Academics
Faculty
Kimberly Sultze
Department Chair
Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication
B.A. Carleton College; M.A., Ph.D. New York University
Dr. Sultze came to Saint Michael's from New York University, where she taught in the Department of Culture and Communication, Program in Media Ecology. Her teaching and research interests include visual communication (digital imaging, photography, film, video and Web design); intercultural communication; the history, criticism, and theory of communication; and the cultural implications of new media techniques and technologies.
Prior to earning her academic credentials, Dr. Sultze worked in print journalism at The Independent Monthly in Sydney, in television production at KTCA-TV/Twin Cities Public Television, and as an editor with FIS-New York. In 1994, she served as planning director for the Institute on Media Literacy and Education. She has traveled and performed research in Sri Lanka, India, Egypt, Israel, Australia and New Zealand.
At Saint Michael's, Dr. Sultze teaches New Media I and II, Senior Seminar and Feature Writing: Nature and the Outdoors. In addition to teaching, she is quietly passionate about skiing, snowboarding, soccer, tennis, kayaking and windsurfing.
Bergeron Center 112
Phone: 802.654.2257
Box 284
E-mail: ksultze@smcvt.edu
Personal Web site: http://academics.smcvt.edu/journalism/Journalism/ksultze.html
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David Mindich
Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication
B.A. Brandeis University; M.A., Ph.D. New York University
Before coming to Saint Michael's College, Dr. Mindich worked as an assignment editor for CNN and earned a doctorate in American Studies from New York University. He has written articles for the Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, and other publications. He is the author of Just the Facts: How "Objectivity" Came to Define American Journalism and Tuned Out: Why Americans Under 40 Don't Follow the News (Oxford University Press, 2004), a book Walter Cronkite called "very important....a handbook for the desperately needed attempt to inspire in the young generation a curiosity that generates the news habit."
Dr. Mindich founded Jhistory, an Internet group for journalism historians, in 1994. In 1998-1999, he was head of the History Division of the AEJMC. In 2002, the AEJMC awarded Dr. Mindich the Krieghbaum Under-40 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research, Teaching and Public Service. He lives in Burlington, Vermont with his wife, Barbara Richmond, and their two children.
Bergeron Center 108
Phone: 802.654.2637
Box 284
E-mail: dmindich@smcvt.edu
Personal Web site: http://academics.smcvt.edu/journalism/Journalism/dmindich.html
Press Page: http://academics.smcvt.edu/dmindich/
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Traci Griffith
Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication
B.A. DePaul University; M.S. Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University; J.D. Notre Dame Law School
Dr. Griffith came to Saint Michael’s from Chicago as a visiting professor in September 2001 and joined the tenure track faculty one year later.
She was a former correspondent with The Associated Press in Chicago, a former national editor for The Associated Press broadcast division in Washington D.C. and a 1999 graduate of Notre Dame Law School.
Dr. Griffith's teaching focuses on Media Law and Ethics and Mass Communications and Society. She has created a special topics course on Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Media and developed a new course in Cyber Law. This year she will advise students in editing and publishing The Echo, the College's online magazine.
Dr. Griffith is involved with the Saint Michael’s MOVE (Mobilization of Volunteer Efforts) organization, accompanying a group of students on a service trip to New York City. They worked with an organization that prepares and delivers meals to homebound AIDS patients. She also works with numerous local organizations dealing with issues of homelessness and AIDS, including COTS (Committee on Temporary Shelter). She also sits on the Board of Directors for the Imani Health Institute, a non-profit organization aimed at providing AIDS education and services in the Burlington minority community.
Dr. Griffith’s family is from the island of Barbados and she travels to the Caribbean regularly. She has also visited many countries in Europe and toured Egypt.
Bergeron Center 107
Phone: 802.654.2258
Box 284
E-mail: tgriffith@smcvt.edu
Personal Web site: http://academics.smcvt.edu/journalism/Journalism/tgriffith.html
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Jon Hyde
Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication
Director, Global Studies Program
B.A. Carleton College; M.A., Ph.D. New York University
Dr. Hyde came to Saint Michael's in the fall of 1997 from New York University with expertise in global communication, new media and visual communication (photography, film, and TV).
Dr. Hyde's research interests include: global communication; media theory and history; visual communication (film, video, photography and Web design) and media education. Dr. Hyde has performed media research in the Middle East, Australia, Western and Central Europe. He has recently helped establish the Global Studies Program at Saint Michael's as well as the JO&MC Department's international media study abroad program.
Prior to teaching at Saint Michael's, Dr. Hyde worked in New York City as a journalist, digital animator, and most recently, as a media developer at the Media Workshop New York–-a non-profit organization devoted to issues of media education and media literacy.
At Saint Michael's, Dr. Hyde teaches courses in digital film, photography, global communication and multi-media design. Additionally, he directs graduate research projects in media education and media literacy. He lives in Burlington and snowboards, mountain bikes and kitesurfs in his free time.
Bergeron Center 111
Phone: 802.654.2258
Box 284
E-mail: jhyde2@smcvt.edu
Personal Web site: http://academics.smcvt.edu/journalism/Journalism/jonhyde.html
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Jerald Swope
Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication
B.A. Brown University; M.A. University of Missouri
Mr. Swope came to Saint Michael's as a visiting instructor in fall 2003 and was appointed assistant professor effective fall 2006.
He earned a master’s degree in journalism, emphasis in photojournalism, from the Missouri School of Journalism, University of Missouri in 2002. His master’s project was titled “Living in Two Worlds: A Search for Accurate Portrayals of Contemporary Lakota Life on the Pine Ridge Reservation.” He studied Lakota culture in three different courses at Oglala Lakota College, Pine Ridge, South Dakota, 1996, 1997, 2001. Swope earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from Brown University in 1993, with a summer abroad at Oxford studying history in 1992.
