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Marie-Louise Mares
Associate professor, communication arts
Expert on children and media, pro-social/educational TV, media use among older adults
Tino Balio
Professor emeritus, communication arts; founding executive director, University of Wisconsin-Madison Arts Institute
Expert on history of American film industry
Ed Churchwell
Professor emeritus, astronomy
Expert on star formation, infrared and radio astronomy, issues of extraterrestrial life
Michael Schatzberg
Professor, political science
Expert on African politics, African international relations and comparative political culture
Jonathan Gray
Professor, media and cultural studies, communication arts
Expert on contemporary television, audiences, comedy and convergence
Adam Kern
Professor of Japanese Literature and Visual Culture, Department of East Asian Languages & Literature
Specializing in Japanese literature, visual culture, and popular culture, including manga, haiku, kibyoushi (kibyôshi 黄表紙), senryuu (senryû 川柳), bareku (破礼句), and so on.
Jeff Smith
Professor, communication arts
Expert on postwar American cinema, music in film and the Hollywood blacklist
Anja Wanner
Professor, English
Expert on the English language (grammar, standards, genres, academic writing, spelling, language change, language use on the Internet, "Grammar Badgers" website)
Derek Johnson
Assistant professor, communication arts
Expert on media industries, creative collaboration, and the production of popular culture
Lori Lopez
Assistant Professor
Expert within media studies on representations of minorities and media activism
Jenell Johnson
Assistant professor, communication arts; faculty affiliate, Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies
Expert on the rhetoric of science, medicine, disability, and the "neuroscientific turn."
Jeremy Morris
Assistant professor, media and cultural studies, communication arts (on leave, Spring 2016)
Expert on the current state of the music industry, digital music technologies, music and the Internet
Emily Callaci
Assistant professor, history
Historian of East Africa in the twentieth century, with a research focus on rural-urban migration.
Vlad Dima
Assistant Professor, French & Italian Department
Expert on West African, French, and Hollywood cinemas.
Thomas (Tom) O'Guinn
Professor, marketing; Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr. Chair in Marketing Research
Expert on branding, consumer behavior, advertising, social class and consumption, and institutional responses by marketers to social disruption such as wars, recessions, oil spills,
Laura Buyan Dent
Associate Professor of Neurology
Treats movement disorders, works with artists affected by neurological conditions that affect performance
Patrick Rumble
Professor, Department of French and Italian
Expert on modern Italian cinema, culture and society in European context.