Will Norton Jr.
Title: Professor and Dean
E-mail: hwnorton1@gmail.com
Phone: 662-915-7146
Will Norton Jr. is dean of the Meek School of Journalism and New Media. He has been a visiting lecturer at Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. He was a board member of the Kosovo Institute of Journalism and Communication, Pristina, Kosovo.
He served as president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (2000–01) and as president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communications (1989–90). He was vice president of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications and is chair of the Accrediting Committee of ACEJMC. He has made more than 90 campus visits as a consultant, a member or chair of site teams of ACEJMC or as a state board program evaluator.
Norton is a partner in ownership of The South Reporter, Inc., Holly Springs, Miss., a corporation that publishes two newspapers and a total market publication. He was publisher of The Daily Iowan. He previously was on the staff of the Chicago Tribune and was sports editor of The Daily Journal, Wheaton, Ill. Norton is a trustee of the Freedom Forum, the Diversity Institute and the Newseum.
He was dean of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (1990–2009) and interim chair and chair of the Department of Journalism at The University of Mississippi (1977–1990). He was awarded a B.A. with honors in history from Wheaton College, a M.A. in Mass Communications from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in Mass Communications from the University of Iowa. Read Dean Norton’s blog.
Charles D. “Charlie” Mitchell
Title: Assistant Dean
Email: cdmitch1@olemiss.edu
Phone:662-915-7146
Charlie Mitchell is assistant dean of the Meek School of Journalism and New Media and an assistant professor. He is a 1975 graduate of Mississippi State University with a bachelor’s degree in communication and a 1986 graduate of The University of Mississippi School of Law with a juris doctorate. He worked for The Vicksburg Post from 1975 until 1983 as a reporter and photographer and then as managing editor and executive editor from 1986 until August 2010. He was on the journalism faculty at the University of Mississippi from 1983 until 1986. He is a past president of the Mississippi Press Association and is a past president of the Mississippi-Louisiana Associated Press Managing Editors Association. His weekly column, Conversation, has won state and regional awards and also appears in more than 20 newspapers statewide. He also won awards for his reporting from Iraq and in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He is a member of the Warren County and Mississippi bar associations and is admitted to practice in state and federal courts.
Jeanni Atkins
Title: Associate Professor and Executive Director, Mississippi Center for Freedom of Information
Email: iatkins@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-5393
Jeanni Atkins completed her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Since joining the faculty in 1986, she directed the graduate program for 15 years, has served on more than 60 thesis committees and has taught courses that reflect her broad interests in media law, history, public opinion, ethics, research, theory and copywriting. While working at the Missouri Freedom of Information Center she developed a passion for media law and FOI, which led to a job in Washington, D.C. editing and writing about FOI and privacy. She helped found the Mississippi Center for Freedom of Information and serves as executive director. Her columns and editorials appear in state newspapers and have been cited by media outlets and blogs in other states. She is writing a book on freedom of information. She enjoys traveling and has presented papers at international conferences in Australia, Canada, England, Hong Kong, Israel and Wales as well as at national and regional journalism conferences.
Joseph B. Atkins
Title: Professor
Email: jbatkins@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-5510
Joe Atkins, professor of journalism, has taught at The University of Mississippi since 1990. He teaches courses in Advanced Reporting, International Journalism, Ethics & Social Issues, Media History and Labor & Media. Atkins is the author of Covering for the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press, published by The University Press of Mississippi in 2008, and editor/contributing author of The Mission: Journalism, Ethics and the World, published by Iowa State University Press in 2002. He organized an international “Conference on Labor and the Southern Press” at Ole Miss in October 2003. A statewide columnist and 35-year veteran journalist, Atkins was congressional correspondent with Gannett News Service’s Washington, D.C. bureau for five years. He previously worked with newspapers in North Carolina and Mississippi. His articles have appeared in publications such as USA Today, Baltimore Sun, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Progressive Populist, Southern Exposure, Quill and the Oxford American.
