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RODNEY D. BENSON New York University Department of Media, Culture, and Communication 239 Greene Street, 7th Floor New York, NY 10003-6674 e-mail: [email protected] ACADEMIC POSITIONS Director of Graduate Studies, Dept. of Media, Culture, and Communication, fall 2009New York University Associate Professor, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, fall 2008 – New York University Affiliated Faculty Member, Department of Sociology, 2005 – New York University Assistant Professor, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, 2002-2008 New York University Assistant Professor, Department of International Communications / Department of Social Sciences and History The American University of Paris, spring 2000-spring 2002 EDUCATION Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 2000 M.A., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1994 M.I.A., International Affairs, Columbia University, 1994 B.A., Journalism and Mass Communication, Iowa State University, 1983 PUBLICATIONS I. Refereed Journal Articles “What Makes for a Critical Press? A Case Study of French and U.S. Immigration News Coverage.” International Journal of Press/Politics, 15, 1 (winter 2010): 3-24. “What Makes News More Multiperspectival? A Field Analysis.” Poetics, 37, 5-6 (fall 2009): 402-418. Rodney Benson, Curriculum vitae, page 2 of 18 “Shaping the Public Sphere: Habermas and Beyond.” The American Sociologist, 40 (fall 2009): 175-192. “How States, Markets and Globalization Shape the News: The French and U.S. National Press, 1965-1997.” (Lead author, with Daniel C. Hallin). European Journal of Communication 22, 1 (March 2007): 27-48. “Etats-Unis: Un Echo du 11 Septembre.” (Second author, with Valerie Streit; article on U.S. news coverage of Madrid terrorist bombing in special issue on international media events). Hermès, 46 (2006): 95-100. “News Media as a ‘Journalistic Field’: What Bourdieu adds to New Institutionalism, and Vice Versa.” Political Communication 23, 2 (2006): 187-202. “Constructing Social Problems in an Age of Globalization: A French-American Comparison.” (Lead author, with Abigail C. Saguy). American Sociological Review 70, 2 (2005): 233-259. “American journalism and the politics of diversity.” Media, Culture & Society 27, 1 (2005): 1-20. (Earlier, shorter French-language version: “Journalisme et marketing: l’enjeu de la diversité.” Quaderni (University of Paris-Sorbonne) 47 (2002): 85-100. (Updated, revised version in Race/Gender/Media: Considering diversity across audiences, content, and producers, 2nd edition, ed., Rebecca Ann Lind, Longman, 2010: 333-340). “Bringing the Sociology of Media Back In.” Political Communication, 21 (2004): 275292. “Why Conceptual Models and ‘Big’ Institutions Matter: A Response to David Altheide, Nina Eliasoph, William Gamson, and Todd Gitlin.” Political Communication, 21 (2004): 311-314. “La fin du Monde?: Tradition and Change in the French Press.” French Politics,Culture & Society 22, 1 (2004): 108-126. “The political/literary model of French journalism: Change and continuity in immigration coverage, 1973-1991.” Journal of European Area Studies 10, 1 (2002): 49-70. “La logique du profit dans les médias américains.” Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 131-132 (2000): 107-115. (English-language abridged version published as: “Tearing down the ‘Wall’ in American Journalism.” Core: International Journal of the Humanities (Paris) 1, 1 (2001). Rodney Benson, Curriculum vitae, page 3 of 18 “Field theory in comparative context: a new paradigm for media studies.” Theory and Society 28, 3 (1999): 463-498. “Global knowledge: How media effects research can aid globalization theorizing.” Berkeley Journal of Sociology 40 (1996): 61-84. II. Books Framing Immigration: How the French and American Media Shape Public Debate (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, “Communication, Society and Politics” series, forthcoming). Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field. (Editor, with Erik Neveu). Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2005. “Introduction: Field Theory as a Work in Progress.” (Co-authored with Erik Neveu). In R. Benson and E. Neveu, eds., Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2005): 1-25. “Mapping Field Variation: Journalism in France and the United States.” In R. Benson and E. Neveu, eds., Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2005): 85-112. III. Book Chapters “Comparative News Media Systems.” In Stuart Allan, ed., Routledge Companion to News Media and Journalism Studies, ed. Stuart Allan (London: Routledge, 2010): 614-626. “Futures of the News: International Considerations and Further Reflections.” In Natalie Fenton, ed., New Media, Old News (London: Sage, 2010): 187-200. “Space, Place, and the Changing American Mediascape.” (Co-author with Aurora Wallace). In F. Eckardt and Martina Zschocke, eds., MediaCity (Weimar, Germany: Bauhaus University Publishers, 2007): 209-226. “Commercialism and Critique: California’s Alternative Weeklies.” In J. Curran and N. Couldry, eds., Contesting Media Power: Alternative Media in a Networked World (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003): 111-127. Rodney Benson, Curriculum vitae, page 4 of 18 IV. Reviews and Encyclopedia Articles Review of Aeron Davis’s The Mediation of Power: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2007). International Journal of Press/Politics 14, 4 (October 2009): 523-524. Review of Paul C. Adams’s Atlantic Reverberations: French Representations of an American Presidential Election (Ashgate, 2007). International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics 4, 3 (2008): 409-412. “Normative Theories of Journalism.” The Blackwell International Encyclopedia of Communication (Wolfgang Donsbach, ed., 2008): 2591-2597. Review of Paul Starr’s The Creation of the Media. Archives européennes de sociologie/European Journal of Sociology XLVI, 3 (2005): 541-544. Review of Pablo Boczkowski’s Digitizing the News. New Media & Society 7 (2005): 854-857. Review of John David Skrentny’s (ed.) Color Lines and Joel Fetzer’s Public Attitudes toward Immigration in the United States, France, and Germany. Public Opinion Quarterly 67, 2 (2003): 304-310. Review of Bridget Fowler’s Bourdieu and Cultural Theory. Social Forces 78, 1 (1999): 366-368. “Making the Media See Red: Pierre Bourdieu's campaign against television journalism.” French Politics and Society 16, 2 (1998): 59-65. (Republished in Pierre Bourdieu 2 [four-volume set], edited by Derek Robbins. London: Sage, 2004). “Media power: A French critical perspective.” (Review/essay on Rethinking Media Theory, by Armand and Michèle Mattelart). Journal of International Affairs 47 (1993): 279-286. “The nation -- A state of mind.” (Review of Imagined Communities, by Benedict Anderson) Journal of International Affairs 45 (1992): 639-645. V. Commissioned Book Chapters / Invited Articles or Reviews Review of Tamara Chaplin’s Turning on the Mind: French Philosophers on Television (University of Chicago Press, 2007). French Politics, Culture, and Society. Due Fall 2010. Rodney Benson, Curriculum vitae, page 5 of 18 “Bourdieu and the Media.” Invited to write article for online journal Sociology Compass (fall 2010 issue). Bourdieu and the Media (Cambridge, UK: Polity, under contract for completion 2011). VI. Other Articles in Progress “Is the Internet ‘Americanizing’ or ‘Europeanizing’ the News? A Comparison of Danish, French, and U.S. print and online newspapers.” Lead author, with co-authors Matthew Powers, Ida Schultz, Mark Orsten, and Sandra Vera. 30 pp. manuscript, under review. Summer 2010. MISC. PUBLICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY “What Makes for a Critical Press? Research Shows a Role for Government Support”, invited guest blog for “Freepress.com” on my recent French-U.S. comparative research, January 21, 2010, accessible at: http://www.savethenews.org/blog/10/01/21/what-makes-critical-press-researchshows-role-government-support Unpaid consultant to French-American Foundation, invited to serve as member of planning committee for second “Covering Immigration” conference to be held in Miami, May 7-9, 2010 (I was invited and participated as a non-speaker at the first conference held in Paris, Nov. 2009) Unpaid consultant to Free Press (Robert McChesney, founder), participated in Strategic Policy Roundtable on Saving Journalism, New York, April 7, 2009 Unpaid consultant to Victory Navasky, Professor, Columbia School of Journalism, analysis of design of survey instrument for online news media study, fall 2009 “Content Analysis.” Wrote and presented segment for educational film “Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences.” Insight Media: Odyssey Productions, 2006. “The Mediated Public Sphere: A Model for Cross-National Research.” Working Paper #2001-7, Center for the Study of Culture, Organizations and Politics. University of California, Berkeley. Available at http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu /~iir/culture/papers.html . August 2001. “The ‘Americanization’ of the European City? An Analysis of Contemporary French Scholarly and News Media Discourse on Urban Problems and the Banlieue.” Center for German and European Studies, University of California-Berkeley. Coauthored with Loïc J.D. Wacquant. March 1998. Rodney Benson, Curriculum vitae, page 6 of 18 “Telecommunications and society: a critical review of the research literature on computer-mediated communications.” Working Paper, Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE). Cited extensively in Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Society (vol. I). August 1994. “The Future of the Newspaper.” Working Paper, Freedom Forum Center for Media Studies (Produced for Freedom Forum fellow James Hoge). New York, May 1992. “The British are coming; How the BBC is enlarging its empire.” Columbia Journalism Review (July/August 1991). “Drowning pool?; Why some older NBC employees have that sinking feeling.” Columbia Journalism Review (May/June 1991). “Fake my day: a pose is a pose is a pose.” (Review/essay on What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era, by Peggy Noonan). In these Times (March 21-27, 1990). SELECTED MEDIA INTERVIEWS / CITATIONS “French Connections.” Columbia Journalism Review, May/June 2010, p. 63. Review of my article (“What Makes for a Critical Press? (Press/Politics, 15, 1: 13-24) by Michael Schudson and Julia Sonnevend. “What Makes for a Critical Press? Research Shows a Role for Government Support”, invited guest blog for “Freepress.com” on my recent French-U.S. comparative research, January 21, 2010, cited by The Newspaper Guild, National Affairs “Inside Information”, and other websites. Interviewed by Columbia Spectator for story concerning how scandals affect university reputations, “Getting a Handle on Scandal,” February 25, 2007. Interviewed by Brazilian newspaper O Globo for story concerning U.S. presidential candidates’ use of internet websites, “Uma brigada eletrônica: Candidatos usam internet para chegar aos eleitores,” January 28, 2007. Interview requested by ABC News concerning Venezuelan news media during Pres. Bush trip to the region, fall 2005 (declined because in Germany at the time of request). Interviewed by Japanese Nippon TV, on U.S. and Japanese governmental regulation of foreign media ownership, February 24, 2005. Rodney Benson, Curriculum vitae, page 7 of 18 Provided background information about French press in response to requests from International Herald-Tribune Deputy Managing Editor Robert Marino (June 2007) and New York Times reporter Marc Lacey (2005). Quoted in German Online Technology Review, article by Gabriele Hooffacker, September 26, 2004. Available at http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/konf/18415/1.html. (Quotes from my talk “Public Relations in the Journalistic Field,” European Public Relations and Research Assoc. Conference, Leipzig, Germany, September 2004). “Journalism, French and American Style.” On-Line Interview with Jay Rosen, “Pressthink” website, December 2003. Available at http://journalism.nyu.edu/ pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2003/12/05/benson_interview.html Quoted in Pierre Péan and Philippe Cohen. La face cachée du Monde: Du contre-pouvoir aux abus de pouvoir. Paris: Fayard, 2003 (French best-selling book about Le Monde). SELECTED VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS AND INVITED LECTURES “Public Spheres, Fields, and Networks: Conceptualizing Local, National, and Global Communications.” Invited speaker for conference on “Internationalizing ‘International Communication’”, Center for Communication Research, City University of Hong Kong, December 3-5, 2010. “How the U.S. and French Media Framed Immigration, 1973-2006.” Opening speaker, French-American Foundation Conference on “Covering Immigration.” Miami, May 5-6, 2010 “What is news diversity and how do we get it? Lessons from comparing French and American immigration