Department of Journalism

Andrew L. Mendelson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Chair
Journalism Department
Room 316
Annenberg Hall 011-00
Phila., PA 19122
Office phone: 215-204-8346
Office FAX: 215-204-1974
Email: amendels@temple.edu

The sixteen full-time faculty members of the Department of Journalism come from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences.

Fabienne Darling-Wolf
fdarling@temple.edu

Professor Darling-Wolf teaches publication design, international communication, gender and the American mass media, history of journalism, and the magazine editing and design “capstone” course. She also teaches qualitative research methods in the Mass Media and Communication doctorate program, and a six-week summer workshop in Contemporary Japanese Media and Culture at Temple University Japan. She was born and raised in a small French town, and lived in Texas, Japan, and Iowa before coming to Philadelphia. Her research focuses on processes of cultural identity formation. Her work is concerned with the impact of increasingly global communication flows on culture and social organization. Read Professor Darling-Wolf's full profile.

Thomas E Eveslage
eveslage@temple.edu

Professor Eveslage comes from a family of educators, and has many years of teaching experience. He has a strong interest in the student press, and much of his research, writing and professional service focuses on that area. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in law and ethics, and undergraduate courses on journalism and society. He believes that teaching stimulating material to curious and demanding Temple students has kept him refreshingly young in spirit. Read Professor Eveslage's full profile.

Yvonne Fairfax
yfairfax@temple.edu

Ms. Fairfax is the Office Manager of the Journalism Department. Faculty and students rely on her exceptional organizational skills to keep the business of the Department running smoothly. The Journalism Office is open Monday through Friday from 8:30am to 5:00pm. Read Ms. Fairfax's full profile.

Christopher Harper
charper@temple.edu

Professor Harper worked for more than 20 years in journalism at the Associated Press (Chicago), Newsweek (Chicago, Washington and Beirut), ABC News (Cairo and Rome) and ABC 20/20. He has taught at New York University, Rostov State University (Russia) and Adam Mickiewiez University (Poland). He teaches History of Journalism, International Reporting, Journalism and the Law and a variety of reporting courses. His research has focused on digital media, although his current work deals with the baby boomer generation. Read Professor Harper's Full profile.

Susan Jacobson
susanj@temple.edu

Professor Jacobson started her journalism career in the mid-1980s working for The New York Times on an experimental computer news service. She worked in the Internet industry for many years, and teaches many of the new media courses in the department, including Publishing to the Web and Experimental Journalism. Her research interests include the impact of new technology on the practice of journalism, new narrative forms created by new technology, and the development of municipal wireless networks. Read Professor Jacobson's full profile.

Carolyn Kitch
ckitch@temple.edu

Professor Kitch teaches History of Journalism, Magazine Editing and Design, Intro to Magazines, Gender and American Mass Media. She also directs the SCT doctoral program in Mass Media and Communication. Her research focuses on media and memory and on journalism history, with an emphasis on gender issues and the medium of magazines. She has published two books: The Girl on the Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media (2001), and Pages from the Past: History and Memory in American Magazines (2005). She was a magazine editor and writer in New York City for many years, where she held staff positions at McCall's and Good Housekeeping. She has also written for Reader’s Digest, Health, American Health, Venture, and New Jersey Monthly. Read Professor Kitch's full profile.

Andrew Mendelson
amendels@temple.edu

Professor Mendelson teaches classes in photojournalism and documentary photography, visual literacy, journalism and society and social science research methods. His research interests focus on the role(s) that photographic (still and motion) images play in society through a variety of media - film, advertising, television and journalism - and how we understand the world because of the photograph. Read Professor Mendelson's full profile.

George Miller
gwm3@temple.edu

Professor Miller teaches courses in newswriting and reporting. He worked at the Philadelphia Daily News for more than 11 years, serving as a staff photographer, features writer, general assignment reporter and police beat writer. His words and images have appeared throughout the paper, in every section. Read Professor Miller's full profile.

Maida Odom
mcodom@temple.edu

Professor Odom teaches courses in newswriting and investigative reporting. She was a reporter at the Philadelphia Inuirer for more than 20 years. She is the director of the Journalism Department's Internship program. Read Professor Odom's full profile.

Larry Stains
lstains@temple.edu

As Director of the Magazine sequence, Professor Stains teaches courses in magazine writing, editing and design. He has more than 20 years' experience in the magazine industry, and has worked in various capacities for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Worth, GQ, USA Weekend, This Old House Magazine, Sports Illustrated, AARP Magazine, Better Homes & Gardens, Money, Philadelphia Magazine, Child, Men’s Health and Best Life. Read Professor Stain's full profile.

Edward Trayes
trayes@temple.edu

Professor Trayes is Director of the Photography for the Mass Media sequence, and Director of the Master of Journalism program. He has taught a wide range of graduate and undergraduate courses including news editing, photography, media management, communication research, publication graphics and design, and journalism research. He is the founding editor of Mass Communication Review, an international journal he edited from l972 until l986. His main research and writing interests are in media management, newspaper content, editing, and minority hiring and recruiting in the mass media. Read Professor Trayes' full profile.

Karen Turner
kturner@temple.edu

Professor Turner is the Director of the Broadcast Journalism sequence. She teaches courses in broadcast production and reporting. She worked for many years in the radio news industry before taking a job with then-Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell as his first press secretary. Read Professor Turner's full profile.

Francesca Viola
fviola@temple.edu

Professor Viola teaches courses in broadcast news writing, TV news reporting and journalism law. She has many years experience in TV news reporting. She began her journalism career in print, as a reporter for the Germantown Courier. Later she worked as a writer for KYW-TV Eyewitness News (now CBS-3), then became the Associate Producer of the first Ten O'Clock News in this market at Fox-29. While at Fox-29 she was part of the team that expanded the evening broadcast to one hour, and produced a weekend news show. She was part of the Emmy-Award-winning team that covered the fire at the Meridian Building, one of the worst fires in Philadelphia history. Read Professor Viola's full profile.

Linn Washington
lwashing@temple.edu

Professor Washington is the Director of the News-Editorial sequence. He teaches courses in news reporting, investigative reporting, and journalism law. He has many years' experience as an investigative reporter. He is the author of the book Black Judges on Justice: Perspectives from the Bench. Read Professor Washington's full profile.