Ken Boutwell
Title: Adjunct Instructor
Email: kenbou@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-2031
Ken Boutwell has thirty-six years of experience in television and media production. He earned his B.A. degree from the University of Southern Mississippi and M.Ed. from Utah State University. In addition to his production credits, Ken has managed and directed multi-media and technical service departments at two institutions of higher learning. His areas of teaching interest include Photojournalism, Video Newsgathering, and Mass Media History. Ken is a member of the Nat’l Assoc. of Broadcasters, Broadcast Education Association, and EDUCAUSE.
Shannon Dixon
Title: Operations Supervisor
Email: sldixon@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-8779
Shannon L. Dixon is operations supervisor of the Meek School of Journalism and New Media. She is chief of all administrative functions and her job responsibilities include supervising student workers, processing departmental scholarships, processing payroll and processing accounts payable.
Mark K. Dolan
Title: Associate Professor
E-mail: mdolan@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-5397
Mark K. Dolan earned his Ph.D. in journalism and mass communications from the University of South Carolina in 2003. His teaching interests include new media, narrative journalism, photography and media law. He has worked with students on feature packages for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Sun Herald (2006) and, most recently, on a Web documentary. His research areas include new media, cultural studies and literary journalism. Dolan’s work has appeared in the music Issue of Southern Cultures, published by the University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill, and he is writing a book about blues in the black press to be published by the University Press of Mississippi. He has written for several daily newspapers, including the Savannah Morning News, the Naples Daily News and The (S.C.) State. Highlights from his newspaper work include interviews with novelists Toni Morrison and Salman Rushdie.
Nancy McKenzie Dupont
Title: Associate Professor
E-mail: ndupont@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-5396
Nancy McKenzie Dupont joined the faculty in 2006, after spending 17 years as a broadcast journalist and 13 years as a journalism educator. She has served as chair of the Radio-Television Journalism division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and chair of the news division of the Broadcast Education Association. In 2010, she was selected to be part of the inaugural class of academic fellows of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. She has published extensively about 19th-century Mississippi newspapers and other topics in journalism history. Dupont earned her Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1997.
Scott Fiene
Title: Assistant Professor
Email: safiene@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-7195
Scott Fiene is assistant professor and director of the undergraduate Integrated Marketing Communications program. Before joining the Meek School faculty in January 2012, he was owner of MagnaStar Marketing Group, a Des Moines, Iowa-based consulting firm specializing in marketing communications research, strategy and customer relationship building programs. He also has nearly two decades of corporate public relations and marketing communications experience, including a role as vice president of marketing with global insurance and financial services company Principal Financial Group. He has taught marketing and sales courses at the collegiate level for more than 15 years. Immediately before Ole Miss he taught in the College of Business at Drake University.
He is a member of the Public Relations Association of Mississippi, past president of the Iowa Chapter of the American Marketing Association and has served on the board of the International Association of Business Communicators.
He majored in English and minored in Journalism at the University of Iowa. He received his graduate degree in Journalism and Mass Communications from Drake University, where his research was focused on Integrated Marketing Communications. Read Scott Fiene’s blog.
Beth Fitts
Title: Instructor and Director of MSPA
E-mail: mefitts@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-7313
Beth Fitts is director of the Mississippi Scholastic Press Association. She served as the 2003 Dow Jones National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year and was the 2003 Mississippi Teacher of the Year Alternate.
In November 2008, she received the National Scholastic Press Association Pioneer Award, the highest honor given to a journalism educator. She was named an All-American Adviser by NSPA and received the Southern Interscholastic Press Association Distinguished Service Award. She is the Mississippi director of the Journalism Education Association, is on the executive board of the Southern Interscholastic Press Association and is the coordinator of the Dow Jones Summer Journalism Workshop, the Ole Miss Student Journalism Workshop and the Mississippi Press Association Adviser Workshop.
Vanessa Gregory
Title: Assistant Professor
E-mail: vgregory@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-5503
Vanessa Gregory began teaching at the University of Mississippi in 2010. She is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in a number of regional and national publications, including The New York Times, Afar,National Geographic Traveler, Men’s Journal and Outside. In 2010, she was awarded a Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Journalism. Previously, she worked as a newspaper reporter at The Bakersfield Californian. She earned her master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where she also participated in News21, an in-depth reporting program funded by the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education.
