Urbino Faculty
Steve Anderson
Steve Anderson, Ph.D. (Urbino, Italy) is a professor emeritus in the School of Media Arts & Design at James Madison University. Prior to entering academe, Anderson was an environmental reporter and weathercaster for KCNC television, a network O&O station in Denver, Colorado. His reporting often involved in-depth examination of local and regional environmental issues and…
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Susan Biddle
Susan Biddle was a Washington Post staff photographer for thirteen years and now freelances for the Post as well as other publications and organizations. She began her career photographing for the Peace Corps and later worked as a staff photographer for the Topeka Capital-Journal and the Denver Post. After five years at the Denver Post she…
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Francesca Carducci
Francesca Carducci (Italian Language/Urbino Interpreter Supervisor) received her degree in Pharmacy at the University of Urbino. She teaches English and is a lecturer (CEL) in the Department of Modern Literature and Philological-Linguistic Sciences at the University of Urbino. She is a member of the CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) staff of the faculty of…
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Doug Cumming
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 a Ph.D. at UNC-Chapel Hill in mass communications, he has taught multimedia reporting and feature writing at Loyola University-New Orleans and at W&L in Virginia. Earlier, he worked at the…
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Dorian Geiger
Dorian Geiger, an ieiMedia Urbino alum, is an award-winning Canadian journalist, producer, and filmmaker based in New York City. He has a diverse background in breaking news, digital video, and media strategy and is a currently a full-time writer-producer at LinkedIn News. He also serves as a part-time national crime reporter for NBC Universal. His journalism has been featured…
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Michael Gold
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 County (NJ) Record and the Boston Herald American. He was a founding writer and editor for Science 80, which won three National Magazine Awards while he was there. In 1986,…
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Marie Gould
Before joining iei Media as the Director of Admissions and Communication, Marie Gould ran a service learning program for Tulane University in New Orleans. She has extensive experience working with college students there and as a field ranger for the United States Forest Service in Colorado where she supervised college students working as interns at her…
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Rustin Greene
Rustin Greene spent his first career as a television writer/producer/director, earning two Los Angeles Area EMMY awards and three Cable ACE awards. Rusty is now in his second career, teaching in James Madison University’s School of Media Arts and Design. Rusty continues to write and produce, and his programs have earned several awards, including a third…
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Barry Janes
Barry Janes works and teaches electronic media theory, programming and technology at Rider University. He has been a producer, director and/or writer of more than 100 video productions, and has advised numerous corporations, non-profit organizations and municipalities. Dr. Janes’ research interests include Broadcast Programming and History, and, most recently, the effective use of computer-based asynchronous technologies…
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Elisabeth Kvernen
Elisabeth Kvernen is a graphic designer and communications specialist with more than a decade of experience working in multiple design disciplines. She has worked with non-profit organizations, cultural institutions, universities, and small businesses — both locally and globally. Past clients include the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, the Louvre Museum, the New York Public…
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Kathryn Lancioni
Kathryn Lancioni is lecturer in the School of Commuication and Information at Rutgers University. She is an award-winning, internationally recognized expert in the field of communications and was recently named as one of PR News' "People of the Year" in 2023. Her expertise lies in the intersection of communication, technology, and society. With more than…
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Greg Luft
Greg Luft has recently been appointed as the interim Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Colorado State University. Prior to that he as held a position with the university as a professor and chair of the Journalism and Media Communication department. His professional work before and during his academic career includes television news reporting and…
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Bob Marshall
Bob Marshall is a New Orleans journalist whose reporting on Louisiana coastal issues at The Times-Picayune and The Lens has been recognized by two Pulitzer Prizes; the John H. Oakes Prize for Distinguished Environmental Reporting from Columbia University; the Keck Award for best science reporting from The National Academies of Sciences, a national Edward Murrow Award…
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Robert A. Reeder
Robert A. Reeder has taught photojournalism as well as mentored graduate photojournalism students at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, DC. Prior to that he lived and worked in Amman, Jordan and in Chisinau, Moldova, photographing political struggles in the former Soviet state while also teaching at the Independent Journalism Center. He retired…
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Susan West
Susan West is a principal at West Gold Editorial consulting, where she has helped launch magazines such as Dwell, trained online editors at websites such as BabyCenter, and advised publications from the New England Journal of Medicine to Cooking Light and Acoustic Guitar. With an M.S. in science journalism from the University of Missouri at Columbia,…
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