About Us

Stan Alost has over 20 years of experience in the visual communication field and has held positions in management, photo editor, photojournalist and at various newspapers, including The St. Petersburg Times. He has served as a freelance photojournalist and picture editor for the Associated Press and United Press International. He served as project consultant and picture editor on the book Delta Jewels: In Search of My Grandmother’s Wisdom by ALysia Burton Steele and Uphill Battle: the Journey to a National Championship by Josh Birnbaum.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/viscom/faculty/

Josh Antonuccio has spent the last two decades in the music and media industry as a producer, engineer, musician, audio researcher, and media journalist. He is the owner of 3 Elliott Studio, where he has produced and engineered a multitude of signed and independent artists and worked on post-production for film. He is co-creator of the Immersive Media Initiative, a cutting-edge higher education partnership preparing students for training in the production field of virtual and augmented reality. In this capacity, he oversees sound design research and production for immersive media. Josh is the creator and coordinator of multiple experience-based media courses at Ohio University, providing students direct access to nationally-recognized field work and oversees the OU SXSW trip. Joshis a GRAMMY-voting member of the National Academy of Recording Academy of Arts & Sciences (NARAS), an ASCAP-affiliated songwriter, and member of Audio Engineering Society (AES), as well as a consultant for other media industry schools.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Eddie Ashworth is a thirty year veteran of the music industry and has produced, recorded or mixed a diverse array of albums, EPs, and singles for noted international artists such as Sublime, Pennywise, The Long Beach Dub Allstars, Tommy Shaw, Great White, Unwritten Law, Dokken, Frenzal Rhomb, Eastern Youth, Qiet, and innumerable others. He is the recipient of numerous platinum and gold sales awards and is a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), the Audio Engineering Society (AES), Association for the Art of Record Production (ASARP) and, as a songwriter, is affiliated with Broadcast Music, Inc (BMI).

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Tyler has worked in graphic design but enjoys teaching and experimenting with animation much more. He has worked as an artist and designer on thebakeryshop.org, an educational video game that won two Communicator’s Awards in 2010. Tyler’s individual short animation production, "RED & blue," was screened in over 30 animation festivals in 2008-2009 including the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, the Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival, and the Nicktoons Film Festival, receiving multiple honors.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Tom Bartel is known for his disturbing and humorous fragmented figures that take cues from a “shotgun blast” of influences ranging from antiquity to popular culture. Tom has lectured, conducted workshops and exhibited extensively throughout the United States and internationally. His work is included in numerous public and private collections and he has received Individual Artist Fellowships from the Pennsylvania Arts Council, the Kentucky Arts Council and the Ohio Arts Council. He has numerous publications to his credit, including American Craft, Ceramics Monthly, Clay Times, Ceramics Art and Perception as well as many other periodicals and books.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Tim Bearse is a recent fellow at Marpha Foundation in the Lower Mustang region of Nepal, and completed a community design project in 2015. He's been included in exhibitions at NoMinimo Gallery in Guaquil Ecuador, Artisphere in Arlington Virginia, the Pierogi Boiler Room in Brooklyn and Nobile Amundsen in Norfolk Virginia. He's taught at Virginia Commonwealth University, Old Dominion University and The Ohio State University. His exhibition at the New Bedford Museum of Art opened in 2016.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Josh Birnbaum is a photographer who has worked for the Oakland Tribune, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, The Omaha World-Herald, The Peoria Journal Star, and The Dallas Morning News. In addition, he interned at James Nachtwey's studio. Currently, Josh is also a visiting artist with the Athens Photographic Project — a non-profit fine arts program that offers photography classes to community members living with persistent mental illness — where he teaches advanced classes and leads artists in pursuit of their creative and personal recovery goals.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/viscom/faculty/

