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Faculty

The Institute Faculty Speakers Bureau lists full- and part-time faculty members, their areas of scholarly and professional expertise, who teach in the Institute and are interested and available as guest lecturers to classes, consultants to the community, and collaborators on projects.

Melinda Robins
Associate Professor (1996)
B.A., University of Bridgeport; M.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ph.D., University of Georgia

Dr. Robins has extensive international journalism and media experience. She has been a reporter and editor at the The New Haven Register and The Journal-Courier in Connecticut. She has served as a media consultant for the Jamaican government, has been a Fulbright Scholar in Uganda and India, and has conducted workshops for journalists in Senegal, Tanzania, Tonga, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Her research interests include media globalization, media in developing countries, issues of representation, and gender.


Full Time Faculty

Deirdre Conlon, Scholar-In-Residence

Diana Sherry, Scholar-In-Residence


Mirta Tocci, Artist-in-Residence

Erika Williams, Scholar-In-Residence

Departmental Faculty Who Teach in the Institute
John Anderson
Elizabeth Baeten
Flora Gonzalez
Roger House
Mark Leccese
Wyatt Oswald
Melinda Robins
Murray Schwartz
James Sheldon
Stephen Shipps
Part Time Faculty
Amy Aroopala
Matthew Battles
Steven Beeber
Gaynor Blandford
James Byrne
Claudia Castaneda
Robert Dulgarian
Lance Eaton
Nigel Gibson
John Hodge
Alden Jones
Cynthia Miller
Roseanne Montillo
Jason Roush
Meta Wagner
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