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Dr. Anderson, a performance studies scholar, focuses his research in the area of narrative theory and performance. He is the author of The Student Companion to William Faulkner (Greenwood, 2007). In addition to publishing articles in Text and Performance Quarterly, he has served as Book Review Co-Editor for the journal. He performs nationally in his one-person shows as authors Henry James, William Faulkner, Washington Irving, Lynn Riggs, and Robert Frost. He has received Chautauqua grants to present humanities programs on early America, the Civil War, the 1930s, and the Centennial of Oklahoma statehood. Dr. Anderson is a former Chair of the Performance Studies Division of the National Communication Association and served as Director of the Honors Program at Emerson for ten years.

Mr. Battenfeld has spent more than 25 years covering politics and government as a print and broadcast reporter. He is currently the political editor for New England's top rated local news station, Fox 25, doing on air reports on the presidential campaign and local politics. He has covered every presidential election since 1988, including a dozen national conventions, as well as numerous state and congressional races. For 17 years, he was political reporter for the Boston Herald, and has interviewed politicians such as Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, as well as Sens. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Ted Kennedy. Battenfeld has won two New England Emmys for best political coverage at Fox 25 and several Associated Press awards for exposing scandals in state government. He is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire, with a B.A. in English/journalism.

Derek Beck with brings over twenty years of public relations, marketing, public affairs and strategic counseling experience to Emerson College. In addition to being a member of the Marketing Communications Department at Emerson College since 2003, Derek Beckwith is president of Beckwith Public Relations Group, a full-service media relations and strategic communications firm. Beckwith’s client experience includes political candidates and committees, corporations, high-tech firms, trade associations, non-profit organizations and government agencies.

He teaches at Northeastern University (Introduction to Political Science), Boston College (Civil Rights), Bunker Hill Community College (Business Law) and the Massachusetts School of Law (Civil Rights) In the last five years the following is a partial list of courses taught at Emerson College; American Government & Politics, Civil Rights, The First Amendment, International Politics, African A.merican History and Third World Politics.

Art Cohen is an independent producer, writer and reporter at WBZ Radio. He has produced television magazine segments, video documentaries, educational and training videos, corporate videos, and company newsletters. He also writes articles, live presentations, and video scripts. He teaches at various Boston universities.

Dana Gioia is Chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts. According to whitehouse.gov: Dana Gioia, an internationally acclaimed poet, critic, educator and former business executive, was appointed by the President and confirmed unanimously by the Senate in January 2003. Mr. Gioia has worked most recently as a poet and critic and is best known for his 1991 book Can Poetry Matter? about the role of poetry in contemporary culture. Musically trained, he served the past six years as classical music critic for San Francisco magazine and has been a long time commentator on American culture and literature for BBC Radio. Working to support his writing, Mr. Gioia was an executive for General Foods in New York for fifteen years, eventually becoming their Vice President of Marketing. He received a B.A. and a M.B.A. from Stanford University and a M.A. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University

  • Linda GALLANT

Dr. Gallant is the Graduate Program Director and Assistant Professor at Emerson College. Her teaching and research interests include the application of research methods to social computing and the maximization of information and communication technology (ICT) to advance human communication in multiple contexts – healthcare, politics, and the workplace. She is published in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Academic Exchange Quarterly, Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, First Monday, and e-Service Journal. 

Dr. Della-Giustina has had a long career as a television news producer. Among her honors are a Gracie Award, a National Commendation Award from American Women in Radio and Television, and awards from the National Education Writers Association and the National Association of Government Communicators. She has two Emmys from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, a Society of Professional Journalists National Advisor Award, a Distinguished Broadcast Journalism Education Achievement Award, and a Curriculum Design Award from the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press. Her primary areas of interest include media management, political journalism, international affairs, and gender issues.

Shelli Karabell is an accomplished broadcast journalist and writer.  She spent over 20 years working for PBS, ABC, and CNBC in Europe and is known for her coverage of the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.  In her 20 years as working as a journalist she has also served as Moscow Bureau Chief for ABC/Worldwide Television News, covered the Iranian hostage crisis, and the Beirut civil war.  Her career began as a producer at Pennsylvania WITF-TV.

