David M. Staton |
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."
David M. Staton - CV
Education
University of Oregon. Eugene, Oregon - Ph.D., Media Studies, School of Journalism and Communication. 2012-2016. Certificate: New Media and Culture. Dissertation: “A Beautiful Death; Photography and Framing in Death With Dignity Storytelling.” Dissertation Advisors: Julianne Newton and Tom Bivins.
State University of New York Purchase College. Purchase, New York - M.A. Art History, Museum Studies. 1997-1999, 2007. Thesis: Eikoh Hosoe; Toward a New Visual Language. Thesis Advisor: Jane Kromm.
University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, New Mexico - B.A. University Studies, Journalism emphasis. 1986-1987.
University of Oregon. Eugene, Oregon - Double major in telecommunications and film/journalism. 1981-1984.
Employment
Assistant Professor; University of Northern Colorado - August 2016-present
Assistant professor in Journalism and Media Studies; School of Communication. Areas of instruction include: visual communication, multimedia storytelling, law and history, media effects, social media storytelling. Tenure track position.
Adjunct Instructor; University of Colorado; Boulder, Colorado - August 2010-May 2012; January 2015 - December 2016
Adjunct professor in the Department of Journalism; College of Media, Communication and Information. Areas of instruction include news gathering and reporting.
Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Oregon; Eugene, Oregon - September 2012-Dec. 2014
Lead teaching and assist instructor of record in School of Journalism and Communication.
Producer and Owner Taylor Cat Productions; Longmont, Colorado - 2005-present
Field work and “studio” production work for mutliplatform production company (film/video, web, smartphone/tablet). Writing and editing of scripts as well as development and supervision of graphic elements. Scheduling, conducting and coordinating subject interviews. Gaining legal clearance as needed. Developing funding avenues and promotional campaign for digital humanities projects, including grant narrative writing from local, regional and national funders and crowdsource funding.
Visiting Instructor; Miami University; Oxford, Ohio - January 2010-May 2010
Visiting instructor in the Journalism Department of Miami University, offering the department’s first section in Photojournalism.
Freelance Writer - 1987-2012
Stories appeared in local, regional and national publications. Profiles and feature contributions published in SEVEN, Sage Magazine, Northeast Magazine and On the Scene. Art review and profiles contributed to Southwest Art magazine and Metalsmith magazine. Profiled featured playwright for in house promotional publication of the Hartford Stage. Established weekly arts review/discussion column for the Albuquerque Journal. Features and news articles published in the New Mexico Lawyer, a professional publication. Features and performing art reviews and previews contributor for Santa Fe Reporter.
Other Research/Writing Experience
Propose and coordinate exhibitions, including writing press releases and educational text, arranging loans of artwork and orchestrating installation of artwork. Oversee gallery/museum operations. Develop/maintain online presence, including the development of multimedia arts content.
Journal articles, chapters, creative work and journalistic publications. Many of the journalistic stories have also been picked up by national wire services for distribution.
Refereed Journal Articles
Reviews
Presentations include academic conferences and museum collectors’ groups, as well as non-traditional locations.
Refereed Conference Presentations
Unique, short-term educational and outreach programs, both inside gallery walls as well as through various : multiplatform promotion devices.
Journalistic courses focus on traditional and multiplatform reporting with a special emphasis on developing critical in the field skills and using social media (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc.) in storytelling as well as design and ethics for multiplatform journalistic approaches. Other teaching areas include visual communication, new media and culture, history, media ethics, and critical sports studies.
*first time teaching course †two sections offered of same course ˚major revision to one section (10 week course) ^developed course in full
University of Northern Colorado
University of Oregon. Eugene, Oregon - Ph.D., Media Studies, School of Journalism and Communication. 2012-2016. Certificate: New Media and Culture. Dissertation: “A Beautiful Death; Photography and Framing in Death With Dignity Storytelling.” Dissertation Advisors: Julianne Newton and Tom Bivins.
State University of New York Purchase College. Purchase, New York - M.A. Art History, Museum Studies. 1997-1999, 2007. Thesis: Eikoh Hosoe; Toward a New Visual Language. Thesis Advisor: Jane Kromm.
University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, New Mexico - B.A. University Studies, Journalism emphasis. 1986-1987.
University of Oregon. Eugene, Oregon - Double major in telecommunications and film/journalism. 1981-1984.
