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Chang-Dae Ham
Professor of AdvertisingAssociate Head of Graduate Studies Education Affiliations Course Specialties Background Dr. Ham joined Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising in 2010 as a tenure-track faculty. Prior to joining academia, Dr. Ham worked in the advertising industry for ten years as an account executive, account planner, and Internet marketing consultant at LG AD (HS […]
Mira Sotirovic
Associate Professor Emerita of Journalism Education Course Specialties Related Links Contact sotirovi@illinois.edu 217-333-7833
Steve Hall
Senior Lecturer of Advertising Education Affiliations Course Specialties Background Steve currently teaches the Introduction to Advertising course, a Weston Exploration Freshman Discovery advertising class and special topic Advertising Campaign courses with national and global client brands. Steve is the faculty advisor for the largest American Advertising Federation (AAF) student chapter in the country, NSAC advisor, and […]
Margaret Yee Man Ng
Associate Professor of Journalism Education Affiliations Course Specialties Background Ng is a media researcher with certified industrial training (Galvanize) in data science and database tools. Broadly speaking, her research examines technology use, social media, and information diffusion using large-scale, unstructured data and computational methods. Particularly, she explores three distinctive yet interrelated components of the web: […]
Derek Long
Associate Professor of Media & Cinema Studies Education Course Specialties Background Derek Long is a historian of media industries, specializing in the Hollywood studio system, film distribution, and digital approaches to cinema history. His first book, Playing the Percentages: How Film Distribution Made the Hollywood Studio System (University of Texas Press, 2024), examines the history of film […]
Josh Heuman
Senior Lecturer of Journalism Senior Lecturer of Media & Cinema Studies Education Course Specialties Background Dr. Heuman’s research explores media industries and regulation (especially television), with an emphasis on the regulation of media work. His different projects come together in a concern for the cultural life of media industries and their regulation (from content regulation […]
Charles “Stretch” Ledford
Associate Professor of Journalism Education Affiliations Course Specialties Background Recipient of the 2020 Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence Award and named the 2014 Associated Press Media Editors Innovator of the Year for College Students, Stretch Ledford has worked as a journalist telling stories through audio, photographs and video in more than 55 countries. His career […]
Brian Johnson
Professor Emeritus of Journalism Education Course Specialties Background Johnson started his journalism career as a staff photojournalist at The News-Gazette in Champaign and has been teaching at the University since 1988. Johnson’s work has been published in the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, USA Today, Newsday and others. Research and Creative […]
Brant Houston
Knight Chair Professor in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting, Department of Journalism Background Professor Brant Houston holds the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Chair in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting at the University of Illinois. Houston teaches investigative and advanced reporting in the Department of Journalism in the College of Media at Illinois. He also […]