Abubakar Alhassan
will join JAMM faculty fall semester He
earned a B.A. in Communication from
Bayero University in Kano, Nigeria; M.A. in Communication from Western
Michigan University; is completing his Ph.D. in Communication from the
University of Florida, Gainesville.
Denise Bennett
joined the
JAMM faculty fall 2006 as a senior instructor in TV, video and digital media
production. She earned her BA in Radio/Television and her MA in Electronic
Media & Film/Education from Eastern Washington University. She has worked
professionally as an editor/videographer. She is currently producing and
directing a feature length documentary about high school football on HDV
titled “Pups”. She is also collaborating with Greg Moller, Ph.D. from the
Department of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology at the University of
Idaho on a documentary about the environmental and public health impacts of
chemicals released into municipal wastewater treatment plants.
Denise has
earned several grants during her short time at UI including one that supported her trip to the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and
Humanities in 2008 where she presented research on body humor with Rebecca Tallent
from JAMM and Deirdre Sommerlad-Rogers from the Department of Sociology,
Anthropology and Justice Studies at UI.
Denise
teaches JAMM Introduction to Video/Television &
Digital Media Production,
Broadcast Television & Studio Program Production,
Advanced Digital Media Production, Documentary, Digital Animation in Mass
Media and, Digital Media Thesis Production.
Contact:
deniseb@uidaho.edu,
208-885-7460, Radio-TV Building, Room 34
Kenton Bird
(pictured at Dec. 2006
commencement with 1932 Chemistry graduate and former Argonaut staff member Malcolm Renfrew) has been director of the School of Journalism and Mass Media
since 2003. Kenton holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Idaho, where he was editor of the student newspaper, the Argonaut. He attended University College, Cardiff, Wales, on a Rotary fellowship, earning a master’s degree in journalism history, and Washington State University, earning a Ph.D. in American Studies.
During his 15-year career as a reporter and editor,
Kenton worked for newspapers in Moscow, Lewiston, Sandpoint and Kellogg, Idaho, and spent a summer at the Washington Post. In 1989, he was chosen as a congressional fellow of the American Political Science Association, working as a congressional staff member in Washington, D.C. After three years on the faculty at Colorado State University, Kenton returned to the UI in 1999 as an assistant professor of journalism and mass communication.
Kenton teaches Media and Society, Public Affairs Reporting, History of Mass Media, and Mass Media & Public Opinion. His research interests include political reporting, media history, civic journalism and the relationship between public opinion and public policy. In 2002, Kenton was one of three UI faculty members chosen to be a Humanities Fellow of the College of Letters, Arts & Social Sciences. Learn more about that project at:
www.class.uidaho.edu/humanities. Kenton is a board member of Heart of the Arts, Inc., and is
a member of the Latah County Community Foundation,
www.latahfoundation.org.
Contact:
kbird@uidaho.edu,
208-885-4947,
Administration Building, Room 347C
Jim Clark, lecturer,
received his BA from the University of
Toronto/Windsor, MA at Wayne State University and completed doctoral studies
at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He spent five
years at Griswold-Eschleman in Cleveland working as an account planner and
on a creative team. He worked as an account supervisor, management
supervisor and later as vice president of marketing planning. He helped create several award-winning ad and PR campaigns for B.F.Goodrich,
the Advertising Council and INDUSTRY WEEK magazine. He moved to Chicago to work for Marsteller Inc.
(now Young & Rubicam, Inc.) and Burson-Marsteller PR as a creative
director, account supervisor and vice president of strategic planning. Jim
moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he worked on Eaton Corporation and
Dow Chemical accounts at an ad and PR agency. He worked as a senior vice
president for a local marketing communications agency with national and
international accounts in Lansing. In 1997, he set up his own marketing
consulting business and has worked with a selected amount of clients since
then. Jim has done marketing, creative and PR work for accounts such as
Bridgestone/Firestone, Mitsubishi Motors, McGraw-Hill Publishing, Rand
McNally and Dow Chemical.
Over the course of his career, Jim received over
100 national and international awards for creative excellence. He has also
been a contributing editor for several industry publications, a judge for
national advertising award contests and a featured speaker on creative
topics at businesses and advertising clubs. During the time he worked in the
advertising and marketing industry, Jim has been a part-time instructor of
advertising, public relations, marketing, international business and
marketing and creative thinking courses at Cleveland State University, Grand
Valley State University, Northwestern University, Northwood University and
Lansing (Mich.) Community College. Jim moved from East Lansing, Mich. to
Pullman, Wash. summer 2005.