Employment
Assistant Professor; University of Northern Colorado - August 2016-present
Assistant professor in Journalism and Media Studies; School of Communication. Areas of instruction include: visual communication, multimedia storytelling, law and history, media effects, social media storytelling. Tenure track position.
Adjunct Instructor; University of Colorado; Boulder, Colorado - August 2010-May 2012; January 2015 - December 2016
Adjunct professor in the Department of Journalism; College of Media, Communication and Information. Areas of instruction include news gathering and reporting.
Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Oregon; Eugene, Oregon - September 2012-Dec. 2014
Lead teaching and assist instructor of record in School of Journalism and Communication.
Producer and Owner Taylor Cat Productions; Longmont, Colorado - 2005-present
Field work and “studio” production work for mutliplatform production company (film/video, web, smartphone/tablet). Writing and editing of scripts as well as development and supervision of graphic elements. Scheduling, conducting and coordinating subject interviews. Gaining legal clearance as needed. Developing funding avenues and promotional campaign for digital humanities projects, including grant narrative writing from local, regional and national funders and crowdsource funding.
Visiting Instructor; Miami University; Oxford, Ohio - January 2010-May 2010
Visiting instructor in the Journalism Department of Miami University, offering the department’s first section in Photojournalism.
Freelance Writer - 1987-2012
Stories appeared in local, regional and national publications. Profiles and feature contributions published in SEVEN, Sage Magazine, Northeast Magazine and On the Scene. Art review and profiles contributed to Southwest Art magazine and Metalsmith magazine. Profiled featured playwright for in house promotional publication of the Hartford Stage. Established weekly arts review/discussion column for the Albuquerque Journal. Features and news articles published in the New Mexico Lawyer, a professional publication. Features and performing art reviews and previews contributor for Santa Fe Reporter.
Other Research/Writing Experience
- Lead Researcher, Four Mile Disaster Community Media Project, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado - May 2011-November 2011. Developed human subjects protocol and conducted oral history interviews for research project investigating the use of social media and other news sources (traditional and non-traditional) during and after a local disaster.
- Consultant, Mi-Whi News, Miami University, Oxford, Oh - January 2009-May 2010. Pilot project gathering feeds from citizen and professional journalists in a multiplatform web presence.
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Art History, State University of New York Purchase College; Purchase, NY - 1997-1998
- Research Assistant, State University of New York Purchase College; Purchase, NY - 1997-1998
- Staff Arts Writer, Albuquerque Journal; Albuquerque, New Mexico - 1990-1993
Propose and coordinate exhibitions, including writing press releases and educational text, arranging loans of artwork and orchestrating installation of artwork. Oversee gallery/museum operations. Develop/maintain online presence, including the development of multimedia arts content.
- Freelance Curator, Longmont, Colorado; Oxford, Ohio; Eugene, Oregon - 2007-2012
- Director, Springfield Museum, Springfield, Oregon - 2006-2007
- Director/Owner, Staton•Greenberg Gallery, Santa Barbara, California - 2002-2005
- Director, Internet Sales/Client Services, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY - 1999-2002
Journal articles, chapters, creative work and journalistic publications. Many of the journalistic stories have also been picked up by national wire services for distribution.
Refereed Journal Articles
- D. Staton, “Calling Time Out in Doha: The Seiko Block Camera and Image Ethics.” Journal of Communication Inquiry (forthcoming).
- D. Staton, “A Small Market Newsroom; Surveying the Field.” Journal of Media Education (April, 2020, pp. 46-48).
- D. Staton, “Darkness visible; blindness and borders/memories and movies,” Visual Studies (June, 2020, pp. 1-9).
- D. Staton, “Dragnet and the Big Idea,” InMediaRes (June 2, 2020), http://mediacommons.org/imr/content/dragnet-and-big-idea
- D. Staton, “Dun Dun!!: That Law and Order Sound,” InMediaRes (August 28, 2019) http://mediacommons.org/imr/content/dun-dun-law-and-order-sound
- D. Staton, “The Super Bowl: Re-examining a ‘spectacle,’” InMediaRes 17:19 (January 26, 2018), http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2018/01/26/super-bowl-reexamining-spectacle.
- K. M. Ryan and D. Staton, “Oral History, Visual Ethnography, and Interactive Documentary,” in The International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video, P. Vannini ed. (invited, New York, Routledge, 2020)
- D. Staton, “Jemelle Hill, Twitter and ESPN: Thinking Inside the (Potter) Box,” in The ESPN Aftereffect, J. McGuire, G. G. Armfield, and A. Earnheardt eds. (New York: Peter Lang, 2019).
