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Dr. Oliver Boyd-Barrett
 Professor, Department of Journalism and Public Relations. Ph.D., Social Science, Open University (U.K.); B.A., sociology, Exeter University (U.K.).
Dr. Oliver Boyd-Barrett joined the School of Communication Studies as Director in 2005, a position he held for three years
before deciding to return to faculty in the Department of Journalism. His current research interests include international
and national news agencies, news media and the “war on terror,” and Hollywood representations of the intelligence community.
He was previously Professor of Communication at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, California, and has held
various appointments at universities in the United Kingdom. Dr. Boyd-Barrett has published extensively on educational and
management communications, international news media, and the political economy of mass communication. He is founding chair
of the division for Global Communication and Social Change in the International Communication Association. To contact him,
call (419) 372-6018, or e-mail: oboydb@bgsu.edu
Dr. Katherine Bradshaw
 Associate professor, Department of Journalism and Public Relations. Ph.D., mass media, Michigan State University; M.S., journalism, Ohio University; B.S., journalism, Ohio University.
Dr. Bradshaw teaches broadcast journalism and media diversity classes. For 15 years, she was a reporter, anchor, and talk
show host in Denver and Kansas City. Her work was honored with awards from the Colorado Association of Broadcasters, the Radio
and Television News Directors Association, Associated Press, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Kansas City Press
Club, and the Missouri Broadcasters Association. Her research interests include the history of public opinion, media diversity,
and media performance, and has been published in Journalism History, Newspaper Research Journal, and Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media. She served as an officer in the Radio and Television Journalism Division of the Association for Education in Journalism
and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Journalism Historians Association
(AJHA). Dr Bradshaw represents AJHA on the Accrediting Council for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (ACEJMC).
It is responsible for evaluating journalism and mass communication (JMC) programs at universities, and it makes all final
accrediting decisions for JMC programs. Dr. Bradshaw is on the editorial board of Electronic News and Journalism Educator, and she is a corresponding editor for Journalism History. She enjoys traveling, cooking, and bird watching. 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, media and society, 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 three newsletters at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has worked for Peace Corps,
for USAID and as a Fulbright Scholar in Chad, Senegal, Indonesia, Slovakia and Croatia, and as an exchange teacher in China.
She now participates in an environmental communication/cultural exchange project with schools in Tunisia, Algeria and BGSU.
She enjoys movies and travel. She has taught at BGSU since 1990. To contact her, call (419) 372-8176, or e-mail: nbrendl@bgsu.edu
Dr. Catherine Cassara-Jemai
 Associate professor, Department of Journalism and Public Relations. Ph.D., mass media, Michigan State University; M.A., journalism, Michigan State University; B.A., Russian studies, University
of Virginia.
Dr. Cassara-Jemai’s teaching areas include journalism history, international press, environmental journalism, 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 Sun (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 U.S. media coverage
of international news, U.S. media history, and news media development in countries in political transition. She enjoys classical
music, reading mystery novels, hiking, traveling and spending time with her dogs, Smudge and Tasha. She has taught at BGSU
since 1992. To contact her, call (419) 372-2372, or send e-mail: ccassar@bgsu.edu
Jessica E. Dennis
Instructor, Department of Journalism and Public Relations. M.A., Liberal Studies, The University of Findlay; B.A., English Literature, Lourdes College
Mrs. Dennis has been an avid journalist for the past eight years, working as a staff writer and city editor for Gazette Publishing
Company (now Brown Publishing Company). A new face at BGSU, she has taught on a collegiate level for several years, including
English, composition, literature and humanities courses at Terra Community College, Owens Community College and Tiffin University.
To contact her, call (419) 372-3409, or e-mail: dennisj@bgsu.edu
Dr. Tori Smith Ekstrand
 Assistant professor, Department of Journalism and Public Relations. Ph.D., media law, University of North Carolina; M.A., english education, New York University; B.A., broadcast journalism
and political science, Syracuse University.
Professor 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@bgsu.edu
Dr. Jim Foust
 Associate professor, Department of Journalism and Public Relations. 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 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 a book, Big Voices of the Air: The Battle Over Clear Channel Radio, based on his dissertation research. He also wrote Online Journalism: Principles and Practices of News for the Web, a leading online journalism textbook, and is co-author of a video production textbook. His hobbies include computers and
cars. He has taught at BGSU since 1994.
Web page. To contact him, call (419) 372-2077, or e-mail: jfoust@bgsu.edu
Julie K. Hagenbuch
 Instructor, Department of Journalism and Public Relations. 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 and Public Relations. 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. Dr. Mishra is on leave from the university for the 2008-2009 school
year. To contact her, call 419-372-4576, or e-mail: smishra@bgsu.edu .
Dr. Seth Oyer
 Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism and Public Relations. PhD, mass communication, University of Florida; MA, mass communication, University of Central Florida; BA, English/communication,
SUNY Fredonia.
Dr. Seth Oyer teaches general public relations courses as well as crisis communication planning and management. He is an accomplished
public relations professional with over a decade of executive and management experience in the technology industry. A crisis
communications specialist, he has acted as a public relations consultant to corporate, not-for-profit, and political organizations.
Also an award-winning instructor, Oyer has experience teaching small- and large-lecture and interactive classes, resulting
in excellent student evaluations (with normal grading curves). Dr. Oyer’s research interests include crisis communication
management, public relations, and interactive online media. Oyer has been published and has several conference papers/publications
in progress. He enjoys sports, music, and spending time with friends and family. To contact him, call 419-372-4576, or e-mail:
soyer@bgsu.edu .
Dave Sennerud
Instructor, Department of Journalism and Public Relations. Ph.D. (in progress), mass communication, Ohio University; M.Ed., curriculum and instruction, University of Southern Mississippi;
B.S., journalism, Northwestern University
Dave Sennerud is in his first year at BGSU and teaches Introduction to Mass Communication, Introduction to Journalistic Writing
and Online Journalism. For the past three years, Sennerud has been a Scripps-Howard Teaching Fellow at the E.W. Scripps School
of Journalism at Ohio University while he pursued a Ph.D. in Mass Communication and a certificate in the school's Contemporary
History Institute. He expects to complete both in 2010. Sennerud’s research interests include journalism history as well as
online journalism and new media. A graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Sennerud began his career
as a sports reporter and editor, writing for community newspapers in the Chicago area. He also has written for several other
publications, including the Chicago Sun-Times and the Florida Times-Union, and worked as a copy editor at the Rockford (IL)
Register Star. He later became a high school teacher in northern Illinois, where he taught journalism and advised the school
newspaper. During this time, he was involved with several high school journalism workshops and activities at the state and
national levels, including service as president of the Illinois Journalism Education Association, the state organization of
high school journalism advisers. To contact him, call 419-372-8349, or e-mail: dsenner@bgnet.bgsu.edu .
Kelly Taylor
 Instructor, Department of Journalism and Public Relations. M.A., education and counseling, Bowling Green State University, B.S., communications education, Bowling Green State University.
Mrs. Taylor’s teaching areas include writing, reporting, and design. She has worked as a high school journalism teacher and
has advised student newspapers and yearbooks. She is currently secretary of the Great Lakes Interscholastic Press Association.
She has taught at BGSU for more than ten years. To contact her, call (419) 372-0513, or send e-mail: kellyat@bgsu.edu
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