John Bowditch is the Director and co-founder of the Game Research and Immersive Design (GRID) Lab in the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University. Most recently, he created the Immersive Media Initiative to introduce Virtual and Augmented Reality research and creative projects to Ohio University. Professional Research highlights include funded projects from the National Institutes of Health, Department of Labor, Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, Ohio Board of Regents, Ohio University Innovation Strategy funds and other private entities.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Specializing in Italian Renaissance Art, Professor Bradshaw also studies Ritual Art of New Guinea. Recent publications include Italian Renaissance Art: A Source Book. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Italian Renaissance Art, Northern Renaissance Art, Baroque and Rococo Art, and Research Methods. She also directs and teaches on-site courses in Ancient - Baroque Art for Ohio University's Art History in Italy Program – offered in the summer, bi-yearly.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Vincent Caranchini is an artist who is interested in the social relationship of paintings and space. His visual work has been presented in both juried and non-juried exhibitions, and his theoretical interests have generated an ongoing body of papers and publications.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Roger's research focuses on cross-platform uses of media with articles in issues of Mass Communication and Society, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, International Journal of Sport Communication, and Journal of Sports Media. Roger also focuses on the personality attributes that lead to career success in the creative industries, publishing articles on this topic in Journalism and Mass Communication Educator and Journal of Media Education, and presenting papers/panels at the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) and Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) conferences. Roger has also published in Communication Theory, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, and Media Management Review.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Art has worked in production, programming, and administrative capacities in public broadcasting for over thirty-five years – participating in several ground breaking productions for Nebraska ETV focusing on the black experience on the American frontier. He also edited a companion book for the Black Frontier series. After spending two years as Associate Director of the National Association of Educational Broadcaster's Office of Minority Affairs, Art became Producer of an educational television series for Northern Virginia Educational Television (Gettin' Over!). After a decade in public radio as an on-air programer and Program/Music director, Art became the Associate Producer of the PBS documentary “Black Boy: Richard Wright.” Most recently, Art has been working on a variety of projects involving topics of the arts, Ohio history and World War II.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Randolph Damico is a practicing architect and visiting assistant professor. As a teacher, writer, and designer, his work probes architecture’s recursive relationship with society, art, politics, and philosophy, focusing especially on the modern subject (individual as well as collective) and the way in which this subject affects and is affected by architecture and space. Damico is particularly interested in the nature of obsolescence within our post-traumatic memorial culture as it is currently being reformulated in the buildings as monuments of the twenty-first century. Damico has engaged in almost thirteen years of professional experience, which spans a variety of project types and scales.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Samuel Dodd is an architectural and media historian. His research focuses on the circulation of design practices and theories within American culture, exploring issues of taste-making, public engagement, and new media. Dr. Dodd is currently at work on several projects, including the manuscript for his book Architecture by Television, which explains how design experts used television as a communication technology, and new research on the relationship between participatory culture and American building practices. He previously taught at the University of Arizona and the University of Texas at Austin, where he also worked at the Center for Sustainable Development.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Julie Dummermuth has participated in solo exhibitions in such venues as Hiro Exhibitions Space, NYC and Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco. Her work has been featured in multiple group and juried exhibitions in both the United States as well as abroad, including International Young Arts in Moscow, Tel-Aviv, and Amsterdam. Her work comprises private collections in Moscow, Amsterdam, Tel-Aviv, and San Francisco.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Terry is a field researcher, magazine photographer, documentary photojournalist and co-founder of Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication and an Emeritus Professor. As a publication photographer, he produced material for the National Geographic Society’s books and magazines over a 20-year period. His work has been featured in GEO, Sunset, and Paris Match. As a documentary photographer, he has been involved in Project Documerica, funded by the EPA to record the state of the environment prior to major air and water legislation. He has been a field researcher on four Library of Congress American Folklife Center projects, the Calvert Marine Museum project on the Patuxent River Watermen and a project documenting the people of West Virginia’s Coal River Valley for the American Folklife Center.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/viscom/faculty/