- D. Staton, “Lipsyte, the League, and ‘The Leader’: An Ombudsman’s Tale,” in The ESPN Effect: Exploring the Worldwide Leader in Sports, J. McGuire, G. G. Armfield, and A. Earnheardt eds. (New York: Peter Lang, 2015).
- Producer, director, cinematographer, writer, editor, Ghost Resort, for festival consideration, summer 2020.
- Producer, co-writer, Pin Up! The Movie (Taylor Cat Productions, 2015, website www.pinupthemovie.com). Film and interactive documentary. Feature film length documentary released in 2015. Interactive documentary released in 2017 using RacontR content management system (www.pinupthemovie.com) with update in 2020. Project also includes blog (https://pinupthemovieblog.wordpress.com/), social media (@PinUp_TheMovie on Twitter, https://www.facebook.com/PinUpTheMovie on Facebook, https://www.pinterest.com/taylorcatpdctns/pin-up-the-movie/ on Pinterest, PinUpTheMovie on Instagram, and http://pinupthemovie.tumblr.com/ on Tumblr). Screenings and acceptance rates (when available):
- Official Selection, Big House Los Angeles Entertainment Festival/Woman Up Film Festival 2015, Los Angeles, CA (15% acceptance rate).
- Official Selection, Albuquerque Film Festival and Comic Con 2016, Albuquerque, NM (15% acceptance rate).
- Official Selection, Cinerotic at The Dirty Show 2016, Detroit, MI (invited).
- Official Selection, Ethnografilm Film Festival 2016, Paris, France (<15% acceptance rate).
- Official Selection, Ethnografilm Film Festival, Thiruvananthapuram, India, 2016 ( <1% acceptance rate; films curated from the main festival in Paris).
- Official Selection: Comic Con International Independent Film Festival 2016, San Diego, CA (<10% acceptance rate), includes online streaming on Comic Con’s password-protected website.
- Official selection: Woodstock Museum Film Festival 2016, Woodstock, NY (15% acceptance rate).
- Invited to screen at the University of Oregon, May 2016.
- Invited to screen at 1940s Ball, Boulder, CO, June 2016.
- Invited to screen at TikiCon 2016, Portland, OR, July 2016. Invited to screen at Illinois State University, February 2017.
- Invited to screen as part of plenary activities, 2017 Society for the Academic Study of Social Imagery Conference, Greeley, CO, March 2017.
- Official selection and closing festival film, Bare Bones Independent Film Festival, Muskogee, OK, April 2017 (15% acceptance rate).
- Rendezvous Film Festival, Amelia Island, FL, September 2018. (invited screening).
- Creator, “Looking at Laurie.” Digital humanities project employing Scalar, 2014 (http://scalar.usc.edu/works/looking-at-laurie/index).
- Producer, co-writer, Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II (Taylor Cat Productions, 2013, website/social media/blog www.homefrontheroines.com, www.hingesofhistory.com). Screenings and acceptance rates (when available):
- Invited to screen as part of Making Mainbocher: The First American Couturier at the Chicago History Museum, February 2017.
- Official Selection, Sarasota Film Festival/Through Women’s Eyes, April 2013 (<10% acceptance rate);
- Official Selection, San Pedro International Film Festival, October, 2013 (15% acceptance rate.
- Producer, co-writer, Backstretch (Taylor Cat Productions, 2006), aired on Southern Oregon Public Television, Fall 2007; Rogue Valley Community Television, 2014.
- Producer, video biographies, Staton•Greenberg gallery artists; video product used as marketing, promotional, educational tool; artists include: Larry Wiese (2005), Ray Carofano (2005), Keith Carter (2004), Joan Almond (2003), Nathan Ian Anderson (2003)
- D. Staton, “A Small Market Newsroom; Surveying the Field,” in The Proceedings of the World Journalism Education Congress, July 2019, Paris. FR (in press, 2020 publication) .
- D. Staton, “Eve (and Eden) Redeemed,” in The Image of Redemption in Literature, Media and Society: 2018 SASSI Conference Proceedings, Thomas G. Endres, ed., Society for the Academic Study of Social Imagery, 88-93.
