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Your profDr. Dave Davies, instructor for the British Studies in Journalism course, has taught at the University of Southern Mississippi since 1991, teaching courses in reporting, editing, and media history. He entered academe after a 10-year journalism career in Arkansas, where he worked most recently for the Arkansas Gazette.
He holds degrees from Arkansas, Ohio State, and Alabama. "I went to London in 1999 to set up the British Studies course, and the course has met every summer since," Davies says. "As instructor, I design the course. In class I provide context and background as needed, but lecturers always come from the ranks of British journalism experts. I try to make the class both enlightening and fun, and I'm always available to accompany students on informal field trips in and around London. Chinatown, anyone?" Davies enjoys taking side trips with students while abroad. He's traveled with students to Paris, Dublin, Amsterdam, Brussels, and elsewhere. Around London, he's known as the "fifth Beatle" because of his yearly visits to Abbey Road, where he and students re-enact the Beatles' famous album cover. At home Davies specializes in media history research. He's written two books, The Press & Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement (University Press of Mississippi, 2001) and The Postwar Decline of American Newspapers (Praeger, 2006). Davies has served as chair of the USM Journalism Department (1998-2001) and interim director of the School of Mass Communication & Journalism (2004-2005). Since January 2006 he has been associate dean of the USM College of Arts & Letters. Contact Davies by writing him at dave (dot) davies (at) usm (dot) edu. [Davies puts his email address this way because spammers harvest email addresses off web sites. He hates spam, both the kind you eat and the kind you open in email.] He has a web page at http://daviddavies.org, which he dearly loves to update. You can also reach him on Facebook or on myspace at http://myspace.com/davidrandalldavies. |