Julie Elman has more than 15 years of experience in the newspaper industry, including designing and picture editing at various daily and weekly newspapers. She has won numerous awards of excellence from the Society for News Design, and is also the Print Publications for the organization. Elman also designed Pete Souza’s book The Rise of Barack Obama and the book Stories from the Anne Grimes Collection of American Folk Music. She is the co-author of The Newspaper Designer’s Handbook, 7th edition. And author of the book Fear, Illustrated: Transforming What Scares Us.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/viscom/faculty/

Lori Esposito’s work has been collected by private and public collections, including Fidelity and the Embassy of Panama. Her work was featured in the 42nd exhibition of Art on Paper at the Weatherspoon Art Museum. Manifest Gallery selected her work for a special exhibition/publication ‘Botanical’ and for their International Drawing Annual 7. In recent years she has had solo exhibitions at the Turchin Center at Appalachian State and SooVisual Arts in Minneapolis and she continues to exhibit her work, curate and facilitate walks throughout the US. Esposito has taught studio art and foundations at the University of North Dakota and the Rhode Island School of Design.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Mark Franz’s exhibitions and primary research projects involve the creation of interactive installations that reflect on issues of violence, dislocation, and other social constructions important in contemporary cultures. This work explores the boundaries between visual art, interaction design, and serious games. The foundations of graphic design, especially regarding considerations concerning form and the composition of formal elements, play an essential role in this practice, as time-based elements, interaction, and sound, take this work in new directions. Franz’s secondary research involves creating custom hardware and software for audiovisual performance and installation, and references the art historical current of visual music commonly discussed as part of animation history.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Andrea E. Frohne has a joint appointment in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and the School of Art. She is an affiliate faculty of African Studies. Her book manuscript under review for publication is entitled Space, Spirituality, and Memory: The African Burial Ground in New York City. She was a co-editor of Postcolonial and Transnational Exchanges: African and Diasporan Literature, Film and the Visual Arts in the 21st Century. The book is based on the 37th annual African Literature Association conference, for which Frohne was a co-convener at Ohio University in 2011. She recently curated the exhibition Wax and Gold: Contemporary Transnational African Art at the Kennedy Museum of Art.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Ghosh is interested in the interaction between image and architecture and his installations often define a uniquely perceptual and phenomenological relation of the two. Los Angeles Times described his recent solo show at Steve Turner Contemporary gallery in Los Angeles as ‘zen touch to video’, pointing out Ghosh’s interest in the transfiguration of the commonplace into the ‘miraculous everyday’. Ghosh has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally. His recent videos and installations have been shown at the final screening of the World One Minute Video Art Festival in Belgium and at the international juried Freewaves Festival of New Media Arts in Los Angeles.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Sam Girton has more than 15 years of professional experience as a photographer, web and print designer. He has worked for numerous clients, including The American Bar Association, PBS, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Electronic Data Systems, Clear Channel Communications, Foam Magazine, GigBot.net, David Hostetler, Marietta Memorial Hospital, Lineberger Cancer Center, Rocky Boots and World Book Marketing. He has also led many workshops, including The Ohio Arts Council Summer Media Institute, and has experience in conducting study programs: Design in Asia, Design at the University of Guyana (a USAID-funded workshop), and Documentary Filmmaking in Letterkenny, Ireland.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/viscom/faculty/

Tim Goheen is an illustrator, designer and infographics specialist with 30 years of professional experience. He began his career as a newsroom artist at The State (newspaper) in Columbia, S.C. He later joined the news wire service Knight-Ridder Tribune Information Services (KRT) in Washington, D.C., as senior illustrator for the company’s European graphics startup. In 1997, he was promoted to art director of KRT Graphics and supervised artists and freelancers in the U.S. and Europe. He has won Society for News Design (SND) awards for infographics and South Carolina Press Association Awards for news graphics, illustration and feature page design.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/viscom/faculty/