 Mohamed Khalil is a graduate of Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was one of the founders of Saudi-American Exchange, one of the first grass roots efforts in public diplomacy after 9/11. He has lectured extensively in public diplomacy and business in the US, Europe and the Middle East.

Jerry Lanson is an associate professor of journalism at Emerson College. He is a regular contributor to the opinion pages of the Christian Science Monitor and CommonDreams.org and the co-author of two journalism texts, “Writing and Reporting the News,” in its third edition, and “News in a New Century.” Lanson is a former deputy city editor at the San Jose Mercury News, has coached writers at more than a dozen newspapers and taught at six other universities before coming to Emerson in 1999. He keeps a blog, titled “making sense of the news.”

Mr. Leccese spent almost 30 years covering politics and government as a wire service reporter, a daily newspaper reporter, the editor-in- chief of the largest-circulation weekly newspaper in New England, State House bureau chief for a large chain of Massachusetts newspapers and a correspondent for The Boston Globe. He has also covered business news as Associate Editor of the Boston Business Journal. His freelance work has appeared in The Columbia Journalism Review, The Quill, America, Boston Magazine, State Legislatures Magazine and The Boston Phoenix.

Peter Loge has been advising candidates, elected officials and advocacy organizations for more than 15 years. He currently serves as the Principal at Milo Public Affairs LLC where his clients have included: American Farmland Trust; Vin Di Bona Productions which produces “America’s Funniest Home Videos”; WickedCoolStuff.com; Oxfam America; the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights; and others. He currently serves on the boards of United for DC (DC United’s charity), Equal Justice USA, ServeNext, the Copyright Alliance, and the Emerson College Alumni Association.

Michael Macklin is a veteran reporter in New England, having worked as a correspondent in Boston, FOX News New York, GMTV London, NBC Washington. He has achieved various Emmys for reporting and lectures frequently at universities in the US.

The 21-year-old senior from Emerson college will be graduating this May with a degree in Organizational and Political Communication. His plans after graduation, however, are unlike those of any of his fellow OPC students. Rather than entering the worlds of campaigning or non-profit, he will be entering the film industry with a start-up production company, "Lone Knight Productions," in Burbank, California.Michael McManus is making a name for himself with film festival award Campus MovieFest, the world's largest student film festival, held their Boston Regional Finale on Saturday, April 26th. There were several hundred five-minute films submitted from seven schools in the Greater Boston area. At the finale, Michael was presented the award for "Best Performance."

Mr. Niwa did his B. A. at University of California, Riverside and finished his M. S. in Columbia University. Mr. Niwa has launched and helped launch two international television networks, six newscasts and a streaming media newscast for NBC, CNBC and StockHouse Media, Canada's largest internet company (as Senior Vice President responsible for content at the company’s eight global editorial centers). In 1999, he helped NBC create "Early Today," and in 1996 he launched the award winning "NBC Asia Evening News" in Hong Kong. He produced CNBC's "Today’s Business" and the nationally syndicated newscast "This Morning’s Business." He's won two Golden Mike awards for radio reporting and documentary.

Suffolk University Professor David Paleologos, political pollster and director of the University’s Political Research Center, serves the role of expert political analyst on coverage of 7News-Suffolk University political polling results. Mr/ has taught at Emerson College and is known for his credibility in polling having picked various races correctly when other pollsters had missed the mark.

Dr. Paraschos received his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and taught there as well as at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock before coming to Emerson College in 1988. In 1986-87 he served as a Fulbright scholar in Scandinavia. He chaired the department of journalism at Arkansas and was the founding dean of Emerson’s European Institute for International Communication in Maastricht, The Netherlands, in 1991-94. In 1995 he was honored with the Emerson’s Distinguished Faculty Award. His scholarly works have been published in many leading mass communication and journalism journals in the United States as well as in Europe. He is the author of several books the most recent of which is Media Law and Regulation in the European Union (Iowa State University Press, 1998). He is co-publisher of Media Ethics magazine and editor of Emerson's Journalism Students' Online News Service. He teaches courses in media and society, global journalism, media law and ethics, new media, reporting, editing and editorial writing.

