Faculty

New and Returning Part-Time Faculy

The Department of Communication at Loyola College in Maryland is proud of its highly accomplished professional faculty. Welcome aboard to the following new and returning part-time instructors for 2008-2009.

Returning Visiting Journalists
	Prof. Mark Bowden, Visiting Journalist Office: College Center Room M014q 410-617-2196 E-Mail: mbowden@loyola.edu Courses: CM360 Literary Journalism, CM386 Special Topics in Journalism: Journalism and Film
Mark Bowden, Loyola College in Maryland alumnus and Visiting Journalist in the Department of Communication, is an Atlantic Monthly national correspondent, author, journalist, screenwriter, documentary film producer, and occasional commentator for National Public Radio. His book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (1999)Ñan international bestseller that spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller listÑwas a finalist for the National Book Award. Bowden also worked on the screenplay for Black Hawk Down, a film adaptation of the book, directed by Ridley Scott. Bowden is also the author of the international bestseller Killing Pabl The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw (2001), which tells the story of the hunt for Colombian cocaine billionaire Pablo Escobar. Killing Pablo won the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius Ryan Award as the best book in 2001, and is currently being adapted for the big screen by Paramount/Dreamworks. He is also the author of Doctor Dealer (1987), Bringing the Heat (1994), Our Finest Day (2002) and Finders Keepers (2002). Scott Rudin has optioned his latest book, Guests of the Ayatollah, for screen. Bowden gave the Loyola Communication Department's 2007 Caulfield Series Lecture, "Guests of the Ayatollah: The 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis." Bowden teaches Literary Journalism and Journalism and Film courses in the department.
	Prof. Stephanie Shapiro Office: College Center Room M014r 410-617-5337 E-Mail: sashapiro@loyola.edu Courses: CM363 The Magazine Article, CM364 Newspaper Feature Writing
Stephanie Shapiro knows Loyola well. She served as Visiting Journalist in the Department of Communication in 1996-98 and returns to us in 2008 to teach newspaper journalism classes. Her book, Reinventing Literary Journalism: Mythic Cycles in American Literary Journalism, was published in 2005 by Apprentice House, the book publisher run by our journalism students. As a Baltimore Sun features reporter from 1985 until March 2008, Prof. Shapiro covered human interest and culture news in Japan, China, Philippines, India, Cuba, France, Mexico and Canada. Prof. Shapiro has a master's degree in journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a bachelor's degree cum laude in American literature from Middlebury College. Prof. Shapiro resides in Baltimore.
New Faculty
	Prof. Arielle Emmett, Affiliate Instructor Office: College Center Room M014c 410-617-2528 E-Mail: asemmett@loyola.edu Web site: www.arielleemmett.com Course: CM316 Travel Reporting
Arielle Emmett has more than thirty years experience as feature writer and editor for newspapers, magazines, and online, with emphases in science and technology. She has taught journalism and new media both full- and part-time at the University of Maryland in College Park and Temple and Drexel Universities in Philadelphia. Previously she was Taiwan correspondent for Newsweek magazine, staff writer for Detroit Free Press, and senior editors for several technology trade publications. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, with certification from National Taiwan Normal University and has five years of post-graduate study of the French language. She earned the Master of Arts degree in Advance Writing and Literature at University of Washington and Bachelor of Arts degree in East Asian Studies at the University of Michigan. Emmett runs her own writing and editorial services company and contributes writing and editing to several periodicals. She currently is studying for her Ph.D. in Journalism at the University of Maryland. She will teach Travel Reporting for the Loyola Communication Department.
	Prof. Nora Frenkiel, Affiliate Instructor Office: College Center Room M014q 410-617-2196 E-Mail: nfrenkiel@loyola.edu Course: CM362 Editorial & Opinion Writing