coverage.” Invited Speaker for Conference on News and Inclusion: Journalism and the Politics of Diversity, Stanford University Department of Communication, March 4, 2010. “Measuring and Explaining Immigration Frames.” Invited Plenary Speaker, Conference on Media Framing of Immigration, University of Oslo, Norway, December 4, 2009. “Does Field Theory Help Explain Omnibus Media Cultural Production? A Comparison of French and U.S. Television News Framing of Immigration.” Yale University Department of Sociology fall speaker series. New Haven, CT, November 17, 2009. “American and European Journalistic Traditions” Fulbright Institute Workshop on “Mass Rodney Benson, Curriculum vitae, page 8 of 18 Culture, the Media, and American Politics.” New York, July 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010. “Measuring and Explaining Variation in Media Multivocality.” Paper presented at Erasmus University (Rotterdam, Netherlands) Conference on “Classification in the Arts and Media: The Impact of Globalization and Commercialization.” Byinvitation only conference. June 2008. Visiting Professor, L'Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Institute of Political Studies), Toulouse, France, March 2008 (also 2002, 2004, 2005). “Cultural Form and the Logics of Fields.” Invited Speaker, University of Virginia Department of Sociology Fall Colloquium Series. November 2007. “After Habermas: The Revival of a Macro-Sociology of Media.” Special invited panel on the “History of Sociology and the Mass Media.” American Sociological Association annual conference, New York, August 2007. “Field Theory in Contemporary Media and Journalism Research: Theoretical and Methodological Issues.” Presented paper at invited workshop jointly sponsored by the Norwegian Research Council and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales / Maison des sciences de l’homme. Paris, February 2007. “The U.S. Media and Immigration.” Lecture to visiting Mexican, South American, and Spanish students from the Mass Media Executive Training Program (Mexico City, Mexico). New York, July 2006. “Immigration and U.S. Nationalism.” Paper presented at Russell Sage Foundation Workshop. New York, May 2006. “Journalism: public profession and late modernity.” Invited to present paper and participate in Meeting of International Advisory Board, Academy of Finland research project. Tampere, Finland, May 2006 (declined because in China at the time). “Macro-structural Models of Media and Society: Public Sphere(s), Arenas, Fields, and Institutions.” Eastern Sociological Society annual conference, invited presenter in special panel, “The Future of Media Sociology.” Boston, February 2006. Visiting Professor, European Union-funded MediaCity Project, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany. October-December 2005. “Field theory and Comparative Media Research.” Series of lectures at MODINET (Centre for Media and Democracy) conference, Copenhagen, and at Roskilde University, Denmark. September 16, 20 and 22, 2004. Rodney Benson, Curriculum vitae, page 9 of 18 Invited discussant for special panel on “Media Markets and Convergence,” American Sociological Association annual conference. San Francisco, August 2004. “Mapping Field Variation: Journalism in France and the United States.” Invited lecture to Rutgers University School of Communication. New Brunswick, NJ, May 2004. “Immigration Debates in the French Media: 1973, 1983 and 1991.” Presentation to the NYU Institute of French Studies. Feb. 10, 2004. “Toward a critical political economy of the media: challenging the conventional wisdom.” Media Ecology Conference. Williams Lake, NY, November 2003. “The Institutional Structuring of the Public Sphere: Political Debate and Social Protest in the French and American News.” Invited lecture at the Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien. Bremen, Germany, May 2002. Invited lectures: USC Department of Sociology, Brandeis Department of Sociology, Williams College Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of California-San Diego Department of Communication, University of WashingtonSeattle Department of Communication, NYU Department of Culture and Communication. Fall 2001-Spring 2002. “Bourdieu and the Mass Media: New Approaches to Media Sociology.” Invited to present at featured session on “Cultural Producers and