Associate Professor Polly McLean
Armory 111A
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Colorado at Boulder
1511 University Ave.
478 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
Polly.Mclean@Colorado.edu
303-492-6220 phone
303-492-0969 fax

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 U.S. Her primary research interests are in the areas of media and culture, race/ethnicity, popular music and society, population and communication, 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 in 1987-89 and to the Family Life Association of Swaziland in reproductive health information, education and communication, 1990-93. 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, Washington, D.C., University of Zambia-Lusaka and at the University of Namibia, Windhoek.