- D. Staton, “Life (and death) with Dignity: Agency and the Heard Gaze,” in The Image of Rebirth in Literature, Media, and Society: 2017 SASSI Conference Proceedings, Thomas G. Endres, ed., Society for the Academic Study of Social Imagery, 65-75.
- D. Staton and J. Newton, “Photojournalism,” in Oxford Bibliographies in Communication, Patricia Moy ed. (invited, New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).
- D. Staton and K. M. Ryan, “’All I Want for Christmas is You’: ‘Tis the Season for Holiday Romance,” in Friends, Lovers, Co-Workers, and Community: Everything I Know About Relationships I Learned from Television, K. M. Ryan, D. A. Macey, N. J. Springer, and M. Erickson eds. (New York: Lexington, 2015).
- D. Staton, "Mad Hatters: The Bad Dads of AMC,” in Television and the Self: Knowledge, Identity, and Media Representation, K. M. Ryan and D. A. Macey eds. (New York: Lexington, 2013).
Reviews
- D. Staton, “Review, Reporting Bad News; Negotiating the boundaries between intrusion and fair representation in media coverage of death, by Sallyanne Duncan & Jackie Newton,” Electronic News (forthcoming)
- D. Staton, “Review, IDocs: The Evolving Practice of Interactive Documentary edited by Aston, Gaudenzi and Rose,” Electronic News 12-3 (2018).
- D. Staton, “Review, Photography History and Theory by Jae Emerling,” Visual Communication Quarterly 21-3 (2014), 178-179.
- D. Staton, “Review, Why Art Photography by Lucy Soutter,” for Visual Studies 29-2 (2014), 221-222.
- D. Staton, "Review, "A Box of Photographs by Roger Grenier,” InVisible Culture, Issue 21 (2014), online https://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/portfolio/a-box-of-photographs/
- D. Staton, “Review, ”Surrealism and Photography in Czechoslovakia: On the Needles of Days by Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Michael Richardson and Ian Walker,” Visual Studies 29-2 (2014), 222-224.
- D. Staton, Watching Sport. A critical analysis of the practices of spectatorship and representation in sport. Proposal in process.
- K. M. Ryan, D. Staton, eds. Decolonizing Immersive Storytelling. Invited proposal for an edited collection on digital storytelling practices with focus on i-Docs, under review by Routledge.
- K. M. Ryan, D. Staton, S. Esprit, eds. Decolonizing Digital Humanities. proposal for an edited collection on digital humanities.
- P. Johnson and D. Staton, Toward a Critical, Creative and Inclusive Pedagogy of Practice. Invited proposal for an edited collection on media practice. Proposal in process for Routledge.
- D. Staton, “Looking at Laurie: Reconsidering an Image of ‘Madness,’” for submission to M/C Journal special issue on Representation.
- D. Staton, “Manovich, Movies, and Montage: New Media, New Narrative?” for submission to Critical Studies in Media Communication.
- D. Staton, “Can You See My Voice?; Being heard in an autoethnographic documentary,” for submission to “Constructions of the Real” anthology
- D. Staton, K. M. Ryan & A. Sturt, “Tell Me a Story; The Collision of “Yarning,” Oral History, and the Interactive Documentary,” for submission to anthology, "Constructions of the Real”
- D. Staton, “Days’ Digital Leap: New Media, New Narrative,” for submission to The Journal of Popular Culture.
- D. Staton and K. M. Ryan, “The ‘Insta’-documentary: Social Media, Agency, and Interactive Storytelling.” For submission to Journal of Media Practice.
- “In Small Town Colorado, a Team with Brass,” SEVEN, September 2011
- “A Can-Do Culture,” SEVEN, June 2011
- “Part Alchemy, Part Artistry,” Springfield Beacon, February 2007
- “Route 47A,” Sulphur and Sawdust, Scars Publications, 1995
- “Playwright Tony Kushner Adapts The Dybbuk;” On the Scene, February 1995
- “Lip Service;” Hartford Courant Northeast (Sunday Magazine); October 9, 1994
- “Carol Hoy: Inside Out;” Southwest Art, August 1994
- “Priority One;” SAGE Magazine; The Albuquerque Journal; June 1994
- “Julia Barelo: Adornments;” Metalsmith 14-2; Spring 1994
- “Warhol: 15 Minutes Before Fame;” Albuquerque Journal; June 13, 1993
- “On the Horizon;” Albuquerque Journal; May 30, 1993
- Untitled; Conceptions Southwest, Publications de Litetura y Arte de la Universidad de Nuevo Mexico, 1989
Presentations include academic conferences and museum collectors’ groups, as well as non-traditional locations.