Mikki Harris
Samir A. Husni
Title: Director, Magazine Innovation Center, Professor and Hederman Lecturer
E-mail: samir.husni@gmail.com
Phone: 662-915-1414, 662-832-6247
Samir A. Husni is “the country’s leading magazine expert,” according to Forbes ASAP magazine; “the nation’s leading authority on new magazines,” according to min:media industry newsletter; and “a world-renowned expert on print journalism,” according to “CBS News Sunday Morning.” The Chicago Tribune dubbed him “the planet’s leading expert on new magazines.” Husni holds a doctorate in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of North Texas. Read Samir Husni’s blog.
Deidra Jackson
Title: Director of Academic Advising/Instructor of Journalism
Email: djackson@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-1547
Deidra Jackson is director of academic advising and an instructor of journalism. She began her career at UM in 2000 as a communications specialist in Media & PR and joined the journalism faculty in 2005. Before returning to Ole Miss, she was editor of the Triangle Tribune in Durham, N.C. and a reporter for the News & Observer in its Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, N.C. bureaus. A print journalist and broadcast personality for some 20 years, she writes a column for the Oxford Eagle and has been a blogger for AOL’s popular ParentDish.com.
She is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and serves as adviser to its student affiliate, the UM Association of Black Journalists.
She majored in journalism and minored in broadcasting at Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, where she cemented her love for the printed word, and received her graduate degree in journalism from the University of Mississippi.
Darrel Jordan
Title: Chief Engineer
Email: djordan@olemiss.edu
Phone: 915-2046
Darrel B. Jordan is the Chief Engineer for the School of Journalism and the Student Media Center at the University of Mississippi. He has worked in television and radio since 1983. Prior to coming to Ole Miss he worked as Chief Engineer for KLAX-TV in Alexandria, Louisiana and as Assistant Chief Engineer at WXEL-TV and FM radio in West Palm Beach, Florida. He received his BS in Electronic Engineering Technology from Northwestern State University in 1982. Darrel joined the Ole Miss family in 1991.
Cynthia Joyce
Title: Assistant Professor
Email: cjoyce@olemiss.edu
Phone: 915-8787
Cynthia Joyce has been a writer, editor, and web producer for more than 15 years and has contributed to several regional and national publications, including The Washington Post, Newsday, NPR.org, Entertainment Weekly, and MSNBC.com, where she was a senior producer from 2007-2011; Nola.com, where she worked briefly as a producer post-Katrina; and Salon, where she was arts and entertainment editor from 1995-2000. She received her BA from Duke University in 1991, and her Masters of Science in Journalism from Northwestern University in 1993. She joined the Ole Miss faculty in 2011.
James Lumpp
Title: Assistant Professor
Email: jlumpp@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-2030
James Lumpp is an assistant professor and director – also one of the designers and founders – of the Integrated Marketing Communications graduate program. He teaches primarily Outreach courses that are transmitted via compressed video to regional campuses.
Jim is an IMC veteran with more than 30 years’ experience on both client and agency sides of the business, and he insists he’s still innovating! He spent two years in advertising management with Du Pont, and a total of eleven years as vice-president of research with agencies near Kansas City and in Atlanta. In 1994, he formed his own marketing research consulting business; two years later, he also began teaching part-time at Ole Miss.
Specializing in qualitative techniques, he has moderated 1,700 focus groups and conducted personal interviews with thousands of people from diverse walks of life. He has served 300 clients nationwide – including several Fortune 100 companies: AT&T, Costco, GE, Georgia-Pacific, Honeywell, Intel, and Motorola.
He has a B.A. from Knox College, an M.S. from Illinois, and a Ph.D. at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, in addition to post-graduate work at Maryland (Viet-nam), Delaware and Illinois State.
