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STEPHEN
PONDER
Associate Professor, School of Journalism and
Communications, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1275.
Home: P.O. Box 444, Blue River, OR 97413.
Telephones: (541)822-3248; (541)346-3514. Fax: (541)346-0682.
E-mail addresses: sponder@uoregon.edu, sponder@rowell.uoregon.edu, stephenponder@gmail.com
Academic
Experience
Associate
Professor, School of Journalism and Communications, University of Oregon.
Faculty member since 1985-86. Promoted to current rank, with indefinite tenure,
1991.
Education
Ph.D.,
Communications, University of Washington, Seattle, 1985. Dissertation:
"News Management in the Progressive Era: Gifford Pinchot, Theodore
Roosevelt and the Conservation Crusade."
M.A., Special
Studies (Legislative Affairs), The George Washington University, Washington,
D.C., 1975.
B.A.,
Journalism (Editorial), University of Washington, Seattle, 1964.
Other Professional
Experience
Smartbrief.com, Washington, D.C., 2004-5.
Freelance writer for trade association newsletters.
Seattle,
Washington, Post-Intelligencer,
1976-82, Night City Editor, Political Writer, Copyreader.
Press
Secretary and Legislative Assistant, Congressman Lloyd Meeds, 2nd District,
Washington, 1971-75.
Congressional
Fellow, The American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., 1970-71.
Internships: Senator Lee Metcalf of Montana; Congressman Lloyd Meeds of
Washington.
Reporter,
United Press International, Chicago, Illinois, and Detroit, Michigan, 1967-70.
Reporter,
The Associated Press, Olympia, Washington, 1965-67.
Reporter,
Longview, Washington, Daily News,
1964-65.
Book:
Managing the Press: Origins of the Media
Presidency, 1897-1933. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. (Palgrave
paperback, 2001.)
Reviews: Booklist
95 (April 1999): 1135. Choice 37
(September 1999): 218. Columbia
Journalism Review, May/June 1999, 67. Congress
and the Presidency 26 (Fall 1999): 213.
Journal of American History 86 (No. 4, March 2000): 1823-4. Journalism History 25 (No. 3, Autumn
1999): 118. Library Journal 124 (no. 2, 1 February 1999): 110. Political Studies 48 (No. 4, September
2000): 869-70. Presidential Studies
Quarterly 30 (No. 1, March 2000): 194-8.
Research Articles
"That
Delightful Relationship: Presidents and White House Correspondents in the
1920s," American Journalism 14
(No. 2, Spring 1997): 164-81.
"Partisan
Reporting and Presidential Campaigning: Gilson Gardner and E.W. Scripps in the
Election of 1912," Journalism History
17 (1990): 3-12. (Published 1997).
"Government
Publicity and Conservation: Gifford Pinchot and the Frontier Press," Mass Comm Review 22 (1995): 64-74.
(Published 1997).
"Popular
Propaganda: The Food Administration in World War I," Journalism Quarterly 72 (Autumn 1995): 539-50.
"The
President Makes News: William McKinley and the First Presidential Press Corps,
1897-1901," Presidential Studies
Quarterly 24 (Fall 1994): 823-36.
"Presidential
Publicity and Executive Power: Woodrow Wilson and the Centralizing of
Government Information," American
Journalism 11 (Summer 1994): 257-69.
"'Nonpublicity'
and the Unmaking of a President: William Howard Taft and the Ballinger-Pinchot
Conflict of 1909-1910," Journalism
History 19 (Winter 1994): 111-20).
"The President Makes News: William
McKinley and the First Presidential Press Corps, 1897-1901," in press, Presidential Studies Quarterly.
"Gifford Pinchot: Press Agent for
Forestry," Journal of Forest History
31:1 (January 1987), 26-35.
"Conservation, Economics and
Newspapering: The Seattle Press and the Forest Reserves Controversy of
1897," American Journalism
Encyclopedia
and biography collections
Encyclopedia of American Journalism History, Stephen Vaughn, Bruce Evensen and James C.
Landers, ed., 3 vols., (Routledge, 2007). Essay on Presidents and the press,
1897-1921.
American National Biography, John A.
Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, ed., 24 vols. (Oxford University Press, 1999) Entry
on Henry L. Pittock, early publisher of Portland Oregonian.
History of Mass Media in the United States:
An Encyclopedia, Margaret Blanchard, ed., 2 vols. (Fitzoy Dearborn, 1998.)
Entries: Gifford Pinchot, Presidential Press Secretaries.
Professional Publications
Op-ed commentary, “American news coverage
weak on world affairs,” Eugene Register-Guard,
21 September 2001. Distributed on Poynter Institute Media News page.
Essay, “Commercialism, democracy, and the
elusive dream of radio citizenship,” on H-Pol@msu.edu (July 2001), discussion
list for political historians.