Refereed Conference Presentations
- D. Staton, Calling Time Out in Doha: The Seiko Block Camera and Image Ethics, paper scheduled at International Association for Communication and Sport Summit, St. Petersburg, FL, April 2020.
- D. Staton, “Breaking Down Barriers Without Becoming Bros,” presentation scheduled for BEA2020 Ignite! Las Vegas, NV, April 2020.
- D. Staton, ”Popular to “Pose”: Ryan Murphy’s Rhetorics of Disability, paper scheduled at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Denver, CO April 2020.
- D. Staton, Photographic Secrets: Getting to the Truths of Iconic Images, paper scheduled at SASSI Conference, Greeley, CO, March 2020
- D. Staton, Eikoh Hosoe: Toward a Visual Vocabulary, Imagined Borders, Epistemic Freedoms Conference, Center for Media, Religion and Culture, Boulder, CO, January 2020.
- D. Staton, Making Versus Taking: Thinking Through Images, BEA on Location, Boulder, CO, October 2019.
- D. Staton, A Small Market Newsroom; Observing the Field, World Journalism Education Congress, Paris. FR. July 2019.
- D. Staton, Read One, See One, Do One, Broadcast Educator’s Association National Conference, Las Vegas, NV, April 2019
- D. Staton, Jemele Hill, Twitter & ESPN; Thinking Inside the (Potter Box), International Association for Communication and Sport Summit, Boise ID, March 2019
- D. Staton, Interactive Documentary - Agency and Adventure, SASSI Conference, Greeley, CO, March 2019D. Staton and K. M. Ryan, Pin Up! The Interactive Documentary: An Experiment in Narrator Agency and User Engagement, International Oral History Association Conference, Jyväskylä, Finland, June 2018
- D. Staton, Gaming Journalism: Subjectivity, Play and Interactive Storytelling, Broadcast Education Association Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2018
- D. Staton, DOOLmojis: Strengthening a Fan Base, accepted for presentation at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2018
- D. Staton, Eve (and Eden) Redeemed, Society for the Academic Study of Social Imagery Conference, Greeley, Colorado, March 2018.
- D. Staton, Life (and death) with Dignity: Agency and the Heard Gaze, Society for the Academic Study of Social Imagery Conference, Greeley, Colorado, March 2017.
- D. Staton, All I Want for Christmas is You: ’Tis the Season for Holiday Romance, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference, San Francisco, California, August 2015.
- D. Staton, Manovich, Movies, Montage; New Media, New Narrative?, International Communication Association Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 2015. Best Student Paper.
- D. Staton, “Creating” Colorado’s Landscape; Mountains, Myths and Movement in the Visual Rhetoric of the Centennial State, Visual Methods Preconference, International Communication Association Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 2015.
- D. Staton, Lipsyte, the League, and ‘The Leader’: An Ombudsman’s Tale, on “The ESPN Effect” panel, Broadcast Education Association Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2015.
- D. Staton, Joe Klamar’s Furious Five-Ring Circus, North American Society for Sociology of Sport Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, November 2014.
- D. Staton, Darkness Visible: Blindness and Borders/Memories and Movies, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec, August 2014.
- D. Staton, Looking at Laurie, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec, August 2014. Creative Projects Award.
- D. Staton, Interactive Documentary: Journalism’s Future Focus, What is Documentary, Portland, OR, April 2014.
- D. Staton, Joe Klamar’s Olympic Photos: A Furious Five-Ring Circus, VisCom 27: The Visual Communication Communication Conference, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, June 2013
- D. Staton, Getting the New: Oral Narrative in the Wake of Natural Disaster, accepted for presentation, Oral History Association Annual Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, October 2012.
- D. Staton, Eikoh Hosoe’s Visual Poetry: Transforming Voice Through Art, National Communication Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2011
- D. Staton, Pulp, Poetry and Pictures, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, April 2011
- D. Staton, Eikoh Hosoe’s Visual Poetry, accepted for presentation, VisCom 24: The Visual Communication Conference, Portland, Oregon, June 2010
- Mavericks of Modernism: Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind at the Art Institute of Design, University of Oregon, 2008
- Photo Appreciation and Collecting, Ventura County Museum of History and Art, 2005
- American Stories: The FSA Photographers and Marion Post Wolcott, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Photographic Art Council, 2004
- Art Photography in Japan, San Diego Museum of Art, Asian Arts Council,2004
- Imogen Cunningham, Photography at Oregon and NEWZONE, 2003
- Art Photography in Japan, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Photographic Arts Council, 2003
- Writing Workshop with Inmates, New Mexico State Penitentiary, Santa Fe, Maximum Security Wing, 1990
- The ‘New Normal: Examining Ryan Murphy’s American Dream, organized panel accepted for presentation at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Denver, CO April 2020.
