2025 Executive Board |
President2025 
Heather M. Stassen, Daemen University Heather Stassen is the Dean of the College of Arts, Sciences, and Education at Daemen University in Amherst, NY. She earned a PhD from Ohio University in Communication Studies with a primary concentration in Rhetoric and Public Culture. Her research interests are at the intersection of rhetoric, public opinion, interpersonal communication, and controversy. Heather currently serves on the Executive Council of the New York State Communication Association where she is also a past president. | Vice President2025 
Laura Trujillo-Liñán, Universidad Panamericana Laura Trujillo-Liñán is a professor/researcher of Philosophy, Humanities and Media at Universidad Panamericana, Head of the Universidad Panamericana Open University, she is a trustee of the Institute of General Semantics, member of the Media Ecology Association, Asociación Filosófica de México (AFM), member of the National Research System in Mexico, City (SNI) and of the International Communication Association (ICA). Read moreShe has a BA and MA in Philosophy. She also received his PhD in History of Thought at Universidad Panamericana with a work about the Formal Cause in Marshall McLuhan and Aristotle. She is the recipient of the Media Ecology Association’s Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book for Formal Cause in Marshall McLuhan’s Thinking: An Aristotelian Perspective. She is the author of several articles and book chapters on topics related to Marshall McLuhan, Aristotle, metaphysics, ethics and media. | Vice President Elect2025
Jaqueline McLeod Rogers, University of Winnipeg I’m a Professor in the Department of Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication at the University of Winnipeg in Manitoba (Canada), where I teach courses about place, professional writing and style, non-fiction writing, and academic/scholarly writing. I have a manuscript awaiting publication, McLuhan at Mid-Century: Crises Then as Now (for Peter Lang) and recently published… Read moreMcLuhan’s Techno-Sensorium City: Coming to our Senses in a Programmed Environment (Lexington 2021)—a book recognized by the Media Ecology Association with The Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Ecology of Technics (2021). My article “Susanne Langer, Marshall McLuhan and Media Ecology: Feminist Principles in Humanist Projects” received The Walter Benjamin Award for Outstanding Article (2022) and, in another nod to feminist studies, I co-edited Parenting/Internet/Kids: Domesticating Technologies (Demeter Press 2022). I have served on the MEA Board as a member-at-large and look forward rejoining this working group. |
Treasurer2023–2025 
Paul A. Soukup, S.J., Santa Clara University Paul A. Soukup, S.J., has worked with media ecology for over 15 years and presently serves as Treasurer of the Media Ecology Association. His academic interests include orality and literacy studies and the intersection of…
…communication and theology. He and Thomas J. Farrell have edited four volumes of the collected works of Walter J. Ong, S.J., Faith and Contexts (1992-1999) as well as An Ong Reader (2002), a collection geared towards communication study. Most recently, he and Farrell have edited a collection of essays applying Ong’s thought to media ecology, Of Ong & Media Ecology: Essays in Communication, Composition, and Literary Studies (2012). Other publications include Communication and Theology (1983); Christian Communication: A Bibliographical Survey (1989), Media, Culture, and Catholicism (1996), Mass Media and the Moral Imagination with Philip J. Rossi (1994), and Fidelity and Translation: Communicating the Bible in New Media with Robert Hodgson (1999). This latter publication grows out of his work on the American Bible Society’s New Media Bible. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D., 1985), Soukup teaches in the Communication Department at Santa Clara University. Fr. Soukup has served on the Board of Trustees of the American Bible Society and holds membership in the Religious Communication Association and the National Communication Association, as well as the Media Ecology Association. | Recording Secretary2025 
Christina M. Knopf, SUNY Cortland Christina Knopf is a Professor and the Presentation Skills Coordinator in the Communication and Media Studies Department, and Assistant Dean in the School of Arts and Sciences, at the State University of New York (SUNY)-Cortland in Cortland, NY.