Ellen Meacham
Title: Instructor
Email: ebmeacha@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-7535
Ellen Meacham is a 1990 graduate of The University of Mississippi’s journalism department. She has worked as an award-winning newspaper reporter in North Mississippi and for the Charleston, S.C., Post and Courier, where she covered the courts and legal issues. In 2003 Meacham earned a master’s degree in Southern Studies, examining the impact of Southern culture on domestic violence legislation in South Carolina for her thesis. She returned to Ole Miss in 2003 to teach reporting and was one of only 20 journalism educators from across the nation selected in 2005 to participate as a fellow in the American Society of Newspaper Editors Institute for Journalism Excellence. As part of the fellowship, she worked at the Baton Rouge Advocate.While at Ole Miss she has twice served as advisor to The Daily Mississippian. In 2009 was honored with the Thomas Frist Award for Outstanding Service to Students. Her research is focused on Robert Kennedy’s 1967 visit to the Mississippi Delta.
Rick Mize
Title: Adjunct Instructor of Advertising
Email: rmize1@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-7146
Rick Mize, joined the adjunct faculty in 2011. He is also the general manager of WQLJ-WTNM radio in Oxford and has been since 1998. His interest in radio began in 1976 with a weekly high school radio show on WSUH/WOOR-Oxford alongside longtime friend and Rebel Sportscaster David Kellum. He completed his bachelor’s degree at the University of Mississippi in 1981 and followed with 34 years of experience in the industry working in Memphis, Biloxi, Holly Springs and Oxford. His list of broadcasting awards include CMA National Program Director of the Year/Small Market (1989), CMA Personality of the Year/Small Market (1991), MississippiAssociation of Broadcasters’ Personality of the Year (1992) and Finalist for Billboard/Airplay Monitor National Personality of the Year (1996). He has numerous production awards from the MAB and the AAF. He is a Lifetime Member of the Country Music Association. The City of Gulfport presented him with the Patriotism Award in 1991 for his radio efforts at WKNN to serve the military community and families along the Mississippi Gulf Coast during Operation Desert Storm.
Mykki Newton
Title: Videographer/Editor
Email: mnewton@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-7581
Mykki Newton produces documentaries and videos for the Meek School of Journalism and New Media. Mykki has a BA in Communications, a MFA in Theater and studied at both The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and The Actor’s Studio in New York City. With more than 30-years professional experience as a broadcast journalist, actor and filmmaker, Mykki is available to assist all journalism students with everything from anchoring to videography. Contact Mykki’s office if you need video equipment for your class projects.
Evangeline W. Robinson
Title: Integrated Marketing Communications Professional in Residence
Email: ewrobins@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-5447
Evangeline W. Robinson was appointed to teach as an integrated marketing communications professional in residence starting in the fall of 2012. She has 17 years of experience in fundraising and nonprofit marketing communications. She received a bachelor’s degree in mass communications and a master’s degree in history from Jackson State University. She received a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Mississippi.
Bill Rose
Title: Adjunct Instructor
E-mail: wrose@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-1716
Bill Rose joined the journalism faculty at the University of Mississippi after a 40-year career as a professional journalist. Much of that time was spent with The Miami Herald, where Rose covered city and county government and the governor’s race before going to Atlanta for five years to cover the South. Upon returning to the Miami newsroom, Rose became deputy city editor, then national editor, directing bureaus in Atlanta, Washington and New York as well as coverage of the space shuttle Challenger disaster, the Atlanta prison riots and national politics. He then became editor of Tropic, The Herald’s Sunday magazine, which won two Pulitzers. Rose closed out his career as managing editor of The Palm Beach Post, where his staff produced two Pulitzer finalists and sent two county commissioners to prison for corruption unearthed by the newspaper. A graduate of The University of Mississippi, Rose got his start as a reporter for the Delta Democrat-Times in Greenville, where he covered local government, federal courts and politics. He served as a Pulitzer juror in 2007-2008. Rose won a Green Eyeshade award for coverage of a deadly coal mine disaster in Tennessee, a Paul Hansell FSNE Award for the best work by a Florida newspaper reporter and a Best of Cox award for coverage of Hurricane Lili. Rose runs The Delta Project, a course in which students report on poverty in the Delta and produce magazines documenting their findings.
