Past Faculty

Anthony C. Adornato joined the broadcast and digital journalism department in 2022 as an associate professor and department chair. His teaching and research focus on

Arielle Emmett, Ph.D. comes to ieiMedia from the University of Hong Kong Journalism & Media Studies Centre (2013) and Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia on a Fulbright

Ashley Colburn began her career as a host, producer, and writer for Wealth TV in 2009. She produced her first travel show ”WOW Croatia!” which

Beth Hoffman is an Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the University of San Francisco, where she teaches journalism, audio production and food media. She has

Brenda Witherspoon is a teaching professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. Her early career included

Bruce Strong is the Alexia endowed chair and an associate professor of visual communications at Syracuse University’s S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. As

Bruno has practiced the study and mastery of art since earning his degree from Northridge University in 1982. A native Italian, Bruno is fluent in

In what has turned out to be a delightfully varied communications career, Claudia Strong began as a newspaper journalist after earning a Bachelor of Science

Clemente Lisi is an affiliate assistant professor of journalism at The King’s College in New York, co-director of the NYC Semester in Journalism program and

Curt Chandler died on January 31, 2022. Chandler taught multimedia reporting and entrepreneurial journalism at Penn State University. In 2017 he was the multimedia coach

After graduating Darcy worked for various photography studios before focusing on print journalism, contributing writing and photography to Spokane, Wa alt weekly newspaper The Pacific

David Wang is an Associate Professor at James Madison University. With more than twenty years of industry experience, he has worked as an art director, photographer, and

Doug Cumming, Ph.D. is an associate professor of journalism at Washington & Lee University with 26 years experience at metro newspapers and magazines. Since getting

Douglas Quin is a sound designer, naturalist, public radio commentator, educator and music composer. For the past 30 years Quin has traveled widely documenting the

James Carviou is an assistant professor of convergent journalism and public relations in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Missouri Western State University. He

John Shrader (Valencia, Spain Director) is an assistant professor of Broadcasting at the University of Nebraska. He teaches courses in broadcast journalism, including news and

John Thomas Rose is a photographer and educator based in Southern California. For ten years he’s been the staff adviser to the student newspaper at

Judy Dobler, Ph.D. is retired from the Writing Department at Loyola University (Md.). Her contributions in developing standards, pedagogy and structure in the formative years

Katya Komarova (public relations faculty) is a visiting instructor at the Zimmerman School of Advertising and Mass Communications at the University of South Florida, where she

Kris Morehouse graduated with honors with an MS in Journalism from the University of Kansas, one of the top journalism schools in the country. Her

Kurt Lancaster is a professor of creative media and film at Northern Arizona University. He is the author of DSLR Cinema (Focal Press), Video Journalism

Leah Stacy is an assistant professor in professional practice at Nazareth College and has worked as an arts journalist and entrepreneur. She started her career in

Lisa A. Phillips is an associate professor of journalism and department chair at the State University of New York at New Paltz, where she teaches courses

Lori Listopad is currently the director of residence life at the University of Jamestown. Her graduate and undergraduate degrees are in mass communication. Prior to working

Michael Finch Ph.D., is an assistant professor of communication and student media adviser at Lee University in Tennessee. Finch worked as a journalist and then became

Michael Gold has been a writer, editor, and manager at award-winning publications, in print and online. He started his career as a reporter at the Bergen

Micheal McAlexander is a university professor, feature film director and screenwriter. He has worked in entertainment-related positions for over twenty years including U.S. segment producer

Nancy Andrews was the Ogden Newspapers Visiting Professor in Media Innovation in the Reed College of Media at the University of West Virginia. Andrews joined the

Pawel Wyszomirski (Photography – ieiMedia Fellow) is a freelance photographer from Gdansk, Poland, and cofounder of the photo community Testigo, a collective of photographers and

Peter Wayner is a videographer and writer from Rochester, New York. He grew up hearing stories from his grandfather, a World War II vet who farmed

Regina Krex was born in a village near Berlin and is a veteran journalist who has covered the region from before the unification of Germany