CMS Program - Staff and Advisory Boards

CMS Director
Julie Dobrow
617-627-4744
julie.dobrow@tufts.edu

Julie Dobrow has an A.B. from Smith College in anthropology and sociology, and holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research centers on the content and effects of media on children, and on issues of gender and ethnicity in media. Her current work focuses on an analysis of children's animated programming, and how children make sense of the ethnic and gender images in the world of cartoons. Dobrow has worked professionally as a journalist, and runs workshops on media literacy training for parents, teachers, and students.

CMS Associate Director
Susan Eisenhauer
617-627-2007
susan.eisenhauer@tufts.edu

Susan Eisenhauer has a B.A. in English from Tufts and a M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She has worked in many areas of media, including print journalism, television, radio, and public relations. Among other responsibilities, she directs the internship program, supervising more than 90 students each year who intern for credit at media organizations.

CMS Staff Assistant
John Ciampa
617-627-2155
john.ciampa@tufts.edu

John Ciampa has a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Before joining CMS, he was a staff writer for the Community Newspaper Company, and continues to freelance for various publications.

Film Studies Coordinator
Hosea Hirata, Associate Professor, Japanese
617-627-2671
hosea.hirata@tufts.edu

Hosea Hirata received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in Comparative Literature. His first book, The Poetry and Poetics of Nishiwaki Junzaburo: Modernism in Translation (Princeton University Press, 1993), explored possible links between post-structuralist thought and the work of a Japanese avant-garde poet. His upcoming book, Seduced Readings: Modern Japanese Literature, Evil, History, Desire , is a series of Lacanian readings of modern Japanese fiction and criticism, questioning the dominance of new-historicism in approaching literature. He is also a published poet and an experimental film maker.

Karen Panetta is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tufts University. She received a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Boston University, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University. Before joining the faculty at Tufts, Panetta was employed as a computer engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation. Her reserach in Simulation and Modeling has won her research team five awards from NASA for "Outstanding Contributions to NASA Research" and "Excellence in Research." She is a NASA Langley Research Scientist "JOVE" Fellow, is a recipient of the NSF Career Award, and won the 2003 Madeline and Henry Fischer Best Engineering Teacher Award. At Tufts, in addition to co-chairing the Multimedia Arts Minor program, Panetta is developing a documentary, entitled the "Nerd Girls: Breaking the Stigmas and Stereotypes of Women in Engineering and Sciences."

Howard Woolf holds a B.A. and a M.A. in English and American Literature from the University of Massachusetts/Boston and is A.B.D. in American Studies at Boston University. He teaches digital filmmaking at Tufts and advises TUTV, the campus television station. He has become involved in a number of film projects during recent years, which include helping to produce a documentary on the American avant-garde composer, George Antheil; working on the cinematography for a film celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Rolling Stones; and acting as executive producer for an independent feature film, The Real Dick.

CMS University Executive Board
Gail Bambrick, Director, Tufts Publications
Marina Bers, Assistant Professor, Child Development
Jeanne Dillon, Associate Dean, Undergraduate Education
James Ennis, Associate Professor, Sociology
Robyn Gittleman, Director, Experimental College
Hosea Hirata, Associate Professor, Japanese
Charles Inouye, Professor, Japanese
Nan Levinson, Lecturer, English
Christiane Romero, Professor, German
Howard Woolf, Associate Director, Experimental College

CMS University Advisory Board
Joseph Bakan, Manager, Educational Media Center, T-NEMC
Nancy Bauer, Associate Professor, Philosophy
Dale Bryan, Assistant Director, Peace and Justice Studies
Downing Cless, Associate Professor, Drama
Alva Couch, Associate Professor, Computer Science
Lee Edelman, Professor, English
Laura Ferguson, Associate Director, Adv. Communications
Calvin Gidney, Associate Professor, Child Development
James Glaser, Dean for Undergraduate Education
Barbara Grossman, Associate Professor, Drama
David Guss, Associate Professor, Anthropology
Neal Hirsig, Assistant Director, Instructional Services, ITS
Vida Johnson, Professor, Russian
Paul Joseph, Professor, Sociology
Joseph Litvak, Professor, English
David Locke, Associate Professor, Music
Joel Rosenberg, Associate Professor, Judaic Studies
Fred Rothbaum, Professor, Child Development
Laurence Senelick, Professor, Drama
Sarah Sobieraj, Assistant Professor, Sociology
Sherman Teichman, Director, Institute for Global Leadership
Judith Wechsler, Professor, Art History

CMS Alumni Executive Board
Neal Shapiro, Chair, President, Thirteen/WNET
William Abrams, Executive Director, Trickle Up Program
Joan Bachenheimer, CEO, BBK Worldwide
Judy Bass, Media and Entertainment Attorney
Nadine Brozan, Reporter, The New York Times
John Davidow, News Director/Managing Editor, WBUR-FM
Jennifer Faucon, Vice President, MRM Partners Worldwide
Patrick Healy, Reporter, The New York Times
Peter Himler, Senior PR Consultant, Flatiron Communications
Wayne Kabak, Co-COO New York, William Morris Agency
Julie Salamon, Freelance Journalist
Josh Seftel, Seftel Productions
Neil Swidey, Staff Writer, The Boston Globe Magazine
Dan Weiller, Press Secretary to the Speaker of the New York State Assembly

CMS Alumni Advisory Board
Albert Berger, Bona Fide Productions
Samantha Brous, Consultant
Robert Burnett, Executive Producer, World Wide Pants Inc.
William Glaberson, Reporter, The New York Times
Cary Granat, CEO, Walden Media
Jeff Greenstein, TV Writer & Producer
Todd Kessler, TV Writer & Producer
Steven Koltai, Chairman and CEO, Koltai & Company
Jonathan Levin, Creative Artists Agency
Gina Sanders, Publisher, Teen Vogue Magazine
Ted Schachter, President, Schachter Entertainment
Steven Schragis, Executive Director, Educational Media Group
Tovia Smith, Correspondent, National Public Radio
Tara Sonenshine, Media Analyst
Jeff Strauss, Jeff Strauss Productions
David Sutherland, David Sutherland Productions
Eric Tannenbaum, President, Tannenbaum Co.
Steven Tisch, President, Steve Tisch Company
Courtenay Valenti, Executive Vice President, Warner Brothers Films