J. Gregory Payne is an Associate Professor in Emerson College's Department of Communication Studies. He is Director of the Center for Ethics in Political and Health Communication, which he co-founded in 1996. He also has taught at Tufts University's Department of Family Medicine and Yale University's Department of Global Health. During his ten year tenure as Chair of the Communication Department at Emerson, he initiated cutting edge graduate programs in Global Marketing, a joint Health Communication program with Tufts School of Medicine, the first joint degree program of its kind, Marketing Communication and Political Communication. Dr. Payne also started and currently advises the Emerson chapter of the Communications, Politics & Law Association (CPLA). He is the founding director of the Saudi-American Exchange, the first grass roots public diplomacy effort in the wake of 9/11. He has been the editor of the American Behavioral Scientist Edition on presidential campaigns for every consecutive election since 1988. He has a frequent traveling scholar for State Department Public Diplomacy Project.

Dr. Robins has extensive international journalism and media experience. She has been a reporter and editor at the The New Haven Register and The Journal-Courier in Connecticut. She has served as a media consultant for the Jamaican government, has been a Fulbright Scholar in Uganda and India, and has conducted workshops for journalists in Senegal, Tanzania, Tonga, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Her research interests include media globalization, media in developing countries, issues of representation, and gender.

Young alum Cynthia M. Roy ’04 “is already playing an important role in politics in Boston and across the state,” notes the Massachusetts paper The Republican. At the age of 24, Roy is the communications director for the Massachusetts Democratic Party, “a lofty position with a fairly high profile," according to the paper. “It's been exciting," she said. "It's given me an inside look at the political landscape." Roy told the paper as part of her job she receives near-daily phone calls from residents who have been affected in some way by state government, for example people who have lost their jobs and are struggling with bills. "When things are tough, that's what keeps me motivated to keep doing this job," she explained. A former reporter, “Roy makes good use of her journalism skills, regularly targeting Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey or other Republican leaders with some pithy headlines and quotes,” reports the paper.Previously, Roy served as an intern for the Democratic Party during the 2002 election where she monitored the press conferences and public appearances of Mitt Romney, then a candidate for governor. In 2003, she worked as a correspondent at the Statehouse for The Boston Globe and as a reporter for the State House News Service in Boston. 

John Shattuck is Chief Executive Officer of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, and Senior Fellow and Lecturer at the College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University.  Shattuck’s career spans more than three decades of leadership in higher education, international diplomacy, foreign policy and human rights.  He appears frequently in the U.S. and international media and as a speaker and commentator on human rights and international security.  He is the author of Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and America’s Response (Harvard University Press), Rights of Privacy (National Textbook Company) and many articles on international affairs, national security, foreign policy, human rights, civil liberties, higher education and public service.

Jonathan "Satch" Satriale is an award-winning video journalist who is currently the Journalism Technology manager at Emerson College. Prior to joining Emerson College, he worked in New York City as a TV news producer, reporter, editor and photographer for NY1 News and other Time Warner companies. Mr. Satriale has covered a wide range of news stories from daily breaking news to the events of 9/11/2001. Recently Mr. Satriale accompanied and mentored Emerson College journalism students as they covered the 2008 Iowa Caucuses. He continues to support and instruct all Emerson College journalism students in the use of technology and its practical application in the journalism business. Mr. Satriale is a graduate of Emerson College and is currently completing his graduate degree at Emerson.

After 24 years, 3-time Emmy-award winning anchor and senior correspondent, Carole Simpson, retired from ABC News in 2006 to become Leader-in-Residence at Emerson College's School of Communication in Boston. She is a member of the full-time faculty and teaches courses in public affairs reporting, political communication, and broadcast journalism. As Leader-in-Residence, she mentors students and conducts public seminars on issues of importance such as the First Amendment, the historic function of the press as a watchdog on government, and the importance of an informed electorate. In the meantime she is completing a book on her 40 years as a pioneering African American woman in the field of journalism. She was also recently named to the Board of Trustees of Save the Children, and the National Commission to Build a Healthier America. Simpson is also a commentator for National Public Radio and a frequent political analyst on "Larry King Live." 

Michael Weiler, a member of the faculty since 1989, is an expert in argument, rhetoric, and political communication. His research has appeared in Argumentation and Advocacy, Informal Logic, and the Quarterly Journal of Speech, and he has co-authored a collection of essays on the rhetoric of Ronald Reagan. He is director of Emerson Community Debate, a program that promotes debating activities at Boston elementary and secondary schools.

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