Politics: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu,” American Sociological Association annual conference. Washington, D.C., August 2000. “La recherche du profit et ses effets dans les médias américains: le cas du Los Angeles Times et de l’Orange County Register.” Invited speaker for panel on the “Responsibilities of Journalists,” Centre Universitaire de recherches administratives et politiques de Picardie (CURAPP). Amiens, France, March 2000. SELECTED CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PAPERS “Is the Internet ‘Europeanizing’ or ‘Americanizing’ Global Journalism? An Analysis of the Form of Print and Online Newspapers in Denmark, France and the U.S.” 20 pp. paper accepted for presentation at the International Communication Association annual conference, Singapore, June 24, 2010. Lead author; co-authors Mark Blach-Ørsten (Roskilde University, Denmark); Matthew Powers (NYU); Sandra Vera (Toulouse Institute of Politics, France); Ida Willig (Roskilde University, Denmark). “Transformation of U.S. Journalism: Long-Term Trends.” Invited discussant in panel Rodney Benson, Curriculum vitae, page 10 of 18 with presentations by Daniel Hallin and Charles Briggs, Raluca Cozma, and Victor Pickard, ICA conference in Singapore, June 25, 2010. “Framing the Immigration Debate in the U.S. National Media, 1974-2006.” Paper presented to the Connecticut College Conference on Undocumented Hispanic Immigration. New London, CT, October 16, 2009. “Newspaper Form and Multivocal Content: A Comparison of the French and U.S. Journalistic Fields.” Paper presented at International Communication Association conference, Political Communication division, Montreal. May 2008. “Public Relations in the Public Sphere: Habermas, Bourdieu, and the Question of Power.” Paper presented at International Communication Association conference, Philosophy of Communication division, Montreal. May 2008. “Shaping the Immigration Debate: Multiperspectival News in the French and American Press.” American Sociological Association annual conference, Session on Sociology of Media. Montreal, August 2006. “How States, Markets and Globalization Shape the News: The French and American National Press, 1965-1997.” With Daniel C. Hallin. Political Communication “Top Papers” Session, International Communication Association annual conference. New York, May 2005. “Public Relations in the Journalistic Field: Toward a Model for Cross-National Comparative Research.” European Public Relations Education and Research Association conference on Public Relations and the Public Sphere. Leipzig, Germany, September 2004. “Can Advertising Foster Radical Critique? The Case of 'Alternative Newsweeklies'” Paper presented at American Sociological Association annual conference, Session on Sociology of Media. San Francisco, August 2004. “ ‘Field’ versus ‘Institutional’ Models of News Production.” Special panel on “New Institutionalism and the News: Directions for Future Research.” Southern Political Science Association annual conference. New Orleans, January 2004. “Plus ça change … American and French political journalism, 1960s-1990s.” Presented at conference, “Le journalisme comme profession: Regard international comparé,” Université Rennes 1, Lannion (Brittany, France), May 2003. “La structuration des espaces publics: Etude comparée du traitement de l'immigration dans la presse américaine et française, 1973-1994.” Atelier “Sociologie des journalistes et de leurs publics, l'accès différencié aux medias” École des hautes études en sciences sociales. Paris, December 2002. Rodney Benson, Curriculum vitae, page 11 of 18 “Globalization of Social Problems? Sexual Harassment and Immigration in the French and American News.” Presented with Abigail C. Saguy. UCLA Center for Comparative Social Analysis (November 2002) and American Sociological Association annual meetings (August 2001). “Manque de journalisme spécialisé sur l’immigration en Amérique: causes et conséquences.” Séminaire: Les journalismes spécialisés, Institut Français de Presse, Université Paris II. Paris, June 2001. “The ‘Media Field’: A new research paradigm for the sociology of journalism.” Mass Communication Division session. International Communication Association annual conference. San Francisco, May 1999. “Bringing the Media Back In to Analysis of Political Culture.” Regular session on Political