MASS
COMMUNICATION FACULTY
J.
William Click came to Winthrop in 1987 after four years
as director of the School of Journalism
at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. He previously
taught journalism at Ohio
University, Athens, and Central Michigan
University, Mount Pleasant. He was
director of public relations at Findlay (Ohio) College one
year. Click received the
Magazine Educator of the Year Award from the Magazine Division
of the Association for Education in
Journalism and Mass Communication. He has worked as a
reporter for Fairchild Publications
in Chicago and in public relations at Motorola Inc. in
suburban Chicago.
He is past national president of Kappa
Tau Alpha, honor society for journalism and mass
communication; past president of the Association of
Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication; and a former
member
of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass
Communications. He was a member of the Screening
Committee of the National Magazine Awards four years. He was managing editor of Journalism Quarterly
nine years and is listed in Who's Who in Advertising,
Who’s Who in the Media and Communications and Who's Who in America.
He earned his B.A. at Ball State University (Indiana), M.S. at
Ohio University and Ph.D. at Ohio State University.
Telephone 803/323-2121. E-mail clickw@winthrop.edu
Justin S. Brown - Assistant
Professor
Justin Brown joined the Winthrop faculty in 2009 after
teaching at the University of Florida and Penn State
University. His teaching and research interests center on
communication law and policy, including the Internet and new
media.
Dr. Brown has made research presentations at conferences of
the International Communications Association, Association
for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication,
Broadcast Education Association and the Telecommunication
Policy Research Conference. His research has been published
in Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal,
Communication Research, Communication Law & Policy,
Federal Communications Law Journal, Cornell
Journal of Law & Public Policy, IDEA: Intellectual
Property Law Review and Info: The journal of
policy, regulation and strategy for telecommunications,
information and media. He also worked as a research
assistant at Penn State's Institute for Information Policy
and the Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment. He is a
member of editorial review board of Journalism and Mass
Communication Educator.
He earned his B.S. (Journalism) from the University of Oregon,
and his M.A. (Telecommunication Studies) and Ph.D. (Mass
Communication) from Penn State University.
Telephone 803/323-4532. E-mail
brownj@winthrop.edu
D. Haney Howell - Associate Professor
Haney Howell joined Winthrop in 1988 from a position at Conus Communications,
Minneapolis. Before that, he spent seven years with CBS-TV
News, including four as a producer in New York City and
two as Saigon correspondent and bureau chief. He also was with ABC
Radio News, New York, three years, and KOA-TV (now KCNC) and
KOA Radio, Denver, two years. His experience includes news
work in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and New Delhi, India, and radio work
in Wichita Falls, Texas; Mobile, Ala.; Athens, Tenn.; Miami;
Savannah, Ga.; Knoxville, Tenn.; and
Copperhill, Tenn.
Howell has participated in the Poynter
Institute Seminar on Broadcast Journalism in St. Petersburg,
Fla., and spent one summer at WTVH Syracuse, N.Y., as
part of the Radio Television News Directors Foundation
Excellence in Journalism Education project. Berkeley
published Howell’s novel, Roadrunners. He
earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Midwestern State
University (Texas).
Telephone 803/323-4534. E-mail howellh@winthrop.edu
Mark S. Nortz -
Instructor
Mark S. Nortz joined the Winthrop faculty in 2004 to teach
television production and related broadcasting courses.
He worked in a variety of positions at WWNY-TV Watertown,
N.Y., for 13 years, including photojournalist, editor,
associate producer and assignment editor. He also taught
six years at the Jefferson Technical Center in Watertown. He won the New York State Broadcasters Association award for
Best Spot News three times and Best Series once. He
received Honorable Mention from the Associated Press for
his news series "The Final Gift" and won the Syracuse (N.Y.)
Press Club Best Spot News Award once. He earned his B.S.
at the State University of New York at Fredonia and his M.S.
at the State University of New York at Potsdam.
Telephone
803/323-4529, E-mail
nortzm@winthrop.edu
Padmini Patwardhan
– Associate Professor
Padmini Patwardhan joined the Winthrop
faculty in 2005. She previously taught at Texas Tech
University and
the University of Pune, India. Her professional experience
spans a decade in India as copywriter/creative consultant with
Grey Advertising, Bozell Worldwide, Market
Missionaries and Pratibha Advertising and as a columnist for
Maharashtra Herald. She has teaching and research
interests in international advertising and public relations,
integrated marketing communication, and media effects.