Contact:
hjclark@uidaho.edu,
208-885-8871,
Administration Building, Room 342B
Karin Clifford
(pictured right with her dog Chile),
administrative assistant, has been with the School since November 1995. She
previously worked for the University of Idaho from 1980 to 1986, first in the
Registrar's Office as a transcript clerk, then as ASUI secretary.
Originally from Long Island, New York, Karin is a career secretary. Among her
many jobs in many places she worked at Amarillo
College, University of New Hampshire, and in the corporate world for several
companies including Rodale Press and Air Products and Chemicals, both in
Pennsylvania. She took a different career path at one point in her life, and
worked in the never-a-dull-moment world of quarter horse racing in upstate New
York and Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Karin prefers the laid-back atmosphere of working at a
college over horse racing and the corporate world.
She shares her home with her husband, Greg (a 1986
Telecommunication graduate of this school and a UI employee), and Chile. Karin enjoys
flower and vegetable gardening,
riding her bike, hiking, cross-country skiing,
snowshoeing, camping, cooking, working out at the UI Rec Center and an assortment of arts
and crafts. She's a member of the Paradise Path Task Force and has a volunteer
support staff position with the ambulance department of Moscow's fire
department.
Along with her
administrative assistant and office management tasks Karin is JAMM's Web master.
Contact:
karin@uidaho.edu,
208-885-6458, Administration Building, Room 347
Patricia
Hart, assistant professor
of journalism and American Studies, combines teaching courses in writing,
editing and publishing in the School with over twenty years of professional work
in those fields. She is also Coordinator of the American Studies Program and
teaches the Contemporary American Experience Core Discovery course.
Patricia holds a BA in anthropology and art history from the University of
Nebraska and an MA and Ph.D. in American Studies, with an emphasis on U.S.
social and cultural history, from Washington State University.
She is coauthor of Mining Town: The Photographic Record of T.N. Barnard and
Nellie Stockbridge from the Coeur d'Alenes (University of Washington Press)
and coeditor of Women Writing Women (University of Nebraska Press). Her
book manuscript A Home for Every Child: Relinquishment and Adoption at the
Washington Children's Home Society is under consideration at the University
of Washington Press.
Prof. Hart’s research areas include history of mass media; media and social and
cultural movements; social welfare, labor, and immigration history; and women in
the West. In JAMM, she teaches Publications Editing, History of the Mass Media
and Media Writing.
Contact:
psh@uidaho.edu,
208-885-6012, Administration Building, Room 337
Sue Hinz, lecturer, joined the School in the fall of 2003. She teaches PR
Writing and Production, PR Case Studies and Issues Management, PR Relations
Campaign Design, and Nonprofit Public Relations.
Sue is the faculty adviser
for UIPR, the student public relations club. Sue has worked on community
fund-raising and public issue campaigns for more than 30 years. She led the
state of Washington’s Combined Fund Drive’s 1995 campaign that raised more than
$2 million dollars for charity. She also led Pullman United Way efforts to
increase its campaign support by more than 40 percent in a single year. Sue has
led Lincoln Middle School and Pullman High School PTSA groups, and directed
major fund-raising efforts by PHS Boosters. She has served as president of the
Pullman Memorial Hospital Foundation and Pullman Chamber of Commerce, chairing
fund-raising and community event committees. As a Pullman Education Foundation
board member, she helped direct successful efforts to equip a new fitness center
at PHS. Sue recently finished a nine-year tenure on the Pullman City Council.
Sue retired after a 30-year career in the University Relations/News Bureau at
Washington State University, her alma mater.
During free time, she officiates
the hammer throw for area collegiate track and field meets, the weight throw for
indoor track meets and at cross country meets. In the summer she competes as a
masters athlete in the hammer throw, shot put, discus and javelin. She and her
husband, Mike, track coach at PHS, have two handsome sons, two awesome
daughter-in-laws and a sweet grandson.
Contact:
susanh@uidaho.edu,
208-885-8873,
Administration Building, Room 341
Bill Loftus,
the University
of Idaho’s science writer, covered outdoors and environmental news for 16 years
with the Lewiston
(Idaho) Tribune. He led the Outdoors section, which was judged best in
the nation seven times by the Outdoor Writers Association of America. He won C.B.