Dori Griffin’s primary research centers around the history of popular visual culture and the role that type and image play in creating cultural identity. Her 2013 book, Mapping Wonderlands, explores the role that illustrated maps played in creating the tourist identity of Arizona. Griffin’s secondary research is focused on design education, particularly the intersections between design history and studio practice. She has presented her research on this subject at a number of national conferences, including AIGA Design Educators and the College Art Association, and her writing on the subject has appeared in the graphic design journal Visible Language.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

John Grimwade runs his own infographics business (johngrimwade.com) and previously worked for 14 years in newspapers (including six years as Head of Graphics at The Times, London). John has also produced infographics for numerous magazines, books, and corporate clients. He was graphics director of both Condé Nast Traveler and Condé Nast Portfolio magazines, and graphics consultant to Popular Science magazine. He is currently consulting infographics director for Eight by Eight – the Society of Publication Design’s 2015 Magazine of the Year. He’s an instructor at the annual Malofiej workshop for professionals in Pamplona, Spain, and has run workshops around the world.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/viscom/faculty/

Karla Hackenmiller’s recent research has been focused on the limitless and ever-evolving results of the thought process as it relates to the physical brain and its abstract outcomes. Her detailed artworks have primarily taken the form of linear etchings, drawings, collages, collagraphs and monoprints that have been exhibited internationally as well as across the United States. Her work can be found in the public collections of the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Los Angeles, CA; Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, France; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT; and the Center for Book Arts, New York City, NY; among others.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Larry Hamel-Lambert has 25 years experience working in the industry as a photographer and picture editor. Past employers include The Cleveland Press, Cincinnati Post, (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, Washington (D.C.) Times, Providence (R.I.) Journal, USA Today, and the Associated Press Washington, D.C., bureau. His photographs have received recognition from The Ohio News Photographers Association, Society of News Design, Associated Press and the Atlanta Seminar – appearing in magazines, books, and exhibitions. He is a regular contributing photographer to Woodcraft Magazine. His main areas of interest involve creating an architectural series of large-format, black-and-white images of country churches in Ohio; making environmental portraits using vintage camera lenses; and documenting community health and wellness projects.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/viscom/faculty/

Melissa Haviland is an artist whose work straddles the boundaries between printmaking and installation-performance. She explores family lineage, ritual, and daily practice within objects that are gendered and classed, like fine china. Though she is, by nature, a printmaker, she creates work from textiles, food—especially sweets, performance, photography and video, sculptural and drawing materials, as well as ink and paper. Since 2010, she has spent a considerable amount of time collaborating with video artist, David Colagiovanni. Recent projects, “Music for Teacups” and “Dinner Music”, bring together the focuses of both individual bodies of work—etiquette and class meet gravity and flight.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Alex Hibbitt is a British Artist. Her work has been exhibited widely both in the US and abroad, including The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, The Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, De Witte Voet gallery in Amsterdam, and the Soap Factory in Minneapolis. She has been a visiting artist and speaker at, among others, Minerva Art Academy in the Netherlands, Denison University, Granville, Ohio, The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and Ohio State University. Hibbitt’s work is in private and public Collections both in Europe and the US.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Research methods/field methods in Africa; participatory research methods, Islam in Africa, communication in the Muslim World, rural development in Africa, social movements in Africa, Islam and socio-cultural change, and children and African development.