She earned a PhD in sociology/communication from the University at Albany, concentrating in political communication. Her research is primarily concerned with the intersection of the rhetoric of popular arts and politics, and she has authored multiple books, chapters, and articles examining comics, films, television, letters, and speeches. She is a co-editor for the Routledge Advances in Comics Studies series. Christina currently serves on the Executive Council of the New York State Communication Association where she is a past president. | Executive Secretary2022–2024 
Fernando Gutiérrez, Tecnológico de Monterrey Fernando Gutiérrez (Mexico) is the head of the Division of Humanities and Education at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (State of Mexico Campus). Read moreHe earned a PhD in Design and Data Visualization from The Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM). In October 2008 he was distinguished with the “Gunther Saupe” award, granted by the CICOM (Confederation of the Marketing Communication Industry in Mexico). Four years after, he was recognized with the 2012 FIMPES research prize. In May 2014, he received the Innovation Award from the Monterrey Institute of Technology (State of Mexico Campus). Fernando is an author of several titles about media and information technologies; and part of the National System of Researchers in Mexico. His interest focuses on the exploration of different media environments. For more information visit his personal page: http://www.fergut.com. |
Historian2022–2024 
Susan Drucker, Hofstra University Susan J. Drucker (Juris Doctor, St. John’s University) is a Distinguished Professor of Journalism in the Department of Journalism/Media Studies, School of Communication, Hofstra University. Read moreShe is an attorney, and treasurer of the Urban Communication Foundation. She is the author and editor of 13 books and over 150 articles and book chapters including two volumes of the Urban Communication Reader, Regulating Convergence (Lang, 2010), Voices in the Street: Gender, Media and Public Space and two editions of Real Law @ Virtual Space: The Regulation of Cyberspace (1999, 2005), Regulating Social Media: Legal and Ethical Consideration (2013) with Gary Gumpert. She co-edited Urban Communication Regulations: Communication Freedoms and Limits (Lang, 2018). Her latest book is Fake News: Real Issues in Modern Communication with Russell Chun (Lang. 2020). She received the Walter J. Ong Award for Career Achievement in Scholarship from MEA in 2018. Her work examines the relationship between media technology and human factors, particularly as viewed from a legal perspective. | Internet Officer2024–2026 
Matt Thomas, Coe College Originally from Seattle, Matt Thomas did his undergraduate work at the University of Southern California and his graduate work at the University of Iowa, where he got his PhD in American Studies. Read moreHis interests lie at the intersection of American Studies and media ecology. His work has appeared in a variety of venues, both academic and popular. He currently lives in Iowa City, IA. | EME Editor-in-Chief2023–2025 
Peggy Cassidy, Adelphi University Margaret Cassidy is Professor and Chair of the Communications Department at Adelphi University. A graduate of the Media Ecology Ph.D. program, she is the author of… Read more…BookEnds: The Changing Media Environment of American Classrooms (Hampton Press, 2003) and Children, Media, and American History: Printed Poison, Pernicious Stuff, and Other Terrible Temptations (Routledge, 2018). |
Awards Coordinator2023–2025 
Lance Strate, Fordham University Lance Strate is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. He is one of the founders of the Media Ecology Association, and served as the MEA’s first president for over a decade; he also… Read more…launched the MEA’s journal, Explorations in Media Ecology, serving as EME’s co-editor and editor for its first six years of publication, returning for another 3-year term in 2017. Additionally, he is a trustee and former executive director of the Institute of General Semantics, president of the New York Society for General Semantics, past president of the New York State Communication Association, and was the Harron Family Endowed Chair in Communication at Villanova University in 2015, and was given an honorary appointment as Chair Professor at Henan University in Kaifeng, China in 2016. He received his PhD D in Media Ecology at New York University studying with Neil Postman. He is the author of several scholarly works, including Echoes and Reflections: On Media Ecology as a Field of Study; On the Binding Biases of Time and Other Essays on General Semantics and Media Ecology; Amazing Ourselves to Death: Neil Postman’s Brave New World Revisited; 麦克卢汉与媒介生态学, an original collection of essays published in Mandarin translation under the title, McLuhan and Media Ecology; and Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition. He is also a published poet, and author of the poetry collection, Thunder at Darwin Station. Additionally, he has co-edited a number of anthologies, including two editions of Communication and Cyberspace: Social Interaction in an Electronic Environment; Critical Studies in Media Commercialism; The Legacy of McLuhan; Korzybski and…; The Medium is the Muse: Channeling Marshall McLuhan; La Comprensión de los Medios en la Era Digital: Un Nuevo Análisis de la Obra de Marshall McLuhan; and Taking Up McLuhan’s Cause: Perspectives on Media and Formal Causality. He is the recipient of the Media Ecology Association’s Walter J. Ong Award for Career Achievement in Scholarship, and the Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book, for Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition. He also received the New York State Communication Association’s John F. Wilson Fellow Award in recognition for exceptional scholarship, leadership, and dedication to the field of communication, and NYSCA’s Neil Postman Mentor Award, as well as the Eastern Communication Association’s Distinguished Research Fellow Award. Translations of his writing have appeared in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Hebrew, Mandarin, and Quenya. | Newsletter Editor2025 
