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Dr. Bennett teaches courses in reporting, editing and feature writing. He earned his doctorate in mass communication from USM in 1995. Before he entered academia he was a staff writer and editor for the Bogalusa ( La.) Daily News, the Jackson ( Miss.) Daily News/Clarion-Ledger and the News Orleans Times-Picayune. He began his journalism career as a sports writer and remains an inveterate sports junkie who enjoys few things more than watching the New Orleans Saints, USM and SEC football and NCAA basketball. He has written extensively about literary journalism and its major voices, the role of journalists during the Civil Rights Movement and the enduring works of Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Rhodes, one of the most eloquent writers of this generation. He is now studying the emergence of weblogs as a driving force in internet journalism. Dr. Bennett was born and still lives in Bogalusa, La., near a lake that is filled with fat bass. He believes that one of the prettiest sights he’s ever seen is a bass hitting a top-water bait just as the fog lifts off of the lake.
Dr. Campbell, who has taught mass communication and journalism for more than 20 years, joined the school's faculty in 2005. He previously served as a faculty member and program administrator at Xavier University in New Orleans, the University of Idaho, Hampton University and Ithaca College. He is the author of Race, Myth and the News (Sage Publications, 1995) and has published a number of articles and book chapters about media and culture. He writes frequently about TV and cultural diversity for Television Quarterly. He has been a newspaper reporter, copy editor and local TV news assignment editor, and he taught high school English and journalism in St. Louis from 1977 to 1985. He holds a bachelor's degree in English from Webster University in St. Louis and a master's degree in mass communication from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. He earned a doctorate in mass communication from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1993.
Steve Coleman joined the USM Mass Communication and Journalism Department in 1995, working in Newspaper Production as the production supervisor. Besides printing, Newspaper Production was responsible for maintaining and upgrading the two computer labs in Southern Hall. After completing a master’s degree in communication at USM in 1998, he started teaching graphic design and photography courses. When Newspaper Production shut down he continued to maintain and upgrade the computer labs for the school. He recently helped the school complete a computer lab makeover with new Apple E-Macs, more software and better visual presentation equipment. He has completed his course work for a doctorate in communication at USM, and his dissertation emphasis will be on digital manipulation -- a content analysis between newspaper and magazine photo decision-making procedures. He is currently the documents and publications coordinator for the USM Office of Institutional Research, responsible for the department’s Web page, printed publications and surveys. He is a freelance photojournalist, with 25 years experience, primarily working with Associated Press and various newspapers. His hobbies include an extensive background in tennis. He played for Southern Miss during his undergraduate years. The league teams he played for have won five state titles, one southern title and finished fifth in the nation in 2000. He was on the board for the American Red Cross, Southern Central MS Chapter, faculty advisor to the Southern Miss Red Cross Council and past president of the Racquet Club of Hattiesburg.
Elliott Crawford is assistant general manager of the university radio station and teaches courses in radio production. He joined WUSM-FM in 1993 and the USM staff in 1995. Originally a Music Industry major at USM in the mid-1980s, he moved to Florida to work at Full Sail Recording's Digital One in Orlando. That led to additional work as a recording and live sound engineer and session musician. This included recording at the Record Plant in New York and studios in Hollywood, New Orleans and Nashville. He has recorded and toured with many artists for both independent and major record labels. He returned to USM in 1993 and earned a bachelor's in communication, and a master's in mass communication. At WUSM he has been a program supervisor, music director of several formats, PSA director and producer/creator of several award-winning programs. His recent music collaborations resulted in chart-topping songs on XM Satellite Radio.
