David Abrahamson,

Professor of Journalism, Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence

Abrahamson is a professor of journalism and the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence at Medill.

d-abrahamson@northwestern.edu

847-467-4159

Richard Alvarez,

Lecturer

Alvarez is a new media lecturer and author of "Generator/Flash Web Development" by New Riders Publishing.

r-alvarez3@northwestern.edu

312-503-3800

Scott Anderson,

Assistant Professor

Anderson has 30 years of experience in the media business, half of that in online and interactive.

scott-anderson@northwestern.edu
312-445-0722

Beth Bennett,

Assistant Professor

Bennett is an award-winning television news reporter and producer and started teaching at Medill in 2003 as an adjunct lecturer.

e-bennett6@northwestern.edu
847-491-2060

Larry Birnbaum,

Birnbaum is co-director of the Intelligent Information Laboratory, and teaches courses in the Medill/McCormick Center for Innovation in Technology, Media and Journalism.

birnbaum@eecs.northwestern.edu

847-491-3640

Michele Bitoun,

Assistant Professor, Senior Director of Undergraduate Education and Teaching Excellence

Bitoun is the senior director of Undergraduate Education and Teaching Excellence and director of the Journalism Residency Program.

m-bitoun@northwestern.edu
847-467-2785

Caryn Brooks,

Assistant Professor

Brooks has been a reporter, editor, executive producer, managing editor, and news director in several television newsrooms and has won five Emmy awards for television coverage.

caryn-brooks@northwestern.edu

708-846-1855

Janice Castro,

Senior Director, Graduate Education and Teaching Excellence; Assistant Professor

Castro is senior director of Medill’s graduate journalism program and director of its Global Journalism Program.

847-467-1770
jcastro@northwestern.edu

Susan Mango Curtis,

Assistant Professor

Curtis is an educator, designer and consultant who worked as an assistant managing editor for the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal before coming to Medill.

mangocurtis@northwestern.edu
847-467-2999

Michael A. Deas,

Lecturer

Deas teaches multimedia reporting and editing and spent 15 years at the Chicago Tribune, where he edited a variety of news stories on the national-foreign desk.

m-deas@northwestern.edu
847-491-5904

Everette E. Dennis,

Dean, Northwestern University in Qatar

e-dennis@northwestern.edu

Jack Doppelt,

Interim Associate Dean for Journalism; Professor

Doppelt is a journalism professor at Medill, publisher of Immigrant Connect and RefugeeLives and a faculty associate at NU’s Institute for Policy Research who is a visiting professor at NU-Q in Doha.

j-doppelt@northwestern.edu

Phone: 847-491-3955

Craig Duff,

Professor

Craig Duff is an award-winning video journalist and documentary television director, producer and writer, specializing in multi-platform storytelling and solo journalism.

craig.duff@northwestern.edu
847-467-4090

Steven S. Duke,

Associate Professor

Duke is the newspaper sector head, as well as associate professor and managing director of training with the Media Management Center and the Readership Institute.

s-duke@northwestern.edu
847-467-4374

Stephanie Edgerly,

Assistant Professor

Stephanie Edgerly is an assistant professor in the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. Her research explores how features of new media alter the way audiences consume news and impact political engagement.

stephanie.edgerly@northwestern.edu

(847) 467-2528

Eric Ferkenhoff,

Assistant Professor

Ferkenhoff began his reporting career in Kansas City and now teaches full time at Medill, but still writes, mainly for Time magazine and the New York Times.

e-ferkenhoff@northwestern.edu
847-491-2442

Abigail M. Foerstner,

Assistant Professor

Foerstner’s 34-year career as a journalist began when she initiated science and environmental coverage as a staff reporter for the Suburban Trib sections of the Chicago Tribune. She teaches graduate health and science reporting at Medill's downtown newsroom.

a-foerstner@northwestern.edu

847-467-7664

Douglas Foster,

Associate Professor

Foster is a former newspaper reporter, magazine editor, television correspondent, and documentary producer who now teaches feature writing to graduates and undergraduates while overseeing the Journalism Residency Program in South Africa.

dmfoster@northwestern.edu

847-467-7661

Stephan Garnett,

Lecturer

Garnett has a 30-year career as a journalist and teaches Journalism Methods for graduates.

s-garnett@northwestern.edu

847-491-5661

Amos Gelb,

Associate Professor

Gelb is Associate Professor and Director of Videography/Broadcast at the Medill Washington Program. Before moving into teaching, Gelb was an award-winning television producer.

