Kimberly Lauffer

Position: Instructor
Phone: 419-372-3403 Fax: 419-372-0202
Email: klauffe@bgsu.edu
Address: 322 Kuhlin Center

Education
Ph.D., mass communication, University of Florida
M.A., journalism, Michigan State University
B.A., English, Michigan State University

Dr. Lauffer’s teaching interests include writing, journalism and democracy, web design, online journalism and law and ethics. She worked as the web editor at a Alma College for four years, where her responsive web design for a new college center resulted in a $150,000 donation by the college’s board of trustees for a complete college website redesign, in which she played a significant role.

She has also worked as a general assignment reporter during a professional internship with the American Society of Newspaper Editors, as a temporary business news editor, an editorial assistant for a hockey magazine and as editor of several newsletters. She was previously an associate professor of journalism and new media at Towson University, where she also served a year as assistant provost for undergraduate education.

Her research interests include website usability and accessibility and the narrative strategies media use to frame events, particularly those related to juveniles, women, crime and assisted suicide. She enjoys cooking, baking, reading mystery and suspense novels, hiking, photography, and spending time with her furkids, one of which is a blind Shih Tzu.