Tania Cantrell Rosas-Moreno, A.B.D.

Prof. Rosas-Moreno joins us from the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, where her specialization was International Communication. Her dissertation research is about broadcasting in Brazil. Her teaching areas are public relations and international communication. Prof. Rosas-Moreno has authored peer-reviewed research on a variety of international topics, including the Southeast Asia Tsunami, Pakistan, Vietnam, El Salvador, Iraq, and Brazil. She also has written on social justice issues such as feminism and childhood obesity. Prof. Rosas-Moreno will teach in our Public Relations sequence.

Kaye Whitehead, Ph.D.

Dr. Kaye Whitehead is full-time with the Department of Communication in Fall 2009 following three years of part-time teaching with us. Dr. Whitehead's teaching areas are story development, video production, documentary, and African American studies. Dr. Whitehead's students created the Restoring Baltimore website in 2006. She earned her Ph.D. degree in Language, Literacy, and Culture at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in May 2009. Her dissertation research analyses the diary of a 19th Century free Black woman from Philadelphia. Previously Dr. Whitehead worked as an award-winning public school social studies teacher in Baltimore City and Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker for MTV and other clients in New York City. In addition to creative work, her research interests include Black woman's archival history, and sociolinguistics, and social justice documentary. Her award-winning research is published in three books, four online collections, and dozens of conferences and invited talks. Dr. Whitehead resides in Baltimore with her family.

Jonathan Lillie, Ph.D.

Dr. Lillie is a specialist in interactive media, graphics, and online journalism. His senior capstone students created the Loyola Pound. Communication student blog in 2009. He came to Loyola from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he has served as an assistant professor for four years. Previously he worked for several years as a senior web programmer and analyst for corporations and nonprofits. Dr. Lillie earned his Ph.D. degree at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003. His research interests include news bloggers, mobloging, and various forms of online communities, amateur and professional online and mobile visual practices, and online grassroots and community journalism. His award-winning research is published in several technology and media culture journals, two books, and dozens of conferences. Dr. Lillie and his family reside south of Baltimore.