Dr. Patwardhan is an award-winning researcher with eight
conference awards and competitive research grants from the
American Academy of Advertising, National Association of
Broadcasters, and Winthrop Research Council, among others.
Since 2001, she has written or co-authored 13 journal
articles, a book chapter, and presented 21 conference
papers. She is a 2006 fellow of the Advertising Educational
Foundation's Visiting Professor Program and serves as 2008
chair of the International Advertising Education Committee
of the American Academy of Advertising.
She earned her B.A. in English, B.J. in
Journalism and M.A. from the University of Pune, India, and a
Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Telephone 803/323-4526. E-mail
patwardhanp@winthrop.edu
Guy S. Reel - Associate Professor
Guy S. Reel joined the faculty in 2002 after an 18-year career
with the Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial Appeal and three
years as a Scripps Teaching Fellow in the doctoral program at
Ohio University, Athens. At the Commercial Appeal, he
started as a general assignment reporter and bureau chief of
the newspaper's Columbus, Miss., bureau. He then was capital
bureau chief, columnist, political writer, and business and
government reporter for the Commercial Appeal Little
Rock, Ark., bureau for six years while Bill Clinton was
governor. He returned to Memphis as education reporter two
years and swing editor one year before becoming deputy metro
editor for seven years.
He is author of Unequal
Justice: Wayne Dumond, Bill Clinton and the Politics of Rape
in Arkansas, co-author of The Blood of Innocents
and editor of The Kemmons Wilson Holiday Inn Story. His
B.A. is from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, his
M.A. from the University of Memphis and his Ph.D. is from Ohio
University, Athens.
Telephone
803/323-4531. E-mail reelg@winthrop.edu
Marilyn S. Sarow - Professor
Marilyn S. Sarow was manager of internal communications and
assistant director of public affairs at the Chandler Medical
Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, four years and
public information coordinator and publications manager of the
University of Wisconsin Centers, Madison, seven years.
She taught mass communication at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse
two years. Sarow
was president of the Charlotte, N.C., chapter of Women in
Communications, Inc. She is the co-author of Integrated
Business Communication in a Global Marketplace (2007)
and co-author of Cancer Advocacy: Gender, Media and
Public Policy (2007).
She joined the
Winthrop faculty in 1990. She earned her B.S. at Western
Michigan University, her M.A. at Southern Illinois
University-Carbondale and her Ph.D. at the University of South
Carolina.
Telephone 803/323-4530. E-mail sarowm@winthrop.edu
Lawrence C. Timbs Jr. - Associate Professor
Larry
Timbs came to Winthrop in 1985 from the
University of Iowa, where he had been a journalism instructor
while working on his Ph.D. degree. He had been a general
manager, editor, news editor and reporter for newspapers owned
by Landmark Community Newspapers, Inc., Shelbyville, Ky.,
seven years. He is the faculty adviser to the Winthrop Chapter
of the Society of Professional Journalists. He currently
serves on the South Carolina Press Association Collegiate
Division Committee. He is adviser to the campus
weekly, The
Johnsonian,
and is a U.S. Air Force veteran. He earned his B.A. at
Christopher Newport College (Newport News, Virginia), his M.A.
at the University of South Carolina and his Ph.D. at the
University of Iowa.
Telephone
803/323-4533. E-mail
timbsl@winthrop.edu
William A. Fisher - Professor (part-time)
William A. Fisher is a
part-time professor after nine years as a full-time Winthrop
faculty member beginning in 1984. He taught journalism for 34
years at Kent State, where he was director of public relations
2 1/2 years. He previously worked on the editorial staffs of
the Fort Wayne, Ind., News-Sentinel and the Amarillo (Texas)
Times. He has worked summers as a public relations
representative for B.F. Goodrich Co. and copy
editor of the Canton, Ohio, Repository. He was chair of the
Newspaper Division of the Association for Education in
Journalism and Mass Communication for two years. He received
the Distinguished Adviser Award from the national Society of
Professional Journalists and is a former member of the
Advisory Board of the Student Press Law Center, Washington,
D.C. His A.B. is from Franklin College of Indiana and his
M.S.J. from Northwestern University (Illinois).
Telephone 803/323-4851. E-mail
fisherw@winthrop.edu
