and Italian
language. She studied Italian for two years at the Universita Per
Gli Stranieri in Perugia, Italy.
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Dr. Francesco Mansi (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005)
Dr.
Mansi, who was born and raised in Italy, has lived, studied and
taught extensively abroad. He holds a Laurea in Lettere Moderne
from the University of Urbino and a Ph.D. in Italian language and
Literature from Rutgers University. He is one of the founders of
Atrium.
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John Early McIntyre (2004)
Prof.
McIntyre is a veteran of the adjunct corps at Loyola, where he
has been a fixture in the journalism specialization teaching copy
editing since 1995. He is a co-founder of Loyola’s “Sun
Practicum,” in which undergraduates are afforded an opportunity
to write significant feature articles for the Sun on a freelance
basis. Prof. McIntyre, assistant managing editor for the copy desk
at The Baltimore Sun, has been a copy editor since 1980. He grew
up in Elizaville, Ky., and worked on the weekly Flemingsburg Gazette
in high school and college. After earning a B.A. in English from
Michigan State University and an M.A. in English from Syracuse
University, where he was ABD in the doctoral program in English
he went to work on the copy desk at The Cincinnati Enquirer. Hired
at The Sun in 1986, he has been successively a rim editor, slot
editor, deputy chief of the copy desk and chief of the copy desk.
He was named an Assistant Managing Editor in 2000. A charter member
of the American Copy Editors Society, he is serving a second term
as its president. He is a frequent consultant to daily newspapers
nationally on the fine points of writing and editing.
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George Miller (2003 - 2005)
Mr.
Miller is a 1993 graduate of Loyola’s Communication department, after
which he went on to earn an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University
(1997). He worked briefly for the York Dispatch and Sunday News
before being hired as a staff photographer for the Philadelphia
Daily News in 1994. During his tenure at the Daily News, Miller
has received numerous awards for his images in contests locally
and nationally. He remains a staffer at the Daily News and freelances
as a writer for various publications including the Philadelphia
Inquirer. He is also an adjunct professor of photography at Wilmington
College. In May 2003, he completed a master of liberal arts degree
with a specialty in creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania.
He is a returning faculty member from last year’s Cagli team.
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Paul De Palma (2004 - 2005)
Prof.
De Palma is an Associate Professor of mathematics and Computer
Science at Gonzaga University. He is one of those rare hybrids
who combines the arts and the sciences, holding the M.S. in English
from University of California at Berkeley and the M.S. in Computer
Science from Temple University, and he has taken just about every
Italian course that Gonzaga’s Department of Modern Languages
offers. His honors and awards include an essay in Best American
Nature and Science Writing, 2000, University Fellow at Temple,
and Woodrow Wilson Fellow at U.C. Berkeley. He is putting the finishing
touches on his forthcoming book on the experience of computing:
Dim Sum for the Mind.
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Eileen Wirth (2004)
Dr. Wirth is
chair of the Journalism Department at Creighton University in Omaha,
Nebraska. She holds the doctorate in Political Science from the
University of Nebraska (Dissertation: “The Impact of State Shield Laws on Investigative
Reporting”), the M.A. in Journalism from Nebraska (Thesis: “Farm
Women and the Mass Media”) and another M.A. in Political
Science at the University of Minnesota. She was a reporter for
the Omaha
Herald World from 1969 to 1980. Dr. Wirth continues to maintain
a strong presence in professional media while she contributes significantly
to scholarly publications, Her most recent book, Effective Catholic
School Public Relations: A Book of Cases, has been well reviewed.
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