Robert W McChesney
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Tenure and Promotion Letters (listed by institution in alphabetical order)

American University, University of Hartford, University of Houston, Hunter College (City University of New York), Indiana University, Ithaca College, Loyola University (Chicago), University of Maine at Orono, University of Maryland, University of Michigan (Dearborn), University of Missouri, New York University, North Carolina State University, Northwestern University, Pennsylvania State University, Queens College (City University of New York), Simon Fraser University, Vassar College, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Commonwealth University, West Virginia University


Departmental Service

ICR & GSLIS, University of Illinois:

2000-2002. ICR Graduate Admissions Committee.

2000-2002. ICR Graduate Program Committee.

2000. GSLIS Ad hoc furniture committee.

School of Journalism & Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988-1998:

1996-1997. Member, Merit Exercise Review Committee.

1993-1998. Chair, Scholarship Committee.

1995. Member, Political Journalism Internship Committee.

1993-1998. Member, Graduate Committee.

1992-1993. Member, Lecturer Sponsorship Advisory Committee.

1992-1993. Member, Teaching Assistants Committee.

1988-1993. Member, Scholarship Committee.

1989-1991. Member, Curriculum Committee.

1989-1990. Member, Search Committee.

1989-1991. Member, Ad Hoc Advisory Committee.


University Service

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

2002. Co-founder, Illinois Initiative on Global Information and Communication Policy

2002. Member, Campus-wide Search Committee for Dean of College of Communication

2002. Member, All Campus Advisory Committee in Global Studies and Developing Relevant Grant Proposals in this Area.

University of Wisconsin-Madison:

1997-1998. Faculty Advisor, "Students for WORT."

1995-1998. UW-Madison Academic Network, The Institute for Wisconsin's Future.

1994-1995. Faculty Advisor, Student Organization "Free Press."

1993-1995. Member, University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty Senate. (two-year term)

1992-1995. Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Steering Committee, A. Eugene Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change. (three year term)

1991-1993. Member, UW-Madison College of Letters and Sciences Faculty Senate. (two-year term)

1991-1993. Alternate, University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty Senate.

1990-1992. Member, University of Wisconsin Daily Cardinal Board of Control.

1990-1991. Individual Majors Committee, College of Letters and Sciences.

1990. Consultant and Associate, A. Eugene Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change.

1989-1990. Coordinator, Political Economy Sequence, A. Eugene Havens Center Interdisciplinary Graduate Minor Program.


Graduate Student Supervising

Ph.D.s: [Dissertation title in brackets]

1997. Michael P. McCauley [From the Margins to the Mainstream: The History of National Public Radio, 1970-1983.]

1995. Kyun Kim [The American Struggle for Korean Minds: U.S. Cultural Policy and Occupied Korea.]

1995. Mikyung Jung [The Impact of Democratization on the Structure and Control of the Mass Media in South Korea.]

1994. Amy Kiste Nyberg [Seal of Approval: The Origins and History of the Comics Code.]

1993. Gyu Chan Jeon [The Korean-Black Conflicts: A Critical Communication Approach.]

M.A.s: [Thesis title in brackets]

1998. Kay Arisawa [Japan's NHK: David or Goliath?]

1992. Lisa Brockmeier [Drug War Politics and the Press: Narco-Guerrillas, Narco-Terrorists and the Communist Cocaine Connection.]


Ph.D. Committee Memberships

Completed Ph.D.s:

Doobo Shim, UW-Madison, Journalism and Mass Communication, 2000.

Jonathan Pollack, UW-Madison, History, 1999.

Calvin Brutus, UW-Madison, Political Science, 1996.

Aniko Bodroghkozy, UW-Madison, Communication Arts, 1994.

Yong-Jin Won, UW-Madison, Communication Arts, 1992.

Richard Maxwell, UW-Madison, Communication Arts, 1990.

Charles Fairchild, American Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1996.

Current Ph.D. Students (University of Illinois):

Institute of Communications Research: Robert Sloane, C. Michael Elavsky, Zhihong Gao, Rajiv Shah, Ruoyun Bai, Ben Scott

Dept. of Speech Communication: Jennifer Merceica


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