Academic History

• PhD   Ohio University, 1992
• MS    North Dakota State University, 1985
• BS    Moorhead State University, 1981
• BA    University of Winnipeg, 1979

Expertise

• Media Law and Theory
• Public Relations Research and Theory
• Public Relations Practice
• Journalism Copy and Design

Awards

• Who's Who Among American Teachers, 1998
• E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ph.D. Student of the Year, 1989
• Ohio University Teaching Associateship, 1987
• North Dakota State University Teaching Assistantship, 1983
• Minnesota State Scholarship, 1974
• Tom Wangensteen Law Scholarship, 1973

Selected Publications

• 2005 "Market Share" (invited) Encyclopedia of Public Relations.
• 2005 "Public Interest" (invited) Encyclopedia of Public Relations.
• 1999 Summer "Structural Pluralism, Ethnic Pluralism and Community Newspapers." Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. Co-authors: Douglas Banks Hindman, Robert Littlefield and Dennis Newmann.
• 1997 "Community Structural Pluralism Among North Dakota Newspaper Editors." North Dakota Journal of Speech and Theatre. Co-authors: Douglas Banks Hindman, Robert Littlefield and Dennis Newmann.
• 1996 "Rural America in Film." (invited) Encyclopedia of Rural America.
• 1995 "Broadcast Self-Disclosure as a Factor in Audience Building." North Dakota Journal of Speech and Theatre. Co-authors: Richard A. Mattern, C. William Chandler and Douglas J. Carr.
• 1990 "Magazine Images of Nurses" Platte Valley Review. Kearney, Nebraska.

Conference Papers

• 2000 "Expanding Journalist Notions of 'Diversity': Inclusion of Disability Issues in the News Reporting Textbooks." Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication National Convention, Phoenix, AZ. Co-author: Marie Hardin.

• 1999 "Kevorkian Convicted '60 Minutes': A Semiotic Analysis of Editorial Cartoons." Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication National Convention, New Orleans, LA.

• 1998 "Media Convergence: Empty Promises for Small Markets." Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication National Convention, Baltimore, MD.

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