People
The Quello Center is home to leading scholars in the field of communications and telecommunications economics, technology and political economy. Among them are Steven S. Wildman, PhD. (Director), Johannes M. Bauer, PhD. (Director of Special Programs), and Steve Lacy, PhD. (Director of Media Studies).
Wildman, PhD. in economics from Stanford, previously served as associate professor of Communication Studies and Director of the Program in Telecommunications Science, Management and Policy at Northwestern University. Bauer, PhD. in economics from Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration in Austria, previously worked as director of Institute of Public Utilities and Network Industries at the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management and professor at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Lacy, PhD. in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin is a professor in the Michigan State University Department of Communication and School of Journalism.
Jonathan A. Obar, PhD in mass communications from the Pennsylvania State University currently serves as the center's associate director.
Faculty associates include: Thomas F. Baldwin (Senior Fellow) Adam Candeub, Gary Reid, Kevin Saunders, and Peter K. Yu. Research associates include: Barbara Cherry, Wayne Fu, Robert LaRose, Hairong Li, Nora Rifon, Charles Steinfield (department chair), Carol Ting, and Pamela Whitten (Dean of College of Communication Arts and Sciences).
Research assistants include: Tithi Chattopadhyay, Sang Yup Lee, Wenjuan Ma, and Sonya Yan Song. Joy Mulvaney serves as the primary administrator of the center.
The Quello Center hosts many national and international scholars (including Fulbright program), many of them were and are involved in award-winning research. Members of Advisory Board in 2006 were: Rudy Baca (vice president, Precursor Group), Lauren J. “Pete” Belvin (Federal Communications Commission), Marjory Blumenthal (associate provost, Georgetown University), Rick Coy (Clark, Hill, P.L.C, John D. Evans (John D. Evans Foundation), Brian Fontes (vice president of Federal Relations, Cingular Wireless), Eddie Fritts (president & CEO, National Association of Broadcasters), Richard D. McLellan (Attorney at Law, Dykema Gossett, PLLC), Patrick J. Mullen (president, Tribune Broadcasting), Robert Pepper (chief of policy, Federal Communications Commission), James H. Quello (Wiley Rein LLP), Charles Salmon (acting dean, College of Communication Arts & Science, Michigan State University), Richard E. Wiley (Wiley Rein LLP).
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