Why Marquette?
The Jesuit approach to professional education has always struck me as the best model for preparation of journalists because it demands a rigorous liberal arts foundation and insists on ethics and
critical awareness of mass media as the context for skills training. Milwaukee's central city and the larger metropolitan area provide a wonderful laboratory in politics, arts, social patterns, and major media which naturally become part of our classes. Marquette encourages my
work with the Vatican and with Catholic and religious media. More profoundly, Marquette's Catholic and Christian identity recognizes each individual — student, staff member, professor and news source — as having been endowed by the Creator with inherent dignity.

Research Interests
Electronic database networks for church documents; Catholics as a media audience, Catholic use of media at diocesan level; effects of media on religious imagination of children; Church and Generation X.

Professional Affiliations
Catholic Press Association; Union Catholique

Internationale de la Presse (past board of directors); AEJMC; ICA;
Religious Research Assn

Milwaukee Press Club

Professional Experience and Service
newspaper reporter, editor; intern trainer (TV radio news); public relations.

Vatican committee on communication document;
USCCB committee on Communications;
Archdiocese of Milwaukee communications committee;
Chair, Santa Fe Communications Board.

Recent Publications
“Traber, Michael. Communication in Theological Education: New Directions.” Communication Research Trends, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2007. Book Review and retrospective on the work of Michael Traber (1929 - 2006).

“Cyberculture” by P. Levy. Communication Research Trends, Vol. 26, No. 4, 2007, pp. 38-39.

"Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement: Centenary Essays." William Thorn, Philip Runkel and Susan Mountin. Marquette University Press. 2000.

"Models of Church and Communication. Media, Culture and Catholicism." Paul Soukup, ed., Sheed & Ward. 1996.

"History and Role of the Catholic Press." Chapter in Reporting Religion, Polebridge, 1990.