Faculty
Dr. Adams currently serves as associate dean in the college of Fine Arts and Communications. His office is in the Harris Fine Arts Center, but he is still happy to come to the Brimhall to work with graduate students. His primary area of study is the Business and Economic History of the Media. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed journals articles, encyclopedia submissions and reviews. He has also presented more than 50 conference papers. His articles and studies have included mergers and acquisitions in the 1890s and 1920s, newspaper profitability, monopolistic practices and anti-trust regulation, media financial performance during the Great Depression, and advertising trends during WWII.
Sherry Baker, is Associate Professor in the Department of Communications, and Associate Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communications. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Utah, with emphases in media ethics, law, and history. Dr. Baker teaches a variety of media-related graduate and undergraduate courses including media ethics and media law. She has a two-pronged research and publication agenda, focusing on public relations and advertising ethics, and on Mormon media history.
She sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Mass Media Ethics and the Journal of Media and Religion. Dr. Baker was selected as a Fellow for the first Media Ethics Colloquium (Park City, 2000). Her colloquium paper, co-authored with Dr. David L. Martinson, is her most frequently cited work: “The TARES Test: Five Principles for Ethical Persuasion” (Journal of Mass Media Ethics, 16:2&3, pp. 148-175).
Other publications include articles in Journal of Business Ethics; Journal of Mass Media Ethics; Research in Marketing; BYU Studies; Encyclopedia of International Media Communications; Encyclopedia of Religion, Communication and Media; College Media Review; Case Studies in Media Management; Women's Press Organizations, 1881-1999; and Business Ethics: The Annual Editions Series.
Clark Callahan received his B.A. from Brigham Young University, M.A. from West Texas A&M, and Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma. Clark’s teaching interests include International Communication, persuasion, intercultural communication, and cultural diversity management. His research interests are historical communication, media ecology, and intercultural communication. He has also worked as a collegiate speech and debate coach, served as chair for the Communication and the Future Division of the National Communication Association, and is the editor for Comparative Cultures and Civilizations for Hampton Press.
Dr. Mark Callister received a Ph. D. in Communication from the University of Arizona (1997), an M.B.A from BYU (1991), and B.A.s in English and International Relations from BYU (1988). He formerly taught at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois. He joined the faculty at BYU in 2005. His research centers on the visual imagery in print advertising and media studies.
He has published articles in such journals as Journal of Children and Media, Journal of Aging Studies, Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising, Journal of Language and Social Psychology, Oncology Nursing Forum, and Evaluation & the Health Professions. As a specialist in theories of persuasion and communication, he has consulted for Commonwealth Edison, Caterpillar, the Illinois Institute of Rural Affairs, Roquette-America, Institute for Applied Criminal Justice, and others. He was selected as the “Outstanding Teacher” in June 2002 for the College of Fine Arts and Communication at Western Illinois University and awarded the Wayne N. Thompson Distinguished Professorship of Communication Award, 2000-2001.
Edward L. Carter is an attorney, journalist and assistant professor of communications. His professional and academic interests involve communications law, including reporter’s privilege, regulation of Internet speech, access to government documents and meetings, development of the government speech doctrine, judicial gag orders and copyright law.He received a Juris Doctor magna cum laude from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University. He also holds a master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in communications from BYU.
Carter worked for approximately four years as a daily newspaper reporter before attending law school. He served as a law clerk for Judge Ruggero J. Aldisert of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He has a part-time law practice involving appellate litigation and freelances for regional magazines on a regular basis.
Dr. Cressman’s research is on journalism history and he has published in the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media and American Journalism. He has written about the National Football League's first full season on network television, network television news coverage of space flight, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He is currently working on articles related to New York City newspaper buildings, the Nixon administration's relations with ABC TV News, and 1963 as the pivotal year for the development of network television news. He is also writing a book-length biography of Elmer W. Lower, best known as President of ABC News.
Dr. Cressman has worked as a television news producer in South Bend, Indiana; as an Executive Producer in Waco, Texas and Salt Lake City; as a Managing Editor in Green Bay, Wisconsin; and as a line-up editor at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He was a chief liaison officer for the Host Broadcaster during the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympic Games. In 1995, Dr. Cressman won an Emmy for producing the television documentary "Russia: Hidden Memory." He has also worked as a newspaper reporter, at the Star-Phoenix in Saskatchewan. Before first coming to BYU in 1993, he was an assistant professor and news director at Lyndon State College in Vermont. He was an assistant professor at Brigham Young University and news director of KBYU TV and FM between 1993 and 1996. He left BYU to work on a PhD, which he completed in 2003. Before returning to BYU in 2000, he taught at Utah State University for three years. He is currently a division chair for the Broadcast Education Association and serving on the Palmyra District Committee for the Utah National Parks Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
John Davies received his B.A. in sociology and psychology from the University of Alberta, an M.A. in mass communication from Brigham Young University, and a Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of Alabama. His research interests include the uses and effects of media, media psychology, entertainment theory and selective exposure.
