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| Faculty Profiles
Dr. Katherine
Bradshaw
 Associate
professor, Department of Journalism. Ph.D., mass media,
Michigan State University; M.S., journalism, Ohio University;
B.S., journalism, Ohio University.
Dr. Bradshaw teaches broadcast journalism,
media diversity, and public opinion. For fifteen years, she worked
in Denver and Kansas City as a news reporter, anchor, and talk
show host, and as an assignment editor for KUSA-TV. During her
years as a professional broadcaster she received journalism awards
from the Kansas City Press Club, Missouri Broadcasters Association,
Colorado Association of Broadcasters, Radio and Television News
Directors Association, Associated Press, and the Colorado Professional
Chapter, Society of Professional Journalists. Her research interests
include the history of public opinion, media diversity, and media
performance, and her research has appeared in Journalism
History, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic
Media, and Newspaper Research Journal. Dr.
Bradshaw is on the editorial boards of Journalism Educator and Electronic
News, and is a contributing editor for Journalism History.
She served as an officer in the Radio and Television Journalism
Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication (AEJMC). She was selected for an AEJMC Journalism
Leadership Institute for Diversity Fellowship. She enjoys traveling,
cooking, gardening, and watching the birds in her backyard. To
contact her, call (419) 372-2542, or e-mail: kabrads@bgsu.edu
Dr.
Nancy Brendlinger
Associate professor. Ph.D.,
journalism and mass communication, University of Texas at Austin;
M.S., agriculture journalism, University of Wisconsin-Madison;
B.S., journalism and sociology, Iowa State University.
Dr. Brendlinger’s teaching areas
include magazine and news writing and international journalism.
She has worked as a farm editor, area news editor, reporter and
photographer for the Muscatine Journal (IA) and as an
editor and writer for the University of Wisconsin Agricultural
Information Service. She also worked as a Peace Corps teacher
in both Chad and Senegal and has worked on a USAID project and
as a Fulbright Scholar in Indonesia and as a Fulbright Scholar
in Slovakia. Her research interests are international communication,
development and social change, news sociology and research methods.
She enjoys movies and travel. She has taught at BGSU since 1990.
To contact her, call (419) 372-8176, or e-mail: nbrendl@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Dr. Catherine
Cassara
 Associate
professor, Department of Journalism. Ph.D., mass media,
Michigan State University; M.A., journalism, Michigan State
University; B.A., Russian studies, University of Virginia.
Dr. Cassara’s teaching areas
include journalism history, press and society, international
press, research theory and design, writing, editing, and reporting.
She has worked as an assistant editor at The Times (Springfield,
VA), and as staff reporter at The Pictorial (Old Saybrook,
CT), The Journal Tribune (Biddeford, ME) and The Lewiston
Daily (ME). She was also a feature writer for Michigan State
University’s Agriculture and Natural Resources Information
Service and has worked as a writing coach for several papers.
In 1996 she worked as Assistant City Editor and Writing Coach
for the Bucks County Courier-Times as part of an American
Society of Newspaper Editors Knight Fellowship. Her research
interests include international news, U.S. media history, and
Russian media. She enjoys classical music, reading mystery novels,
hiking, and traveling. She has taught at BGSU since 1992. To
contact her, call (419) 372-2372, or send e-mail: ccassar@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Dr. Tori Smith
Ekstrand
 Assistant professor, Department
of Journalism. Ph.D., media law, University of North Carolina;
M.A., english education, New York University; B.A., broadcast
journalism and political science, Syracuse University.
Dr. Ekstrand teaches public relations
and media law. She worked as a radio news reporter and anchor
for stations in New York and was a promotions writer for The
Arbitron Company before joining The Associated Press in 1990.
She worked for the AP in New York City for nine years, her last
three years as director of Corporate Communications, and she
was part of AP's senior management team. Her research interests
include the history of wire services, Internet law, and intellectual
property. She was named the University of North Carolina's Outstanding
Graduating Ph.D. student in the School of Journalism and Mass
Communication in 2002 and was the recipient of the School's John
B. Adams Award for Excellence in Mass Communication Law. She
has received two top paper awards from the Law division of the
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
(AEJMC) and has also been named a "Promising Professor" by
AEJMC. She enjoys watching basketball, playing her flute, bird
watching, traveling and eating in great restaurants. To contact
her, call (419) 372-9544, or e-mail: vekstra@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Dr. Jim Foust
 Associate
professor, Department of Journalism. Ph.D., mass communication,
Ohio University; M.S., journalism, Ohio University; B.A., speech
communication, Youngstown State University.
Dr. Foust’s teaching areas include
broadcast journalism, journalism law and ethics and online journalism.
He has worked as a news videographer and editor at WYTV-TV in
Youngstown, Ohio, where he also produced special projects. His
background also includes video production and multimedia design.