Steve Howard is a sociologist by training whose work focuses on social change in Africa and social movements in the Muslim world. His published articles include "Getting Ready to Vote: Youth, Democracy and the Media in Election Cycle Nigeria," "Africa's Languages: an ancient and 'open source' of intelligence," "Children and Media in Muslim Africa: Sudan, Senegal, Nigeria," and "Communicating Islamic Transformation: the Campaigns of Sudan's Republican Brotherhood." Steve has been African Studies Director at Ohio University since 1991 and in 1999 founded the Institute for the African Child. He speaks French and Arabic, using both in his research and networking.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Dr. Laeeq Khan is the Director of the Social Media Analytics lab in the Scripps College of Communication. He has extensive professional experience as a social media strategist; and his research concentrates on online user engagement, data analytics, communication for development, and digital literacies. Dr. Khan has published in major refereed journals of international repute, authored book chapters, and presented at prominent conferences in the field of media, communication and information systems. He has also worked on various funded research projects from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Daniel King turned to making and thinking and looking at the visual and conceptual possibilities that exist in the liminal spaces between reception (seeing) and cognition (knowing) early in his life. After receiving a degree from the Columbus College of Art & Design, a short stint in the US Military, and a commercial art career, Daniel King has situated himself along mid-west fault lines between the urban and the rural. His work is primarily lens-based, consisting of films, videos and photographs which have been exhibited across the United States and Canada, in Colombia, and recently in Croatia.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Gary Kirksey has more than 25 years of commercial photography experience with numerous clients including Proctor & Gamble, the Washington Post and The Cincinnati Reds. His photographs have been exhibited in venues such as the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago and the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, and are part of the permanent collection at the Dallas African-American Art Museum in Texas. Additionally, his art is included in more than forty public, private and corporate collections, and has been published in books, including "Committed to the Image: Contemporary Black Photographers" and publications, such as Life magazine.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/viscom/faculty/

Professor Klein teaches a variety of courses included Contemporary Art, Gender and Representation, Modern Art, History of Photography, Performance Art and Theory, and Queer Theory and Visual Representation. Professor Klein also chairs the Art History Area. Her primary areas of research lie in contemporary art, art criticism, feminist art, and performance art. She is a contributing editor for Art Papers and a member of the editorial board of Genders. Professor Klein has presented nationally and internationally on her work. She was recently a presenter at the MACAA Conference in Detroit, the 10th anniversary of the ANTI Festival in Finland, and the UAAC Conference in Montreal.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Dr. Korn has over 25 years of experience as an award-winning producer/director/writer, and consultant. He is an advisor to Rev. Jesse Jackson and consultant to the civil rights leader’s international organization, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition – serving for a number of years as producer of Upfront with Jesse Jackson. Korn’s consulting work centers on developing and executing strategic communication plans and political strategy. Recently, he has been active in Washington, D.C. in the effort to maintain and improve the FCC Lifeline program, helping low-income Americans access affordable telephone service. His production work includes documentary and educational projects, multimedia projects, and websites.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

David LaPalombara has been the Director of the School of Art since 2007. His classroom work includes a variety of collaborative teaching experiences within the arts, art & environment, and across the liberal arts curriculum. Professor LaPalombara is a contributor for the tour guide City Secrets: Rome, and reviewed Joel Sternfeld’s Campagna Romana for Aperture Magazine. He returned recently to Rome as a visiting artist at the American Academy, continuing a body of work focused on spatial perception. His art has been exhibited and reviewed in Canada, Italy, and a variety of cities in the United States.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

