Gerald John Davey, Ph. D.
Department of Radio, Television and Film
San Antonio College
San Antonio, TX 78210
email: gdavey@accd.edu
Ph: 210-829-5666 (H)
Ph: 210-785-6277 (W)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
San Antonio College (2000-Present): Introduction to Mass Communications; Survey of Broadcasting; Broadcasting News Writing and Production (incl. video field production) in Dept. of Radio, Television and Film. Created web-based version of Introduction to Mass Communication with video and audio content fully synchronized by accompanying written text and description for the hearing impaired, first taught in Spring, 2003. Web Course Developer and Instructor Certification Awarded, Fall, 2003.
Recent Teaching Awards: Top Professors in San Antonio, selected by San Antonio
College, Scene In SA Magazine, December, 2006
2006 UT Austin/NISOD Excellence in Teaching Award.
2006 San Antonio College Adjunct Faculty Excellence
in Teaching Award.
Trinity University (1992-1998): Documentary: Theory and History; Documentary Production (video and still). Mass Media (Media Systems); Media Messages (Introduction to media production techniques, visual communication, media interpretation and criticism); Print Production [Desktop Publ.]: Design Theory, technique, production and publication; News, Feature, Editorial Writing and Editing; [Department and Student Evaluations rank teaching consistently as “excellent” or “outstanding.”]
The University of Iowa (1987-92): Photojournalism Workshop [graduate and undergraduate]; Visual Communication [graduate and undergraduate]; News Writing and Reporting; Social and Historical Foundations of Mass Communication.
University of Iowa Award: Outstanding Teaching Assistant, 1991.
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Mass Communication August, 1992
The School of Journalism and Mass Communications
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
Master of Divinity March, 1983
The Chicago Theological Seminary
5757 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637
(Ph. D. Candidacy Granted: Early Modern History) June, 1972
Dept. of History
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA
Master of Arts, History August, 1971
The University of Iowa
Iowa, City, IA 52242
Bachelor of Arts, with Honors in History August, 1969
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS AND PRODUCTIONS:
Sixteen photographic images will be included in the forthcoming college textbook by Dr. Paul
Lester:Visual Communication: Mediia with Messages, 5th ed. (Wadsworth, Fall, 2009). The images
are: Bottle House, Rhyolite, NV, 2002; Woman Behind Glass Door, NYC, 2000;
Worker, LV, NV 1999; Little Chapel, Las Vegas, 1999; We Know What You Want,
NYC, NY, 2000; "Colored Entrance," New Orleans, LA, 1997; Petroglyph,
Rural NM, 2002; Restaurant Bar, Austin, NV, 2003; Vinton Cemetery #1, CA, 2002;
Vinton Cemetery #2, CA, 2002.
"A Historical Approach to Understanding Documentary Photographs:
Dialogue, Interpretation, and Method,” Handbook of Visual
Communication: Theory, Methods, and Media, eds. Ken Smith, Sandra
Moriarty, Gretchen Barbatsis, Keith Kenney (Lawrence Earlbaum and Associates: now
Routledge, London, UK, 2005)
"Social Landscape Photography," professional website www.social-landscape-
photo.com, linked by invitation to Visual Communication Faculty Workshop
Resources (as classroom teaching resources), now also exhibiting through Artists-
Showcase (“artists- showcase.org”), The Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft.
Collins, CO and currently considering invitations to exhibit with two European
Agencies.
“Social Landscape Photography,” Essay and Portfolio of Social Landscape Photographs, Visual
Communication Quarterly, Winter, 1998.
SILENT PARTNER [Instructor and Editor of Story Line]: 26 min. video documentary; won 3rd place,
Silver State (National) Documentary Festival, Current Events Division, Las Vegas, NV, Summer,
1995.
Human Rights/Human Wrongs: Art and Social Change, Ed. Hobbs, R. and Woodard, F. Museum of
Art: The University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1986. (Photo Credits.)
Conference Papers:
“Style and Substance: The FSA photography of Russell Lee, A Hermeneutic
Reading,” Visual Communication Conference 11, Jackson, WY, June, 1997
“The Influence of Roy Stryker on Russell Lee's F.S.A. Documentary: A
Discourse Anaysis," Visual Communication Conference 8, Lake Tahoe, CA,
June, 1994.
"The Limits of Photographic Interpretation: A Hermeneutic Appraisal," Speech Communication
Association National Convention, Miami, FL, November, 1993. (Now National Communication
Association.)
“Hermeneutics,Method and Meta-Critique in the Interpretation of Photographs"
(earlier version of the above), Seventh Annual Visual Communication Conference, Jackson Hole,
WY, June, 1993.
“Hermeneutics, The Humanities and Ethnographic Theory in Mass Media
Research," Society for Applied Anthropology, San Antonio, TX, March, 1993.
"Experiencing Photographs 'as' Photographs," Annual Big-Ten Mini-Conference,
Iowa City, IA, Fall, 1989.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Director of Planned Giving, The Chicago Theological Seminary, 1984-86:
5757 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL 60637. Created brochures (text and design), photographic illustrations, Faculty portraits, Large Exhibition Quality Framed Photographs as Official Seminary Gifts for retiring faculty, administrators and Presidents; assisted with annual reports and other publications, contacted major donors and prospective donors to the seminary, supervised the Development Office’s computer records and system, represented the seminary in meetings with prominent alumni, benefactors and trustees.
