Shiela Reaves
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Office: 228 Hiram Smith Hall |
Background | Teaching |Publications | Education
Background
I am a Professor within the Life Sciences Communication department and also an affiliate faculty member of the American Indian Studies Program. I enjoy teaching visual communication to our science students. And I especially enjoy the diversity of students that take my Visualizing Science & Technology course because we see the impact of our brain’s visual processing systems (perception, design, culture) across the media, from news to marketing to personal awareness or stereotypes.
My research area is visual communication, especially the ethics of digital manipulation of news and media photographs, and I have published in the Journal of Media Ethics, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Newspaper Research Journal and the Handbook of Visual Communication. Currently I am on the editorial board for Visual Communication Quarterly.
I also enjoy writing narrative history, such as Wisconsin Land of Change, an illustrated history of Wisconsin ’s growth from the Ice Age to the present. I am currently beginning an illustrated history of the Marshfield Clinic.
My outreach service with the Native American Journalism Association (NAJA) is also important to me. I have helped coordinate and teach Project Phoenix, NAJA’s weeklong summer journalism camp for Native American high school students since its beginning in 1997 and also serve on the non-profit board of News From Indian Country, which broadcasts Native television at www.indiancountrynews.com.
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Positions Held
| Professor, Life Sciences Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison , 2005 – present.
| Associate Professor, Life Sciences Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison , 2001- 2005.Affiliate Faculty, American Indian Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison , 1999 – present.
| Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996- 2001. Division of Continuing Studies, Department of Liberal Studies and the Arts, 59% / School of Journalism and Mass Communication, 41%
| Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin- Madison 1989-1995, Division of Continuing Studies, Department of Liberal Studies and the Arts, 59% / School of Journalism and Mass Communication, 41%
| Adjunct Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986-1998.
| Staff Photographer, The Capital Times, Madison , Wisconsin (first woman photojournalist on a Wisconsin daily newspaper; specialized in news and sports photography), October 1997- August 1985.
| Staff Photographer, Pioneer Press, Time Inc. Wilmette, Illinois (staff photographer to Time Inc.’s weekly chain of newspapers in western suburbs of Chicago ), February to October 1977.
