John Nerone

j-nerone@uiuc.edu

Research Professor of Communications

Director of Graduate Studies

Professor of Media Studies

Primary areas of interest: History of communications, historical research methods, American culture.

John Nerone is the author or coauthor of four books and numerous articles, including Violence against the Press: Policing the Public Sphere in US History (1994), Last Rights: Revisiting Four Theories of the Press (1995), and, with Kevin Barnhurst, The Form of News: A History (2001), which won the Suzanne Langer Award of the Media Ecology Association and the International Communication Association's Book of the Year Award. He also co-edits (with Robert W. McChesney) a book series in the History of Communication. His service as a faculty member has included several terms on the faculty senate, membership in the General Education Board, a full range of committees in the College of Communications, and service as head of ICR's Program Evaluation Committee and as Placement Officer.

Ph.D., History, Notre Dame.