Culture, American Sociological Association annual conference. San Francisco, August 1998. “Constructing and Dismantling a French ‘Right to Difference’: A Social Constructionist Re-interpretation.” Harvard University Conference on Politics and Identity Formation in Contemporary Europe. Cambridge, Mass., April 1997. SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND HONORS The Axel and Margaret Ax:Son Johnson Foundation (Sweden), Project on “Limits to Free Journalism in Democratic Societies”, 2-year-grant, U.S. chief researcher (interviews with publishers and editors at leading U.S. news organizations) NYU Global Fellowship (for Paris-based research in 2009), Spring 2008 NYU Steinhardt Methodology Award (for online news media study), Spring 2008 NYU Humanities Council Grant, Spring 2007 Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany. “MediaCity” European Union Fellowship, Visiting Professor/Scholar in Residence, Fall 2005 “Top Paper Award” (one of top three papers), Political Communication Division, International Communication Association annual conference. Awarded for paper co-authored with Daniel Hallin, “How States, Markets and Globalization Shape the News: The French and American National Press, 1965-1997.” New York, May 2005. “Top Journal Article Nomination” (one of six articles nominated), Political Communication Division, International Communication Association annual Rodney Benson, Curriculum vitae, page 12 of 18 conference. For article, “Bringing the Sociology of Media Back In” in Political Communication 21 (2004). New York, May 2005. NYU University Challenge Fund Grant, “Internet as Agent of ‘Europeanization’ or ‘Americanization’ of Global Journalism? A Cross-National Study of Online News Media in Denmark, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States,” 20052007 NYU Steinhardt School Challenge Fund Grant, “Mediating Democracy: Public Debate in the U.S. and European Press,” 2003-2004 Council for European Studies, Young Scholars Network Travel Grant, 2002 The American University of Paris, Faculty Research Grants, 2000, 2001 Dean’s Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of California-Berkeley, 1997-1998 Center for German and European Studies Comparative Immigration and Integration Program, Dissertation Research Grants, University of California-Berkeley, 19971998 Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies Residential Fellowship, University of California-San Diego, 1997-1998 (declined) U.S. Foreign Languages and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships, 1995, 1996-1997 Institute of International Studies Simpson Fellowship, University of California-Berkeley, 1996-1997 Chancellor’s Humanities Fellowship, University of California-Berkeley, 1995-1996 Paul Lazarsfeld Sociology Ph.D. Fellowship, Columbia University, 1992-1996 (declined) Fellowship for Magazine Editing Workshop, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. May 1991 School of International Affairs Dean’s Fellowship and Chamberlain Fellowship, Columbia University, 1991-1992 President of Iowa State University Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists 1982-83. (Named “Top College Chapter” in the U.S. at national Society for Professional Journalists convention) Rodney Benson, Curriculum vitae, page 13 of 18 SERVICE TO THE DISCIPLINE AND PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Editorial Board Member: International Journal of Press/Politics (2008-present) Manuscript Reviewer for Journals (2004-present) American Journal of Sociology American Sociological Review Comparative European Politics Communication, Culture, and Critique Communication Review Critical Studies in Media Communication Ethnography French Politics, Culture & Society International Journal of Press/Politics Journal of Global Mass Communication Journalism: Theory, Practice, and Criticism Journalism Studies Poetics Political Communication Public Opinion Quarterly Sociological Focus Social Forces Sociological Forum Social Problems Sociological Theory Space and Society Theory, Culture & Society Manuscript and proposal reviewer for Book Publishers: Cambridge University Press Oxford University Press Edinburgh University Press Harvard University Press McGraw-Hill NYU Press Peter Lang Polity Routledge Rowman & Littlefield Stanford University Press External Evaluator of Funding