Paul Albergo
,Adjunct Associate Professor
Paul Albergo is managing editor of Daily Report for Executives, published by BNA, a Washington-based news organization that publishes nearly 200 news and information services covering the law, business, economics, the environment, health care, taxati... [More]
Jeffrey Bieber
,Professorial Lecturer
Jeff Bieber is a veteran executive producer of public television documentaries, specials, news and cultural programs at WETA. He is responsible for creating and managing major primetime series’ for PBS, including , a 12-hour series about the Iraq War... [More]
Christopher Boesen
,Professorial Lecturer
Christopher Boesen is the President of Tiber Creek Associates of Capitol Hill, a consulting firm he founded in 2005. Tiber Creek works with several national clients on public relations, strategic planning and government affairs. Chris’ experience i... [More]
Sandra Cannon-Brown
,Professorial Lecturer
Sandy Cannon-Brown is an adjunct professor of Film and Media Arts. Students in her Environmental and Wildlife Production course produce a program that airs on Maryland Public Television (MPT) during Chesapeake Bay Week, a partnership developed throug... [More]
Curtis Carey
,Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Curtis Carey teaches in the public communication program. As a national press officer in Washington, D.C. he has worked on issues ranging from energy policy to climate change and natural disaster preparedness and response. His academic research... [More]
Amy Eisman
,Adjunct Associate Professor
Amy Eisman oversees SOC’s basic writing classes and the weekend graduate journalism programs. She teaches reporting and writing for convergent media. Eisman was an editor with Gannett for 17 years, first as a cover story editor at USA TODAY and later... [More]
Meredith Geisler
,Professorial Lecturer
Meredith Geisler teaches in the undergraduate SOC program.   She has been at the forefront of the sports public relations industry for more than 25 years, helping athletes, celebrities, sports authors, events, and corpor... [More]
Matt Glassman
,Professorial Lecturer
Matt Glassman (SOC '92) serves as coordinating producer of special projects for NBC4 News, NBC's owned and operated news station in Washington, DC. Matt joined News4 as an Assignment Editor nine ago.  In his current role, Matt produc... [More]
Rose Gutfeld
,Lecturer
Rose Gutfeld teaches Writing for Mass Communication. She worked for 15 years as a reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal, where her beats included economics and environmental policy and legislation. Subsequently, she was an assistant managing... [More]
Victor Kamber
,Adjunct Associate Professor
Victor Kamber has been associated with American University since 1966--attending the law school and serving as an adjunct professor in the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and presently. Victor is a prodigious writer. He is the author of four books. His frequent ar... [More]
Adam Konowe
,Professorial Lecturer
Adam Konowe is vice president of public relations at Sullivan Higdon & Sink, where he specializes in business-to-business and business-to-government communications, primarily for aviation, aerospace and defense companies. Since 1999, he has repre... [More]
Laurence Levin
,Lecturer
Larry Levin teaches one section of Visual Literacy in the School of Communication.  He works as a photo editor, photographer, photo agent, and photo researcher. Working as a photo consultant he is doing photographic work for GEICO, USAID... [More]
Donald Markus
,Lecturer
Don Markus has taught in the SOC for four years. A sportswriter for the Baltimore Sun for the past 24 years, Markus was brought in to help teach Sports Journalism in the spring of 2005. He also started a Sportswriting class last fall. He has covered ... [More]
Mark McDonald
,Journalist in Residence
Mark is the Broadcast Journalist in Residence in the School of Communication, where for seven years he has taught reporting, management and multi-media skills to undergraduates and graduate students. Mark is also the Program Director at WAMU 88.5 whi... [More]
Rose Ann Robertson
,Adjunct Associate Professor
Rose Ann Robertson was a newspaper reporter and wire service editor for 20 years, editing and directing coverage of plane crashes, natural disasters and national and state elections. She has been at AU since 1993. She is a former president of the Was... [More]
Janice Schaffer
,Distinguished Journalist in Residence
Jan Schaffer, former Business Editor and a Pulitzer Prize winner for The Philadelphia Inquirer, is executive director of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism and one of the nation’s leading thinkers in the journalism reform movement. She l... [More]
Adele Schmidt
,Professorial Lecturer
Adele Schmidt is a film & video director, producer and editor who has won numerous awards in both documentary and fiction films, including TIVA-DC's Peer Award, the U.S. International Film and Video Festival Award, and the Gabriel Award. She is co-fo... [More]
Eric Schnure
,Lecturer
A former speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore, who has been called one of Washington’s “most sought-after political humor writers,” Eric Schnure is a freelance writer and communications consultant. A graduate of Hobart College and the London Schoo... [More]
Jube Shiver
,Lecturer
Jube Shiver, Jr. is president of the property management firm Shiver Management Group. Previously, he was a Los Angeles Times Washington correspondent and covered the federal government and the landmark Microsoft Corp. antitrust trial. During his 30 ... [More]
Greg Smith
,Professorial Lecturer
Greg Smith is a producer, director, sound recordist and post-production mixer/editor and has worked on more than 60 feature films, documentaries and music videos for companies including IMAX, Lucasfilm, Paramount, Warner Bros. and National Geographic... [More]
Jes Therkelsen
,Lecturer
Jes Therkelsen approaches media making as a means to explore and pay closer attention to the world around him. The powerful immediacy and influence of visual media, its artistic potential, and the capacity to elicit emotion often drive his projects. ... [More]
Danna Walker
,Adjunct Associate Professor
Professor Walker is a communication researcher and academic who takes a critical and historical approach in studying media and their influence, with an emphasis on gender studies and media. Walker has had numerous articles in academic publications, o... [More]
Gilles Wheeler
,Screenwriter in Residence
Before selling his first screenplay, Gilles Wheeler worked for several studio heads and key producers, which gave him a rare insider’s view of the entertainment industry from the executive side. Combined with his film school education, this hands-on ... [More]



