Faculty

Michael Schudson

Professor of Journalism

Michael Schudson, a historian and sociologist of journalism, became a full member of the Journalism School faculty in 2006. He retains an appointment also at the University of California, San Diego.

Schudson grew up in Milwaukee Wisconsin. He received a B.A. from Swarthmore College and M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard in sociology. He taught at the University of Chicago before coming to San Diego.

He is the author of six books and editor of two others concerning the history and sociology of the American news media, advertising, popular culture, Watergate, and cultural memory. He is the recipient of a number of honors; he has been a Guggenheim fellow, a resident fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, and a MacArthur Foundation "genius" fellow. In 2004 he received the Murray Edelman distinguished career award from the political communication section of the American Political Science Association and the International Communication Association.

Schudson's articles have appeared in Columbia Journalism Review, Wilson Quarterly, and The American Prospect, and he has published "op-eds" in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, the Financial Times, and San Diego Union.