amos.gelb@northwestern.edu
202-661-0104

Loren Ghiglione,

Professor

Ghiglione, a veteran of four decades in journalism and journalism education, teaches global journalism and journalism history.

ghiglion@northwestern.edu

847-491-4837

Jeremy Gilbert,

Assistant Professor

Gilbert is an assistant professor at Medill teaching interactive storytelling, Web and print design tools and techniques.

jgilbert@northwestern.edu
847-467-0874

Rich Gordon,

Director of Digital Innovation; Professor

Rich Gordon is associate professor and director of digital innovation at the Medill School of Journalism, where he launched the school’s graduate program in new media journalism.

richgor@northwestern.edu
847-467-5968

Ava Thompson Greenwell,

Associate Professor

Greenwell has been teaching broadcast writing, reporting and producing classes at Medill for undergraduate and graduate students since 1993.

a-greenwell@northwestern.edu

847-467-2579

Kristian Hammond,

Professor

Kristian Hammond is director of the Medill/McCormick Center for Innovation in Technology, Media and Journalism.

hammond@eecs.northwestern.edu

Phone: 847-467-1012

Bill Handy,

Assistant Professor

Handy is coordinator of Medill’s Global Residency Program and a lecturer with more than 30 years of experience as an editor and publishing executive.

w-handy@northwestern.edu

847-491-7372

Desiree Hanford,

Journalism Residency Coordinator, Lecturer

Desiree Hanford, a freelance journalist and former business reporter, is a lecturer and the Journalism Residency coordinator at Medill.

d-hanford@northwestern.edu

847-467-7930

Mei-Ling Hopgood,

Associate Professor

Mei-Ling Hopgood is a freelance journalist and writer who has written for various publications, ranging from the National Geographic Traveler and Marie Claire to the Miami Herald and the Boston Globe.

mhopgood@northwestern.edu
847-491-2185

Brent Huffman,

Assistant Professor

Brent E. Huffman is an award-winning director, writer, and cinematographer of documentaries and television programs. His work ranges from documentaries aired on The Discovery Channel and The National Geographic Channel, to Sundance Film Festival winners, to films made for FRONTLINE/World on PBS.

b-huffman@northwestern.edu

847-491-7580

Anne Johnsos,

Lecturer

Johnsos started teaching at Medill in 2001, after reporting, anchoring and writing for television stations and production companies.

a-johnsos@northwestern.edu

773-960-9647

Louise Kiernan,

Associate Professor

Louise Kiernan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and editor at the Chicago Tribune, is an associate professor at Medill.

l-kiernan@northwestern.edu

847-467-2163

Alec Klein,

Professor

Klein, who joined Medill in fall 2008, is an award-winning investigative journalist, bestselling author and the director of the Medill Innocence Project.

alec-klein@northwestern.edu

847-467-4476

Alex Kotlowitz,

Senior Lecturer

Kotlowitz is the author of Never a City So Real, The Other Side of the River and the national bestseller There Are No Children Here.

a-kotlowitz@northwestern.edu

708-445-8805

Craig LaMay,

Associate Professor

LaMay is an associate professor and faculty associate at Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research, as well as the former editorial director of the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center and editor of Media Studies Journal.

clamay@northwestern.edu

847-491-8727

John Lavine,

Professor and Founder, Media Management Center

John Lavine is the professor of media management and strategy in Medill and in the Kellogg School of Management and the former dean of Medill.

j-lavine@northwestern.edu

Candy Lee,

Professor

Lee spent many years in publishing, media, industry and education in global enterprises.

candy.lee@northwestern.edu

847-491-2065

Donna Leff,

Professor

Leff is a professor of journalism at Medill and a faculty affiliate of the University's Institute for Policy Research.

d-leff@northwestern.edu

312-503-0768

Darnell Little,

Associate Professor

Little specialized in computer-assisted reporting at the Chicago Tribune after earning a master's in engineering and another in journalism, both from Northwestern.

darnell-little@northwestern.edu

Matt Mansfield,

Associate Professor and Director of Medill News Service, Washington

Mansfield is director of Medilll's Washington program. He is a visual journalist whose professional experience includes working as deputy managing editor for the San Jose Mercury News.

matt@northwestern.edu
(202) 661-0103

Jon Marshall,

Assistant Professor

Jon Marshall has been a columnist for Quill magazine and a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, CBS News’ “Public Eye,” Chicago Tribune, Family Circle, Parenting, Parents, Home & Away, Illinois Issues, Reform Judaism and many other publications.

j-marshall@northwestern.edu

847-467-2450

Joe Mathewson,

Assistant Professor

Mathewson was formerly a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in New York, Washington and Chicago, and for WBBM-TV in Chicago.