Proposals: British Academy Israel Science Foundation French National Research Association (ANR) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Rodney Benson, Curriculum vitae, page 14 of 18 Nominated to be secretary/treasurer for Culture Section of American Sociological Association, on spring 2008 national ballot. Chair and Organizer of Panel for Conference of Europeanists, Council for European Studies: “The Limits of Americanization: European Journalists as Political Actors.” Chicago, March 14-16, 2002. Chief Organizer, Workshop on “Field theory and New Institutionalism: New Directions in Research on Media and Politics.” Funded by France-Berkeley Fund and held on the University of California-Berkeley campus, May 2000. American Sociological Association, Sections on culture, political sociology, work and organizations, comparative/historical, 1996International Communication Association, Divisions on journalism studies, political communication, philosophy of communication, 1998Reviewer for conference papers, ICA 2008-2010 conferences Associate editor, Journal of International Affairs, Columbia University, 1991-1992. INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS “Explaining Differences in Political News: A Comparative Analysis across Four Western Democracies and Four Decades.” Univerisität Zürich, Switzerland. Prof. Dr. Frank Esser (Project Leader). Member of international advisory board, along with Barbara Pfetsch, University of Hohenheim, Germany, and Daniel C. Hallin, University of California-San Diego. spring 2007“Journalism: Public Profession and Late Modernity.” External advisor to project, funded by Academy of Finland, led by Risto Kunelius, Professor, Dept. of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Tampere, Finland. spring 2005“The transnational migration of ideas: National Newspapers as Carriers of Migrating Ideas across Transatlantic Space.” External advisor for research project led by Prof. Dr. Hartmut Weßler, International University Bremen, Universität Bremen, Germany, fall 2004- TEACHING AND ADVISING New York University Graduate-level: Rodney Benson, Curriculum vitae, page 15 of 18 Comparative Media Systems and the Sociology of News (M.A./Ph.D.), spring 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010 (cross-listed with Sociology Department) Ph.D. Seminar I: Advanced Theory in Media, Culture, and Communication, fall 2008, 2009 Ph.D. Seminar II: Advanced Theory in Culture and Communication, spring 2004 M.A. Core Seminar in Media, Culture, and Communication, fall 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008 Media Criticism II: Contemporary Social Theory and Media (M.A./ Ph.D.), spring 2003 Undergraduate-level: Public Relations and the Public Sphere (senior seminar), fall 2003, 2008 Public Opinion (senior seminar), spring 2006 Immigration and the News (senior seminar), spring 2005 Mass Communication, Globalization and the Future (juniors-seniors), spring 2005, spring 2006, fall 2006, spring 2008 Summer Media Study Abroad Program in Hong Kong and Beijing, China (graduate/undergraduate, May-June 2006) The American University of Paris (all undergraduate: sophomores-seniors) Introduction to Sociology Media Sociology Globalization and Media Research Methods for Journalism Public Relations and Society Study Abroad Short Courses in London University of California-Berkeley Constructing Social Problems in the Public Sphere (undergraduate senior seminar) In addition, served as Teaching Assistant (discussion section leader and grader) for the following undergraduate courses: Introduction to Sociology (freshmen-sophomores: Ann Swidler) American Society (sophomores-seniors; Claude Fischer) Social Change (sophomores-seniors; Stephen Stoltenberg) Ethnic Politics (sophomores-seniors; Martin Sanchez-Jankowski) Mass Media Institutions (juniors-seniors; Todd Gitlin, Thomas C. Leonard) Mass Media Effects (juniors-seniors; Eric Gordy) ------Faculty sponsor (with Eric Klinenberg, Sociology) for NYU Media Council Graduate Student Conference, “Field Theory and Actor-Network Theory,” Sept. 2009 Faculty Sponsor (with Eric Klinenberg, Sociology) of NYU Media Council Graduate Student Conference, “Media Sociology: New Directions in Research.” Participated in “methodology” faculty panel with Herbert Gans (Columbia) and John B. Thompson (Cambridge), Nov. 2007 Rodney