Dr. Davies, who was named the dean of the USM Honors College in 2007, teaches media history. Before entering academia, he was a reporter for 10 years in Arkansas, working for both the Arkansas Democrat and the Arkansas Gazette. He is a graduate of the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Reporting at Ohio State University, where he earned a master's degree in journalism. He also holds a master's degree in American history from The University of Southern Mississippi and a Ph.D. in mass communication specializing in media history from the University of Alabama. His research specialties are the press and the Civil Rights Movement and trends in American newspapers since World War II. He has written two books, The Press & Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement (University Press of Mississippi, 2001) and The Postwar Decline of American Newspapers, 1945-1965 (Praeger, 2006). He also teaches the School's British Studies in Journalism class each summer in London as part of the USM British Studies Program. In 1998 his doctoral dissertation won the prize for best dissertation in media history awarded by the American Journalism Historians Association. He was chair of the USM Journalism Department from 1998 to 2001 and interim director of the School of Mass Communication and Journalism in 2004-2005. He has served on the board of directors of the American Journalism Historians Association and currently serves as coordinator of the AJHA's book award. In 2005 he was appointed to the board of directors of the University Press of Mississippi.
Dr. Gentile’s areas of teaching expertise include film history and theory, film production and animation. His areas of scholarly interest include documentary film, postwar American avant-garde film and cinematic representation of masculinity. He is presently revising his doctoral dissertation, “Pugilistic Occasions: Cultural Constructions of Boxing.” His recent film Cursive was awarded Best Experimental Film at the 6 th Annual Crossroads Film Festival. Dr. Gentile earned a master’s degree and doctorate in visual and cultural studies at the University of Rochester, an MFA in film at Ohio University and a bachelor’s degree in social work at Youngstown State University.
Dr. Haque, who has been teaching at the University of Southern Mississippi since 1984, obtained a master’s degree in International Affairs and a doctorate in mass communication from Ohio University at Athens. He was promoted to the rank of full professor in 1995. He served as the Director of Graduate Studies for four years. Dr. Haque teaches a number of graduate and undergraduate courses in the school, including Cultural-critical Theories in Mass Communication, International Communication, Process and Effects of Mass Communication, Introduction to Graduate Research, Media, Culture and Society, Media Law and Survey of Mass Media. Dr. Haque has published two books, What is News in India? A Content Analysis of the Elite Press, and Representation of the Cultural Revolution in Chinese Films by the Fifth Generation Filmmakers, which he coauthored with Dr. Ming-May Jessie Chen, a former doctoral student. Earlier, a monograph, Information Societies and the Developing World: A Synthesis of Theories, was published by the University of Georgia. He has also published many book chapters, book reviews, journal and encyclopedia articles. His work has been published in Journalism Quarterly, Journal of Asian Cinema, Asian Journal of Communication, Gazette, Media Asia and Odin. He has presented nearly sixty papers at national and international conferences and moderated dozens of panels at professional conferences. Dr. Haque has collaborated with several Asian scholars on research projects. He has delivered a series of lectures at a number of Asian Universities in China, Taiwan and Korea. Dr. Haque is a very active member of the graduate faculty. He has directed over thirty doctoral dissertations and served on over forty dissertation committees. In addition, he also directed dozens of independent study courses to enable graduate students to develop doctoral dissertation research projects and conference papers. Over half a dozen books have been published by doctoral students based on dissertation research that he directed.
Dr. Cheryl D. Jenkins is a visiting assistant professor of journalism. She earned a doctorate in mass communication from Howard University in Washington, D.C. and a master’s in mass communication and a bachelor’s in journalism from the University of Southern Mississippi. She has taught courses in news writing, news editing, reporting, feature writing, media history, the Black Press, introduction to mass communication and media criticism. Before entering academia, she worked as a newspaper reporter at the Hattiesburg American and interned as a media buyer with a political consulting firm on Capitol Hill. She was a 2004 Mellon Fellow for the Salzburg (Austria) Seminar session on Ethics in News Reporting and Editing and received the NABJ Region VII Cheryl Smith (leadership) Award in 2004 . She has served as advisor to an award-winning collegiate newspaper and to student chapters of the National Association of Black Journalists. Jenkins has presented research on popular culture issues, minority representation in the media and cultural diversity at national and regional conferences that focus on mass and human communication. She is currently working on research articles that examine the impact of cultural identity on news reporting and the media coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
Dr. Johnson joined the USM School of Mass Communication and Journalism faculty in 2003. He received his doctorate in mass communications from the University of Georgia, his master’s in advertising from Michigan State University and his bachelor’s in advertising/public relations from New Mexico State University. Professionally, he was communications director for a chain of motion picture theaters. He also worked in gubernatorial and senatorial campaigns and managed a congressional campaign. Dr. Johnson left the industry to enter education, serving as Director of Educational Services for the American Advertising Federation in Washington, D.C., where he was director of the National Student Advertising Competition and Alpha Delta Sigma Honorary Society. He began teaching at his alma mater, serving as head of advertising/public relations at New Mexico State. He later taught at the University of Georgia, Louisiana State University and Texas Tech University. Dr. Johnson publishes Where shall I go to study advertising and public relations?, a national research project which surveys all the known advertising and public relations degree programs annually. Results are published in an annual directory as well as on-line (http://www.whereshalligo.com). He serves as advisor to Golden Eagle Advertising, the USM Chapter of the American Advertising Federation, and also advises the team in the National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC).