During the summer of 2000, he worked at WXYZ-TV in Detroit as
part of a National Association of Television Program Executives
(NATPE) faculty development grant. His research interests include
electronic media history, technology of mass communication and
communication law. He has written two books, Big Voices of
the Air: The Battle Over Clear Channel Radio and Online
Journalism: Principles and Practices of News for the Web,
and is co-author of a video production textbook. His hobbies
include computers, working on cars and hacking on guitar. He
has taught at BGSU since 1994. Web
page. To contact him, call (419) 372-2077, or e-mail: jfoust@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Efrem K. Graham
Instructor, Department of Journalism. B.A., literature, Richard
Stockton College; M.S., journalism, Columbia University
Mr. Graham has worked on-air in television news for more than
10 years. He has held positions with NBC in New York and WCRB-TV
in Chattanooga, TN, and is currently an anchor and reporter at
WTVG-TV in Toledo. He has also taught college-level courses for
more than a decade, including at Hudson County Community College
in New Jersey and Chattanooga State Technical Community College
in Tennessee.
Julie K. Hagenbuch
Instructor, Department of Journalism. B.A.,
broadcast journalism, Bowling Green State University; M.A., mass
communication, Bowling Green State University
Over
the last 10 years, Mrs. Hagenbuch has worked in various aspects
of the communications field including the governmental,
advertising and healthcare industries. Most recently, she was
senior communications specialist at the Fortune 500 building
manufacturer Owens Corning, where she oversaw their global
publication for over 20,000 employees as well as speech writing
for the CEO.
Dr. Smeeta Mishra
Assistant Professor, Department
of Journalism. Ph.D., journalism, University of Texas
at Austin ; M.A., journalism, Syracuse University
; M.A., political science, J. Nehru University; B.A.,
political science, Delhi University.
Dr. Mishra teaches feature writing
and copy editing. Her research interests include international
reporting, U.S. media coverage of the Middle East , postcolonial
discourses and feminist criticism (mediated representations
of women in the Middle East ). Dr. Mishra worked as a reporter
with the English language press in New Delhi , India , for
five years before coming to the United States to pursue her
master's degree in Journalism at the Newhouse School , Syracuse
University . In 2002, she enrolled in the Ph.D. program in
Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin where she received
the Jesse H. Jones Fellowship for inter-disciplinary research
and the University of Texas Continuing Fellowship . When Mishra
is not busy following news on the Middle East , she enjoys
movies, cooking and yoga. To contact her, call 419-372-4576,
or email: smishra@bgnet.bgsu.edu .
Dr. Terry Rentner
Associate professor and chair, Department
of Journalism. Ph.D., sociology; M.A., mass communication;
B.S., journalism, Bowling Green State University.
Dr. Rentner’s teaching areas
include public relations, broadcast journalism and writing. She
has worked as a reporter at WNWO-TV and as a news anchor at WVKS-FM
in Toledo. She also worked in public relations and advertising
at Persis Enterprises and Fahlgren and Swink. She was one of
ten finalists for BGSU’s Master Teacher in 1995-96 and 1996-97
and received a faculty excellence award from the College of Arts
and Sciences in 1996. She is currently a free-lance public relations
consultant and has served on the board of directors of the Public
Relations Society of America and Women in Communications, Inc.
Her research interests include public relations roles and ethics,
health communication, and working womens’ issues. She has
received five grants totaling $125,000 from the Ohio Department
of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services to do social norms campaigns
on Binge Drinking and Violence Prevention at BGSU. Her research
on binge drinking has received national recognition through a
$76,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education. She is a
mother of three and a member of the Toledo area tennis league.
She has taught at BGSU since 1987.To contact her, call (419)
372-2079, or send e-mail: trentne@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Dr. Melissa
Spirek
Associate professor,
Department of Journalism. Ph.D., mass media, Purdue University; M.A., communication
theory, B.A., communication, Cleveland State University
Dr. Spirek's teaching areas include
investigative reporting, precision journalism, media processes
and effects and quantitative research. She was a Gund Fellow
at The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH), a reporter at the National
Public Radio Cleveland affiliate WCPN and a reporter at The
Cleveland Press. Dr. Spirek's research focuses on how people process media
content and has been recognized with 25 national and international
awards. Her research program generated over 2 million dollars
in grant monies. In 2004 she was inducted as a member of Omicron
Delta Kappa. Her hobbies include baseball and reading. She has
taught at BGSU since 1992. To contact her, call (419) 372-8641,
or send e-mail: mspirek@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Kelly Taylor
 Instructor, Department of Journalism.
M.A., education and counseling, Bowling Green State University,
B.S., communications education, Bowling Green State University.
Mrs. Taylor’s teaching areas include
writing and reporting. She has worked as a high school journalism
teacher and has advised student newspapers and yearbooks. She
is currenltly secretary of the Great Lakes Interscholastic Press
Association. She has taught at BGSU for five years. To contact
her, call (419) 372-0513, or send e-mail: kellyat@bgnet.bgsu.edu
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