Director of Research and Records, The Chicago Theological Seminary,
1982-1984. With the exception of donor relations, same as above.
Photographer, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1986-1990 (one-half time and/or one-quarter time): Photographs for: FYI (University of Iowa newsletter for faculty and staff), University of Iowa Arts Calendar; The University of Iowa Press; slide exhibitions for statewide instruction; photographs for catalogs and exhibits; photographs for the Guggenheim, the American Craft Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, The Des Moines Register, the Iowa City Press Citizen, and other publications.
Freelance Photographer (1980-Present): Alfred A. Knopf (Random House), N. Y., N. Y.; Meadville-Lombard Theol. School, Chicago, IL; Pilgrim Press, Chicago, IL.; Studio Artists’ Photography for University of Iowa Art Faculty Projects; General Studio Photography incl. Commercial, Portraiture, Photographic Restoration and Finishing, R. W. Lutz Studios, Iowa City, IA.
Faculty Internship: WOAI News, Summer, 2004
AWARDS: (Excluding Teaching Awards Cited Above)
-Silver State Documentary Festival, Current Events Division, 3rd place,
Summer, 1995, for “SILENT PARTNER” [Instructor] : 26 min. video
documentary production.
-Trinity University Summer Research Stipend, 1994.
-Murray Dissertation Research Grant, The School of Journalism and
Mass Commication, 1991.
-Murray Scholarship Grant, The University of Iowa, 1991.
-Editor (elect), The Journal of Communication Inquiry, 1991
-Pendergast Memorial Scholarship, The University of Iowa, 1987
-Doctor of Ministry Fellowship, Chicago Theological Seminary, 1983
-President’s Prize Fellowship, Chicago Theological Seminary, 1982
-President's Prize Fellowship, Chicago Theological Seminary, 1981
-Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 1972
-Honor's Program Graduate, The University of Iowa, 1969
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
National:
Co-Chair and Judge, AEJMC Web Design Award, 2001
Judge/Reviewer, Qualitative Studies Division, AEJMC, New Orleans, 1999
Head, Media and Disabilities Division, AEJMC, Baltimore, 1998
Judge/Reviewer, Qualitative Studies Division, AEJMC, Baltimore, 1998
Vice Head, Media and Disabilities Interest Group, AEJMC, Chicago, 1997
Panelist, Repetitive Stress Injuries in Academe and the Workplace, AEJMC,
Chicago, IL, 1997
Reviewer, Journalism and Mass Communication Monographs, 1997
Judge/Reviewer, AEJMC Qualitative Division, Chicago, IL, 1997
Divisional Name Study Committee, Qualitative Studies Division, 1997-8
Reviewer, AEJMC Communication Theory and Methodology Division,
Chicago, IL, 1997
Judge/Reviewer, ÆJMC Qualitative Division, Anaheim, CA, 1996
Moderator,“ Literary Journalism, “Qualitative Division, ÆJMC National
Convention, Anaheim, CA, 1996
Judge/Reviewer, AEJMC Qualitative Division, Washington, D. C., 1995
Judge/Reviewer, AEJMC Visual Communication Division, Washington,
D. C., 1995
Moderator, AEJMC Visual Communication Division, Washington,
D. C., 1995
State:
Judge, Annual Competition (1994), Texas Community Newspaper Association: Categories included: Best Front Page Design and Layout; Best Story; Best Photo Story.
COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS:
Executive Vice Presidential Search Committee, Adjunct Representative, San
Antonio College, Spring, 2006.
Elected Representative, Adjunct Faculty Council, San Antonio College, 2004-Present.
Adjunct Faculty Representative, Academic Council, San Antonio College, 2005-Present.
Chair, Critical Issues Committee, Adjunct Faculty Council, San Antonio College, 2005-Present.
Travel and Scholarship Fund-Raising Committee, AEJMC Visual Communication Division, 1995
Publication Board, Trinity University, 1994-1997
Writing Workshop Review Committee, Trinity University, 1993
Graduate Student Representative, Graduate Admissions Committee,
The School of Journalism and Mass Communications, The University of Iowa, 1990-1991
ORGANIZATIONS: (Current and Recent)
AEJMC (Divisions and Interest Groups: Visual Communication, Qualitative
Studies, History, Comm. Theory and Methodology, International
Communication, Newspaper, Mass Comm and Society; Media and
Disabilities Interest Group, Religion and Media Interest Group)
Mensa America, Ltd.
Kappa Tau Alpha (Journalism Honorary Society)
S.P.E. (Society of Photographic Educators)
REFERENCES:
Terry L. Tackitt, Former Chair, Dept. of Radio, Television and Film, San Antonio
College, San Antonio, TX 78210
William Christ, Ph. D., Chair, Dept. of Communication, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX 78212
Sammye Johnson, Augustus de Lozano Distinguished Professor of Journalism, Dept. of Communication,
Trinity University, San Antonio, TX 78212
Ken Starck, Ph. D., (Professor Emeritus) School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of
Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52240
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