Tiffany Petricini, Penn State Erie, the Behrend Campus Tiffany Petricini is an Associate Teaching Professor in Communication at Penn State Erie, the Behrend Campus. She is co-chair of Penn State’s Joint Standing Committee on Responsible and Effective Use of Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education. She also leads the Penn State Artificial Intelligence Community of Practice (AICoP) and the Humanities Institute’s Phenomenology Collaborative Colloquia. Read moreHer publications have reflected interests in phenomenology, interpersonal communication, technology, philosophy, ethics, and media ecology, including her work “Friendship and Technology,” available through Routledge. Tiffany has been an invited speaker on the international radio program “Spark” on CBC Radio One and the SUNY Plattsburgh at the Ethics Institute. She also serves as the social media expert for NBC affiliate WFMJ 21 News. | At-Large Member2025–2027 
Julia Hildebrand, Eckerd College Originally from Germany, Dr. Julia M. Hildebrand is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Eckerd College, Florida. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication, Culture, and Media from Drexel University. Her research… Read more…combines media ecology with critical mobilities research and human geography. For her interdisciplinary dissertation, she explored the biases and effects of consumer drones as mobile media. She has published in such journals as Explorations in Media Ecology, Media, Culture & Society, Digital Culture & Society, and Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies. In her role as MEA At-Large Member, she brings both the keen interest in promoting, sustaining, and expanding media ecology as an intellectual tradition as well as the organizational experience for effectively contributing to the Media Ecology Association. In her three years as Executive Secretary of the International Association for the History of Traffic, Transport, and Mobility, she was not only responsible for managing memberships, journal subscriptions, website content, and elections, but also helped organize three international conferences in Italy, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. At MEA, she is assisting with updates to the association homepage and serves in the Strategic Committee for Evaluating and Acting on Association Public Relations Efforts. |
At-Large Member2023–2025 
Jeff Bogaczyk, Christian Life School Dr. Jeff Bogaczyk currently serves as the Head of School for Christian Life School in Kenosha, WI. He completed his undergraduate degree at North Central University in Minneapolis, MN and later received a Master of Arts in Leadership and Liberal Studies and then a Ph.D. in Rhetoric, both from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. Read moreHis research interests are in interpersonal and organizational communication and media ecology, particularly in the area of education. For the past 8 years, he has served in educational leadership and he currently serves as the book review editor for Explorations in Media Ecology, as the liaison for MEA with the Eastern Communication Association, and as the newsletter editor for In Media Res, the official newsletter of the Media Ecology Association. As a hobby, he hosts a podcast and a blog, Mind For Life, where he explores leadership, personal development, entrepreneurship, human psychology, and media ecology. | At-Large Member2024–2026 
Tiffany Gilliam, Duquesne University With a B.A. in Mass Communication and a Fine Art minor, along with an M.A. in Communication and a published thesis, Tiffany is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Rhetoric at Duquesne University. Her research focuses on exploring conversations surrounding individual human worth and consciousness within the evolving digital landscape. | Immediate Past President2025
Robert Albrecht, New Jersey City University Robert Albrecht is professor in the Media Arts Department at New Jersey City University in Jersey City, New Jersey. He received his doctorate in Media Ecology at New York University and has published numerous articles relating to the role of music and the arts in education and culture. Read moreHis book, Mediating the Muse: A Communications Approach to Music, Media and Cultural Change (2004, Hampton Press) is an ethnographic examination of the impact of electronic technology upon the music environment of a small town in the interior of Brazil. His most recent book, The Arts and Play as Educational Media in the Digital Age (2020, Peter Lang Publishers), was honored by the Media Ecology Association with the Susanne Langer Award. The book, co-authored with Carmine Tabone, outlines how hands on experiences in the arts and interactive, face-to-face forms of play can be implemented to counterbalance the massive influence of digital media in the lives of children. |
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