Stanley J. Baran Bryant University

Stanley J. Baran, Professor Emeritus in the Communication Department at Bryant University, earned his PhD in communication research at the University of Massachusetts after taking his MA in journalism at Pennsylvania State University. He has  taught at Cleveland State University; the University of Texas at Austin, where he won the AMOCO Teaching Excellence Award as the best instructor on that 40,000-student campus;  and at San Jose State University, where he was named President’s Scholar as the university’s outstanding researcher. As a Fulbright  Scholar he taught at the  Institut fur  Journalismus und Kommunication at the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater in Hannover, Germany. Dr. Baran has published ten books and scores of scholarly articles and has sat on the editorial boards of  six scholarly  journals. His work has been translated into half a dozen languages.