The Department of Journalism

Journalism Faculty

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

Ted Gup, Chair and Professor

Douglas Struck, Associate Chair and Journalist-In-Residence

Emmannuel Paraschos, Graduate Program Director and Professor

Michael Brown, Assistant Professor

Marsha Della-Giustina, Associate Professor

Roger House, Assistant Professor

Suzy Kim, Asisstant Professor

Janet Kolodzy, Associate Professor


Jerry Lanson, Associate Professor

Mark Leccese, Assistant Professor

Paul Niwa, Assistant Professor

Tim Riley, Journalist-in-Residence

Melinda Robins, Associate Professor

Carole Simpson, Leader-In-Residence

Bradford Verter, Historian-In-Residence

Part Time Faculty
David Abel
William Apotheker
Michael Beaudet
Karen Bordeleau
Edward Brown
Marc Cantor
Robert Clinkscale
Paul DeBole
Maureen Dezell
Johnny Diaz
Bridget Driscoll-Tendler
Rachel Gotbaum
Yaacoub Hallak
Stephen Iandoli
Fredric Kahn
Lester Lee
Brendan Lynch
Christopher Mahoney
Irene Mahoney-Paige
William Mott IV
Ioannis Papadopoulos
David Richwine
John Rooke
Laurie Ruskin
Louis Salome
Steven Stecklow
Christopher Szechenyi
Karla Vallance
David Wallace
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