Robin Kauth joined the School of Mass Communication and Journalism in August 2006. She received a master's degree in multimedia technology from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and a bachelor's degree in communications from The State University of New York at Fredonia. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate here at The University of Southern Mississippi. She spent two years at The State University of New York as a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Communication before moving to Hattiesburg in August 2005. At USM , Ms. Kauth teaches classes in television production and media writing. She is also a staff member for Broadcasting and Media Production Services, a division of the School of Mass Communication and Journalism. She specializes in graphics work and 3D animation. Before coming to USM, she worked as an editor for an independent production company in Binghamton, NY. There she edited material for a number of local organizations as well as promotional materials for the university's Division I basketball team and Office of Campus Life. Her documentary, Sacred Hearts, was contracted by the Eternal World Television Network (EWTN) and has since aired in countries in Africa, Europe, and North and South America. Her current research interests include media literacy education and representations in media.
Dr. Kim LeDuff, a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, joined the USM faculty in 2005. She holds a Ph.D. in mass communication from Indiana University. She holds a master’s in journalism from the University of Maryland-College Park and a bachelor’s in mass communication from Xavier University in New Orleans. Her professional experience includes working as a host and voice-over talent for the Grade One Assessment training video sponsored by the office of the Governor of Indiana. She has worked in promotions production at a UPN station in Maryland and as a production assistant at the University of Maryland Flagship Channel. She has also worked as National Account Executive and voice-over talent at the New Orleans Convention and Visitor’s Channel and in the research department at B-97 FM in New Orleans. Dr. LeDuff teaches broadcast journalism courses. Her primary research interests include images and representations of minority groups on television.
Scott Dixon McDowell joined the faculty of the Radio, Television and Film Department at The University of Southern Mississippi in 1989. He served as chair of the department from 1996 until 2001, when the RTF department was merged with journalism to form the School of Mass Communication and Journalism. Mr. McDowell has been teaching film production and screenwriting for eighteen years. He has produced a number of short films and authored several screenplays, including In Morning Calm, which won the MGM/UA Screenwriting Competition and was later optioned by Falcon Productions in Hollywood. His research has been devoted to studying the work of Academy Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning screenwriter and dramatist Horton Foote. Mr. McDowell has written and presented papers about Foote’s work at conferences throughout the United States. He wrote a chapter for Horton Foote: A Case Book, which was published in 1998. He is currently in post-production on a feature length documentary about Foote, which includes original interview material with Matthew Broderick, Arthur Penn, Robert Duvall, the late Alan J. Pakula and many others. Mr. McDowell was instrumental in the formation of the Mississippi Film and Video Alliance, a non-profit organization whose mission is to foster indigenous film and video production in Mississippi. He currently serves on the board of the organization. Mr. McDowell has also served on the advisory boards for the Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration and the Mississippi Film Enterprise Zone.