Darren Sanefski
Title: Assistant Professor of Journalism
Email: dasanefs@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-2031
Darren Sanefski has an extensive news design and marketing background. He received his master of arts (interactive design) from the State University of New York at Oswego and a bachelor of fine arts (visual communication) from Syracuse University.
He was on the faculty at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University from 2005 until 2012.
Sanefski worked for The Post-Standard newspaper in Syracuse, NY. Most recently, he was the paper’s sports design editor and designed interactive sports graphics for its sister website, Syracuse.com.
He runs a freelance marketing and graphic design business, DMS Design Studio, where he designs for national and regional companies on a variety of projects. His current and past clients include, Boeing, Pacificare, Syracuse University, Blue Highway Inc., LeMoyne College, the Greater Syracuse Chamber of Commerce and Perimetek Pest Management.
Sanefski is often hired to consult and/or present at design and/or marketing seminars and workshops. He has won numerous national and international awards for his images and designs.
He serves on the board of The Society of News Design Foundation as education director.
Bradley E. Schultz
Title: Associate Professor of Journalism
E-mail: bschultz@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-5161
Dr. Brad Schultz is an Associate Professor specializing in broadcast and television news. He has written five books on broadcasting and/or sports, and authored nearly two dozen scholarly articles. Dr. Schultz has produced two sports documentaries, both of which have appeared on Mississippi Public Television. “The Season: Oxford Chargers” won a national Aurora award as best sports documentary. Dr. Schultz is the creator and former editor of the Journal of Sports Media, and in 2011 was elected Vice Chair of the Sports Interest Group of AEJMC. He lives in Oxford and is a campus lay minister and deacon at Peace Lutheran Church.
Alysia Steele
Title: Journalism Professional in Residence
Robin Street
Title: Lecturer in Journalism
E-mail: rbstreet@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-5081
Robin Street has been a lecturer in journalism and public relations at the University of Mississippi for 20 years. She primarily teaches public relations and feature writing.
Street is president and co-founder of the Oxford/Ole Miss chapter of the Public Relations Association of Mississippi. (PRAM). Her public relations works have won more than 20 awards from PRAM and the Southern Public Relations Federation. In 2011, a campaign she and her students put on called “Diversity Rocks” won best in show at both PRAM and SPRF. It is was the runner-up for Silver Anvil award given by the Public Relations Society of America. The Silver Anvil is considered the Oscar of the PR business.
Street was named “PR Educator of the Year” by both PRAM and SPRF in 2009.
In 2006, she won the “Strong Woman” award for mentorship from Baptist Women’s Services.
Street is also a freelance journalist specializing in writing about fitness, preventive health, nutrition and mental health. She holds both a M.A. degree in journalism and a M.S. degree in wellness from Ole Miss.
She has published more than 75 health articles in The Clarion-Ledger. In addition, her articles have appeared in leading national magazines such as Woman’s Day, Better Homes and Gardens, Good Housekeeping, Cooking Light, Writer’s Digest, & Golf for Women.
Kristen Alley Swain
Title: Assistant Professor
E-mail: kaswain@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-7637
Kristie Swain teaches reporting, media ethics, theory, and public opinion. With a professional background in print journalism, she has written for Better Homes and Gardens, Southern Living, the Oxford (Miss.) Eagle, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal in Tupelo, Miss., and the Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News and served as a managing editor for the world’s first university-based online newspaper at University of Florida. Her research focuses on science communication with an emphasis on effective health communication campaign design and risk framing in news. As part of her health campaign research about the role of black churches in HIV prevention, she served as strategic communications consultant for the 16-county North Central Florida AIDS Network. Her recent projects examined news coverage of the anthrax attacks, environmental justice, Sub-Saharan AIDS, and sea-level rise. Her work has appeared in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response, and other international journals and books. The recipient of the 2010 Distinguished Service Award in Sustainability at Ole Miss, Swain has served in leadership roles on NIH and national security grants, coordinated student video production for PBS Planet Forward, and served as the director of a science journalism center and on the Ole Miss STEM Innovation Task Force. She has a Ph.D. from University of Florida, an M.A. from University of Alabama, and a B.A. from Ole Miss.
