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Associate Professor Shu-Ling Berggreen
Associate Professor Shu-Ling Chen Berggreen holds a PhD from the University of Tennessee with emphases in broadcasting, media and socialization, child and family studies, and applied statistics. Her research interests lie in mass media and socialization (especially children and media) in multicultural contexts, international/intercultural communication, new technology and society, and methodological issues in communication research. She worked as a TV reporter, scriptwriter, and program producer in Taiwan. Her primary teaching areas are mass media and culture, children and media, international communication, qualitative research methods, and quantitative research methods.

e-mail: Shu-ling.Berggreen@Colorado.edu

Professor Andrew Calabrese
Andrew Calabrese Image Associate Professor Andrew Calabrese came to the faculty in 1992 from Purdue University, where he was on the faculty of the Department of Communication. He was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia in 1998 and a research fellow at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, in 1999. His teaching and research centers mainly on the relationship between communications media and citizenship with an emphasis on theoretical and practical issues of media and globalization. He edits a book series called Critical Media Studies for the publisher Rowman & Littlefield and serves on editorial boards of several research journals. He is a board member of the European Institute for Communication and Culture. Calabrese earned his BA from Denison University and his MA and PhD from Ohio State University.

e-mail: Andrew.Calabrese@Colorado.edu
web page: http://spot.colorado.edu/~calabres/

Assistant Professor Nabil Echchaibi
Andrew Calabrese Image Assistant Professor Nabil Echchaibi joined CU in 2007. He specializes in identity politics among young Muslims in the Arab world and globally. After completing his doctoral course work, Echchaibi helped set up the international communication department at Franklin College in Lugano, Switzerland (2002-2005), and taught at the U of Louisville (2005-2006). His book Voicing Diasporas: Ethnic Radio in Paris and Berlin Between Culture and Renewal (Lexington Books 2008) is in press. A co-edited book on international blogging is under contract with Peter Lang. A native of Morocco, Dr. Echchaibi earned his BA from Mohammed V University in Rabat and his MA and PhD from Indiana University-Bloomington.
e-mail:nabil.echchaibi@colorado.edu

Assistant Professor Hun Shik Kim
Assistant Professor Hun Shik Kim joined the SJMC faculty in Fall 2005. He specializes in broadcast journalism. He began his broadcast career as a reporter at KOMU-TV, an NBC affiliate in Columbia, Missouri. Between 1989 and 1992, he served in the South Korean Army as a public affairs officer (Captain). From 1992 to 2005, he worked in the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS-TV) in Seoul, South Korea, as a legal correspondent, foreign correspondent, investigative reporter, anchor, and news producer. As a foreign correspondent, he covered the war in Iraq, the Kashmir conflict, and the Sri Lankan civil war. His last KBS project involved launching and producing the network's weekly in-depth international news magazine, "Global Dispatches." Kim earned his MA and PhD from the Missouri School of Journalism, and his BA in English Literature from Chung-Ang University in South Korea. His research interests include broadcast journalism, international communication, war and disaster reporting, and new media technologies. His reaearch has been published in the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Gazette, Mass Communication & Society, Asian Journal of Communication, and Social Indicators Research.

e-mail: HunShik.Kim@Colorado.edu

Associate Professor Polly McLean
Polly McLean Image Associate Professor Polly McLean teaches courses in media theory, culture and society. She received her BA from Richmond College, City College of New York, her MA from Columbia University in New York City and her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, she has lived and conducted research in Grenada, Swaziland, Zambia, Namibia, and the United States. Her primary research interests are in the areas of media and culture, race/ethnicity, popular music and society, population and communication, and international/development communication as it pertains to Africa. She has vast international experiences in applied research having worked as a consultant for UNESCO, USAID, the Academy for Educational Development, and Pathfinder International. Since coming to the University of Colorado, she has served as chief technical adviser to the government of Swaziland in Development Communication from 1987 to 1989 and to the Family Life Association of Swaziland in reproductive health information, education and communication from 1990 to 1993. In 1999 and 2000, she was awarded a Fulbright to the University of Namibia in teaching pedagogy and curriculum development in media studies. She has taught at Howard University in Washington, D.C., University of Zambia in Lusaka, and at the University of Namibia in Windhoek. At Colorado, she is an affiliated faculty member with the departments of Women Studies and Honors. She was appointed chair of Women's Studies in July 2004.

e-mail: Polly.Mclean@Colorado.edu

Professor Bella Mody
Bella Mody Image Professor Bella Mody joined the SJMC faculty in Fall 2004 as the first James E. deCastro Chair in Global Media Studies. She specializes in the political economy of media in developing countries and in design research on public service applications of communication media. Her books include International and Development Communication: A 21st Century Perspective, The Handbook of International and Intercultural Communication, Telecommunication Politics, and Designing Messages for Development Communication. Her research articles have been published in Communication Theory, The Journal of International Communication, The Information Society, The Journal of Communication, Telecommunication Policy, Media Development, Telematics and Informatics, Gazette, International Development Review, Educational Broadcasting International, Communication Research, Journal of Research in Personality, and the Journal of Social Psychology. Mody coordinated the graduate program in international development communication at Stanford University as an assistant professor (1978-1983) and taught at San Francisco State University (associate professor 1983-1985). She was a professor and administrator at Michigan State University for 19 years before joining the faculty at the University of Colorado. Prior to her university career, Mody was a social scientist in India's space research organization and a J. Walter Thompson advertising writer in Calcutta. She has consulted for UN agencies, national governments and non-governmental organizations on media applications for agriculture, health and education in India, Malaysia, Singapore, Nepal, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Barbados, Ghana, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and South Africa. Her current focus is HIV-AIDS. Mody's academic degrees are from Gujarat University, the University of Pennsylvania and Ranchi University.

e-mail: Bella.Mody@Colorado.edu
web page: http://spot.colorado.edu/~mody

Professor Marguerite Moritz
Bella Mody Image A former news producer for NBC, Dr. Marguerite Moritz is Professor and UNESCO Chair in International Journalism Education. She also chairs the University of Colorado's Task Force on International Graduate Education. Her research looks at professional codes and practices in contemporary news and entertainment media. In 2005, she received a National Science Foundation grant to conduct research on media coverage of Hurricane Katrina. "Covering the News Come Hell and High Water: Journalists in a Disaster," will appear in Learning from Catastrophe. She wrote, produced, and directed the hour long documentary "Covering Columbine" that examines ethical issues in the coverage of the worst school shooting in U.S. history. Her analysis of television news imagery of the September 11th attacks appears in Representing Realities: Essays on American Literature, Art and Culture. She has written extensively on the intersection of race, class, and gender with media marginalization and stereotyping of gays. "Hate Speech Made Easy: The Virtual Demonization of Gays" will appear in the upcoming book, Killing the Other: Racial, Ethnic, Religious and Homophobic Violence in the English Speaking World published by Cavendish. She was writer and story consultant for the documentary film Scout's Honor which examines the Boy Scouts of America's anti-gay policies. The film won the audience award for best documentary and the Freedom of Expression Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001. Dr. Moritz has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar. Professor Moritz received her BSJ and MSJ from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and her PhD from Northwestern's School of Speech.

e-mail: Marguerite.Moritz @Colorado.edu