In coming weeks, Oct. 30 through Nov. 3, each of the three finalists will arrive on the IU-Bloomington campus and host forums open to faculty and staff. The list of finalists, along with each of their curriculum vitaes, were provided to Media School faculty for review Thursday evening and obtained by the Indiana Daily Student.
The inception of the Media School was announced in February 2013 by IU-Bloomington Provost Lauren Robel during the annual State of the Campus address. The move combined the School of Journalism and the departments of telecommunications and communication and culture. This school is part of the College of Arts and Sciences.
The Media School, which will be housed in Franklin Hall, came into existence July 1 and was formally inaugurated Oct. 17.?
James Shanahan
James Shanahan currently serves as the associate dean of the College of Communication for Boston University. BU’s College of Communication has programs that parallel those programs to be set forth in the Media School, including journalism and film/television, according to Shanahan’s CV.
Shanahan’s current responsibilities as associate dean of the College of Communication for BU include developing curriculum, recruitment, retention and academic review. He led the development of new masters of arts and the first Ph.D for Emerging Media Studies for the College.
He also sits on several councils at BU including Undergraduate Council, Graduate Council and Faculty ?Affairs Council.
From 2009 until he became associate dean in 2012, Shanahan was a professor in the College. He continues to have a research program that focuses on effects of mass media, according to his CV. Shanahan studied political science at Tufts University, graduating in 1982. He then obtained a master of science in broadcasting from Boston University in 1985 followed by his Ph.D in communication from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1991.?
Deborah Cai
Deborah Cai is currently the senior associate dean of the School of Media and Communication for Temple University.
Cai’s research specialties include intercultural communication, negotiation and conflict management, and social influence, according to her Temple University webpage. She graduated from University of Michigan in 1983 with a bachelor’s degree in political science. Additionally, she earned a master of arts in intercultural studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and a Ph.D in communication from Michigan State University in 1991 and 1994, respectively.
According to her webpage, Cai is also the editor of the four-volume set that is part of the Sage Benchmarks in Communication on Intercultural Communication. The publication focuses on both classic works that lay the foundation of intercultural communication and the more modern leading works, according to the Sage Publication webpage.
Cai served briefly in 2012 as associate dean for research and graduate studies for the School of Media and Communication at Temple University. From 2009 until 2012, Cai was a professor and chair for the Department of Strategic Communications at TU.?
Stuart Brotman
Stuart Brotman is currently a nonresident senior fellow at the Center for Technology Innovation in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution.
The Brookings Institution is a privately funded nonprofit organization that focuses on independent research and innovative policy solutions, according to its website.
Brotman’s background includes experience as a media lawyer, global executive and policymaker, according to his Brookings profile.
He is a faculty member at Harvard Law School, and from 2012 to 2013 he was a professor of communication in residence at Northwestern University’s satellite campus in Qatar, according to his CV.
Brotman graduated summa cum laude from Northwestern University with a double major in communications studies and mass media. He earned his master of arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a specialization in communications regulation and policy. He earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley.
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