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Ed McLuskie
Fulbright Scholar 2004-05
"Who's Who in America"
 2007, 2008


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E-Mail:   emclusk@boisestate.edu
Phone:    426-1927
Office:    C130
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See Dr. McLuskie's personal website at: http://comm.boisestate.edu/emcluskie

Syllabi and Courses - SPRING 2008:

COMM 304 -  Perspectives of Inquiry
COMM 475 -  Advanced Studies in Communication Theory and Philosophy
COMM 498 -  Communications Seminar

Teaching Specialties:  Critical Theory, Social Philosophy of Communication, Mass Culture & Cultural Studies, Metascience & Communication Research.

Biography:
Professor McLuskie (Ph.D., The University of Iowa) is an internationally known philosopher of communication and critical communication theorist who teaches at universities in the United States, Europe, and Eurasia. His students from Europe and Boise State frequently continue their studies in Ph.D. programs, and present their work at national and international conferences in preparation for advanced study here and abroad. He emphasizes themes of democratization for allegedly established and emerging democracies. In 2004, Dr. McLuskie was awarded a Senior Fulbright professorship to Tbilisi State University, in the capitol of the independent Republic of Georgia, where he will be for his sabbatical in 2005. This is his second Fulbright Professorship -- his first was in 1997, as a Senior Professor at the Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, University of Vienna, Austria; in 2002, he was appointed to the same Vienna institute as a Senior Guest Professor. He also has been a lecturer at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Professor McLuskie teaches theory and philosophy courses in graduate and undergraduate programs here and abroad, focusing seminars and lectures on the philosophy and sociology of the public sphere. An advocate for the theory of communicative action, he draws on European and American intellectual history, especially critical theory, critical communication studies, cultural studies, and philosophical pragmatism, explicitly rejecting those perspectives on media and communication that reflect and serve the status quo. In addition to book chapters in the Communication Yearbook published by the International Communication Association (ICA), other such book essays, and annual presentations in learned societies, his work is published in U.S. and European journals, including the Journal of Communication Inquiry, the Journal of Communication, Javnost/The Public, Medien & Zeit, and Journalism Quarterly. A founding member of ICA's Philosophy of Communication Division, he frequently reviews manuscripts submitted for ICA’s Communication Yearbook, and is on the editorial boards of two European journals. Current projects include a book on the future of critical communication studies, a collection of original essays for which he is both editor and contributor; a book on the intellectual history of the theory of communicative action; and papers on the intersection of American philosophical pragmatism and German critical theory.
 

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