Sheila Webb, PhD
Professor
Office
Location
CF 269
Hours
Winter 2024
Mondays and Wednesdays, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
About
B.A., English, University of Michigan; M.A., University of Wisconsin; M.F.A., University of Wisconsin; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. Her research area is the cultural role of the media, including the role and rhetoric of news narratives in magazines, the creation of community in the media, and the history of photography in media. She is a two-time winner of the Covert Award, an accolade from AEJMC for the best article in media history, in 2011 and 2017. She served as Project Manager of ONline@UW, which developed the largest network of hyperlinked sites of civic journalism, and has worked in museums as an educator, curator, and public information coordinator. She was named, with colleague Carolyn Nielsen, as an Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication Legacy Scholar for a teaching project on media ethics. She previously taught at the University of South Dakota, the University of Wisconsin, and Marquette University.