Patricia Thompson
Title: Director of Student Media and Assistant Professor of Journalism
Email: pthomps1@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-5504
Patricia Thompson oversees the editorial and advertising students and staff who produce The Daily Mississippian, Rebel Radio WUMS 92.1, NewsWatch Ch. 99, the Ole Miss yearbook and several websites. She is faculty adviser for The Daily Mississippian, and teaches Journalism classes. She has more than 25 years of experience as a journalist—as a staff writer at The Washington Post and as an editor at the San Jose Mercury News, the South Florida Sun Sentinel, the Oakland Tribune and the Marin Independent Journal. She was part of the Mercury News staff awarded the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for general news reporting. She also was an assistant professor of journalism at Northwestern University, where she taught classes and directed programs. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She was a Presidential Scholar, and inducted into Mortar Board and Kappa Tau Alpha honor societies. She served six years as a member of the ACEJMC accreditation committee, and continues to do site team visits.
Mike Tonos
Title: Adjunct Instructor of Journalism
Email: jmtonos@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-5505
Michael Tonos has spent nearly 40 years in the media and communications business, primarily newspapers. Over his 35-year newspaper career, he has served as executive editor of The Sun Herald in Biloxi-Gulfport and managing editor at The Sun Herald, the Vicksburg Post and, most recently, the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal in Tupelo. He also owns JMT Consulting, a public relations firm. A native of Greenville, Tonos has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from The University of Mississippi and a master’s degree in public relations from the University of Southern Mississippi. He has served as president of the Louisiana-Mississippi Associated Press Managing Editors and as a board member for the Mississippi Press Association. He and his wife, Jane, live in Tupelo.
Donica Warren
Title: Secretary/Receptionist
Email: dpwarren@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-7146
Donica P. Warren is secretary and receptionist for the Meek School of Journalism and New Media. She is a 1998 graduate of the University of Mississippi with a bachelors of business administration. She likes to dj in her spare time and take care of her dogs.
Debora Halpern Wenger
Title: Associate Professor
E-mail: drwenger@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-7912
Twitter: @dhwenger
Deb Halpern Wenger, a 17-year broadcast news veteran, is an associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in journalism at the University of Mississippi. Prior to her academic appointments, Wenger was assistant news director at WFLA-TV in Tampa, Fla. Wenger conducts multimedia training in newsrooms around the country and is coauthor of the broadcast, online and multimedia journalism curricula for the Society of Professional Journalists’ Newsroom Training Program. She is also co-author of the book, “Advancing the Story: Broadcast Journalism in a Multimedia World.” Her thoughts about new media can be found at www.advancingthestory.com.
Kathleen Woodruff Wickham
Title: Associate Professor
E-mail: kwickham@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-5501
Dr. Wickham will be teaching in the Honors College this year and continue as a faculty fellow of the first Residential College. She is also the primary adviser for Honors College journalism majors. She is a former newspaper reporter from New Jersey who teaches many of the reporting classes in the School. In 2008 the Society of Professional Journalists named her the national Outstanding Faculty Adviser for her work with the campus SPJ chapter. Dr. Wickham also serves on the School’s Executive Committee and is coordinating the School’s accreditation self-study. She has previously published four books and numerous academic articles and is currently researching the lives of the reporters present on campus during the 1962 integration crisis. She was instrumental in having the Ole Miss cam[pus named a national historic site in journalism in honor of those reporters. Dr. Wickham earned her graduate degrees from the University of Memphis where she taught for more than 15 years. Dr. Wickham has also served as chair of the Newspaper Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and currently serves on the editorial board of Newspaper Research Journal. Last year she helped judge the newspaper entries for the National Headliner Awards.
Curtis Wilkie
Title: Overby Fellow, Associate Professor of JournalismEmail: cwilkie@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-1707
