Resident Faculty Program
Dr. W. Joseph Campbell
Dr. W. Joseph Campbell established his faculty office in McDowell Hall in August 2004. He is an associate professor in AU’s School of Communication. Dr. Campbell joined the AU faculty in 1997, after more than 20 years as a newspaper and wire service journalist in a career that took him on assignments across North America and to West Africa, Asia, and Europe. He earned his Ph.D. in mass communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1997 and has since written three books and is completing a fourth.
Dr. Campbell’s research has won national awards from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and the American Journalism Historians Association. Among the 16 different courses he has taught at AU are: “How the News Media Shape History,” “Advanced Reporting,” “Global Journalism,” “Foreign Policy and the Press,” and “Censorship and Media.” Dr. Campbell received the faculty award for service to the AU community in 2005.
Wendell Cochran
Wendell Cochran is an associate professor and journalism division director at American University in Washington, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate reporting courses, classes in computer-assisted journalism and journalism ethics, among others. Professor Cochran moved into Nebraska Hall, AU’s new residence for upper-classmen, in fall 2007.
Before joining the American faculty, Cochran spent more than 25 years in daily newspaper journalism. Previously, he was special projects editor at Gannett News Service where he reported and directed award-winning computer-assisted journalism projects. Before coming to Washington, he was a business reporter and editor at the Kansas City Star and the Des Moines Register. Cochran specialized in coverage of agribusiness issues, including banking and finance, agricultural cooperatives, biotechnology, international trade and transportation.
He has won the John Hancock Award for Excellence in Business and Economic Journalism, the Amos Tuck Award for Economic Understanding and the National Headliners Award. Cochran’s articles on computer-assisted journalism have appeared in Quill, American Journalism Review and the American Editor, among others. He is a frequent panelist and lecturer on topics related to computer-assisted journalism and journalism ethics at programs sponsored by the Freedom Forum, Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc., the International Center for Journalists, the American Press Institute and other organizations.
In 1996 he established the American University Campaign Finance Site on the World Wide Web, which provides Federal Election Commission data to journalists and the public. He also is co-author of Inside the Beltway: A Guide to Washington Reporting, 2003. He is a member of the board of directors of Investigative Reporters and Editors and an active member of Online News Association.
Cochran holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from West Virginia University and a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri.
Dr. John Richardson
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John Richardson is professor of International Development at American University’s School of International Service. He also directs the Center for Teaching Excellence, which supports AU faculty in strengthening their teaching and provides a number of technology support services to both students and faculty. In spring 2002 Dr. Richardson moved into AU’s largest student residence, Anderson Hall, and has lived on campus ever since. His blog at the link above, is widely read by students, as well as some staff and faculty members.
Dr. Richardson was an early contributor to field of global modeling, under the auspices of the Club of Rome, and he played a major role in the global modeling "clearing house" activities organized by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. His publications on global modeling are widely regarded as definitive. In 1982, he was named by an international committee of the Society for Computer Simulation as "one of the twenty most effective decision makers in the world."
Dr. Richardson has been visiting and writing about Sri Lanka for eighteen years, using the Island’s political-economic history to deepen his understanding of relationships between conflict, terrorism and development. He is a director of the Sri Lanka-based International Center for Ethnic Studies and affiliated with several other Sri Lanka-based organizations.
Dr. Richardson is the author, co-author or editor of six books. These include Partners in Development (1969), Groping in the Dark: The First Decade of Global Modeling (1982), Making It Happen: A Positive Guide to the Future (1982), Ending Hunger: An Idea Whose Time has Come (1985) and Democratization in South Asia: The First Fifty Years (1998). A particular interest of his is making complex technical subjects accessible to non-professional audiences.
His current work focuses on the causes of political conflict in Third World nations and on non-violent strategies for development. Recent publications on this subject have appeared in Futures, Ethnic Studies Report and as chapters in several edited volumes. His most recent book, Paradise Poisoned: Learning about Conflict Terrorism and Development from Sri Lanka’s Civil Wars (2005) culminates nearly 20 years of research and writing on these topics.