Faculty Member, Humanities & Media & Cultural Studies
Thesis Title: Amateur Photography and Pictorial Aesthetics: Influences of Organization and Industry on Cultural Production
About
Michael Griffin earned his earned his Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for Communications, the University of Pennsylvania, where he was awarded a CBS Dissertation Fellowship. He currently teaches Media Studies at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA., was recently visiting professor of Cinema & Media Studies at Carleton College, and served as the immediate past Chair of the Visual Communication Studies Division of the International Communication Association (ICA). For 16 years he was on the faculty of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota, and has also taught at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Pennsylvania. In 1995 he received a Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Annenberg Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania for his studies of the use of visual images in television news.
Griffin is currently the Visual Communication Area Editor for The International Encyclopedia of Communications, the Coordinator for Media Reform and Democracy at the Twin Cities Media Alliance, and serves on the editorial and advisory boards for several academic journals and centers. He has recently delivered papers on visual journalism at the International Communication Association Conference in Chicago, the conference "Visual Cultures -Transatlantic Perspectives", the Bayerische Amerika Akademie, Munich, the Symposium on Visual Competence and Media Literacy, Bremen, and presented the Stans Distinguished Lecture, “War Images and American Memory,” at the Minnesota History Center.
Contact Information
http://www.macalester.edu/hmcs/
Humanities & Media & Cultural Studies
Macalester College
1600 Grand Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55105
USA