As a professional journalist, Nora Frenkiel has covered a full range of news and features on a wide range of subjects including social trends, medical breakthroughs, literary lives, political lives and everyday lives, and has mentored young writers for many years. Her work has appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News and The Sun in Baltimore, where she was a staff feature writer for five years. As a journalist in Baltimore, she became engaged in community issues and public interest law and trained to become an attorney for children in foster care. She also has worked on behalf of the American Bar AssociationÕs Pro Bono Juvenile Immigration Project. She earned the Juris Doctorate degree at the University of Maryland Law School and Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and English at New York University. Frenkiel is excited for her opportunity to inspire Loyola journalism students to learn about the roles they can play as journalists to change society for the better Ñ in the Jesuit/Catholic tradition of undergraduate education. Beyond mastery of the mechanics of writing and art of interviewing, seeking sources, finding a voice, and understanding journalism genres, she wants her students to learn how to tell a story and how the people they write about will be affected by the stories they tell. Frenkiel will teach Editorial and Opinion Writing in the Communication Department.
	Dr. Chris Heidelberg, Affiliate Instructor Office: Dorothy Day Hall Room 010b 410-617-5272 E-Mail: caheidelberg@loyola.edu Web site: http://edutainmentandconvergence.vox.com/ Course: CM224 Video Production
Dr. Chris A. Heidelberg III is a film, video, and multimedia producer/director who resides in Baltimore. As public affairs specialist and motion picture producer/director for the Social Security Administration National Headquarters in Baltimore for the last twenty years, he has written, produced and directed hundreds of films, public service announcements, documentaries, Internet video, magazine programs, informational, public relations, and educational videos, as well as presented at national conferences in Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington D.C., Miami and Seattle. Dr. Heidelberg holds the Ph.D. degree in Higher Education, M.S. degree in Telecommunications Management, and B.A. degree cum laude in Telecommunications from Morgan State University. His research focus and current consultancy is Edutainment and Convergence, a unique blend of entertainment and learning that capitalizes on social networking tools, web 2.0 tools, handheld multi-media devices, and social bookmarking.
	Prof. Karen Smedley, Affilate Instructor Office: College Center Room M014q 410-617-2196 E-Mail: kbsmedley@loyola.edu Course: CM354 Writing for Public Relations
Karen Smedley holds an M.A. degree in newspaper journalism from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and a B.A. in English and Education from St. Lawrence University. She devoted the earlier part of her career as a newspaper reporter, feature writer and copy editor at the Delaware State News before beginning a 25-year career in marketing and public relations, with a specialty in representing higher education. She has served as director of marketing or director of communications for Essex County Community College, Dundalk Community College, the Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts at the University of Baltimore, and Baltimore City Community College. Several years ago, she launched her own marketing and communications consulting firm in Baltimore and began teaching part-time at colleges. Prof. Smedley found that she thoroughly enjoys sharing her professional knowledge and experience with others. Her courses have included Strategic Marketing, Integrated Marketing, Planning and Special Events, and Effective Business Communications. Prof. Smedley resides in Baltimore.
	Prof. Mitchell Tropin, Affilate Instructor Office: College Center Room M014q 410-617-2196 E-Mail: mjtropin@loyola.edu Courses: CM203 Introduction to Communication, CM223 Journalism I
Following 35 years as an editor and senior reporter for the Bureau of National Affairs Inc., a Washington-based national news organization, Prof. Mitchell Tropin taught numerous journalism and communication courses as full-time assistant professor of journalism at Columbia Union College in Takoma Park, Md. He enjoys sharing his reporting experiences with his students and showing them how to be a good reporter -- for example, reporting breaking news, writing on a tight deadline, cultivating sources, interviewing, or writing an in-depth feature on the significance of new legislation or the impact of a court decision. He also enjoys teaching writing for the Web, a forum that offers great opportunities for young reporters. He has written chapters for Fodor’s Washington D.C. guide and covered Europe, North America, and Latin America, the U.S. Congress, the White House, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Internal Revenue Service, and other agencies for BNA. Prof. Tropin has taught part-time at several universities in the D.C. area. He has a master's degree in Non-Fiction Writing from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor of science degree in journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park. He resides in Takoma Park, Maryland.

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