Jeff Rassier manages the university radio station and teaches courses in radio production. He is a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota and attended undergraduate and graduate school at the University of Southern Mississippi in the School of Mass Communication and Journalism. Since 1983, he has been a member of the professional staff of WUSM-FM. His radio productions have garnered dozens of professional awards for excellence in audio production and broadcast journalism. Mr. Rassier is also active in the recording industry as a recording engineer/producer in the classical music and jazz genres. During his 20-plus years in the field, he has produced numerous commercial CDs for national and international artists and has recorded hundreds of live concert performances.
Dr. Shin joined USM in 2003 after she completed her doctorate at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her research areas are strategic conflict management, contingency theory in public relations, agenda building in the media process, political campaign strategies and health education evaluation. She has recently expanded her research agenda to health communication. She has published her research in Journalism & Mass Communicaiton Quarterly, Public Relations Review, and other renowned journals and presented at national and international conferences. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in public relations, crisis/conflict/issue/risk management, campaigns, theories, and research methods. She has incorporated several years of her professional experience as public relations director for both profit and nonprofit organization into her research agenda and teaching arena. She has been nominated for national and international-level awards and won the Best Dissertation Award of 2002-2004 for “Strategic Conflict Management of the Source- Reporter Relationship between Public Relations Practitioners and Journalists” from the Public Relations Division of the International Communication Association. She is the faculty co-advisor for the USM chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America, and head of the public relations sequence for the School of Mass Communication and Journalism.
A native of Traverse City, Michigan, Dennis Webster attended The University of Michigan, receiving a bachelor’s degree in June of 1965 and a master’s in December 1968. Mr. Webster completed required doctoral course work but left the university before beginning a dissertation to accept a position as director of educational resources with The American College of Cardiology. Mr. Webster’s professional experience also includes positions as manager of medical television at The University of Michigan School of Medicine, supervisor of facilities & operations at KHET-TV at The University of Hawaii—Hawaii Educational Television Network and as scenic and lighting designer at The University of Michigan—Michigan Television Center. Mr. Webster’s professional accomplishments include more than twenty-six years as an educator at the university level with instructional responsibilities in advanced television and radio production, theory, aesthetics and communications. He has 38 years experience in media production at supervisory and management levels and a considerable background in the production of educational materials and courses for university and professional applications at the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels, as well as diverse artistic production experience in medicine, sports, training, business, industry and public information. He also has substantial creative involvement in the development of broadcast, media production, learning center and educational resource systems and facilities, including associated areas of physical operation and management.
Dr. Wiggins earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from The University of Southern Mississippi and his Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. Prior to completing his doctorate, Dr. Wiggins worked as a professional journalist for The Jackson Daily News and for The Hattiesburg American. He also served as a public information officer in the U.S. Air Force. He was director of the USM School of Communication from 1981 to 2001. His primary specialty is communication law and he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in this area. He has authored numerous publications, including books, book chapters and journal articles in the area of mass communication law. Dr. Wiggins teaches graduate courses in public relations case studies and law and undergraduate courses in media writing, and law.
Maggie Williams, M.S. Maggie Williams teaches in the news-editorial sequence for the School of
Mass Communication and Journalism. She also serves as the school's
publications manager, advising The Student Printz newspaper, and as the
Clarence Williams, 2006-08 distinguished visiting lecturer in photojournalism, is a veteran photojournalist who has won many awards, including the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. Professor Williams was a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times from 1995 to 2003. He is currently working on a long-term project supported by the Open Society Institute chronicling New Orleans' recovery from Hurricane Katrina, focusing on the impact that reconstruction efforts will have on the racial composition of the city. He won the Pulitzer for a project that documented the plight of young children with parents addicted to alcohol and drugs. He was also named Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists in 1997. He is a native of Philadelphia, Pa., and a graduate of Temple University.
Dr. Xue joined The University of Southern Mississippi in the fall of 2004. He received his doctorate in mass communication from The University of Alabama and his master’s degree in mass communication and bachelor’s in journalism from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in advertising. His research specialties are advertising and consumer psychology, international advertising and social effects of advertising. He has published in a variety of marketing and advertising journals, such as Journal of Advertising, Advances in International Marketing, and International Journal of Internet Marketing and Advertising. He has also published several book chapters about international advertising. |
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