- Toward a Critical, Creative and Inclusive Pedagogy of Practice, Part II, organized panel at BEA On Location Conference, Boulder, CO October 2019.
- Moderator, The Art of the Game: Polling, Elections, and Social Media, panel scheduled at Broadcast Education Association Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 2020.
- Moderator/Discussant, The Digital Humanities at Play, National Communication Association Conference, Salt Lake City, November 2018.
- Moderator, ““Picture Perfect 2: The Role Visual Communication Plays in Journals and in Electronic Media for Shaping Public Opinion Regarding Race, Culture, Identity, and Representation” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference, San Francisco, California, August 2015
- Discussant, “Digital Disruptions: Experiments in Creative Practice and Research” panel, Broadcast Education Association Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2015.
Unique, short-term educational and outreach programs, both inside gallery walls as well as through various : multiplatform promotion devices.
- Springfield Museum Preservation and Presentation Campaign
- Springfield Museum Newsletter
- The Collector’s Guild
- Art Photography in Japan
- The Gift Show
Journalistic courses focus on traditional and multiplatform reporting with a special emphasis on developing critical in the field skills and using social media (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc.) in storytelling as well as design and ethics for multiplatform journalistic approaches. Other teaching areas include visual communication, new media and culture, history, media ethics, and critical sports studies.
*first time teaching course †two sections offered of same course ˚major revision to one section (10 week course) ^developed course in full
University of Northern Colorado
- JMS 100, Introduction to Media (Spring 2017*). Large lecture, 80 students.
- JMS 212 Visual Media^ (Fall, 2016*†; Spring 2017†, Fall 2017†, Spring 2018†, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020˚). Small workshop. Two sections, 12-25 students per section.
- JMS 215 Social Media Storytelling^ (Fall, 2020*) Developed and instituted; small lecture, 20-25 students
- JMS 390 Impact of Mass Media on Society (Fall 2020*) Major revisions to course content/structure, 25 students
- JMS 397 Media History (Spring 2018*, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020). Small lecture, 22 students.
- JMS 497 Media Law (Fall 2018*)
- JMS 422 Directed Study (Spring 2019)
- JMS 495 Documentary Production^ (Spring 2019*)
- JRNL 2001, Fundamentals of Reporting (Fall 2015*). This is the first offering of a new department-wide course for all journalism majors focusing on multiplatform reporting (text, web, moving/still image)
- JOUR 3552, Editing and Presentation (Fall 2011*, Spring 2012)
- JOUR 3001, Public Affairs Reporting (Spring 2011*, Spring 2012)
- JOUR 4002, Reporting 2 (Spring 2015*)
- JOUR 5511, Newsgathering 1 (Fall 2010*, Fall 2011)
- J387, Communication History (Spring 2014*, Summer 2014).
- J100, Media Professions (Summer 2012*)
- Photojournalism (Spring 2010*). First photojournalism course offered in the Journalism Department.
- “Lipsyte, the “League” and the Leader; An Ombudsman’s Tale,” Global Sports and Politics, University of Oregon, July 2014
- “New Media, New Museums,” Visual Literacy, University of Oregon, June 2013.
- Guest Presentation, “Joe Klamar’s Furious Five Ring Circus,” Global Sports and Politics, University of Oregon, July 2013
- J397 Media Ethics, University of Oregon (Spring 2013, Fall 2014)
- J387 Communication History, University of Oregon (Fall 2013)
- J342 Creative Strategy, University of Oregon (Winter 2014)
- J206 Gateway to Media, University of Oregon (Fall 2012, Winter 2013). Responsibilities included grading and teaching two, two hour sections per week (16 students per section) of lab/workshop in digital multimedia storytelling
- History of Renaissance Art, State University of New York, Purchase College (Winter 1998). Responsibilities included grading and leading one, one hour discussion section per week( 20 students).
- Advisor undergraduate JMS students University of Northern Colorado (23 students).
