Associate Professor
Office: ABAH 407
Phone: 218-726-7528
or
Office: DAdB 273
Phone: 218-726-6849
Email: dpeters1
Spring 2009
Comm 3505 Media Communications Syllabus
Comm 3525 Deciding What's News
Deborah Petersen-Perlman is an Associate Professor specializing in mass communication.
She has taught at UMD since 1988, after teaching briefly at the University of
Wisconsin-Stevens Point, the University of Iowa, and Illinois State University.
She holds an MA and Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Iowa, and
a BA in Speech Communication from the University of Arizona. Dr. Petersen-Perlman's
dissertation topic was "Texaco's Support of the Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts."
She has published on this topic as well as "Radio Comes to the Farm",
"Sitcom Husbands", using media in the classroom,
and a number of pedagogical studies. Her most recent publication was a co-authored
piece called "Choreographing Partnerships" published in the British
Journal "Teaching in Higher Education."
Dr. Petersen-Perlman is also UMD's Director of the Office of Equal Opportunity,
a position she has held since 1996. She has done some writing in the area of
minority retention, and cooperative problem solving relative to affirmative
action and equal opportunity. Dr. Petersen-Perlman has received training in
Alternative Dispute Resolution and is a registered Civil Mediator specializing
in sexual harassment and discrimination issues.