The assumption of objectivity that continues to haunt photography—the desire to trust our eyes—is a central concern of Laura Larson’s work. Mining the intersection between documentary and poetic practices, her subjects range from dollhouses to dirty hotel rooms to the paranormal. Her work poses questions about the medium and its terms of representation: its materials, histories, and social meanings. While she identifies as a photographer, her work encompasses film, video, digital media, and writing. She see her photographs as a product of her skepticism and desire to believe in the medium of photography.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Issues of materiality and reception have informed Marion’s teaching and research, due partly to her experience of working in museums. Her research interests are in the art of late imperial China and contemporary art. Current interest areas include the artist Fei Danxu and how the historical dimension of his paintings of women and male portraiture may contribute to the understanding of gender relationship and the practice of collecting in early nineteenth-century China.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Carolyn has served over 38 years as a public broadcasting/media professional, and was the first African-American female named general manager of a public television station in the United States (1993). She served as Director and General Manager of the WOUB Center for Public Media at Ohio University (1997-2011) and led the station through strategic planning, reorganization, and organizational change, including WOUB’s conversion from analog to digital television. Additionally, Carolyn has garnered a myriad of awards, and produced and hosted both radio and television programs.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Prior to transitioning to higher education, Frederick Lewis was a producer, writer, director and program/production manager working in commercial, cable and public television, and producing everything from documentaries and public affairs programs to corporate video and commercials. His independent documentaries have been seen on PBS stations throughout the U.S. and screened at more than 50 venues, including the National Gallery of Art, Lake Placid Film Forum and The Explorers Club in NYC. Currently writing a definitive biography of artist Rockwell Kent, Lewis was a fellow at the Uummannaq Polar Institute in Greenland, researching Kent’s extended visits to the region.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Dr. McDaniel has worked as a broadcast journalist and, for many years, served as Staff Consultant at the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Dr. McDaniel has written extensively on media in Asia and on technology in communication. Among his book publications are Electronic Tigers of Southeast Asia: The Politics of Media, Technology, and National Development; Broadcasting in the Malay World; Fundamentals of Audio Production; and Fundamentals of Communication Electronics. He has organized training courses for the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) and the Voice of America, as well as numerous other radio and television organizations.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Duane McDiarmid’s work engages social strategies wherein he functions as a social critic, forum facilitator and mediator as he makes use of the elaborate objects and costumes to serve as discursive or contemplative prompts.’ He constructs sculptures, performances, and initiates social intersections in fine art venues, digital communities and within remote landscapes. For instance: he created a blanket dispenser for the homeless in New York City. McDiarmid claims, ‘My most important work appears through happenstance in landscapes, boutiques, websites and back alleys, in public parks, deserted real estate and hard to reach canyons here I share conversation ritual and absurdity with an activated public on an intimate scale.'

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Dr. Nelson started the PD/MS Narrative Project, a collective repository of stories and videos by people living with Parkinson's Disease and Multiple Sclerosis: from the brain scan image at the moment of diagnosis to the scramble for information in books, websites, and blogs, to the unbidden images in film and TV. Using the theoretical approaches of Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, and Michael Polanyi, Nelson maps out the overlapping areas in an interactive and entertaining way: a group of 80 Physical Therapy students called it, "the best (or worst) thing to happen to PD since Michael J. Fox!"

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Greg Newton’s research includes radio/TV programming and promotion; free speech and the regulation of electronic media; and management and leadership in media businesses. He has published journal articles in the International Journal on Media Management, Journal of Media Business Studies, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Journal of Radio Studies, Journal of Communication, Journal of Applied Communication Research, and Journal of Promotion Management. He has also authored or co-authored textbook chapters on programming and promotion; prepared comments in Federal Communications Commission proceedings; and has frequently been invited to speak on the regulation of offensive media content.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Dr. Ng has authored refereed journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers examining cultural and political formations of gender, sexuality, race, class, and nation, considering how identities and communities are defined and contested through media and culture. One major focus is on television and new media, both as significant forms of visual culture and as sites of ongoing economic, cultural, and technological transformations. Her research on LGBT media and activism, with a current focus on Southeast Asia, takes a transnational approach drawing on media studies, development studies, and feminist scholarship.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Marcy Nighswander is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist who has extensive experience in the industry. She was a staff photographer for the Washington Bureau of The Associated Press, The Cincinnati Post, Akron Beacon Journal and Review Times (Fostoria, Ohio). While working for The Associated Press, she was one of a group of photographers who won a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for their coverage of the 1992 presidential campaign. Nighswander’s work has been published in numerous newspapers, books, and magazines including Life magazine, Newsweek, Time, People and Fortune.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/viscom/faculty/

