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David Randall Davies
The Honors College
School of Mass Communication &
Journalism
University of Southern Mississippi
Box 5162, Hattiesburg,
MS 39406
601-266-4533 office
601-266-4534 fax
E-mail:
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Professional experience
- August 2007-present: Dean and Professor, Honors College, University of Southern Mississippi.
- January 2006-June 2007: Associate dean, College of Arts & Letters, University of Southern Mississippi.
- August
2004-August 2005: Interim Director, School
of Mass Communication & Journalism, University
of Southern Mississippi.
- May 1998-June 2007:
Associate professor of journalism, University of Southern Mississippi.
- August 1998-August
2001: Chair, Journalism Department, University of Southern Mississippi.
(Interim chair, 1998-99)
- Aug. 1991-May
1998: Assistant professor of journalism, University of Southern Mississippi.
- Aug. 1993-Dec.
1994: Lecturer, University of Alabama.
- Sept. 1990-Aug.
1991: Lecturer, Ohio State University and Ohio Wesleyan University.
- June 1985-Aug.
1989: Education reporter, Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock.
- Aug. 1983-June
1985: Federal beat reporter, Arkansas Democrat, Little Rock.
- Dec. 1982-Aug.
1983: Assistant news director, KARN Radio, Arkansas Radio Network, Little Rock.
- Nov. 1980-Aug.
1982: General assignment reporter, Northwest Arkansas Times, Fayetteville.
- May 1979-Nov.
1980: News director, KHOG-AM, Fayetteville.
Education
- Ph.D., 1997, mass
communication history, University of Alabama.
- M.A., 1990, journalism,
Ohio State University.
Fellow, Kiplinger Reporting Program.
- M.S., 1999, history,
University
of Southern Mississippi.
- B.A., 1979, French,
broadcast journalism, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
RESEARCH
& CREATIVE ACTIVITY
Scholarly publications
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David R. Davies, The Postwar Decline of America’s Daily Newspapers, 1945-1965, Praeger, Westport, Conn., 2006.
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- David R. Davies, “Bibliographies and Literature Reviews,” in Shuhua Zhou and Wm. David Sloan, Research Methods in Communication ( Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Vision Press, 2008), 77-87.
- David R. Davies, “Beat reporting and community news,” in Bruce J. Evensen, ed., The responsible reporter: Journalism in the information age, 3d ed. ( New York: Peter Lang, 2008), 97-103.
- ________, “The Challenges of Civil Rights and Joseph McCarthy,” in Steven R. Knowlton & Karen L. Freeman, Fair & Balanced: A History of Journalistic Objectivity” (Vision Press, Northport, Ala., 2005), 206-220.
- David R. Davies,
"From Ridicule to Respect, Newspapers' Reaction to Television, 1948-1960,"
American Journalism 15 (Fall 1998): 17-33.
- ________, "The
Contemporary Newspaper, 1945-Present," in Wm. David Sloan, The
Age of Mass Communication (Vision Press, 1998), 453-469.
- ________, "J.
Oliver Emmerich and the McComb Enterprise-Journal: Slow Change
in McComb, 1964," Journal of Mississippi History 57 (February
1995): 1-23.
- ________, "Southern
Living Magazine," in Kathleen L. Endres and Therese L. Lueck, eds.,
Women's Periodicals of the United States: Consumer Magazines
(Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 1995), 347-350.
- ________, "Far
and Near," in Kathleen L. Endres and Therese L. Lueck, eds., Women's
Periodicals in the United States: Social and Political Issues
(Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 1996), 78-82.
- ________, "Frances
X. Clines," in Arthur J. Kaul, ed., American Literary Journalists,
1945-1995, Dictionary of Literary Biography 185 (1997):
40-45.
- ________, "Harry
Crews," in Arthur J. Kaul, ed., American Literary Journalists,
1945-1995, Dictionary of Literary Biography 185 (1997):
56-62.
- ________, "A.J.
Liebling," in Tracy Chevalier, ed., Encyclopedia of the Essay, (Chicago:
Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997), 485-486.
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