EDUCATION
-- Ph.D. in Mass Communication, University of Maryland, College Park, Md. 8/94-12/03. Dissertation: "Reason and Radicalism: The History of Donna Allen and Women's Activism in Media"
-- Master of Liberal Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C, 8/86-5/89. GPA 3.8.
-- Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, Northeast Louisiana
University, Monroe, La., 9/71-5/75. Honors graduate in journalism.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
-- Adjunct Professor -- Writing for the Mass Media, Journalism 201, University of Maryland University College Distance Education, present.
-- Guest Lecturer, News Writing, Journalism 201, University of Maryland, 10/94.
-- Adjunct Professor, Broadcast News Writing, Journalism 360, University of Maryland, 8/94-1/95.
-- Guest Lecturer, News Reporting, Journalism 101, University
of Maryland,10/92.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
BProducer, CBS News Face the Nation, present.
-- Assignment editor, CBS News-Washington, 1/94-present.
-- Free-lance writer, The Washington Post Magazine,
The New York Times Section II, The Washington Post Travel Section,
the American Society of Newspaper Editors, ARyan=s
Hope: An Adoptive Father=s Story@ book proposal,
CBS.com, Discovery.com.
-- Writer, CBS News ANightwatch@, 10/89-1/94.
-- Writer/Producer, CNN Washington, 7/89-10/89.
-- Reporter, international affairs, United Press International,
Capitol Hill, State Department, White House, Washington,
D.C., 87-89.
-- Washington desk editor, United Press International,
84-87.
-- National desk editor, United Press International
World Headquarters, New York City, 83-84.
-- Broadcast writer, United Press International Broadcast
Hub, Chicago, 1980-83.
-- State desk editor, United Press International,
Dallas, Texas, 1977-80.
-- Reporter, city hall, police beat, Monroe Morning
World, Gannett Newspapers, Monroe, La., 1975-77.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
-- Newspaper Coverage of the U.N. Fourth World Conference on
Women: A Feminist/Cultural Perspective
Presented at the 3rd Annual Mid-Atlantic Graduate Communication
Conference, Rutgers University, 3/97.
--Making the Case for Feminist Theories in the Mass Communication
Academy: A Research Proposal
Presented at the 4th Annual Mid-Atlantic Graduate Communication
Conference, Penn State University, 5/99.
--CNN and Global Television News: War, Technology, Power, and
Feminisms on Your Cable TV Dial
Presented at the 4th Annual Mid-Atlantic Graduate Communication
Conference, Penn State University, 5/99.
BHeavy News Media Users= Emotional Responses to Internet Images
of Emotion, Power, and Role in the Public Sphere
Presented to the Information Systems Division of the International
Communication Association, May, 1999, San Francisco, CA.
PANELS
-- AOne Hundred and Fifty Years Later: A Tribute to Elizabeth Cady Stanton,@participant at the national convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, sponsored by the History Division and the Committee on the Status of Women, 8/98. TOPIC: Third Wave Feminism
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
B AThird Wave Feminism,@ CLIO, Newsletter of
the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism
and Mass Communication, Fall, 1998.
CLASSES COMPLETED
-- Fall 1994: JOUR 700, Introduction to Doctoral Studies;
JOUR 600, Research Methods.
-- Spring 1995: JOUR 601, Theories of Mass Communication.
-- Summer 1995: WMST 400, Feminist Theory.
-- Fall 1995: JOUR 818, New Technologies and the Media.
-- Spring 1996: JOUR 711, Qualitative Methods in Journalism.
-- Summer 1996: EDHD 721, Learning Theory.
-- Fall 1996: GVPT 848, Advanced Feminist Theory.
-- Spring 1997: WMST 699, Global Television.
-- Summer 1997: EDMS 645, Statistics.
-- Fall 1997: JOUR 889: Doctoral Tutorial in Journalism
(on mass comm and cognition); PSYCH 607, Advanced Topics in Human
Learning.
-- Spring 1998: JOUR 889: Doctoral Tutorial in Journalism
(on women in communication).
-- Spring 1999: JOUR 818: New Technologies and the Media
Part II.
SERVICE
-- Journalism Technology Laboratory B graduate student member.
-- Graduate Student Committee Chair, Broadcast sequence,
U of Md., 1998
-- President-elect, Women in Communications, 1995.
-- Chairperson, University Liaison, Women in Communications,
1994.
-- Chairperson, Winter Festival Fund-raiser, Learning Center
for Young Children, 1997-1998.
-- President, Lambert Cooperative Association, 1990
AWARDS and HONORS
B AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women Mary Gardner Research
Award. Awarded 8/2001.
B Prof. Thomas J. Aylward Journalism Scholarship, University of
Maryland. Awarded 11/99.
-- API writer's workshop delegate.
-- Study delegate to Israel.
-- UPI Desk Writing Award Chicago, Washington.
-- Internship -- only awarded -- to Monroe Morning World.
-- Topic award for writing, Northeast Louisiana University Pow
Wow.
-- Awarded managing editor=s position NLU Pow Wow
AFFILIATIONS
-- Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
-- The International Communication Association
-- The National Press Club
-- The Society of Professional Journalists
-- Women in Communication