Marisa Peacock

Senior Lecturer Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Marisa Peacock is the founder and chief strategist of The Strategic Peacock, helping organizations implement effective social media strategies. As a senior lecturer, she teaches the Sandage Project, digital content and social media management and AI and Advertising. She also leads the Social Media Lab, where advertising students […]

Ewa Maslowska

Associate Professor Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Ewa holds a Ph.D. in Communication Science from the University of Amsterdam and an M.A. in Psychology from Jagiellonian University and completed postdoctoral research at Northwestern University. Ewa has been published in International Journal of Advertising, Computers in Human Behavior, Journal of Marketing Management, Decision Support Systems, and others. Awards […]

Christopher Ball

Assistant Professor Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Dr. Ball is an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism. Before joining the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he was a research assistant and instructor while working on his PhD at Michigan State University. During this time, he worked extensively on various grant funded research projects and […]

Alison Davis

Senior Lecturer Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Alison Davis has been producing national documentaries for over two decades. Her programs have received numerous awards including seven regional Emmy Awards and over 20 Emmy nominations. Davis produced documentaries for the Big Ten Network when she joined Illinois’ Division of Intercollegiate Athletics / Public Affairs in April […]

John Nerone

Professor Emeritus Affiliations Education Research and Creative Endeavor Nerone is the author or co-author of four books and numerous articles, including “Violence Against the Press: Policing the Public Sphere in U.S. History” (Oxford University Press, 1994), “Last Rights: Revisiting Four Theories of the Press” (University of Illinois Press, 1995), and, with Kevin Barnhurst, “The Form […]

Clifford Christians

Professor Emeritus Affiliations Education Background Christians is the former director of the Institute of Communications Research and chair of the doctoral program in communications, positions he held from 1987-2001 and from 2007-2009. He has been a visiting scholar in philosophical ethics at Princeton University, a research fellow in social ethics and also a visiting scholar […]

William E. Berry

Associate Professor Emeritus Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background Berry’s research and teaching focus is on strategic managerial communication, digital communication technologies and information access in less advanced countries, and advertising and mediated communication practices in the Dominican Republic and Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Prior to joining the Illinois faculty, Berry worked for 10 years in the telecommunications […]

Kevin Wise

Professor Affiliations Education Course Specialties Background I came to the College of Media in 2013 after spending 9 years at the Missouri School of Journalism, where I co-founded and co-directed the PRIME Lab and taught in the School’s Strategic Communication sequence. Research and Creative Endeavor My research explores the psychology underlying interactive media use. In […]

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