m-joseph@northwestern.edu

312-503-0770

Timothy McNulty,

Lecturer

Timothy J. McNulty is co-director of Medill's National Security Initiative whose career in national and foreign news coverage includes roles as both a war correspondent and White House correspondent.

timothy-mcnulty@northwestern.edu
847-467-5226

Rachel Davis Mersey,

Associate Professor

Mersey joined the Medill faculty in 2008 with a specialization in audience understanding.

rdmersey@northwestern.edu

847-491-2196

Josh Meyer,

Lecturer, Director of Education and Outreach, National Security Journalism Initiative

Meyer joins Medill from the Los Angeles Times, where he spent 20 years as an investigative reporter and staff writer.

josh@northwestern.edu

202-661-0106

Marcel Pacatte,

Managing Editor, Medill Chicago and Assistant Professor

Pacatte teaches reporting, writing and editing to undergraduate and graduate students at Medill, where he joined the faculty as an adjunct in 1997 and has taught full- and part-time on and off since then.

m-pacatte@northwestern.edu

312-503-3802

Ceci Rodgers,

Lecturer

Rodgers is an award-winning journalist and has worked as a financial journalist for more than two decades.

c-rodgers@northwestern.edu
847-467-7393

Richard J. Roth,

Senior Associate Dean for Journalism, Northwestern University in Qatar, Associate Professor

Roth is the senior associate dean at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Qatar.

profroth@northwestern.edu
847-467-6759

Ellen Shearer,

William F. Thomas Professor and Co-Director of the National Security Journalism Initiative

Shearer is the William F. Thomas Professor at Medill and co-director of the school’s National Security Journalism initiative.

shearer@northwestern.edu
(202) 661-0102

Peter Slevin,

Associate Professor

Slevin is an associate professor and a veteran national and international journalist currently on leave from TheWashington Post.

slevin@northwestern.edu

847-467-7062

David Standish,

Assistant Professor

Standish has been the editorial adviser for 20 Magazine Publishing Project prototypes as well as a teacher of magazine writing, a freelance journalist and an author.

d-standish@northwestern.edu

847-491-2085

Larry Stuelpnagel,

Assistant Professor, Charles Deering McCormick University Distinguished Lecturer

Stuelpnagel is an Emmy award winning reporter who teaches broadcast and multimedia reporting. He is the faculty advisor to the award-winning, student produced Northwestern News Network.

lls768@northwestern.edu

847-491-3468

Rick Tulsky,

Senior Lecturer, Director of Medill Watchdog/Accountability Initiative

Rick Tulsky is a Pulitzer Prize winner who worked at the San Jose Mercury News prior to arriving at Medill.

f-tulsky@northwestern.edu

847-467-4087

Cecilia Vaisman,

Associate Professor

Cecilia Vaisman is a radio journalist, multimedia producer and teacher based in Chicago.

c-vaisman@northwestern.edu

773-255-1878

Michele Weldon,

Assistant Professor

Weldon is an assistant professor in Medill's undergraduate and graduate programs and is the author of several books, including “Everyman News: The Changing American Front Page.”

m-weldon@northwestern.edu

847-491-2064

Charles Whitaker,

Helen Gurley Brown Research Chair

Whitaker is the Helen Gurley Brown Research Chair in Magazine Journalism and teaches courses in magazine writing and editing and is one of the rotating directors of Medill’s acclaimed Magazine Publishing Project.

c-whitaker@northwestern.edu
847-491-3014

Zach Wise,

Associate Professor

Zach Wise, previously an award-winning multimedia producer for The New York Times, began teaching interactive journalism at Medill in June 2011.

wise@northwestern.edu

Emily Withrow,

Assistant Professor

Emily Withrow is an assistant professor at Medill, teaching online publishing, multimedia storytelling, and interactive narrative to both undergraduate and graduate students.

e-withrow@northwestern.edu

847-467-1890

Patti Wolter,

Associate Professor

Wolter joined the Medill faculty in the spring of 2002 after a successful magazine career in New York, San Francisco and Chicago, where she gained editorial experience that includes 12 years of senior staff jobs at a range of non-profit and for-profit publications.

p-wolter@northwestern.edu
847-491-5269

Owen Youngman,

Knight Professor of Digital Media Strategy

Youngman was appointed to the Knight Professor of Digital Media Strategy at Medill in January 2009, after a 37-year career at the Chicago Tribune focused on new product development, innovation and interactive media.

o-youngman@northwestern.edu
847-467-6759