Larrie Gale holds degrees as a Doctor of Philosophy in Instructional Technology and a Master ofArts in Spanish. His creative products have included: “Semester in Nauvoo,” and “The Fairest Gem: Origins ofthe Pearl of Great Price,” broadcast nationally; Weston, an ESL course for use in Pacific rimcountries; Konichi Wa, for teaching Japanese to elementary school children in the U.S.; Hablaret Parler for teaching Spanish and French to elementary school children; Flight 505, an ESLbusiness course; and 13 other interactive or broadcast programs.
Clients seeking design, production and assessment services from Dr. Gale have included: AT&T,New Jersey; CMC, India; ARAMCO, Saudi Arabia; Flexis, Singapore; BBC, London & Tokyo;Ford, Michigan; Hazeltine, Virginia; IBM, Florida; McDonnell-Douglas, Missouri; SAS,Denmark; San Francisco Zoo; Sony, Japan; Waves, Denmark; various school districts, andothers.He is a regular presenter at Broadcast Education Association (BEA), National Association ofBroadcasters (NAB), Society for Applied Learning Technologies (SALT), and the Association forthe Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). He has presented professionalmanagement seminars across the United States for Batelle, and digital media seminars inBelgium, Denmark, Germany, India, Norway and Switzerland. He currently teaches digitalinteractive media classes in the Department of Theatre-Media Arts, and produces programs forBYU Television at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
Dr. Ken Plowman. Specializing in strategic management and conflict resolution in public relations, Ken Plowman earned a doctorate in Journalism from the University of Maryland. Maryland is ranked as the #1 graduate school for public relations by U.S. News and World Report. Prior to Maryland, Dr. Plowman spent 15 years in the field of public relations. About half that time he was in Washington, D.C., first as a press secretary and then as a legislative director for several different congressmen. After Capitol Hill, he lobbied at the state, local and federal levels for a public relations agency specializing in environmental issues.
Dr. Plowman’s career has followed a dual track, the other one being in the U.S. Army Reserve. He has commanded a mobile public affairs detachment and a broadcast public affairs detachment. He now serves as a Drilling Individual Mobilization Augmentee teaching for the Public Affairs Leadership Division of the Defense Information School at Ft. Meade, Maryland. An author of over 30 articles in the field, Ken Plowman also holds an MPA in public administration from George Washington University and a bachelor of arts in mass communications from Brigham Young University.
Dr. Quint Randle is an assistant professor of communications at Brigham Young University where he teaches new media, feature writing, design and research. His research interests comprise new media, media and religion and the narrative structure of news. Quint’s scholarly work has been published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Newspaper Research Journal, Journal of Radio Studies, Journal of Media & Religion and Visual Communication Quarterly.
Prior to completing his doctorate at Michigan State (with an emphasis in Media Marketing), he was a publisher and writer, founding two national magazines over the years: Gig Magazine (for musicians) and Hockey Player Magazine. He was also the online manager at The Lansing State Journal, a Gannett newspaper. Along with his Ph.D. from MSU, he holds a B.A. in journalism from BYU and a M.A. in communications from Pepperdine University. He remains active in media marketing and a variety of other creative activities.
Dr. Brad Rawlins has been teaching in public relations and mass communication for 16 years and is currently the Chair for the Communications Department at Brigham Young University. In addition to his research interests in ethics and public relations education, he has also published research in the areas of organizational transparency, trust, social responsibility, and stakeholder management. He has served as a board member of the Educators Academy of the Public Relations Society of America and the International Public Relations Research Conference, and is on the Commission on Public Relations Measurement and Evaluation sponsored by the Institute for Public Relations. He serves on the editorial board of several academic journals.
Dr. Kevin Stoker publishes research on public relations ethics and media history. He is an associate professor and associate chair for graduate studies in the Department of Communications at Brigham Young University. He also has taught public relations and journalism courses at BYU, the University of Alabama, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Georgia Southern University. He received a bachelor’s in communication from Brigham Young University in 1981, a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Alabama in 1993, and a Ph.D. in organizational and mass communication from Alabama in 1998. He spent nearly eight years in journalism, working at newspapers in Oklahoma and Utah. He also has written for magazines, business papers, and newspapers in Alabama, North Carolina, Georgia and Utah.
Laurie J. Wilson In 2001, she was named the Public Relations Society of America Outstanding Educator. In 1990, she was recognized as the Public Relations Student Society of America Outstanding Faculty Advisor. Five years later, she was inducted into the PRSSA Hall of Fame. She has also received the Karl G. Maeser Teaching Award and three Student Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Awards from BYU. Wilson received her Ph.D. from The American University in Washington, D.C. After working in public relations and marketing for several years, she joined the BYU faculty in 1989 where she has served as chair of the Communications Department and of the public relations program.
Wilson’s areas of expertise, research and publication include strategic planning and issue management, corporate social responsibility and building community partnerships. She consults regularly in those areas. In addition to her textbook, Strategic Communications Planning for Effective Public Relations and Marketing, Wilson has co-authored two other communication books. She also serves as a member of the Executive Board of the United Way of Utah County.
Anne Worsham received a B.S. in education/psychology from Brigham Young University, an M.A. in mass communications from BYU, and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Utah. Here research interests include political communication, news programs for adolescents, teen-focused media, new media for teens, and journalism research technologies.
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