Career Objective::
To teach college level broadcast journalism, journalism, and mass communication. To research and publish media history scholarship.
Specialization: Journalism History, Broadcast Journalism, Ethics and Law, Early American History, Internet Publishing, TV Production, Mass Communication, Computer and Internet enhancement of teaching, History and New Media.

Education:
Ph.D. in American History, August 2007. GPA 3.86. George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.
Minors in Early American, and Print History, New Media specialty.
Dissertation : "A Culture of Dissidence: The Emergence of Liberty of the Press in Pre-Revolutionary Virginia."
Master of Arts in Mass Communication, University of Denver, CO (GPA 3.93) 8/80
Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 1/76

Teaching Experience:
Adjunct Instructor/Executive Producer at University of Maryland, College Park, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, teaching Broadcast News Producing and supervising student newscast, 1/08-present
Adjunct Assistant Professor at George Mason University's Department of Communication, teaching journalism and Free Speech and Ethics, 9/03-8/05
Assistant Professor (full-time, visiting) and Coordinator of Electronic Journalism Minor at GMU's Department of Communication, 8/00- 8/03
Assistant Professor of Journalism (full-time) at American University's School of Communication, 8/99- 8/00
Assistant Professor (full-time) at American's Washington Semester Program, 8/98- 8/99. 
Professorial Lecturer (adjunct faculty), American University, School of Communication, 1/98- 5/98
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Select Professional Experience:
Broadcast journalist (Assistant news director, senior producer, newscast producer, writer, editor, anchor, and more) for network affiliates and CNN. 10/76- 4/98
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Select Publications, Presentations, Conferences and Seminars:
Paper, “Liberty of the Press: The Emergence of the Constitutional Doctrine in Colonial Virginia,” (second-place student paper award) presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Xonvention, Law and Policy History Division, Washington, DC, 8/07
Paper,“Thomas Jefferson and the Origins of Newspaper Competition in Pre-Revolutionary Virginia,” presented in a scholar-to-scholar poster session at the AEJMC Convention, History Division, Washington, DC, 8/07
Presentation, “A Culture of Dissidence: The Emergence of Liberty of the Press in Pre-Revolutionary Virginia” (Research in Progress) at the Joint Journalism Historians Conference (The American Journalism Historians Association and the AEJMC History Division), New York University, 4/07
Panel organizer and paper presenter, “Almanacs of the Colonial Chesapeake: ‘Trumpeters of Sedition’ or Revolutionary ‘Agent of Change’?” presented at the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era conference, Arlington, VA, 4/07
Review of Eric Burns' "Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism" for Jhistory, the electronic, interactive newsletter for journalism and mass communication on H-Net., 9/06
Paper, “An Expanding Public Sphere: Women and Print in Colonial Virginia; 1736-1776" presented at, "The Atlantic World of Print in the Age of Franklin,” Philadelphia, 9/06
Paper, "Germination of a Free Press: Dissident Print Culture and the Stamp Act in Colonial Virginia," presented at "Virginia Forum," Winchester, VA 4/06.
Chair for panel, "Tales of the Cities: Providing Insights Through Alternative Narratives," Eastern Communication Association Convention, Washington, DC 4/03
Panelist for "Do First Amendment Rights Support Terrorists?" Eastern Communication Association Convention, New York, NY 4/02
Panelist for "Crisis Communication: Offering Students an Opportunity to Explore the 'Real World' in Real Time," Radio-Television Journalism Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Convention, Miami, FL 8/02
Participant in “Filters, PICS, the Internet and the First Amendment” at The Freedom Forum World Center in Arlington, VA 6/98
Participant in “The Digital Revolution and New Media” at The Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University, New York, NY 5/95
Panelist and presenter on "News in the New Media" at The Freedom Forum World Center in Arlington, VA 1/95
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Honors and Awards:
Second-Place Student Paper, from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Law and Policy History Division, 5/07
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, George Mason University, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, 1/07-8/07
McKinnon-Morton Dissertation research fellowship, 4/06
Research Grant for dissertation from the Cosmos Club Foundation, 1/06
Research Assistantship at Center for History and New Media, GMU, 8/05-6/06
Teaching Assistantship for American History at GMU, 8/03-8/05

Interests: Gourmet cooking, hiking, bridge, golf, and Gothic cathedrals. Completed section hike of entire 2,150 mile Appalachian Trail in July, 2004.

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References and more information available on request.