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E. Patrick Johnson smiles in his office

Welcome to Academic Year 2024

School of Communication Dean E. Patrick Johnson welcomes our community to a new academic year.

Events

Nov
4
2024
SoC | EPICS: Your Connections + Story
2:00 PM John J. Louis Hall, 1877 Campus Drive
This session will help you learn key strategies to building your connections (network) and tell your story (create a pit...
Nov
5
2024
SoC | EPICS: Your Connections + Story
12:30 PM Frances Searle Building, 2240 Campus Drive
This session will help you learn key strategies to building your connections (network) and tell your story (create a pit...
Nov
6
2024
Lunch Seminar with Sandra Ruiz: Reading from and discussing Left Turns in Brown Study
12:30 PM Annie May Swift Hall, 1920 Campus Drive
Performance Studies scholar Sandra Ruiz reads from and discusses her new book Left Turns in Brown Study (Duke University...

Featured Event:

Join the School of Communication as Dean E. Patrick Johnson engages in conversation with Jacqueline Stewart on Wednesday, November 13, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. CDT

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Dialogue with the Dean: Jacqueline Stewart

Wednesday, November 13
6:00 – 7:30 p.m. CDT

Attend virtually: Zoom webinar

Attend in-person: Ethel M. Barber Theater, 30 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, Il

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Jacqueline Stewart is a film historian, author and archivist whose scholarship and public engagement work amplifies underrepresented voices in cinema. She is Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, and host of “Silent Sunday Nights” on Turner Classic Movies (TCM).

From 2021 to 2024, Stewart served as Chief Artistic and Programming Officer and then Director and President of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. She founded the South Side Home Movie Project, a community-centered archival program housed at the University of Chicago’s Arts + Public Life that will celebrate its 20th year in 2025.

Stewart is the author of Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity, and co-editor of L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema and William Greaves: Filmmaking as Mission. In 2015, she co-curated the five-disc set Pioneers of African American Cinema for Kino Lorber.

Stewart is chair of the National Film Preservation Board (NFPB), which advises the Librarian of Congress on the annual National Film Registry. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2023 Silver Light Award from the Association of Moving Image Archivists, and the 2024 Distinguished Career Achievement Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018. Stewart earned her PhD in English from the University of Chicago and her BA in English from Stanford University.

Dialogue Magazine

The magazine is published twice annually for alumni and friends of the School of Communication

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Fall 2023

In this issue:

  • A Theatrical Legacy: How a vibrant regional theater is the realization of alumnus Bob Rechnitz's dream
  • StoryComm: A new oral history project captures the first-person accounts of School of Communication students, faculty, and alumni 
  • Student Focus: Human communication sciences major Mel McDaniel keeps her eyes wide open as she explores the diversity of her field

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