“The press, the primaries, and the
presidency,” op-ed commentary on http://www.PrimaryDiner.com, 27 September
1999.
Op-ed
commentary, "The decline of the White House Press Corps," Portland Oregonian, 30 December, 1998.
Refereed
Presentations
"The
Press and Presidential Failure: Herbert Hoover and the Professionalization of
Washington, D.C., Newsgathering," presented to the American Journalism
Historians Association, Mobile, Alabama, October 1997.
"The
Delightful Relationship: Presidents and White House Correspondents in the
1920s," presented to the American Journalism Historians Association
conference, October 1996, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. Outstanding
Research Paper Award (co-winner).
"Cabinet
Publicity in the 1920s: Herbert Hoover and the Department of Commerce,"
presented to Western Journalism Historians Association, February 1995,
University of California, Berkeley.
"Government
Publicity and Conservation: Gifford Pinchot and the Frontier Press,"
presented to AEJMC Media and the Environment Conference, April 1994, University
of Nevada-Reno.
"Popular
Propaganda: The U.S. Food Administration in World War I," presented to
Western Journalism Historians Conference, February 1994, University of
California, Berkeley.
"Presidential
Publicity and Executive Power: Woodrow Wilson and the Centralizing of
Government Information," presented to American Journalism Historians
conference, October 1993, Salt Lake City.
"'Nonpublicity'
and the Unmaking of a President: William Howard Taft and the Ballinger-Pinchot
Conflict of 1909-1910," presented to History Division, Association for
Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, August 1993, Kansas City.
"The
Consequences of 'Non-Publicity:' President William Howard Taft and the
Ballinger-Pinchot Affair of 1909-1910," presented to Western Journalism
Historians Conference, February 1993, Berkeley, California.
"The
President Makes News: William McKinley and the First White House Press Corps,
1897-1921," presented to Western Journalism Historians Conference,
February 1992, Berkeley, California.
Research
Reviews, Committees
Book reviews, published: American History Review, American
Journalism, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism History,
Environmental History, Mass Communication and Society, Political Communication.
Manuscript reviews, unpublished: American Journalism, American Journalism
Historians Association Book Award, The Annals of Iowa, Environmental History,
Journal of Forest History, Journal of Political Marketing, Journalism History,
Journalism Monographs, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly,
International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Oregon Historical Society
Press, Oregon State University Press, Oxford University Press, Political
Communication, Presidential Studies Quarterly, University of Washington Press, Wired magazine.
Corresponding Editor, American Journalism, Journalism History.
Research
Committee, American Journalism Historians Association, 1997-2003.
Research
Committee, History Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication, 1996-2003.
Research
Committee, Qualitative Studies Division, Association for Education in
Journalism and Mass Communications, 1990-5.
TEACHING
Courses Taught
Graduate:
Mass Communications and Society, Historical/Legal Research, Approaches to
Historical Research in Mass Communications, Qualitative Research Methods in
Mass Communication, Teaching and Professional Life, Communication Policy and
Information Access.
Undergraduate:
Communications History, Reporting I, Reporting II, Mass Media and Society,
International Journalism, Information Gathering. Communication Studies: War,
Truth and Communication.
New
courses created: International Journalism, Approaches to Historical
Research in Mass Communications, Communication Policy and Information Access,
War, Truth and Communication.
Dissertations and
Theses
Ph.D. Committees, Journalism and
Communications
Dissertation
Chair:
Jon
Arakaki, “From Abstract to Concrete: Press Promotion, Progress, and the Dams of
the Mid-Columbia River, 1928-1958)” (2006). Assistant professor, Journalism,
SUNY Oneonta.
Kim
Mangun, “Making the case for equality: The advocacy campaign of Oregon
journalist Abigail Scott Duniway.”(2004) Assistant professor, School of
Communication, University of Utah.
Lauren
Danner, "Cultural Values and Communication Content: The Environment and
Washington State in the 1960s." (1999) Washington State Historical
Society.
Co-Chair,
with Wayne Wanta: Khaled Batarfi, “Analysis of News Coverage Patterns of Middle
East Conflicts.” (1999). Managing editor, Al-Madina newspaper, Saudi Arabia.
Ph.D.
Committee Memberships:
Li Pu (Wasko), 2008. Randall James
Nichols (Wasko), 2005. Helena Vanhala (Wasko), 2005. Cindy Lou Killion
(Steeves), 2004. Wendy Barger (Bivins), 2001.