Blethen Memorial Awards for enterprise reporting and others from the
Utah-Idaho-Spokane Associated Press Association, Association for Communications
Excellence, Idaho Press Club, Society of Professional Journalists and Idaho
Wildlife Federation. Loftus worked on the UI announcement of Idaho Gem, the
first equine clone who made news worldwide. That project won an outstanding
professional skill award from the Association for Communication Excellence in
Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences.
In 2006, Bill oversaw
media relations for the racing debut of Idaho Gem and his brother, Idaho Star,
the world’s first cloned athletes. Stories about the clones appeared in
newspapers worldwide. His stories have appeared in The New York Times. He
wrote a weekly outdoors column for The Associated Press and two travel guides to
Idaho. He is a member of the Idaho Press Club, National Association of Science
Writers and Association for Communications Excellence.
Bill earned a UI
bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies in zoology and journalism. He
teaches journalism classes and for three years team-taught the freshman core
class “Fire, Myth and Mankind: Coming to Terms with Nature.”
Contact:
bloftus@uidaho.edu, 208-885-7694
Glenn
Mosley, director of broadcasting
and lecturer, received his BA and MA in Radio/Television/Film from the
University of Maryland. Glenn has been a news reporter for more than twenty
years, working mostly in broadcasting but with a few stops at newspapers
along the way. He reported for several Massachusetts radio stations, spent
two and a half years as a press secretary/legislative aide in the
Massachusetts State Senate, and since 1996 has been a reporter for Northwest
Public Radio and public radio stations all over the Pacific Northwest. For
two years, he hosted and co-produced the "Idaho Voices" program for public
television stations.
Over the years, Glenn's journalism work has
been recognized by The Idaho Press Club, the Massachusetts and Washington
state chapters of The Associated Press, The Massachusetts Broadcasters
Association, and The Inland Northwest chapter of The Society of Professional
Journalists. At UI, Glenn has earned seven awards for teaching excellence; he
teaches News Writing, Broadcast News, Advanced Broadcast News, Broadcast
Announcing, American Television Genres, Public Radio Journalism, Principles
of Radio and Television and Radio/TV/Web Programming.
A Massachusetts native, Glenn loves the Red Sox, his nephew and nieces,
his two cats, his three step sons, his step dog, running in any kind of
weather, and watching movies and television. Since July, 2007, he has been very happily married to his unbelievably awesome wife Sheri.
For a Northwest Public Radio story about Edward R. Murrow's original CBS
studio office door (pictured above with Glenn), visit this Web site:
www.nwpr.org/07/HomepageArticles/Article.aspx?n=3751
Contact:
gmosley@uidaho.edu, 208-885-6020, Radio-TV
Building, Room 33
Shawn O’Neal
teaches media writing and is the manager/adviser at University of Idaho Student Media, which produces the
Argonaut newspaper and the twice-yearly magazine, Blot.
He has worked as a reporter at
The Wenatchee World, The (Bremerton, Wash.) Sun and the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, and as an editor/columnist at CBS SportsLine, covering the NBA and national college basketball. He is a senior editor with Lindy’s Sports Annuals, a national magazine based in Birmingham, Alabama.
Shawn is a graduate of Washington State University.
Contact:
shawno@sub.uidaho.edu, 208-885-2220, SUB 303
Mary
Packer received her undergraduate
degree in Radio/TV/Digital Media Production from JAMM in 2005 and is currently a
Master of Fine Arts candidate in the UI's Department of Theatre and Film.
Mary teaches Principles of Radio and Television and Digital Audio Production and
has been a teaching assistant in Broadcast News and Studio Program Production.
She also helps to manage the Equipment Room at the Radio- TV Center. As part of
her graduate work in Theatre & Film, Mary works as a sound engineer, sound
designer and lighting designer for theatrical productions, including "Death of
Salesman" in 2006, "The Clean House" in 2007, and "Urinetown" in 2008. Mary also
works on campus for
Sound, Production and Lighting, the Idaho
Repertory Theatre, and Idaho Public Television.
Mary's awards include a 2007 Certificate of Merit from The American College
Theatre Festival, a 2007 UI Alumni Award for Excellence, and the 2008
Jack Schlaefle
Memorial Scholarship from Idaho Public Television.
Contact:
mpacker@vandals.uidaho.edu
Vicki
Rishling is a full-time lecturer and has taught media writing and reporting
classes since returning to Idaho
in 2003. She received a B.S. in journalism from University of Idaho,
and a masters from The Ohio State University as a Kiplinger fellow in 2002-2003.