After stints as an interface designer with the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit Free Press, and America Online, Beth rediscovered her love of visual effects while studying at the Advanced Computing Center for Art and Design. Her creative work ranges from digital game interface design for children to broadcast graphics for film.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Brian Plow’s passions lie in documentary, social justice and cinematography. His work as a producer, director and cinematographer has exhibited in festivals throughout North America and Europe, national/international conferences, as well as top 25 television markets and PBS affiliates. Parallel to his creative work, Brian has worked to develop interdisciplinary programs in media, social justice and community outreach. He co-founded/taught an interdisciplinary service-learning seminar on homelessness in Baltimore; co-founded and fostered a media infusion program for faculty in various disciplines; and continues to serve as the visual media consultant on the National Science Foundation funded program, Anthropology by the Wire.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Kate’s current creative interests primarily involve combining live action and animation to investigate representation, performance, and process in the digital age. Her work has screened at numerous festivals such as SXSW Film Festival, the Croydon International Film
Festival, the Big Muddy Film Festival, and the Wisconsin Film Festival. In summer 2011 Kate was a Sponsored Artist at High Concept Laboratories in Chicago where she shot Cleo from 5:41 to 5:43. She worked with Ohio University students on a grant-funded stop-motion short, geared toward getting K-3rd graders excited about nanoscience. She recently completed Lingua Absentia a cut-paper, animated documentary.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Jeff has been involved in hundreds of recording projects during his 30 years in audio production focusing on music projects and in recent years many audio post-production projects for film and TV. Prior to pursuing an academic career Redefer worked with artists Pure Prairie League, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, New Riders of the Purple Sage, The Amazing Rhythm Aces, Earl Scruggs Review, Nancy Wilson, Robert Kline, Firefall, Pablo Cruise, Jerry Jeff Walker, Vassar Clements, America, Steve Goodman and John Hammond among many others. Redefer has received two Emmy Awards in addition to four nominations and two Telly Awards for his work in sound design for moving image for productions that have aired nationally on PBS. Jeff is a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences as well as the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Dr. Karen Riggs devotes her time and knowledge to the study of the introduction of new technologies into society and the resultant effects on communication – with a specific focus on social media. Riggs has published two books "Granny @ Work: Age and Technology on the Job in America" and "Mature Audiences: Television in the Lives of Elders." Her most recent book, "Groovin': Baby Boomers, Identity, and Marketing" explores media and age, progress, resistance and what the future holds.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

John Sabraw is an activist and environmentalist, Sabraw’s paintings, drawings and collaborative installations are produced in an eco-conscious manner, and he continually works toward a fully sustainable practice. One of his current collaborations involves creating paint and paintings from iron oxide extracted in the process of remediating polluted streams. Sabraw’s art is in numerous collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Honolulu, the Elmhurst Museum in Illinois, Emprise Bank, and Accenture Corporation. Sabraw is represented in Chicago by Thomas McCormick, and is Board Advisor at Scribble Art Workshop in New York. He has recently been featured in Smithsonian, New Scientist, London, and the Discovery Channel.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Brad Schwieger has participated in more than 300 exhibitions including: The Seto Ceramics and Art Glass Center, Seto Japan; American Shino, Babcock Galleries, New York, New York; A Solo Exhibition at George E. Ohr Cultural Art Center in Biloxi, Mississippi; and the International Ceramics Symposium/Exhibition in Halle, Germany. He was an Artist in Residence at The Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts in Helena, Montana and the Watershed Center for Ceramics in Maine, and is affiliated with several galleries including: Artifacts Gallery in Indianapolis, and Fifth Element Gallery, Portland, Oregon. He has conducted more than 50 workshops and lectured across the United States, Europe and Asia.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Becky Sell is a multimedia producer, editor and photojournalist. She has worked as a multimedia editor and staff photographer at The Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., and has also interned at The Herald in Jasper, Ind., and The Courier-Press in Evansville, Ind. Her work has been published on time.com, usatoday.com, The Washington Post, National Geographic Short Film Showcase and others.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/viscom/faculty/