In
process: Yeong Doo Moon (Wasko), Anne Conaway (Gleason), Michelle Honald
(Curtin), Janet Kwami (Steeves), Chad Okrusch (Newton).
Outside Memberships:
Demian Hommel, Geography (Cohen),
2009.
Kevin
Pirch, Political Science (Southwell), 2004. Stuart Shulman, Political Science
(Berk), 1999. (Awarded honorable mention, best dissertation award, American
Journalism Historians Association, 2000.) Andrew
Milton, Political Science (Suttmeier), 1998.
M.A. theses, projects, chaired:
Ingeborg Scheve McMillen, “The
Importance of global television in cross-country skiing,” 2002.
Keri McDonough, “Information Access
and the WTC Protests in Seattle,” 2001.
Daniel
Collins, "The Soviet Press and the Marketplace of Ideas," 1997.
Jo Ann Garlington, "Press
Censorship in Occupied Japan: Democracy Contradicted," 1995.
Herman B. Chiu, "Oregon's Chinese and Newspaper Coverage: The Road to Acceptance," 1995.
Daniel Lindley,
"Ministry of Light: Ambrose Bierce as Muckraker," 1993 (With
Distinction). Later published as Ambrose
Bierce Takes on the Railroad (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999).
Member,
M.A. Committees, School of Journalism and Communications: Colleen Kaleda
(Kessler, 2002); Shea Anderson (Wheeler), 1999. Mark Yates (Wasko), 1999.
Daniela Dimitrova (Wanta), 1999. Margaret Bradford (Steeves), 1999. Vickie
Aldous (Steeves), 1999. Ed Dorsch (Wheeler), 1998. Suzanne Hurt (Wheeler),
1998). Emilia Naydenova (Steeves), 1998. Chad Kennedy (Bybee), 1998. Tracy
Picha (Bybee), 1998. Christine Kellows
(Steeves), 1998 Kevin Coughlin (Bybee), 1998. Patty Jo Emmerson (Robinson),
1997. Tom Blazier (Lemert), 1997. Brant Burkey (Bybee), 1997. Marcia Latta
(Wanta), 1996. Kahled Batarfi (Wanta), 1996. Michelle Nicholson (Coleman),
1996. Andrea Lafayette-Fisher (Steeves), 1995. Jay Remy (Wanta), 1995. Kimber
Williams (Steeves), 1995. Naoko Nishiwaki (Kessler), 1994. Amy Knutson (Wanta),
1994, George Erb (Gleason), 1994. Lois Wadsworth (Kessler), 1991. Lori Strauss
(Keding), 1991. Catherine Coquan (Bivins), 1991. Pam Miller (Kessler), 1991.
Chair,
International Studies Theses: Vanessa Nicholson (U.S.), 1997; Geoffrey Moag
(U.S.), 1991; Julie Warwick (U.S.), 1990; Wai Ming Choi (Hong Kong), 1990;
Fauziah Varusay (Malaysia), 1988. Member: Chayada Srithong (Thailand)(Fry),
1998.
Honors
College Theses Chaired: Doug Irving (With Distinction) 1998; Keijo Hunter 1997;
Geoffrey Moag, 1991. Member: Bethany Thompson (Campbell), 2007. Megan Stein,
2002. Sarah Kickler (Russial), 1999; Cara Anne Lattig (Lemert), 1993: Linda
Christensen (Kessler), 1991.
Other theses: Melissa Candek, M.A.,
Environmental Studies (Gale), 1996.
Teaching Awards,
Grants
Instructional
Technology Short Course, University of Oregon, August 4-15, 1997.
Oregon
State System of Higher Education Technology in Teaching Workshop, Oregon State
University, 1994. Created first School of Journalism and Communications course
home page, for J202, Information Gathering, Fall 1994.
Ersted
Award for Distinguished Teaching, University of Oregon, 1988.
SERVICE
Association
for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, History Division. American Journalism Historians Association.
Presidential Studies Group, American Political Science Association.
External reviewer, tenure and promotion:
Kenton Bird, Idaho (2005), James Landers, Colorado State University (2006),
Mark Neuzil, College of St. Thomas (2007).
University Service
Undergraduate Council (elected from School of
Journalism and Communication), 1998-2003.
Program review, Department of Planning, Public
Policy, and Management, 1999-2000. Advisory Group, Teaching Effectiveness
Program. Environmental Studies Committee.
Upper
Division/Undergraduate Majors Implementation Team, Process for Change,
1998-2000. Participatory Learning Experiences Advisory Committee, 1998-2000.
Ad Hoc
Study Committee on Electronic Transmission of Dissertations and Theses, Knight
Library, 1999.
Profiled on UO Today, cable television program sponsored by Humanities Center,
February 1999.
