Assistant Professor

Angie Chuang is a full-time professor of Journalism. She brings to her research and teaching her experience developing one of the first regional newspaper race and ethnicity issues beats in 2000. She studies representations of race and ethnic identit... [More]

Filmmaker in Residence

Nina Shapiro-Perl is an award-winning producer and director who currently holds the position of Filmmaker-in-Residence at American University, where she teaches and leads the Community Voice Project. Before joining the faculty of American University,... [More]

Distinguished Film Producer in Residence

Chris Palmer is a full-time professor of Film and Media Arts. He is a wildlife filmmaker who joined the SOC faculty in 2004. Since then, he has founded its Center for Environmental Filmmaking; launched Classroom in the Wild, which takes students to t... [More]

University Professor

Patricia Aufderheide is a full-time professor of Communication Studies in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C., and director of the Center for Social Media. Her books include Documentary: A Very Short Introduction (O... [More]

Associate Director, Center for Social Media

Angelica (Angie) Das is the new Associate Director at the Center for Social Media. Das comes to the Center with a background in nonprofit management, both at Machik, which supports the work of strengthening communities on the Tibetan plateau, and at ... [More]

Senior Administrative Assistant

Special Projects Editor, Current

Steve came to SOC in January 2011 along with four colleagues who put out Current: For people in public media, the main news source about the core of public media — public TV and radio. Current aims to expand coverage of newer online forms of public m... [More]

Senior Editor, Current

Karen is a media reporter chronicling public broadcasting’s adaptations to the multiplatform world of digital media. A senior editor at Current since 2001, she covers public radio – its funding, distribution strategies, internal politics and programm... [More]

Business Manager, Current

Senior Editor, Current

Dru covers public television and related issues for Current, the SOC's newspaper of public media. She has more than 25 years experience working at daily newspapers including USA Today. She spent a decade at Newhouse News Service in D.C., where she wr... [More]

Journalist in Residence

Bill Gentile is a full-time professor of Film and Media Arts. He is an independent journalist and documentary filmmaker at American University, where he brings 30 years of field experience and professional contacts to the next generation of communica... [More]

Research Associate, America What Went Wrong

Associate Professor

Wendell Cochran is a full-time professor of Journalism. An SOC faculty member since 1992, he has spent more than 40 years practicing and teaching journalism. Along the way he has covered everything from local police to mining disasters to presidentia... [More]

Senior Editor, Investigative Reporting Workshop

Margaret Ebrahim is a senior editor at the Investigative Reporting Workshop. For more than a decade, Ebrahim has been an award-winning investigative producer and journalist focusing on accountability journalism in the nation’s capitol and beyond. Eb... [More]

Professor

Charles Lewis is a full-time professor of Journalism. He is a national investigative journalist; a former ABC News and CBS News 60 Minutes producer, best-selling author and founder or co-founder of several nonprofit organizations, including the Cente... [More]

Project Coordinator, J-Lab

Executive Director, J-Lab

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]