Why Marquette?
I am particularly interested in the integration of theory with practice at Marquette University. The social responsibility mission coupled with a focus on teacher-scholars also resonates with my personal teaching philosophy.

Research Interests:
Cultural history of media, social and cultural communication theory, media studies and popular culture

Professional Service and Affiliations:Contributing Editor, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism

Editorial Board Member, Journalism Studies, Democratic Communique, Journalism Practice, Communication Methods and Measures, Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture, Journal of Communication Inquiry

Associate Editor, Journalism & Communication Monographs

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

International Communication Association

American Journalism Historians Association

Professional Leadership Experience
Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, Temple University
Chair, Department of Journalism, Temple University
Director of Production Services, ADVO Publications
Production Manager, Daily News Greensheet Shopper
Production Manager, Sun Flair

Selected Publications Books
For the Record: An Oral History of Rochester, New York Newsworkers. NY: Fordham University Press, 2001.

Picturing the Past: Media, History, and Photography, eds. Bonnie Brennen and Hanno Hardt, Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1999.

Newsworkers: Towards a History of the Rank and File, eds. Hanno Hardt and Bonnie Brennen, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.

Journal Articles & Book Chapters
“From Religiosity to Consumerism: Press Coverage of Thanksgiving, 1905 to 2005, Journalism Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2008) pp. 21-37.

“Labor and the Press in 1908,” in 1908: An Auspicious Year in Journalism, University of Missouri Press, 2008.

“Searching for ‘The Sane Society’: Eric Fromm’s Contributions to Social Theory,” Javnost/The Public: Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture, Vol. 12, No. 3 (2006) pp. 7-16.

“Lockouts, Protests, and Scabs: A Critical Assessment of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Strike,” Critical Studies in Media Communication, Vol. 22, No. 1 (2005) pp. 64-81.

“The Construction of Readership in Ebony, Essence and O, The Oprah Magazine,” with Lee Miller and Brenda Edgerton-Webster, Media Report to Women, Vo. 33, No. 1 (2005) pp. 5-13.

“From Headline Shooter to Picture Snatcher: The Construction of Photojournalists in American Film, 1928-1939,” Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, Vol. 5, No. 4 (2004) pp. 423-439.

“Conflicted Interests, Contested Terrain: Journalism Ethics Then & Now,” with Lee Wilkins, Journalism Studies, Vol. 5, No. 3 (2004) pp. 297-309.

“The Emergence of Class Consciousness in the American Newspaper Guild,” in Class & News, ed. Don Heider, Roman & Littlefield, 2004, pp. 233-247.

“Provocative Interventions: Celebrating the Work of Hanno Hardt,” Journal of Communication Inquiry, Vol. 28, No. 3 (2004) pp. 269-277.

“Sweat Not Melodrama: Reading the Structure of Feeling in All the President’s Men.” Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, Vol. 4, No. 1 (2003) pp. 113-131.

“If A Problem Cannot be Resolved, Enlarge it. An Ideological Critique of the Other in Pearl Harbor and September 11 New York Times Coverage,” with Margaret Duffy, Journalism Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1 (2003) pp. 3-14.

Remembering a Mentor,” in Mass Communication Education, ed. Michael Murray, Iowa State University Press, 2003, pp. 119-120.

“History, Hate and Hegemony: What’s a Journalist to Do?” with Lee Wilkins, International Journal of Politics and Ethics, vol. 2 (2002) pp. 37-48.

"Communication & Freedom: An Althusserian Reading of Media-Government Relations," Javnost/The Public: Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture, vol VII, no. 4 (2000) pp. 5-15.

"What the Hacks Say," Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, vol. 1, no. 1 (Spring 2000) pp. 106-113.

"Fictional Journalists. Newswork in American Novels," in In the Company of Media: Cultural Constructions of Communication, 1920s-1930s, Hanno Hardt, Westview Press, 2000, pp. 101-115, 169-174.

"Billboards of the Dream. Walker Evans on 1930s U.S. Advertising," in In the Company of Media: Cultural Constructions of Communication, 1920s-1930s, Hanno Hardt, Westview Press, 2000, pp. 116-128, 175-176.