While at OSU she taught advanced reporting classes and served as interim
director for the student newspaper The Lantern. Before that she was the student
media adviser for The Daily Evergreen at Washington State University.
She was a reporter and editor at the Moscow/Pullman Daily News prior to
1994.
Vicki teaches Media Writing, Reporting and Narrative Journalism.
Contact:
rishling@uidaho.edu,
208-885-6019, Administration Building, Room 342A
Julie Scott
teaches Media Writing. Read more about her soon!!
Contact:
julies@uidaho.edu,
208-885-8871, Administration
Building, Room 342B
Mark Secrist, associate professor, has a BA in economics from Brigham Young University (1970) and an MBA from the University of Utah (1972). He worked eight years in television operation and production (at KBYU, a PBS station, and KCPX, the ABC affiliate in Salt Lake City) and worked 28 years in advertising agencies. He is owner of his own agency (Secrist Advertising Agency).
Mark has taught advertising at University of Utah, Washington State University and the University of Idaho for the past 22 years. He has taken 19 different advertising competition teams to the National Student Advertising Competition
(NSAC), winning the Northwest District competition three times, placing second,
seventh and eighth at the national finals. He has also served as Ad Club adviser
for 21 years.
He loves his family (5 children, 3 grandchildren), advertising and
rivers. Mark teaches Ad Campaign Strategy, Ad Competition Team, Advertising
Media Planning, Advertising Creativity and The Ad Agency.
Contact:
msecrist@uidaho.edu,
208-885-7707,
Administration Building, Room 346
Marc Skinner,
JAMM assistant director, teaches JAMM 100. He also works on alumni relations, fundraising, recruitment,
scheduling, advising and various other administrative tasks. Marc is the internship
and practicum coordinator for JAMM.
Prior to joining the School in this position Marc worked as a field representative for American Fidelity Assurance Company. Following graduation from the School of Communication in 1993, he began teaching speech courses while pursuing his Master of Public
Administration degree. From 1995 to 1998 he taught as a full-time instructor for the school. He has taught Fundamentals of Public Speaking, Interpersonal Communication and Conflict Management. Most of the time, however, you can find Marc on the phone talking to alumni, prospective students, or discussing classes with current students. As the advisor for freshman and sophomores, he gets to know almost every student that enters the school.
Outside of work Marc spends as much time as possible with his wife, Alisa, and their children Avarie, Katelyn, Kindra, Mitchel
and Trey. He loves music, athletics and fresh air.
Contact:
mskinner@uidaho.edu,
208-885-7573,
Administration Building, Room 347B
Rebecca
J. “Becky” Tallent
joined the JAMM faculty summer 2006 as a full-time, tenure-track professor.
Becky is an award-winning journalist and public relations specialist with
more than 12 years experience as an energy, environmental and financial
journalist plus an additional 18 years experience as a public relations
specialist, primarily with state government agencies. In addition to her UI
teaching, Becky holds a Diversity Leadership Fellowship with the Society of
Professional Journalists (SPJ), is the ombudsman for the Spokane
Spokesman-Review and is a member of the UI American Indian Studies
Faculty.
Becky is a member of both SPJ and the Native American Journalists
Association (she is of Cherokee heritage), and she is the adviser to both
students groups on campus. She earned both her Bachelor of Arts in
Journalism and her Master of Education in Journalism from the University of
Central Oklahoma, and her Doctor of Education in Classroom Teaching/Mass
Communications from Oklahoma State University in 1995. As part of her
continuing education, Becky attended the Poynter Institute for Media Studies
in the summer of 2007 to learn more about teaching Diversity Across the
Curriculum.
In her spare time, Becky loves hiking, fishing and traveling with her
husband Roger, playing with her cats Arthur and Lady Jane Grey, watching
football, cooking, photography, knitting and doing Native American beadwork.
Becky teaches Media Writing, Principles of Public Relations, Public
Relations Campaigns, and Cultural Diversity and the Media.
Contact:
rtallent@uidaho.edu,
208-885-8872,
Administration Building, Room 333.
Dinah Zeiger
will join JAMM faculty fall semester. She will teach Public Affairs
Reporting and Law of Mass Media. She
earned a B.A. in English from the
University of Missouri, Kansas City; M.A. in Art from the University of
Colorado, Boulder; Ph.D. in Journalism and Mass Communication from the
University of Colorado, Boulder.