U.S.
Newspaper Project, Oregon Advisory Committee, Knight Library, 1997-8.
Consultant, source for video documentary on Oregon newspapers.
Faculty
Consultants Network, advisory group on using new technologies in teaching,
University of Oregon, 1995-98.
Wayne
Morse Chair Committee, 1995.
University
Senate: Professional schools' representative,
1994-95.
International
Affairs Advisory Committee, 1994-95.
International
College Master Planning Committee, 1992-93; Ad Hoc Committee on Technological
Dimensions, 1992-93; 1993-94.
University
Library Committee, 1992-93.
Provost's
Teaching Evaluation Working Group, 1992-93.
Presenter
and panelist, seminars on faculty teaching to large classes, Teaching
Effectiveness Program, 1993, 1994.
Profesional
memberships
American Association of University Professors;
Association of Oregon Faculty, Committee of Concerned Journalists; Society of
Environmental Journalists, AFSCME Retirees.
School of Journalism and
Communication Service
Search
Committees
Chair,
John L. Hulteng Chair in Media Ethics, 2000-01; 1999-2000 (Tom Bivins).
Chair,
Writing Position Search (Carol Ann Bassett), 1997-98.
Member,
News-Editorial Search, 2003-2004; Public Relations Chair Search, 1998-99;
Public Relations Position Search (Cynthia-Lou Coleman), 1992-93.
Curriculum-related committees
Member,
Graduate Affairs Committee, 1997-98; 1999-2002. Curriculum Committee, 1992-97;
1998-99, 2003-2004. Chair, 1995-96; Undergraduate Affairs Committee, 1993-1994.
Personnel
Committee
Chair,
Promotion and Tenure Subcommittee for Carol Ann Bassett, 2003. Member,
Subcommittee for Third-Year Review of Carol Ann Bassett, 2001. Member, Promotion and Tenure Subcommittee
for Debra Merskin, 1998. Chair, Promotion and Tenure Subcommittee for John
Russial, 1997. Chair, Subcommittee for Third-Year Review of Debra Merskin,
1996. Member, Subcommittee for Third-Year Review of John Russial, 1995. Chair,
Promotion and Tenure Subcommittee for Wayne Wanta, 1994.
Other
departmental service
Member,
Dean's Advisory Committee (elected), 1997-99; 1999-2002. Acting chair, Interim
Dean Search Advisory Committee, 1997.
Member,
Snowden Internship Screening Committee.
Liaison,
National Society of Newspaper Columnists scholarship competition.
Interim
Advisor, Society of Professional Journalists student chapter, 2001.
Departmental
Library Coordinator, 1992-95.
Coordinator,
Fourth Estate and the Media: USIA Young African leaders Project, visit of
African journalists, April 1994.
Advisor
and panel moderator, Oregon High School Press Conference, 1994. Panelist,
presenter, 1986-93.
School
of Journalism and Communication Career Day, Moderator, Newspaper Panel, 1994.
Coordinator,
William Randolph Hearst Journalism Awards Program, 1985-91.
Community Service
Letures, speaking engagements: Silver Sage Society,
Panelist
on tabloid journalism, Portland Center Stage, November 2003.
Lecture, “Updating the Media Presidency:
George W. Bush and the Passing of the Post-Watergate ‘Adversary” Press,”
Learning in Retirement, University of Oregon Continuing Education, June 2003.
Panelist on post-9/11 media coverage,
Peace, Justice and Globalization Conference, 21 October 2001.
Instructor, Older Adult Service and
Information System (OASIS), 1999.
Volunteer,
House Call, community newsletter from
Peacehealth, Eugene, March 1999.
Moderator,
Oregon Green Chats, roundtable discussions between environmental groups and the
Eugene electronic and print news media, sponsored by the Oregon League of
Conservation Voters. January and February 1998.
Panelist,
"The Role of the Media in Foreign Policy," workshop sponsored by
Great Decisions and the World Affairs Council of Oregon, Eugene, February 1997.
Panelist
on environmental journalism, Environmental L.A.W. Conference, University of Oregon, 1994.
Speaker,
"The Media's Role in Shaping Foreign Policy," Great Decisions,
Eugene, April 1991.
Presenter,
"Helping Voters with Election Campaign Coverage," Oregon Newspaper
Publishers Association, Central Oregon Regional Meeting, Eugene, February 1991.
News
media interviews and panel appearances on journalism-related issues: CNN;
KVAL-TV; KMTR-TV; KEZI-TV; KLCC-FM; KUGN-AM, all Eugene. "Town Hall,"
KATU-TV; Oregon Public Broadcasting Television and Radio,