Mr. Swope has had series of photographs and photo stories published in The Boston Globe, The Saint Michael's College Magazine, The New York Times, Vermont Life, Middlebury College Magazine, Lakota Journal, and the newspapers he has worked for. Five of his photos were hung in the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., for the inaugural Lakota exhibit. Swope was contributor, co-editor and designer of a photography book Out of the Woods: The Story of a Community Displaced (2001) produced by students of the Missouri School of Journalism.
At Saint Michael's, Mr. Swope teaches photojournalism, mass communication and society, introduction to writing, and new media.
Bergeron Center 117
Phone: 802.654.2469
Box 284
E-mail: jswope@smcvt.edu
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Marybeth Christie Redmond
Visiting Instructor of Journalism and Mass Communication
B.A. University of Notre Dame; M.S. Columbia University
Ms. Redmond began teaching at Saint Michael's in fall 2003. Her career spans 20 years experience in broadcast journalism and public/media relations.
She worked as a television reporter for WNDU-TV, an NBC affiliate in South Bend, Ind., as well as for two 24-hour cable TV news operations--News 12 Long Island (reporter) and News 12 Connecticut (reporter/anchor). Her background includes enterprise reporting (print) throughout Latin America, covering developing world issues of poverty, gangs, refugee resettlement and AIDS for Maryknoll magazine.
For five years, Ms. Redmond served as primary spokesperson and media relations director for the Maryknoll Missioners, a global nonprofit organization with 1,200 missioners working in 40 developing countries. Her 250 media pitches per year yielded coverage in The New York Times, The Washington Post and ABC News Nightline.
She currently volunteers with the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program in Colchester, accompanying a Somali Bantu family of six as they make the transition to life in America. She also enjoys yoga, as well as downhill skiing and kayaking with her husband Mark and young son Liam.
Bergeron Center 118
Phone: 802.654.2442
Box 284
E-mail: mredmond@smcvt.edu
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These professors are joined by a skilled team of adjunct faculty:
Michael Donoghue
Adjunct Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication
Mr. Donoghue is in his 20th year as an adjunct professor at Saint Michael's and also serves as an academic advisor, mostly to transfer students in the department. He is a full-time staff writer for The Burlington Free Press--Vermont's largest newspaper--and is in charge of its newsroom intern program. Mr. Donoghue's desire to teach journalism comes from a career filled with a deep interest in helping future journalists. At the College Mr. Donoghue has taught a variety of courses, including: Mass Communications and Society, Media Law and Ethics, Practicum and Advanced Reporting. He is a frequent speaker at training sessions, schools and other public gatherings. He has presented at the Vermont Press Association, New England Press Association, New England Society of Newspapers Editors, Investigative Reporters and Editors. He also is called upon to meet with international journalists passing through Vermont and was one of four Americans invited to speak in Ireland at a national conference after the passing of that country’s Freedom of Information Act.
Mr. Donoghue, during his two terms as president of the Vermont Press Association, was instrumental in getting the association anchored at Saint Michael’s and with getting cameras into Vermont courtrooms. Mr. Donoghue is currently the Executive Director of the VPA, which helps provide leads on jobs, internships, scholarships and more to students, while also hosting seminars and speakers. He served two terms on the board of the New England Press Association and chaired three committees: publications, legislative and outreach. Mr. Donoghue is currently on the Newspaper Leadership Council of the National Newspaper Association. He was elected in 2003 to the Board of Directors for the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association and served two terms as president of the Vermont Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. He also served three terms on the Board of Trustees at Southern Vermont College. He has won countless awards for his work at the local, state regional and national level. He was inducted into the inaugural class of the New England Press Association’s Hall of Fame (2000) and in the inaugural class of the Heroes of the 50 States Hall of Fame, founded in 2003 by the Society of Professional Journalists and the National Freedom of Information Coalition. He lives with his wife, Ann Marie in South Burlington.
Bergeron Center 118
Phone: 802.654.2442
Box 284
E-mail: mdonoghue@smcvt.edu
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Paul J. Beique
Adjunct Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication
Mr. Beique, a 1987 journalism graduate of Saint Michael's College, enjoys teaching at the College because the classes are small and the close-knit community gives students an opportunity to have hands-on learning experiences. Currently, Mr. Beique is an assistant news editor for The Burlington Free Press, where he had been an intern during college. In his spare time he enjoys sailing.
Bergeron Center 118
Phone: 802.654.2442
Box 284
E-mail: pbeique@smcvt.edu
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Kevin J. Kelley
Adjunct Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication
Mr. Kelley has worked since 1990 as United States/United Nations correspondent for Kenya's Nation Media Group. He also serves as U.S. correspondent for Gulf Business, a monthly magazine published in the United Arab Emirates.
Mr. Kelley's other work as a journalist includes stringer assignments in Vermont for The New York Times and Reuters as well as regular contributions to Vermont Business Magazine and SevenDays, a weekly published in Burlington. Kelley is the author of The Longest War: Northern Ireland and the IRA (Zed Press, 1987).
He has taught part-time at Saint Michael's since 1992 in the Journalism and English Departments as well as in the College's master's degree program. He lives on a farm in Orwell, Vermont, with his partner Diane, a butter maker, and their two children, Alexandra and Liam.
Bergeron Center 118
Phone: 802.654.2442
Box 284
E-mail: kkelley@smcvt.edu