I retired from Concordia after joining the faculty in 2004 after receiving my Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Before joining the Department of Journalism, I worked as a television newscast producer.
Educaton
Ph.D. Mass Communication, University of Minnesota
M.A. Mass Communication, University of Minnesota
B.A. English Literature, Creighton University
Areas of research or journalism production interest
My primary research area is journalism history and its relationship to power and the 19th-century press. This research focuses on issues of nationalism, race, and gender in 19th-century U.S. and Canada.
An important secondary scholarship concerns literary journalism and non-fiction.