- Member of M.A. Thesis Committee. Wes Gentry, University of Colorado Boulder, degree granted spring 2012
- JMS 215, Social Media Storytelling, University of Northern Colorado, undergraduate seminar. JMS 212, Visual Media, and JMS 495 Documentary Production.
- Watching Sport, University of Northern Colorado, honors seminar. Proposal submitted in Spring 2020.
- A Forecast for a Program of Study in Broadcast Meteorology at the University of Northern Colorado. Proposal submitted in Fall 2019 for three potential options for a student concentration in meteorology (undergraduate minor, graduate certificate, and MA program). Developed curriculum (including incorporation of current classes and did a SWOT analysis. Proposal is under review.
- Honors Committee Liaison, Journalism and Media Studies, University of Northern Colorado, 2019-present.
- Books Editor, Visual Communication Quarterly, 2018-present.
- Library Liaison, Journalism and Media Studies, University of Northern Colorado, 2017-present.
- Manuscript reviewer, Journal of Communication Inquiry. 2016-present.
- Faculty supervisor, BEA/NAB Annual Convention, April 2020. Coordinated travel and media visits for 30 students.* (the pandemic cut short this opportunity, though all prelim work was done)
- Faculty Evaluation Committee Chair (1 dossier), 2020.
- Paper reviewer SWECJMC 2017-2020
- Member, Information Technology Committee, University of Northern Colorado (university-wide), 2017-2019.
- Faculty supervisor, BEA/NAB Annual Convention, April 2019. Coordinated travel and media visits for 30 students.
- Paper Reviewer, BEA on Location, 2019
- Manuscript reviewer, Visual Communications Quarterly, 2018
- Paper Reviewer, World Journalism Education Congress, 2018.
- Paper reviewer AEJMC (Vis Comm division) 2018.
- Member, Search Committee, Hanson Profession in Residence (two positions), Department of Journalism, University of Northern Colorado, 2018.
- Paper Reviewer, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, 2018-2019
- PF&R Chair, Visual Communication Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2016-2018.
- Faculty Advisor, Student Radio, University of Northern Colorado (campus-wide), 2016-2018.
- Social Media Coordinator, Visual Communication Quarterly, 2013-2018. Post updates on multiple social media platforms.
- Paper reviewer, AEJMC Southeast Colloquium, 2017-2019.
- Paper reviewer, Symposium for Southwest Council for Journalism and Mass Communication Education, 2017.
- Faculty supervisor, SPRN Takes NYC, April 2017. Coordinated travel and media visits for 30 students.
- Paper reviewer, National Communication Association, Student Section, 2015.
- Graduate Student Liaison, Visual Communication Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2014-2016
- Graduate Student Representative, Faculty Search Committee, University of Oregon, School of Journalism and Communication, Fall 2013.
- Paper reviewer, National Communication Association, Visual Communication Division, 2010.
- National Association of Television Production Executives (NATPE) Faculty Development Grant - participated at KGWN, Cheyenne, WY, July 2018
- Top Student Paper, Visual Communication Division, International Communication Association Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 2015.
- Peer-Reviewed Accepted Participant, Visual Methods Preconference, University of Turabo, International Communication Association Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 2015.
- Creative Projects Award, Visual Communication Division, Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec, August 2014
- AEJMC Graduate Student Travel Award Recipient, August 2014.
- AEJMC Creative Projects Competition Award, August 2014.
- Top Scholar (Highest Graduate Student Ranking), University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication, 2013.
- Kappa Tau Alpha, member 2013-2016.
- Fellow, Visual Methods Seminar, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2013.
- Ohio Humanities Council Media Production Grant, Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II, Oxford, OH, 2010
- Fellow, Tin House Fiction Writer’s Workshop. Reed College, Portland, OR, 2007
- Springfield Arts Commission, Exhibition Support Grant, Stairwell Story, Springfield, OR, 2007
- Lane Arts Council, Exhibition Support Grant, Preservation and Education Center, Springfield, OR, 2007
- Latin American International Film Festival Cultural Exchange organized by Writer’s Guild East, Havana, Cuba - extensive tours of artist studio, print workshops, film programming, 2000
- Poynter Institute, week long intensive features writing workshop, St. Petersburg, FL 1993
- Two-time nominee Albuquerque People’s Choice Awards “Favorite Author or Writer” (1990, 1991)
- Professional organization memberships include Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, National Communication Association, International Communication Associate, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Society for Photographic Education