Benson, Curriculum vitae, page 16 of 18 Organized and moderated special NYU mini-conference, “Taking Journalism Seriously: Both Here and Abroad,” with Daniel C. Hallin, Barbie Zelizer, and Eric Klinenberg, April 2006 Ph.D. Comprehensive Examinations, Developed and Administered Exam with Arvind Rajagopal, Dept. of Culture and Communication, spring 2004, spring 2009 Moderator, Panel on “Spin: Media’s Role in Political Campaigns,” sponsored by Undergraduate communications honor society Lambda Pi Eta. Other panelists were Ashleigh Banfield (MSNBC), John Avlon (New York Sun), and Costas Panagopoulos (director of NYU Campaign Management department). October 2004 -----Member of Ph.D. dissertation committees Matthew Powers (NYU Media, Culture, and Communication, chair, committee in formation) Sarah Stonbely (NYU Media, Culture, and Communication, chair, committee in formation) Frederico Bertagnoli (NYU Media, Culture, and Communication) William Phillips (NYU Media, Culture, and Communication) Marion Wrenn (NYU Media, Culture, and Communication) Kathryn Kleppinger (NYU Comparative Literature / Institute of French Studies) Jill Campaiola (Rutgers Communication Department) Rasmus Nielsen (Columbia University, Communications Ph.D.) Mitchell Davis (NYU Food Studies) Elizabeth Hanauer (NYU International Education) Examiner for Ph.D. Comprehensive Exams Sarah Stonbely (NYU MCC) Jason Stanley (NYU Sociology) Gabriele Cosentino (NYU Media, Culture, and Communication, proposal defense) Sam Howard-Spink (NYU Media, Culture, and Communication, proposal defense) Christopher Anderson (Columbia University, Communications Ph.D.) Rodney Benson, Curriculum vitae, page 17 of 18 SELECTED UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL, AND DEPARTMENT SERVICE Ph.D. Committee, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication. Helped plan and execute a comprehensive re-organization of doctoral courses, requirements, and funding, 2008, 2003-4 Reviewer, Mitchell Leaska Research Dissertation Awards, fall 2009 Steinhardt Doctoral Affairs Committee, Sept. 2009 – Steinhardt representative to NYU Libraries Committee, Sept. 2007 – Judge for NYU University-wide Fulbright Fellowship Competition, 2006, 2008 New Faculty Search Committee (elected), Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, fall 2006-spring 2007 Study Committee (elected), Department of Media, Culture, and Communication. Charged with long-term planning and advice to and evaluation of the Dept. Chair, spring 2004-spring 2006 Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions’ International Education Faculty Search Committee, Outside Member, spring 2005 Undergraduate Committee, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication. Engaged in comprehensive reorganization of courses and requirements, 2004-05. NYU Center for Teaching Excellence, Department representative, 2004 Ad-hoc Committee for planning University of London (Goldsmith’s)-New York University Conference, “Culture, Media and the Disappearance of Area Studies,” January-April 2003 PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Communications Director and campaign spokesperson, Re-election campaign of Rep. Ted Weiss, New York, NY, spring-fall 1992. Editorial assistant and writer, Columbia Journalism Review, spring 1991. Senior Associate (Account executive and Creative director), Malchow & Company (political campaign consulting), Washington, DC, 1990-1991. Freelance journalist, In These Times, 1989-1990. Rodney Benson, Curriculum vitae, page 18 of 18 Chief speechwriter / Special assistant, U.S. Senator Tom Harkin, Washington, DC, 1985-1990. Drafted all policy and political speeches, major floor statements, and op/ed articles by Senator; traveled with Senator on official Senate and political campaign trips; supervised communications staff responsible for drafting official newsletters, weekly column for Iowa local press, etc. Editorial and Fundraising Consultant (writer/editor), Independent Action (a progressive political action committee), Washington, DC, 1985-90. Assistant press secretary, U.S. Rep. Tom Harkin, Washington, DC, 1984. Freelance reporter, Ames (IA) Tribune, 1982-83; City editor, Editorial page editor, and staff writer, Iowa State Daily, 1981-83; Staff Reporter, Clarinda (IA) HeraldJournal, 1981. Press aide, John Glenn for President, Des Moines, IA, 1983.