Stephen Bates, Associate Professor
(J.D, 1987, Harvard Law School)

Stephen Bates teaches First Amendment law, political communication, and other classes. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of four books, as well as academic articles on privacy, obscenity, libel, reporter's privilege, political advertising, and journalism history. His writing has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, American Heritage, Slate, and the Wilson Quarterly, where he is a contributing editor. He has been a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Annenberg Washington Program in Communications Policy Studies, and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.

Research Articles and Conference Presentations

Stephen.Bates@unlv.edu
Office: GUA-2132
Mail Stop: 5007

Dr. Bates' Home Page

Gregory A. Borchard, Associate Professor, Graduate Coordinator
(Ph.D., 2003, University of Florida)

Dr. Borchard teaches classes in journalism history, reporting, and research methods. His scholarly work has focused on the nineteenth century press; it includes Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley, a book published by Southern Illinois University Press (2011), and the co-authored book Journalism in the Civil War Era for Peter Lang (2010). His journal articles have appeared in American Journalism, Journalism History, and The Journal of Popular Culture. Before starting at UNLV, he wrote for newspapers including the Gainesville Sun and the Minnesota Daily.

gregory.borchard@unlv.edu
(702) 895-4868
Office: GUA-2134
Mail Stop: 5007

Dr. Borchard's Home Page

Kathy Espin, Internship Coordinator
(M.A., University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Kathy Espin teaches introduction to public relations and public relations writing. She earned her M.A. in Communication from UNLV and a B.S in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She was recognized at UNLV for Outstanding Teaching by a Part Time Faculty in 2003. She served as Interim Basic Course Director for Communication Studies for the 2005-2006 term. She started her professional career as a journalist with the Las Vegas SUN where she was copy editor and city editor from 1980 to 1985. She spent 12 years in public relations, advertising and marketing in the casino industry before forming her own communication consulting firm in 1996. She currently writes about Las Vegas for several publications including TravelAge West, Nevada Magazine, Los Angeles Times Calendar and several custom publications. As a volunteer, she serves as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for children in foster care.

kathy.espin@unlv.edu
(702) 895-5126
Office: GUA-1304
Mail Stop: 5007

Kathy Espin's Home Page

Laurie Fruth, General Manager, UNLV TV
(M.A, 1983, University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Laurie is the general manager of UNLV TV. As a faculty member with the Hank Greenspun School of Journalism, she teaches classes in videotape editing and program development. She works with students and members of the campus community to produce original, innovative programming for two educational cable channels. She received an undergraduate degree in medical communication from The Ohio State University and a masters degree in mass communication from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

laurel.fruth@unlv.edu
(702) 895-3876
Office: GUA-2136
Mail Stop: 5007

UNLV-TV's Website

Mary Hausch, Associate Affiliate Professor
(B.S.J., 1970, Ohio University)

Professor Hausch has 21 years experience in the newspaper industry, including 11 years as managing editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. She teaches advanced level journalism courses and is the 1992 recipient of the Rita Deanin Abbey Humanities Teacher of the Year Award at UNLV.

Mary.Hausch@unlv.edu
(702) 895-4352
Office: GUA-2133
Mail Stop: 5007

Julian Kilker, Associate Professor
(Ph.D., 1999, Cornell University)

Dr. Kilker’s research focuses on the intersection of society and media technologies, and in particular key stages of their interaction from design to obsolescence. He teaches many of the School's emerging technology courses, as well as technology and society courses in the UNLV Honors College. Recent publications explore damage in digital media (in Visual Communication Quarterly), innovative methods for collaborative research (in Social Identities), a book chapter about analyzing workflows in web-based learning systems (in Cultures of Efficiency), and book reviews in Visual Communication Quarterly and Science Communication. He has received awards from the Broadcast Education Association, Management Communication Quarterly, and the Association for Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication. 

Research Articles and Conference Presentations

kilker@unlv.nevada.edu
(702) 895-3729
Office: GUA-2137
Mail Stop: 5007

Dr. Kilker's Home Page

Gary W. Larson, Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Coordinator
(Ph.D., 1997, University of Minnesota)

Dr. Larson teaches television production and broadcast journalism for the Hank Greenspun School of Communication. He has been teaching in these areas along with emerging technologies and visual rhetoric for a number of years and has authored national conference papers as well as two book chapters. Larson received his M.A. in Mass Communication from North Dakota State University in 1991 and his B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Minnesota in 1976. His ongoing research includes work on the rhetorical constructions of self and community on the global Internet, and the social psychology of a visually-mediated world. He received a Broadcast Education Association research award in 2001. He is a member of the National Communication Association and the Southern States Communication Association. He notes that he is not the person who draws "The Far Side" comic strip...but fervently wishes he was!

Research Articles and Conference Presentations

gary.larson@unlv.edu
(702) 895-3274
Office: GUA-2135
Mail Stop: 5007

Dr. Larson's Home Page

Frank Mueller, Faculty-in-Residence and KUNV General Manager
(M.B.A., University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Frank is General Manager for KUNV 91.5 FM and KUNV HD-2 and an instructor with the Hank Greenspun School of Journalism. Frank has over 15 years of radio experience in both commercial and non-profit environments. Frank earned his MBA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and his BA in Broadcast Journalism from Brigham Young University. He has been published in professional broadcast trade magazines and has taught news writing, writing for broadcast, and audio production at UNLV.

frank.mueller@unlv.edu
(702) 895-0060
Office: GUA-1211

Lawrence J. Mullen
(Ph.D., 1992, University of Iowa)

Dr. Mullen's areas of research interest and teaching include visual aesthetics and media and community. His recent book, Las Vegas: Media and Myth explores the impact the media have on the transient community of Las Vegas. His other published research has explored the phenomenon of visual communication in several setting including the nexus between community and visuality. His teaching focuses on visual studies, but has also explored media and reality and an experimental course on massively multi-player on-line games.

Research Articles and Conference Presentations

lawrence.mullen@unlv.edu
(702) 895-4491
Office: GUA-2142
Mail Stop: 5007

Jean Reid Norman, Instructor
(M.A., 2009, University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Jean Reid Norman committed journalism for 30 years before the economics of the newspaper business took its toll. Her career ranged from small Nevada newspapers such as the Fallon Eagle-Standard to national newspapers including the Washington Post and USA Today. Most recently, Norman served as assistant Metro editor at the Las Vegas Sun, then managing editor of the Home News group of community newspapers until those newspapers closed in 2009. During her tenure, Suburban Newspapers of America named the Green Valley News as 2006 Newspaper of the Year, and the News Community Newspapers won numerous awards from the Nevada Press Association. Norman became a health educator for the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension in January 2010 and a PhD student in public affairs at UNLV that fall. Now a graduate assistant, her goal is to become a journalism professor.

normanj@unlv.nevada.edu
(702) 895-1371
Office: GUA-2143

Alicia Shepard, Visiting Professor
(M.A., 2002, University of Maryland)

Award-winning media critic Alicia C. Shepard has spent three decades as a newspaper and magazine reporter, author and university journalism professor. She spent nearly four years as National Public Radio Ombudsman Shepard is author of the critically acclaimed book, Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate, which explores the lives of two of America’s most famous journalists and their impact on the profession. She teaches media ethics among other courses. Traveling widely, Shepard sailed with her family through the South Pacific for three years on a 32-foot sailboat.

aliciashepard@gmail.com
(702) 895-1333
Office: GUA-2139