Kyle P. Snyder is an educator, engineer, and consultant dedicated to the advancement of audio education for engineers at every stage of development. His research interests include pedagogical approaches relevant to the field of audio engineering and specifically how best audio students learn. Snyder is also the Associate Director of Ohio University’s High School Media Workshop. He recently released the eBook A Crash Course to Making Your Mark in the Recording Industry in partnership with Focal Press and CreativeLive and his latest work can be found in The Routledge Companion to Music, Technology, and Education.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Stettner has had nine solo exhibitions including The Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY, The Kitchen, New York, NY, Kate Werble Gallery, NY, and Stene Projects, Stockholm, SE. In 2010 he attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Art Review, Mousse Contemporary Art Magazine, Gallerist NY, Aperture, and The Boston Globe. He is the co-founder and editor of the online arts journal thehighlights.org

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Wolfgang Suetzl is a philosopher, media theorist, and linguist. His research focuses on critical theory, media phenomenology, and media and social change. Before coming to Ohio University, he was principal investigator of a three-year research project on media activism at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He was Chief Researcher of World-Information.Org, a six-year international collaboration of scholars, artists, and technologists researching critical perspectives on the information society. Wolfgang Suetzl is a faculty member at the Transart Institute's MFA program (New York/Plymouth, UK), and has taught in Austria, Spain, Germany, and Central America.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Andie has spent the majority of her career producing videos for clients in higher education and the private sector. Her ability to produce, shoot, and edit projects from start to finish has created a group of satisfied clientele over the years. Andie’s Media Production for the Community course pairs students with local non-profit organizations that have video needs. She also produces multi-camera live music videos for Jorma Kaukonen’s Fur Peace Ranch. Every summer, she takes students to direct and shoot live content for the jumbo screen as part of a multi-camera crew at the main stage for the Nelsonville Music Festival.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Art Werger studied illustration and painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, after which he switched to the field of printmaking. Over the last thirty years, he has focused on etching, aquatint and mezzotint and has become an internationally renowned artist in those media. Werger has works in the collection of the Guanlan Printmaking Base in China, The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Boston Public Library, the Brooklyn Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Trenton Museum in New Jersey and over three hundred corporate and private collections.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/

Eric Williams has worked in television and film for more than twenty-five years; working for Universal Studios, American Movie Classics and Fox Online. As a professor, Eric continues to write, produce and direct fiction and nonfiction projects using traditional and cutting edge media. Most recently, he has begun exploring 360-degree storytelling in Virtual Reality and is writing a book for Focal Press on the process of adapting stories into award-winning screenplays. The book is scheduled for publication in 2017.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Dr. Wood’s scholarship areas include the digital divide; rural and regional development policy; indicators used to measure socioeconomic conditions; health disparities between urban and rural areas; grassroots level E-government; and discursive constructions of poverty in the media. His work has appeared in highly ranked journals that include Environment and Planning A; Government Information Quarterly; Learning, Media, and Technology; Public Administration Review; Regional Studies; and Telecommunications Policy. He has also written or co-authored policy reports for the Appalachian Regional Commission; the Center for Rural Pennsylvania; the Economic Development Administration; the Economic Policy Institute; and the United Nations Population Fund.

For more information: http://mediaschool.ohio.edu/faculty-staff

Matthew Ziff’s areas of interest include design philosophy, design process, aesthetics and the role of materials in the expression of ideas in the built environment. Mr. Ziff is an architect by education, training, and practice, using photography as a way to explore the production, representation, and deterioration of architectural surfaces. These surfaces function as communicative interface between structure and skin and serve as a subject of architectural design. Construction methods and technologies, material characteristics, and design decisions each contribute to the form and character of an architectural surface. The surface in turn reveals or conceals. In a built context, architectural surfaces communicate the modalities of participatory or autonomous relations with their surroundings.

For more information: https://www.ohio.edu/finearts/art/faculty-staff/